This will be my last entry. Stop.
Before I get started on this last entry I just wanted to throw this out there. This blog assignment was my kryptonite. As much as I hate due dates, I’ve realized from this that not having a due date is much harder as really there is nothing keeping me in line to write stuff on here. I guess I “lack discipline” as the governor of California says in one of his old movies.
So I was debating between my last entry being about Udolpho or God is. Well I had to go with God is. simply because I really, really enjoyed reading it. It has been a long time since I began reading a book and actually had a hard time putting it down. I wrote my essay about it and was somewhat frustrated that I didn’t really get a chance to express my personal opinion of the book, so I am doing that now in this blog. Anyone within the sound of my typing should take the time to read this book. Probably my favorite thing about it, is that Richards calls out all those people who say religion is dumb, or faith is useless and dominates them through sound argument.
There has a portion of the book around page 54-70 I think. It was a collection of all these things that had happened to him or those he was close to. After I read it I called my mom and told her she had to read it. I just couldn’t keep it to myself it is an excellent read. Richards goes from telling stories like you are sitting over lunch with him, to intelligently forming arguments around arguments given by people like Bill Maher (who I find by the way a complete failure in his comedic profession).
I don’t have a ton to say about how good it is, just that it is. So read it if you didn’t already for this assignment it is worth it.
