City of the Bound Tarrasque

I've discoverd rpg.net forums. Some discussions are cool. Especially this one:

http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?t=261519

Law in verse

http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=631

The God Delusion, by Richard Dawkins

Right, so let's see if I can review this book. Probably not briefly. -- nope, not briefly at all. So a short version: I liked it. Much of it wasn't new to me; I had some comfort from going over old facts and arguments again, like a hobbit reading family trees, but that's me. Much of it was new: studies of moral responses, horrors in the Bible I hadn't heard of before, horrors in modern varieties of Christianity, details of cargo cults. Much of it wasn't new only because I've already invested a lot of time in atheism vs. religion reading; for someone more content with having escaped religion, and not involved in "But Stalin and Hitler were atheists!" or having really wondered why religion is so common ("people are stupid" isn't a good answer), it could be quite enlightening. Even with my experience, I've found it hard to sum up the book, and when I've gone back to look things up or re-read sections I've found things I'd already forgotten. And as always, his writing is enjoyable reading.

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