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“Rodney Stark puts it this way: “To expect to learn anything about important theological problems from Richard Dawkins or Daniel Dennett is like expecting to learn about medieval history from someone who had only read Robin Hood.”
― Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

“The atheist philosopher of science Michael Ruse says that Dawkins’s arguments are so bad that he’s embarrassed to call himself an atheist.”
― Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

“Lewis, C. S. “The Weight of Glory.” In The Weight of Glory and Other”
― Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God

“But the most obvious fact about praise—whether of God or anything—strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise. . . . The world rings with praise—lovers praising their mistresses, readers their favorite poet, walkers praising the countryside, players praising their game. . . . I think we delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is appointed consummation”
― Paul Copan, Is God a Moral Monster?: Making Sense of the Old Testament God