Inside The Atheist Mind, Anthony DeStefano

https://www.amazon.com/inside-atheist-mind/s?ie=UTF8&page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ainside%20the%20atheist%20mind

The subject book is an easy and fast read that covers a lot of the same ground that I've covered before in a somewhat more nasty (although not as nasty as "The God Delusion", or "The End of Faith") ... DeStefano doesn't want to do away with atheists, he just wants to talk about what he sees as their thinking.

He is concerned that "Christians have been too nice", although that is pretty much what Christ requires of practicing Christians, so it can't really be seen as unexpected.

His chapters focus on key aspects he sees atheists as presenting -- arrogance, ignorance, ruthlessness, intolerance, shallowness, cowardice, death worship, faithfulness, and malevolence. Essentially, "human nature" -- which is precisely what one would expect from people who are proud of having no higher standards than naturall, non-redeemed human nature!

You might be surprised that he sees athesists as faithful -- I see them that way as well. FAITH is the foundation of human life ... faith in your next breath, faith that the universe is rational, faith that your basic model of thought (world view) is at least not insane, faith that there is actually some reality rather than just a one of "matrix" of some sort where maybe you are all there is (or if you are a Solipist, faith that you ARE the only existing mind!).

The core of atheist faith is on page 121, "They believe that organization came out of chaos, that life came out of lifenessness, that consciousness came out of unconsciousness, that reason came out of irrationality".

None of those beliefs can be proven -- nor can it be proven that an eternal, just, ordered, intelligent and loving creator built a universe with order, life, consciousness, reason and love (echos of his nature). Both are matters of faith, and always will be until we meet God, or will be until the lights go out on humanity if there isn't a God.

It is an easy and sometimes guilty pleasure sort of a book, but it is quite shallow. I'd very much recommend "The Reason For God" instead.