1. Malleus Maleficarum, the methodology for the persecution of women and also the philosophical basis for seeing women as inferior. A nasty book, that caused thousands of deaths and centuries of oppression of women everywhere.
2. The Communist Manifest, the ideas of class warfare come from there, and gave the foundation for eternal class confrontation and struggle, opening the way for communism as an independent form of political structure, beyond socialism.
3. The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Sion. A book about a worldwide conspiracy by Jews to have absolute power over everybody else. The mother of all conspiracy theories, with strong racist tones.
4. Mein Kampf. Hitler's main book, expounding the theory of Aryan superiority and the right to genocide, plus "Might is Right" as a valid policy.
5. Milestones. The book that started jihad and Muslim radical fundamentalism, advocating violence against infidels and spreading faith by the sword.
Which one is the worst?
2007-02-11 17:42:00 · 23 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The Koran and the Bible in themselves are not evil books: while they both contain things that to the modern mind are pure savagery, they also contained some good things in them, offsetting the bad.
People would have never used what Paul said about women to start drowning them, torturing them and burning them at the stake. The Malleus Maleficarum did that: if concentrated on the evil in the Bible and left out all the good.
Same with Milestones: you wouldn't have people dying and killing others to spread Islam if it were not for the beliefs provided in that book, the most likely to cause WW3.
2007-02-11 17:53:01 · update #1
The Talmud has been widely misquoted, and even so it lacks the obvious murderous results of the other books--unless you believe The Protocols are real.
Books like The Turner Diaries are just pap: easy to read, but not influential because they are pure emotion, with no brain.
On the other hand, the five books quoted above, not only dupe the foolish and uneducated, but also the leaders of nations and the intellectuals. That's why they are much more dangerous: because they are not stupid books of hate for hate's sake, but they give a philosophical, theological, racial or economic basis for hate.
2007-02-11 17:55:36 · update #2
All bad, however the Milestones happen to effect me the most at this time.
It has turned Americans into scared, cornered animals who will swing at anything that comes too near them...and is now bringing us to the brink of WW3 w/ Iran and now Russia due to our unfounded war in Iraq.
Malleus would have to be a close second (I am a woman after all and cringe at what has happened to my girls throughout history)
2007-02-11 17:47:50 · answer #1 · answered by ♥austingirl♥ 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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2007-02-11 17:45:24 · answer #2 · answered by RiverGirl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From your list I'd have to go with the Communist Manifesto. Milestones would be my second choice, but it has some catching-up to do.
I don't think Mein Kamp, the Protocols or Malleus inspired as much murder, mayhem and human misery as the Communist Manifesto.
Mein Kampf is an evil book, but Nazi mayhem was more of a result of Hitler's speeches and Goebels propaganda. Anti-Semitism existed for centuries before the Protocols. I think female subjugation has been pretty much the norm for those who never even heard of Malleus.
2007-02-11 19:00:47 · answer #3 · answered by Jesus Jones 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Red Pony by John Steinbeck (he knows why)
Seriously though, it's "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", in my opinion at least. It's inspired more racial hatred than pretty much all other books combined (ALL books, not just the ones up there).
Mein Kampf, while very evil, should have been beneficial. Hitler essentially gave us a heads up. He put up a big "Hey, I'm an evil ********" billboard, and we chose not to look.
I was just waiting for somebody to say "The Bible". Good job to the guy below, you've just offended half the world.
2007-02-11 17:50:53 · answer #4 · answered by Richardson '08 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Malleus Maleficarum and Milestones
2007-02-11 18:14:00 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hard choice. I choose Malleus Maleficarum, but it's a close race.
2007-02-11 17:57:54 · answer #6 · answered by Seraphim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What about Salo 120 Days of Sodom by The Marquis de Sade. Good book if you can get over the fact that occasionally they cut twelve fingers off some of the victims...
2007-02-11 17:51:32 · answer #7 · answered by roger a 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Mein Kampf is the worst. The Communist Manifesto is a great book. everyone should read it.
2007-02-11 19:55:11 · answer #8 · answered by Longhaired Freaky Person 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably the Milestones. It endorses mutilation of vaginas, killing Jews, homosexuals,etc. and throwing more sheets over their women than the KKK. It is essentially a book that combines all of the negatives of the others. End of the story, though you won't hear it from our p.c. media. It is terrifying that anyone was sick enough to write these books..
2007-02-11 17:46:02 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Keynes' General Theory.
2007-02-11 18:37:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋