God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible (55 page)

Certainly a dangerous book, a dangerous book because it decrees all manner of actions that we, as a morally evolved society, now deem to be barbaric. But unfortunately God hasn’t released any new best sellers of late, and believers are left with this book from antiquity to perform actions that they believe would please this wicked monster. Thus believers of all faiths will continue to kill in his name because the Bible and the Koran make the ugliest aspects of the human condition righteous and virtuous.

Civilization is left with a stark contrasting choice on how we move forward together in solidarity or in conflict. To borrow Bill Maher’s words from his movie
Religulous
:

The God Delusion
, Richard Dawkins (Mariner Books 2008) 978-0-552-77429-1

God Is Not Great
, Christopher Hitchens (Atlantic Books, 2007) 978-1-84354-574-3

A History of God
, Karen Armstrong (Ballantine Books, 1994 ) 978-0-34538-4560

End of Faith
, Sam Harris (WW Norton & Company, 2004) 978-0-7432-6809-7

The Year of Living Biblically
, AJ Jacobs (Simon & Schuster, 2007) 978-0743291477

Religulous
, Bill Maher, DVD (Lionsgate Films, 2008), ASIN B0027Z83V4

Me of Little Faith
, Lewis Black (Riverhead, 2008) ISBN 978-1-59448-994-5

The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound, Jack Huberman (Nation Books, 2006) 978-1560259695

God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, Victor J. Stenger (Prometheus Books, 2008) 978-1591026525

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion (The Disinformation Company, 2007) 978-1932857597

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