The Problem with God : : Why Atheists, True Believers, and Even Agnostics Must All Be Wrong / / Peter Steinberger.
Whether people praise, worship, criticize, or reject God, they all presuppose at least a rough notion of what it means to talk about God. Turning the certainty of this assumption on its head, a respected educator and humanist shows that when we talk about God, we are in fact talking about nothing at...
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