I know of a few former-theists whose atheist tipping point was reading Susan Blackmore’s The Meme Machine. I recall being fairly heavily influenced by this myself when I first read it (about twelve years ago, when it was one of only a small handful of popular books on memetics), but suspect I might find it a bit tiresome and erroneous if I were to re-read it.
I know of a few former-theists whose atheist tipping point was reading Susan Blackmore’s The Meme Machine. I recall being fairly heavily influenced by this myself when I first read it (about twelve years ago, when it was one of only a small handful of popular books on memetics), but suspect I might find it a bit tiresome and erroneous if I were to re-read it.
I tried to read it a few years after reading a bunch of dawkins and found it hard to get through