….Eric Reitan’s book ‘Is God a Delusion?’ is awesome!!!! Choice magazine just named it ‘academic book of the year.’ Of course all the Deacons remember his amazing appearance on the HBC podcast, but little did we know just how many librarians were Deacons. That is good news to me because I absolutely loved getting to work in the library in college, but none the less I am sure this counts as empirical proof that the HBC has a librarian tribe o Deacsons out there. Don’t worry Librarians if you feel that you are in any way behind in recognizing how awesome Eric’s book is, because even Bil Moyers and Stephen Cobert steal their guests from us.
For real, if you are in an way interested to the current debate among philosophers of religion, atheists, and God then get this book. It is well worth enoying. We know librarians thought so!
I should clarify that each year in January Choice honors a list of the “Outstanding Academic Titles” for the previous calendar year, and my book was on that list. Because Choice is pretty much the only publication that reviews just about EVERY reputable academic title produced in any given year, its list of the outstanding titles is significant and to be named on the list is an honor. But to my knowledge, Choice does not single out one particular book to be named THE outstanding title of the year.