Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
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Editor: Russ Kick
Collaborator: Neil Gaiman
Collaborator: Richard Dawkins
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-08-07
ISBN: 1932857591
Number of pages: 388
Publisher: The Disinformation Company

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Book Review: Everything You Know About God is Wrong
Summary: 5 Stars

Written somewhat like an "exploratory documentary" this book contains many of the points various authors, critics, and experts have concluded concerning those questions many have been curious about but didn't want to ask. The superstitions of religions have wreaked havoc for millenia on humanity and here many of them are exposed for anyone to peruse and evaluate accordingly. Many of the ideologies contained are non-the-less reduced and condensed to permit an overview of the aspects in regards to space limitations. After all; There's only so much you can get into one book. Many of these subjects have volumes dedicated to investigations but this book does a good job of "touching" on quite a few of them.

Summary of Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion

In the new mega-anthology from best-selling editor Russ Kick, more than fifty writers, reporters, and researchers invade the inner sanctum for an unrestrained look at the wild and wooly world of organized belief.

Richard Dawkins shows us the strange, scary properties of religion; Neil Gaiman turns a biblical atrocity story into a comic (that almost sent a publisher to prison); Erik Davis looks at what happens when religion and California collide; Mike Dash eyes stigmatics; Douglas Rushkoff exposes the trouble with Judaism; Paul Krassner reveals his "Confessions of an Atheist"; and best-selling lexicographer Jonathon Green interprets the language of religious prejudice.

Among the dozens of other articles and essays, you'll find: a sweeping look at classical composers and Great American Songbook writers who were unbelievers, such as Irving Berlin, creator of "God Bless America"; the definitive explanation of why America is not a Christian nation; the bizarre, Catholic-fundamentalist books by Mel Gibson's father; eye-popping photos of bizarre religious objects and ceremonies, including snake-handlers and pot-smoking children; the thinly veiled anti-Semitism in the Left Behind novels; an extract from the rare, suppressed book The Sex Life of Brigham Young; and rarely seen anti-religious writings from Mark Twain and H.G. Wells.

Further topics include exorcisms, religious curses, Wicca, the Church of John Coltrane, crimes by clergy, death without God, Christian sex manuals, the "ex-gay" movement, failed prophecies, bizarre theology, religious bowling, atheist rock and roll, "how to be a good Christian," an entertaining look at the best (and worst) books on religion, and much more.

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