Top 10 best selling books of all time:
1. The Bible
2. 毛主席语录 Máo-zhǔxí yǔlù (Quotations from Chairman Mao)
3. القرآن (The Qur'an)
4. 新华字典 (Xinhua Zidian)
5. Book of Common Prayer by Thomas Cranmer
6. Pilgrim's Progress
7. Foxe's Book of Martyrs
8. Book of Mormon
9. Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone ("...Sorcerer's Stone" in US) by JK Rowling
10. And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_books#List_of_Best-Selling_Single-Volume_Books
Does this mean Chairman Mao is second only to Jesus in the canon of philosphy?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Tse-Tung
2007-07-08 07:53:42 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Argumentum ad populum. A great way to look like a shmuck
2007-07-08 07:58:11 · answer #1 · answered by Jack Rivall 3 · 3⤊ 2⤋
No. None of those are philosophy books.
1. Boethius Consolation of Philosophy
2. Baghavd Gita
3. Upanishads
4. Plotinus
5. Plato
6. Autobiography of a Yogi
7. Buddhist scriptures (probably higher than # 7)
8. St. Augustine
9. www.attan.com
10. 1984
2007-07-08 07:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The list would be skewed by all of those 'donations' by the Gideons. Seriously, *every* hotel room in the US? Let's subtract those from the sales, then do a recount.
Wouldn't it be amazing if all of the believers who own Bibles would actually READ them? Former minister & evangelist Dan Barker offered this insight:
"You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?"
2007-07-08 08:07:41 · answer #3 · answered by wise czar's soul 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
WOW,you never cease to amaze me.I mean the Bible is the no.1 book of all time there is no if`s ands or buts about it.
2007-07-08 14:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by SEVIN-5 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Just answering another post:
God's word? ROFL...and you have proof a divine being picked up that quill?!. That he spoke and someone wrote that book?....you believe everything everyone tells you?...no wonder those idiots are in power...sheesh...
..Bush was not elected..literally..and I did not vote for that nitwit
2007-07-08 08:59:42 · answer #5 · answered by JustMe 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The majority of the Americans vote for Bush in the past 2 elections. Do you think he was the best candidate?
In many cases the majority is completely wrong.
2007-07-08 08:09:18 · answer #6 · answered by Lost. at. Sea. 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Well when considering book sales, one also must remember that it has been tradition for decades to have a Bible in every hotel room in North America.(some other countries as well)
Can you even comprehend how many Bibles that is LOL
2007-07-08 08:07:04 · answer #7 · answered by Fluffy Wisdom 5 · 3⤊ 1⤋
LA stole what I was going to say: both harry potter and the "Bible" are some great works of fiction
2007-07-08 07:57:58 · answer #8 · answered by Jonathon M 1 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I thought that Harry Potter was 2nd.
As the list showed, Jesus IS #1!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-07-08 08:05:52 · answer #9 · answered by julie 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Credibility and popularity have no particular congruity. One does not insure that the other is true.
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2007-07-08 10:41:56 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋