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Is God a Delusion?
Is God a Delusion?: A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers
Eric Reitan
© 2009 Eric Reitan. ISBN: 978-1-405-18362-8
Is God a Delusion?
A Reply to Religion’s
Cultured Despisers
Eric Reitan
A John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Publication
This edition first published 2009
© 2009 Eric Reitan
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Reitan, Eric.
Is God a delusion? : a reply to religion’s cultured despisers / Eric Reitan.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 978-1-4051-8362-8 (hardcover : alk. paper) – ISBN 978-1-4051-8361-1 (pbk. : alk.
paper) 1. Apologetics. 2. Theism. I. Title.
BT1212.R45 2009
261.2′1— dc22
2008017217
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To Russell Bennett and Baron Garcia, who
demonstrated in their lives, each in his own way,
what it means to live in a spirit of hope.
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