Hoping this is the right place...

[pigsinmud]

Neither dh or I have spiritual feelings that fit in to an organised religion. I don't even know what I believe. Not even sure we have any spiritual feelings!
Anyway, dh is reading that Richard Dawkins book The God Delusion. He is now an avid fan I find him a bit of a bully - Richard Dawkins that is not my dh. He has asked if there is a book that argues against The God Delusion that isn't over the top fundamentalism, that actually tackles Richard Dawkins. Hoping that makes sense!

[BunnyLebowski]

Dawkins is a bit of an eejit. And I say that as a full on atheist!

I love Christopher Hitchens. God is not Great is a brilliant book.

Atheist Universe by David Mills is also great. As is Breaking the Spell by Daniel C Dennett.

[HomeIsWhereTheHeartIs]

I've not read it, but there is a book called The Dawkins Delusion. Might be what you're looking for. I don't like him either, he's so smug.

[thegreenheartofmanyroundabouts]

There are a whole load of books that argue against New Atheism

Keith Ward 'Why Their Almost Certainly is a God'

Alistair McGrath 'The God Delusion'

John Lennox 'Gunning for God'

David Bentley Hart 'The Atheist Delusion; Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies'

All of the writers are Christians and all apart from the last one teach at universities. Ward takes on Dawkins on mostly philosophical grounds as far as I remember. Lennox is a mathematician and Bentley Hart is just a good read on the historical side of the debate. I haven't read the McGrath book but he is usually very good.

[tuffie]

I've only read the Alistair Mc Grath book, which I found very good.
He used to be an atheist so has that extra dimension.

[pigsinmud]

Thank you very much. I'll have a look through those and get him a couple.

[randdom]

I enjoyed the reason for god by Timothy Keller

[EdithSimcox]

Ok, dead thread, but better than asking the same question from scratch... Has anyone read any of the books greenheart mentions above? They have all been on my 'list' for a while and since I have a bit of extra reading time this week it would be good to hear your views so I can prioritise... Thanks!

[niminypiminy]

I've read David Bentley Hart's The Atheist Delusion and thought it was really, really good. I'm a bit of a DBH fangirl though.

[EdithSimcox]

niminy your recommendations have never failed me yet

[niminypiminy]

Hah! give me time