If so what book was it?
What did you change?
Did it change the way you think? Live? Both?
2007-01-04 16:24:07 · 9 answers · asked by Jace 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Actually it's a lot of different books on the same subject--the Holocaust. I was raised a fairly strict Catholic and always thought they'd done a lot to help the Jews during WWII. I had heard the controversy about the Pope at that time, but really didn't know much about the religious aspects of the common people. My ethnic background is Polish-Russian and I had always thought that my relatives there would have been the kind to hide the Jews or protect them. The more I read the more I discover that the majority of the people were as eager to turn the Jews in as the average German. They'd throw stones at them as they were being force-marched to the concentration camps, took possession of their homes and belongings almost before the Jews were behind the ghetto walls. It made me wonder if my relatives were as pure in motive as I wanted them to be or if they lived in the times. It's made me question if Catholics aren't as anti-Semitic in their own way as any other religion. We've always had a sort of "holier-than-thou" attitude.
Anyway, it's made me question my religious educational upbringing. I think long and hard now about who I am as a Catholic and where my future is in the church. I'd like to think I'm a lot more tolerant and understanding of other people's religions now.
2007-01-04 18:19:01 · answer #1 · answered by goldie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what a great question
there is a collection of books that changed my life
the collection is called UNEXPLAINED
they are not life changing books within themselves but they opened my mind too many different things and gave me a thirst for knowledge.
hence the reason for being on this site
these books started me on a path that i know will last till the day i die this path is a search for knowledge
i truly understand philosophy now because i have philosophy
philosophy is basically
"love of wisdom"
2007-01-05 00:59:08 · answer #2 · answered by have_somefun01 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I started reading Ayn Rand in high school and it changed my world upside down. I became so much more confident and less worried about all the little things in life. I stopped apologizing for everything.
I also met my husband through Rand. He had a money symbol tattooed on his ankle and I asked him what it represented. Two years later we were married. That's pretty life changing. :)
2007-01-08 10:16:01 · answer #3 · answered by hotdoggiegirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller. I do not consider it the best I have ever read but it was the first I read that opened my mind and consciousness. It made me realize my passion for life, and the power of the written word. Everything else fell away.
2007-01-05 00:39:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.. I have it's called 'The left behind' it's a series of 10 books. It changed my way of thinking about God and heaven and even hell. I'm more Christian now. I used to think you died and poof you went to heaven and met family etc.. now I think it's a more gradual thing.. and now I also believe in Armageddon. I'm not a church goer but I'm a believer.
2007-01-05 00:37:39 · answer #5 · answered by NeedaSugarFix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
The bible.
I quit smoking, got married to my kids dad, became a kinder person, a better mom, a better spouse and started living for other people instead of myself.
2007-01-05 00:29:37 · answer #6 · answered by Val W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the Divine Comedy
2007-01-05 00:35:54 · answer #7 · answered by angela 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Arthur's Koestler's "Ghost in the Machine" affected me deeply by getting me to delve more deeply into the constructs that enable us to be who we are.
2007-01-05 00:28:30 · answer #8 · answered by amythmaker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Holy Bible
2007-01-05 00:27:26 · answer #9 · answered by born again 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋