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Title: God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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| God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group Strident self-righteous atheists are as annoying as Christian fundamentalists | | Welcome to the animal farm. The barnyard animals have finally taken over the farmhouse from those awful farmers, but now the pigs are dressing up like people and acting just as bad! Its humorous to see the "new atheists" embrace the same rigidity, anger, and strident dismissal of any disagreement that they find (rightly so) disturbing in religion. The icing on the cake is that such educated and "intellectual" thinkers could be so obtuse to the irony therein. If I had to be trapped in an elevator with either Jerry Fallwell or Richard Dawkins.....flip a coin. | | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group hitchens doesnt know atheists are the biggest killers in history? | | Hitchens doesnt know that atheist religion is responsable for more deaths in 80 years that all wars combined in human history? (175 - 200M, they lost count after 150M). Lenin, Stalin, Hitler , Mao, Pol Pot. the evil crusades, killed about 100,000. Stalin killed more Russians than Hitler did ( atheists always kill each other, Stalin killed trotsky and Sergie Kurov). hitle rclosed the boy scouts, all religous schools, and youth movements, and taught the waffen SS that jesus was the bastard son of a Jew and embraced evolution. Early evolutionists were hugely racist, believing africans weren't fully evolved . Hitchen really isnt very bright. | | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group Whaat a great read! | Christopher Hitchens is elevating the level of skepticism within the ranks of the mass uniformed public.
This book makes it increasingly difficult to defend religion and adherence to belief in god on the ground with the common person.
We are another day closer to tossing religion and ideas about god onto the ash heap of human immaturities.
| | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group This man is a Fool | | Many people are looking to this man for intellectual support of their atheistic views. Unfortunately, despite his high intellect, he is a "fool". "The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God". A person enters the "fool" category when they allow what they WANT to be true to override what their mind and heart tells them IS true. Everything on our earth and in our known universe demonstrates incredible complexity, dynamic interdependent relationships, and the presence of precise mathematical laws. Did these laws and complexities arise from random mutations/events? You also must ask yourself why mankind, for all of its known history, has suspected or believed in, a God. The reason is, everything in our observable realm screams of evidence for a Creator. The reason people CHOOSE not to believe in God is that there are behavioral ramifications. The Bible says that mankind has gone its one way and disobeyed God. Mankind is steeped in sin, for "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God". I understand that you may be mad at God for things that may have happened in your life. The death of a loved one, for example. However, the Bible teaches us that when the earth was created, it was good, and there was no death. It was mankind's sin that brought judgement upon the earth, and death. Have you sinned? Have I? The answer is yes. That is why Jesus was sent to this earth. He gave up his proper place in heaven to condescend to become a human being, to live as a sacrificial servant, and ultimately, to die on the cross for a sin that he did not commit. In fact, he committed no sins. He was the perfect sacrifice, and all who believe that his death is sufficient to atone for their sins will be forgiven, and will receive eternal life. That means Heaven. Read the New Testament, and the words of Jesus. Ask yourself, was he a madman, a liar, or, was he God, as he claimed to be. Your eternity destination will rest on that decision. | | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group Great Book. | | Great book, have a dictionary handy. If your into books on religion or really enjoyed this book then check out other books from the three headed hydra of atheism (Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins) | | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group Product Description | In the tradition of Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris's recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case
against religion. With a close and erudite reading of the major religious texts, he documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and
reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesome view of the universe, and Moses and the burning bush give way to the beauty and symmetry
of the double helix. |
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Delete the SearchIndex file
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It’s probably taking up a few megabytes of space on your hard drive. (Possibly quite a few megabytes.)
Here’s what to do:
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2. Delete the file at ~/Library/Application Support/NetNewsWire/SearchIndex
This file is no longer used (as of 2.0b37) so it’s safe to delete.
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