ie, if they offered to read a book of yours, if you read the NT, what would you suggest they read?
2007-07-15 01:17:28 · 23 answers · asked by Peppers_Ghost 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible. The whole of it, not just the sanitised, happy-clappy edited highlights most of them seem to base their faith on. I'd ask them to read all the murder, genocide, rapine, torture, war and atrocity carried out by their god. I'd ask them to read and note all the contradictions and absurdities and all the morally abhorrent instructions, then tell me why they want to worship the alleged author!
2007-07-15 01:22:51 · answer #1 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 8⤊ 1⤋
John chapter 1 IBSN= 0 00 512725 4
2007-07-15 08:33:48 · answer #2 · answered by Cheviot 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Uprising by Philip Whitehead
ISBN-10: 1843860058
2007-07-15 08:20:24 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
like to anyone else, the Daode Jing (aka Tao te Ching)
it starts like this:
The Way that can be followed is not the eternal Way.
The name that can be named is not the eternal name.
The nameless is the origin of heaven and earth
While naming is the origin of the myriad things.
Therefore, always desireless, you see the mystery
Ever desiring, you see the manifestations.
this does not contradict John 14:6 at all. But calling yourself Christian and referring to that phrase as an argument, yeah, that is something else alright...
2007-07-15 08:47:01 · answer #4 · answered by Ray Patterson - The dude abides 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Nebra Kebrast
2007-07-15 08:45:12 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi!
No particular book would do. If people were more secure in their own belief systems, they would be happy to read each others books and may be surprised to realise how much mutual resonance there is across sacred scripture and how much the genesis of psychology, philosophy and modern science owes to the ancient understandings.
Indeed, the ancient writings are themselves rooted in even older oral traditions. The core stories in Judaism (and ergo Christianity and Islam) date back to older, for example African, stories.
When we argue about which is the most important, we miss the point of all of them.
Good wishes.
2007-07-15 08:31:37 · answer #6 · answered by pilgrimspadre 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl.
And The Story of a Soul by Therese of Lisieux.
You see, I am a Christian...but I also read and think. One does not necessarily preclude the other.
2007-07-15 08:21:12 · answer #7 · answered by anna 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
how about the old testament?
I am serious. many Christians concentrate on the new testament and - apart from the children's stories - ignore the old testament.
Balaam and his talking donkey.... Sodom and Gomorrah in which they couldn't find 5 innocent people... we are led to believe that EVERYONE was a sexual predator, even taking into account all the children, pre-teens, people with disabilities, etc, etc.
god telling his CHOSEN people (chosen.. Hah, remember the holocaust) to kill everyone in a town, including women, children, slave and animals, but to spare the life of one traitorous prostitute..........I could go on and on.
if someone can seriously read every single word of this cr@p, and think about it...... and still believe in the god of the OLD and NEW testament, he is beyond reasoning
2007-07-15 08:30:30 · answer #8 · answered by SeabourneFerriesLtd 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Michael Shermer.... 'why people believe weird things',
or
Carl Sagan's excellent book 'demon haunted world: science as a candle in the dark'
2007-07-15 08:21:30 · answer #9 · answered by Vinni and beer 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Naked Ape by Desmond Morris
Explains all our animal traits and how we have evolved from the same source as animals. It explains all about why we are the way we are and leaves no room for belief in a mythical "god"
2007-07-16 06:09:53 · answer #10 · answered by Catwhiskers 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋