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Title: Do We Need God to be Good?

Subtitle: An Anthropologist Considers the Evidence

Author: C. R. Hallpike

Narrator: Jon Mollison

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-28-17

Publisher: Castalia House

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Nonfiction, Philosophy

Publisher's Summary:

To know how to live, do we need God and religion, or does religion only produce wars, hatred, intolerance, and unhappiness? Does giving up God mean giving up morality, or can we finally live a peaceful and fulfilling life as atheists by following science and reason instead? Anthropologist Christopher Hallpike has spent a lifetime's research on the morality and religion of different cultures around the world and shows that trying to base a moral life on atheism and science actually has some very nasty surprises in store for us.

Members Reviews:

Quite a nice takedown of supposedly scientific secularism

Hallpike delivers here an intellectually rigorous work that shows how common atheist strains of thought such as the meaninglessness of the universe and the denial of free will do not justify any of western atheists' professed liberal beliefs, even when such beliefs are otherwise worthy. It is sure to make one think hard about the implications of godlessness.

Slow to start but insane wind up to the tour-du-finish.

Starts out by espousing several different contradictory yet (by short sequences) logically correct perspectives on the topic.

I'll admit, knowing the flaws in most of them drove me up the wall early on, but stick with it! The author is only taking the time to start logical chains for many different potential reader points of view.

Get past the first couple of chapters and Hallpike suddenly whips out the cannons and goes full bore on a ride through history, covering philosophies, societies, law and politics with an incredibly accessible perspective on the cores, idiosyncrasies, origins and results of a very broad spectrum of ideologies and traditions.

It's an exceedingly rare work of fiction that can get my pulse pounding, and this is no fiction at all, so it should tally as high praise that it managed to raise my pulse high enough to get the endorphins flowing in the final few chapters! Highly recommended! Just don't let Hallpike fool you into thinking he believes any of the simplistic views he espouses early on. Keep grinding to get to the meat, then get a grip on your skull and hold on tight!

Highly recommended

A remarkably fresh take on an old question. Hallpike brings his years of experience as an anthropologist to the bigger questions of what religion is, and how only some kind of religious-based metaphysic can really one to speak meaningfully of "good", "evil", and "morality". Along the way, some well placed shots are fired at the New Atheism, a few of whose denizens have paddled in the shallow end of this discussion. Hallpike writes with energy, passion, wisdom and humour: I really thought I'd considered most angles on this subject, but "Do We Need God to be God" helped me consider some fresh approaches to this question. Highly recommended.

Awesome exposition from an anthropological view

This sort of book requires discipline to read, but is well worth the effort. Many new and fresh ideas are presented.

Refreshing look at real questions

This book combines a dispationately open mind viewpoint with rigorously logical arguments. I liked the way it focused on fects and the way things rally are even as it felt with the big questions.