Kind of a book review, kind of a rebuttal

Hello dear blog readers! It is I once again! It's Christmas break right after Christmas, so this is the part of the story where I'm still at my parent's house, but everyone else has work and friends and such, so I'm stuck at home by myself. But that's okay! Although I really wish I had brought more books with me... I just have The Kingdom of the Cults, Wizards First Rule, and In Defense of Atheism. I finished the first two, and have restarted reading the third.
So some of you may be wondering what the heck I'm doing reading a book about Atheist and it's best arguments. Well, it's not actually my book, it's my best friend Rayne's, but the simple reason is because you can't take a fair view if you don't know both sides. So I've always done my best to read lots of books and articles and such that are against Christianity, so that I can make fair judgement. Anyhoo, today's topic is about what I've found in this book, In Defense of Atheism.
So first off, it's not exclusively against Christianity, it's arguing against the big monotheistic religions, so Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. I'm not nearly as well versed in the last two, so I've mostly been ignoring what he's said about them, especially seeing as how completely wrong he's been getting his ideas about Christianity. Although I'm assuming that he's talking about Catholicism when he speaks of Christianity, so he may be actually right about it. Again, I'm not very well versed in Catholicism. My main religious interests have always been Atheism and Jehovah's Witnesses. Anyways, I'm a few pages away from halfway through, so I feel I can say with due confidence that he has no intention of actually arguing anything. I mean arguing in the logical sense of putting forth premises to support an eventual conclusion. It seems that his only mode of attack is ridicule. He has a very sarcastic tone that kind of gets on my nerves, and all he seems to be doing is listing off everything that he could find that could potentially look dumb, and then makes fun of it. For those of you not knowledgeable in logic, this is not a legitimate strategy, and yet it's often used because it's so effective. But I can say, "Oh, Atheists think life just suddenly appeared out of nowhere, that's so stupid!". While I may be correct, I have no evidence to support my claim, so anyone reading or hearing it has absolutely no reason to think that it's correct, and in fact, in my opinion, should not think it correct.
But that's enough of that! One thing I should mention is that the author (Michel Onfray) is obviously pretty well researched, as evidenced by his mounds of events and ideas he ridicules. But of the things he talks about that I do actually know about, he seems to either have the details wrong or is talking about something that is really not Christianity. For example, he mentions that "the church" is incredibly biased against any scientific discoveries, and that when the human geonome was discovered and mapped out, the church was against it. "Avoid pain and suffering? Seek a human medicine? Absolutely not!" as he put it. But I know for a fact that the project to map the human geonome was run and indeed started by a Christian man. So either he's talking about the Catholic church, which he very well may be, or he is incredibly mistaken. There was a few more things that he had wrong, but I can't remember them at the moment. But the thing that has frustrated me the most was his insistence that all monotheistic religions cry out against anyone thinking and reasoning. I can prove him wrong right now simply by the fact that I am reading his book and trying to extrapolate and evaluate his logical points, and that this has always been encouraged in every church I know. We even have a name for it, apologetics. It's a point that he raises again and again and it just frustrates me. It almost seems like he has never actually been to a church and heard any of the things that he's so adamantly against. He seems to only know all the different stereotypes and myths about Christianity that are so common nowadays. So, I will finish the book, but I'm very afraid that the misinformation that he believes is becoming more and more commonly held that it won't be long until people don't even pretend that they're listening to anything a Christian would have to say. And the book is an international bestseller, so I'm not sure I'm wrong. I guess we'll just have to prove him wrong by being actual Christians, ie. the exact opposite of what he has portrayed us as. Oh boy...

Dream Sequence

Tonight's theme is Zombies! There was more, but I'll just start were I remember. Dad and the rest of the family and I are trying to find a place to hide out, and we come across this sort of play house. It's big enough that we could all squeeze inside, but Dad says we shouldn't stay there. I get kinda mad at him, but the reason he doesn't think this is because there is now a nice house right next to the playhouse. So we end up staying there for a few nights, and more stuff happens, but I can't remember them all. But then one morning we wake up to find that a horde of zombies are clawing at the fence surrounding the property, and they have some kind of equipment to try and break through the fence. It's at this point that we discover that Rayne (who has been with us for a while) has this row of pills (think of those individually wrapped fizzy candies) that give her different powers. So she eats one and gains the power of being able to send out a force from her fist as powerful as a cannon. So she sets to work on the zombies, and then one of us discovers an old WW2 artillery cannon, and we line that up. It works fantastic, but it finishes off the last of the hole the zombies are making, so we are forced to run. We all get split up, but Rayne and I make it to an old shed, where we find a pair of survivors. I don't really trust them, but I decide it's important that I get a bus from the road nearby for some reason, so I head off to do that. It's at this point I realize that there are still a ton of cars driving around the city, some with zombies, and some with people. But they're all dangerous, so I turn into a parking lot (very illegally) and park the bus. I start walking back to the shed, but I sense something is wrong, so I hide behind a couple of broken down trucks nearby. I see the two guys head out, armed with some pans, and they head towards the trucks to try and ambush me. I pull out a knife that I apparently had all along and get ready for them. As soon as the first one turns the corner of the truck, I hurl my knife at him. He nimbly sidesteps it, and throws his pan at me, which I in turn dodge. Luckily, both of our weapons are attached to our wrists with string, so we both flick our wrists and get our weapons back. I throw my knife again, but he deflects it with his pan. I complement him on his skill and he laughs and says, "That's what the girl said. At first you'd think fighting was all about Han (kind of like Chi, but from The Sword of Truth), but then it wouldn't be till later that you'd really fight." This makes me incredibly angry and worried, and I start spinning my knife on the string until it's just a blur of deadly. I lay into them and defeat both of them (oddly enough there isn't a drop of blood spilled) and rush to check on Rayne. I can't find her, so I take one of the super pills and it gives me the power to control the weight of things I touch, and I take the two guys to the top of the shed, which now that I think of it is more like a big garage, and threaten to drop them if they don't tell me where Rayne is. They plead for their lives, but I insist, and they finally point to a discarded corpse on the ground. I jump down to see if it's really Rayne, but before I can really tell, I wake up.