And what is your religion\belief?
And y'all know if you say a Doctor Seuss book I'm gonna think you got too much time on your hands!
2007-09-29 14:23:45 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I wouldn't. I would give someone a book because it moved me, but never because it adhered to my specific beliefs. If I were to give someone a book like that I'd have to write it myself, and it would be incredibly boring, trust me. I would not attempt to force my atheism on anyone. That isn't my mission, nor should anyone believe a book based on one man's opinion (or two, or three, or four). The only factual books in the world are mathematically related.
The book I have asked others to read to understand me is "A Death In The Family". I cannot even say why. There was just something in the emotion of that novel I connected to. It's poetry. It had naught to do with a death in my family and Catholicism is an integral piece of the novel, of great importance to the feel and flow of the book but of little matter in regard to the whole. Sure, there were some atheists in the novel. That is not what I would want others to take from it. It's the words and the incredible way in which they move along in the book, it's the depth of emotion and how it can make you laugh and pause and ache all at the same time. I have no book, however, that could ever really tell my individual beliefs yet somehow this does, in between the lines.
And something Shihan has mentioned already - books by Richard Bach. I think "Illusions: Adventures of A Reluctant Messiah", "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" and "The Bridge Across Forever" say a lot about my beliefs but I would only share these books with those open to reading them. "The God Delusion" doesn't do it, nor the others that are out. "Animal Farm" might. Certainly "To Kill A Mockingbird". I would ask people read these, however, because their teachings are limitless and in no way a shove-it-down-your-throat conversion method. I hate it when that's done to me so to do it to anyone else would go against my beliefs in the first place.
Oh, and "Hop on Pop". That was a great one! ;-)
2007-09-29 15:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋
The House at Pooh Corner by A. A. Milne (OK, you said no Dr. Suess, but hear me out.)
When you read the Pooh series, it expands your heart. Sometimes I read these stories to my 7 year old daughter and tears well up in my eyes. These stories are about goodness and friendship, love, growing, loss, you name it. When I read A. A. Milne's book, I have a full heart, and I know there is good in the world.
My religion? Who really cares? My life? Now that is a subject worth exploring.
2007-09-30 09:10:44 · answer #2 · answered by NRPeace 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The Urantia Book
2007-09-29 23:05:24 · answer #3 · answered by Valerie C 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Several, but to start with the book that inspired Gandhi's efforts "The Kingdom of God is Within You", by Leo Tolstoy. My beliefs: eclectic; and a "red letter" sort of Christian/pantheist.Believer in the Golden Rule and the Sermon on the Mount.
2007-09-29 22:30:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Mankind's Search for God, published by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.. and I am associated with Jehovah's Witnesses. ( I do, however, also read Dr Seuss.. and my favorite book is Oh, The Places You'll Go!)
2007-09-29 21:40:43 · answer #5 · answered by themom 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, by Richard Bach. Also Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Bach.
Both teach about how we must dare to be different and that we are the Messiah.
I am a Fusionist.
2007-09-29 21:54:58 · answer #6 · answered by Shihan 5 · 7⤊ 1⤋
I wouldn't want to convert anyone, but I would like the Id'ers and creationists to get a clue what they are arguing against so I would recomend Richard Dawkins The Blind watchmaker.
2007-09-29 22:28:18 · answer #7 · answered by Gawdless Heathen 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have no religion, and my beliefs change suddenly, without warning. I just try to keep my eyes open. The most profound things that have happened to me have always shattered my previous beliefs, it all has to do with following a path with heart and not the herd. ~ : )
2007-09-29 23:32:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
Leaving Alaska, by Grant Sims.
not because it has any thing to do with my beliefs, ut because it was written by my brother-in-law and is a great book.
2007-09-29 22:43:45 · answer #9 · answered by Hannah's Grandpa 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Spirituality of Imperfection, by Ernest Kurtz
2007-09-29 22:12:43 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋