Reviews for Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith

The average rating for Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2013-04-14 00:00:00 Bobbi Sue Before Billy Graham there was Charles Templeton! Amazing gently told account of the former associate and lifelong friend of evangelist Billy Graham.His honesty is touching,and that his story is told without being in 'attack mode'. As someone who was an evangelical Christian for decades and now a nonbeliever,I rank this book right up there with my new non-religious favorites which have taken the place of all my Christian/religious nonfiction books. What I find especially amazing is how books such as this and....Why I Believed: Reflections of a Former Missionary by Kenneth W Daniels The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read by Tim C. Leedom Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker all make so much more sense than my bible and preachers ever did! I know why real life and years of bible study my eyes finally opened to the fallacy of religion,but these books have helped me to understand why I allowed such self-delusion for so many years! Only those with an open mind who are lovers and seekers of Truth,and wonder why religion so strongly admonishes[like every cult]followers to never allow themselves to think about contradictions they read/see for themselves, or to never question what their own common sense is screaming for them to question, are able to appreciate such works,but those who do will treasure them for helping them to reach their full human potential instead of going through life as an automaton. I highly recommend Farewell To God by Charles Templeton

Review # 2 was written on 2013-09-01 00:00:00 Tom Eaton The first time I read this book it shook my faith. It seemed to raise so many devastating critiques and questions about Christianity that it was hard to imagine the mere possibility that there could be answers. So I read it again. As I read it a second time I carefully analyzed exactly what he was (and was not) saying, his precise lines of argument, what exact evidence he was drawing on, etc. After reading it a second time my faith was far less shaken. Like so many anti-Theists these days he majors on emotional manipulation, selective appeals to evidence (ignoring evidence that does not support his conclusions), half-baked reasoning and so on. This book is only a very tiny step up from the kind of Atheist nonsense you are likely to find in the comments under YouTube videos. It barely registers as pop-philosophy; hardly worthy of serious consideration. It is frankly embarrassing that I ever let it shake my faith; a sign of the frailty of my faith at the time, not a sign of the quality of his arguments. For the record, there are some very intelligent and very thoughtful Atheists out there. Christians need to step away from "blind faith" and take what they say seriously. Templeton was never one of them. I rate it a "2" instead of a "1" simply because he is a rather articulate writer who can really move the reader along. Where he moves them along to, however...