It doesn't matter whether your a theist or atheist. I'm looking for anything that makes you think.
Thanks.
2007-09-17 05:55:39 · 30 answers · asked by Samurai Jack 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Thanks to everyone.
2007-09-17 06:07:48 · update #1
The Book of five Rings by Musashi Miyamoto. Ancient Samarai wisdom that still applies to life strategies today..a 5 star read!
2007-09-17 06:01:48 · answer #1 · answered by Fae 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
There is a man named Marvin Harris who wrote a book called "Cannibals and Kings" and one called "Cows, Pigs, Wars and Witches" They are both very good and make you think. Harris was an atheist who was also a sociologist. There is another book called "The Jewish Theory of Everything" by Max Anteby that attempts to answer many of the questions such as "why is there war". Another book is called "Beyond Reasonable Doubt" by Rabbi Shmuel Wiseman. "The Science in Torah" by Yehudi Levi who also wrote "Torah and Science". "Fingerprints on the Universe" by Louis Pollack is excellent. "Thinking about Creation" by Andrew Goldfinger who is a physicist. "The Hidden Face of God" by Dr. Gerald Schroeder who is a nuclear physicist and a biologist as well as an Orthodox Jew. He also wrote "Genesis and the Big Bang" and "The Science of God." I am sorry I can't give you more but I think these are interesting and fair. They will say where they run into problems but make you think one way or the other.
I am Jewish so my knowledge stems from Jewish writers but I would assume there are books written by non-Jews that go over the same thing if you would prefer that.
I am like you. I like anything that makes me think. That is why the Harris books are so good. I don't agree with what he said but they made me think like never before.
Hope you find what you are looking for.
Cheers!
2007-09-17 06:39:23 · answer #2 · answered by Feivel 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try Love Without End, Jesus Speaks
http://lovewithoutend.com/custom/index.php?body=books_lwe&osCsid=4643b7590356fae1dead76b115f923a2
or the Keys of Jeshua
http://lovewithoutend.com/custom/index.php?body=books_ktj&osCsid=47bb835c4dd55c6cfddc2e3e2f2e723c
by Glenda Green
2007-09-17 06:03:51 · answer #3 · answered by :-o 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My personal favorites in no particular order:
Catch 22
1984
Moby Dick
Les Miserables
One Hundred Years of Solitude
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Do you like sports?
Friday Night Lights
Moneyball
True Crime?
Helter Skelter
In Cold Blood
Killer Clown
Donnie Brasco
Lots more of course. I love to read. If you have a specific topic your are interested in, feel free to ask, maybe I can make a recommendation.
2007-09-17 06:12:59 · answer #4 · answered by Adoptive Father 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Foxe's Book of Martyrs
or
Chilton's Guide
1974 Chevrolet Pick-ups
( It's a good read) ( ;
2007-09-17 06:22:25 · answer #5 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right now, I'm reading "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It's about Lincoln's cabinet, and how he chose a team of people who had been his competitors for the office. Interesting stuff for me, but I'm a geek.
2007-09-17 06:20:16 · answer #6 · answered by Let Me Think 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bertrand Russell's "Why I am Not a Christian"
and I like Colleen McCullough's series on Rome...there are six total and are historical fiction from Marius to Caesar. I enjoyed them very much.
2007-09-17 06:47:14 · answer #7 · answered by alia 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Collapse by Jared Diamond
2007-09-17 06:01:03 · answer #8 · answered by genaddt 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Is fiction okay?
I recommend to pretty much anyone of mature reading age The Brothers Karamazov, which is in my not-so-humble literary opinion the best novel ever written.
Yes, it will make you think.
2007-09-17 06:05:47 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
A Mouthful of Air - Anthony Burgess
2007-09-17 05:59:59 · answer #10 · answered by pepper 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋