Review for the book

WHY THERE IS NO GOD

BY ARMIN NAVABI

By Gerardo Garca

I've finished reading the book "Why There is no God" by Armin Nawabi (2014). My first interest in
this book was because Navabi was a muslim before becoming a born again atheist. (This is because I
believe that all humans are born atheists until indoctrinaton is drilled deeply on our minds) I was
intrigued about his work given the Islam problem both in the East and in the West. In a time where an
apostate from Islam is usually sentenced to death (we must remember the fatwa placed on Salman
Rushdie because of his novel "The Satanic Verses"), is admirable the courage of a man trying to
explain to believers, atheist and undecided (as he called the people still inside the closet) and may I
add, agnostics, why there is no god.

The book was constructed in the form of a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). But before, is important
to give a look on the title. "Why There Is No God" sounds like an arrogant claim. It looks at first view
that the author is 100% convinced that God does not exist. Navabi leaves no room for reasonable
doubt, even if this doubt is not supported by any evidence. I say this because, as an atheist, I've been
asked what would change my mind about the existence of God. I always answer "evidence". That's all I
need. But after reading the book, however, I've found out what Navabi intended to show with the title.
He is trying, in an elegant way, to provide answers to the most common arguments given by religious
people, and by doing so he moves our reason and aim it to a logical argument that is the oposite to the
original claim. All answers written even for lay people.

What Navabi did with his book is great, and there is a good reason to do it this way: many atheist
people may have a brain blockage at that moment when some christian presents us with an argument
that we do not have a proper answer. After reading the book, we can be sure that no atheist will have
the mouth silent again.

As Navabi stated in the Introduction of the book, the text is addressed also to the undecided and I think
that they and some believers will be moved by the book. Probably not many of this group will become
full agnostics or complete atheists, but at least they will have a seed of a doubt planted in their brain...
And maybe, just maybe, the seed of the idea will grow.