Raghu Ram
Liberal. Atheist. Rationalist. Happy.
Book Recommendations:
Recommended by Raghu Ram
“Carl Sagan on how to spot bullshit. From Pseudoscience (something Indians have become champs at) to conspiracy theories (a.k.a stupid people knowledge). So needed today! I recommend this book. I love this book. Like, I have feelings for it! ❤️ #NowReading #CarlSagan #ScienceRules https://t.co/xMGaG0B4HM” (from X)
Are we on the brink of a new Dark Age of irrationality and superstition? In this stirring, brilliantly argued book, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dragons of Eden and Cosmos shows how scientific thinking can cut through prejudice and hysteria and uncover the truth, and how it is necessary to safeguard our democratic institutions and our technical civilization.
Recommended by Raghu Ram
“In his outstanding book "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything", the amazing #ChristopherHitchens makes a convincing argument for how, among other things, religion is really bad for health. Those crying for temples etc to reopen during covid prove his point.” (from X)
by Christopher Hitchens·You?
by Christopher Hitchens·You?
In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry of the double helix.