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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Audio Book)
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
English Audio book| MP3 | 64kbps | 168.59 mb
English Audio book| MP3 | 64kbps | 168.59 mb
An important book for Christians.
Thank you Mr. Hitchens for writing this book. You, Dawkins, Harris, Gore - and others - are voices of reason crying out in the widerness aagainst the INSANITY of the disgusting, stomach turning Christio-fascism being foisted upon us. America - and the world - is doomed if we don't turn this around and head back to reason and common sense. I beleive in God and Jesus but I am not stupid enough to beleive that ancient fables from primitive tribes are literally true. God spoke to them in a way they could understand in their age. But our knowledge has grown since then and we can go beyond those simplistic, paranoid views of the world. Jesus wants us to LOVE not hate. The snake oil salesmen I see on TV all seem to think religion is all about hate and fear and telling lies about scientific fact. That is WRONG!!! That is NOT what Jesus wants. I encourage everyone - especially those who love Jesus like me - to read this book.
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I would add that this book isn't just for Christians, but for all other dominance based theistic religions as well. Much evil has been done through them also.
Guess what? Human beings created religion as a means to control and dominate by giving easy answers and meaning. Its the old carrot and stick. People, who want easy answers to life and such only see the carrot and don't see the stick until it is too late.
Maybe not, but justification for much of this evil will disappear, though. The same as the democratic process has taken much of the evil out of those who rule. Religion is what gives these type the power they need. More so than ANYTHING else. The evil of religion far out paces ANY real good that may have been done with it.
Yes, there are those who mistakenly believe that it is a good thing and that it is just being "misused". They are like those who also mistakenly believe that Pitbull dogs make good family pets as well. That all one has to do is show them love and tenderness, but more often than not they learn the hard way the mistake they've made in that belief. Religion is the main excuse to justify the majority of evil throughout history. Remember, "Power corrupts, absolutely power corrupts absolutely..."
God is GREAT. Religion is not.
Atheism has caused a lot of problems in this world, more than any kind of religion. Do I have to blame atheism? I'd rather blame the HUMAN RACE. If I were ET and came to earth, I would certainly think that people in this world are in great trouble, not because of religion, but for multiple kind of reasons. Humans are bad!!!! We have been destroying this world since the very beginning, we have killed millions in all kinds of wars, and some of us are fat while millions are dying of hunger. WE are the problem!!!!
God is GREAT. Religion is not.
Which god?
Hardly. And atheism is not a religion, it isn't even a belief system either. The only thing that atheists have in common is that they don't believe in a god.
Wrong, he was a devout Catholic. BTW, you just broke Godwin's Law which states that when one compares anything to Hitler, or the Nazis, they automatically lose the debate. :)
"The folkish-minded man, in particular, has the sacred duty, each in his own denomination, of making people stop just talking superficially of God's will, and actually fulfill God's will, and not let God's word be desecrated. [original italics]
For God's will gave men their form, their essence, and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will. Therefore, let every man be active, each in his own denomination if you please, and let every man take it as his first and most sacred duty to oppose anyone who in his activity by word or deed steps outside the confines of his religious community and tries to butt into the other.
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Hence today I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord. [original italics]"
-- Adolf Hitler, from "Mein Kampf",
translation by Ralph Mannheim.
"The Führer made it known to those entrusted with the Final Solution that the killings should be done as humanely as possible. This was in line with his conviction that he was observing God's injunction to cleanse the world of vermin. Still a member in good standing of the Church of Rome despite detestation of its hierarchy ("I am now as before a Catholic and will always remain so" [quoting Hitler]), he carried within him its teaching that the Jew was the killer of God. The extermination, therefore, could be done without a twinge of conscience since he was merely acting as the avenging hand of God -- so long as it was done impersonally, without cruelty."
-- John Toland (Pulitzer Prize winner),
from "Adolf Hitler", pp 507, talking about the Autumn of 1941.
"The "I am now as before a Catholic..." quotation from Hitler was recorded in the diary of Gerhard Engel, an SS Adjutant, in October 1941. Hitler was speaking in private, not before a mass audience, and so it is difficult to dismiss the comment as propaganda lies."
Would you believe that currently in the West when religion is not as powerful as it once was that now is one of the most moral periods in history? That most of the wars and violence in the world now is in places that religion plays a major part in the lives of the people. In fact if you look at the justification throughout history you will see religion as the main one. The news media only makes things seem worse here when in fact it is the complete opposite.
WE are the problem, not God.
We have been destroying this planet, destroying their resources, destroying millions of lives. We are living well, fat, while many are dying of hunger. With every minute that we pass here discussing stupid things like this, thousands are about to die of hunger.
We are the problem!!!
You are blaming GOD and religion because YOU don't want to look at you in the mirror.
We are the problem.
WE are the problem, not God.
We create god in our own image. He was only following his belief that he was doing god's will.
Have you ever heard of Divine Right? Its a belief that god give humans the right to rule over all. As for those who are starving you can blame their religious beliefs against things like birth control and the like. You can give them all the food and aid you want, but this problem won't go away until they give up this belief.
That is only your religiously inspired self-hatred showing.
We are the problem.
Hardly. Once fear and ignorance are gone people do good for its own sake.
BTW, I'm not blaming god, that would be like blaming the Easter Bunny. I'm blaming religion, there is a difference that those, like you, have trouble telling the difference. As I had said before. Religion is what Man uses to create god in his own image.
This was only an excuse. Hitler wanted to kill others, because of his HATE. He hated people. I have a lot of friends here in my country that HATE jews. I don't know nor understand WHY!!!!. There are many people like my friends, and some of them have the power to do what their HATE dictate to them. Bush is killing others for the oil. Others killed for multiple reasons.
"Have you ever heard of Divine Right? Its a belief that god give humans the right to rule over all"
I'm sorry but I never heard God telling me something about that. And it seems that I will never heard God speaking to me. Maybe is another excuse for people to destroy this planet for money.
"That is only your religiously inspired self-hatred showing"
I'm not a religious person. I only read history, and I read and see the news everyday. It seems to me that OUR race is a very violent one.
"Hardly. Once fear and ignorance are gone people do good for its own sake"
I hope so. But today, there were no fear nor ignorance in the subway and NONE give a dime to a blind guy asking for some coins!!!.
I know why. Their religions tell them to. The primary reason has always been religion.
And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."
Genesis 1.28
Somehow I just don't believe you.
I to have read much history and I have seen the root cause of the majority of the wars and violence throughout it.
I never said that it was perfect, but compared to those times when religion was the LAW, i.e. The Dark Ages, it is pretty damn close to paradise in the West now where religion no long has the power it once had. Where I live no one must go without food or shelter.
You do realize that if religion were still the LAW of the land that we wouldn't be having this conversation, that is without fear of being persectuted for heresy. There probably wouldn't even be an internet either nor any reall level of high technology either since the science they are based on contradicts religious belief. Books, like this, are important to help expose the dangers of religion.
Why did you write this to me? Do I have to believe that God said that? In my opinion, the Bible is a religious book for people who belief in it and nothing else. I really like some Jesus sayings, but the OT is terrible!!.
"Somehow I just don't believe you."
Why you don't believe me? I'm NOT a religious person. I almost sure that there is someone or something bigger than us, but I really can't assure you nor impose that belief to anyone.
Religion is a very bad thing, but it is a man made thing. Our race is the one to blame for a world so devastated by wars and hate. I can't see that people really hate HATE, RACISM, or HUNGER. We are so far of really understand what we need to change to make some real changes in this world. The Human Race is a very, very selfish race. Most of us care about us and nothing else. There are few people that are really trying to change things in this world.
Many thanks then perhaps I can form my own opinion of what is written
there is no GOD, but there is HJsplit to combine the files:
http://www.freebyte.com/hjsplit/
This means gravity was already there before.
In a similar way, the will to do evil was before religion started.
An evil man looks around for any opportunity to do evil, religion or other stuff.
Religion may be a real channel to deliver evil, but its not the engine behind evil - even if I agree with you that it certainly does not help world peace.
I am no psychologist but if you take evil men from different parts of the world
you may find that they have similar personality issues that were inside them before they became, if at all, religious.
Thanks
I must say that totaly agree with you.