Product Description

In this entertaining and enlightening new book, Pastor Ray Comfort, author of the million-selling The Atheist Test, talks to the atheists and reveals not just the weakness of their arguments but the solid foundation upon which the Christian stands.

Few books take the time to address the atheist's conscience. This book not only gives empirical evidence for the existence of God, it shows atheists that they desperately need His forgiveness. Using a lively question-and-answer format, featuring actual questions from atheists sent to Pastor Comfort's blog at Atheist Central, You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think shows that God's existence can be proven, and that anyone can do it.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #309443 in Books
• Published on: 2009-02-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 160 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781935071068
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
I find it so encouraging that in these challenging times of 'culture wars,' Christian leaders like my friend Ray Comfort are passionately defending the authority of the Bible from its very first verse. --Ken Ham, president of Answers in Genesis

Ray Comfort has once again laid hold of the greatest power on earth, the power of the Gospel. Here he brings that power to bear, makes that light to shine in the darkest corners of our times, among fools. He proclaims with fidelity and winsomeness, remembering that such were once we, walking in the paths of darkness. --Dr. R.C. Sproul, Jr.

Review

From the Publisher
There is a new breed of atheist which our educational system is pumping out like mad. These are militant atheists who have an agenda to eliminate Christianity from the face of the earth.

Believers are in a war and we need powerful weapons to fight the good fight of faith. This book reveals not just the weakness of the atheists' arguments and the solid foundation on which the Christian stands, but does so with humor and warmth.

Customer Reviews

Ziztur thoroughly reviews Comfort's book
Unfortunately, Ray Comfort has a large following of fans, and most who are critical of his work decide that the best course of action is to be dismissive. His style of writing can barely be called argumentative. He posits no compelling evidence for his beliefs, makes blind assertions, and clearly does not understand natural forces such as evolution by natural selection and by writing a book which mischaracterizes science, is undermining observation, experimentation, rational thought and critical thinking.

Comfort consistently confuses biology with other scientific disciplines such as cosmology and astronomy, and generally builds up a strawman science, only to knock it down by simply asserting, literally, that his god is real and that atheists are stupid and immoral.

Comfort has a former blog from which he drew the questions for his book, and though the commenters on his blog (including myself) explained repeatedly and thoroughly that evolution does not operate in the fairy-tale evolution he has constructed, that atheists do not believe that "nothing created everything", he continues to write as if he has not read their explanation or is intentionally ignoring them. He writes, for example, about what an amazing coincidence that when "the first man evolved", a woman just happened to amazingly evolve right beside him. This characterization of evolution betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of it. He creates a "fairytale" version of evolution and then goes on to explain what a silly fairytale it is.

Ray actually states in his book that Christians do not need to prove god exists to atheists, because atheists obviously know already that god exists, and are merely denying god so that they can be moral free agents.

I find this constant insistence that atheists and non-believers "pretend there is no god" just so they can "get away with whatever they want" to be tiresome and false. Insisting that atheists are immoral people and that all "true" Christians are good people only serves to divide believers and nonbelievers and perpetuate society's hatred for people who don't believe in their god.

There are many other apologists out there who are much better at apologetics than this author.

The rest of his book is filled with outdated arguments (such as the lord, liar or lunatic argument about Jesus' credibility) and petty jabs at people who don't believe in god which only serve to cut off coherent dialogue between believers and non-believers. To those people who are claiming any atheist who reads this book must admit it is full of good science - If you Google my nickname and Ray Comfort, or my blog name "Atheism is Freedom" you can find what amounts to a very thorough critique of this book - which would never fit in the space of a review here. This book is not good science, it is misunderstood, strawman science.

Equal time for different opinions.
If someone is passionate enough to fight with a rationalist, they are going to come to this book looking for points to stockpile. I don't think they're coming here to read reviews trying to decide whether or not to buy this for the next plane trip. Someone around them has disturbed their train of thought and they hope buying this book will right the track.

Instead they ought to realize that religion is a form of brainwashing. And no that't not just the devil talking. I was raised Catholic. I finally realized that a CEO who let his employees act the way the pope let his priests act, he'd be in jail or dead. Or both I suppose, given the way criminals treat child abusers.

Prospective buyers should be reading "Breaking the Spell" by Daniel Dennett or the "God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins.

In fact, I might challenge the person willing to read this book to offer equal time to other books.

Want to read Comfort's opinion? Great. Try Dennett or Dawkins next. What could it hurt? Certainly Thor, oops, I mean Apollo won't be angry at you for curiosity, would he? For every magic based book, try one a scientific one.

By the way, I can hear the believer saying that he doesn't believe in Thor or Apollo. When you describe why you don't believe in Thor or Apollo, ask yourself how Yahweh or Allah or Jehovah are any different. (Or Mormon or Ra or Superman or Baal or Zeus or Zoroaster or Shinto or Bhudha or Santa Claus or Catwoman.)

Common sense? More like nonsense.
Despite Ray Comfort being one of the more entertaining and hilariously non-self-aware religious clowns on the Internet, I found this book to be filled with the same vacuous circular non-reasoning as everything else he has ever put out. For the uninitiated, "Common Sense" in Ray-speak means to recycle and repeat the same sad arguments and lies over and over again no matter how many thousands of times they have been refuted.

Personally, I find Ray to be somewhat amusing in a sad sort of way. Unfortunately, this book seems to be entirely lacking in the lulz that are present in some of his more masterful performances, such as the time he claimed that the banana was designed by the Christian God because it fits so nicely in the human hand. Therefore, I am unable to even assign it points for humor value.

If you really feel the need to part with $15, please consider donating it to a humanitarian organization or a local charity instead.