A Manual for Creating Atheists

A Manual for Creating Atheists offers a practical perspective on how best to talk to people about faith and religion. Unlike other recent authors (Hitchens, Harris, Dawkins etc..) Boghossian's book concentrates on how to separate people from their faith and not just why it's a good idea. I'm excited to try out Boghossian's methods as he makes an excellent case for why they are effective and I'm expecting them to be superior to my former techniques. The main thing that I'll be doing differently is only addressing faith as a bad system of knowledge (via the socratic method) and avoiding the specifics of any religion or claim. Boghossian isn't the best writer of all time, but his writing doesn't get in the way of his message. I did find the unelaborated references to classic philosophy to be a little off-putting. A long list of greeks doesn't really help me.

Overall I enjoyed it and it's given me a bunch of new tools for dealing with the faithful.