Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
By Russ Kick
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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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Reviews for Everything You Know About God Is Wrong
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Long dull book against religion written by atheists . Here's the plot let's set up straw men (religious beliefs we take out of context) and lets destroy them with our secular atheistic genius! Nevermind that they don't understand any of the dogmas they rant against! Lol. There are 2 creation stories in genesis? Omg christians never knew that? And I wish with all the christian bashing they would add one small tiny truth. Christianity has fed more, clothed more, sheltered more and saved and educated more humans than any other institution that ever existed. Nah , wouldn't fit their narritive would it?
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The editor of this book started with a simple premise: what you know about god, faith, your religion, the Bible-all that is dead wrong. And in some ways, this compilation did a good job illustrating that. He collected various writings to explain all the reasons why religion is a bit screwy, though I don't think he is successful at showing that belief in god is screwy. I think he does a better job of showing that blind acceptance of religious precepts and blind dismissal of other ideas is foolish because it makes no logical sense to think your ideas are any better than someone else's. This might be a better way of showing why religious tolerance is important.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Like any collection of essays, this has some wonderful entries that are dead one, some mediocre entries, and a couple of outright bad ones, but the overall net is good, partially because the book is carried along by some particularly heavy hitters who are also good writers.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Kick is a good author but not such a great editor. Much of this tome is anecdotal stories about priests and whatall which does nothing to make a case for a diety or not.