{"id":4965,"date":"2017-05-05T07:51:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=4965"},"modified":"2017-05-05T07:51:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:51:45","slug":"letters-and-treatises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heuermontage.com\/?p=4965","title":{"rendered":"Letters and Treatises"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last entry for this week’s proposed reading list suggests yet another topic tied to religion.<\/p>\n

The first items of interest are\u00a0about Muslim identity. The book review below covers a compilation of letters and a treatise on Muslim as Atheist.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/01\/11\/books\/review\/kareem-abdul-jabbar-letters-to-young-muslim-atheist-muslim.html?emc=edit_bk_20170113&nl=bookreview&nlid=23546060&ref=headline<\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Reading\u00a0James Baldwin or\u00a0Ta-Nehisi Coates we have probably all shared\u00a0the stirring experience of an elder transmitting their insights, beliefs and warnings to a younger generation. Ghobash’s\u00a0Letters to a Young Muslim <\/em>follow that tradition and I look eagerly\u00a0forward to reading it.<\/p>\n

The second of Jabbar’s recommendations,\u00a0The Atheist Muslim<\/em>, sounds like a contradiction in terms. Pity the person who inhabits two of the more denigrated identities in this country, Muslim and Atheist…..<\/p>\n

Then again, any journey from religion to reason – the subtitle of the book – is worth exploring. Which reminds me of the book of a dear friend and colleague of ours, a treatise which\u00a0deserves attention.<\/p>\n

\"\"Peter\u00a0Steinberger’s\u00a0The Problem with God – Why Atheists, True Believers, and even Agnostics must all be wrong\u00a0<\/em>certainly had my head spinning when I first read it. \u00a0I leave our dinner table conversations to your imagination…..<\/p>\n

Book<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n