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: Not a lot new here, but for once it is all in one place.
Summary: 4 Stars

Although a semi-scholarly treatment, (like others in this series) there is not a lot new here that we "non-believers" did not already know of, or have not seen elsewhere. That said this volume does have the added benefit of having the unorthodox views and research about the other side of organized religious dogma reported on all in one (not so) tidy package. That alone makes it infinitely more useful and easier to bring forth counterviews as a reference compendium that can be used to challenge biblical contradictions, misinterpretations, and religious ideological nonsense, of which there seems to be a lot circulating around the world these days.

In this sense, it offers a smorgasbord of trenchant revelations and exposes that point to the widely known as well to the not so well-known myths, fallacies, misconceptions, misquotations, down right untruths, and plain religious ignorance -- much of which has become an ossified and accepted part of religious dogma over the last two millennia.

Since it is a collection of individually researched articles and essays that are disconnected from each other, it should not be misunderstood for being more than what it is: an edited volume, which is to say, a rather disconnected, if not at times not completely incoherent set of disparate treatments of a subject that, as other reviewers have noted, has been much better reported on in several other books on the topic. I agree with them that, Hitchens' and Dawkins' books, for example, are clear standouts and present well-researched critiques that are both clear and just short of devastating of the normal weak religious apologia. But also Richard Harris' two entries are not to be discounted either. For my needs, I was satisfied, but not overwhelmed.

Three stars

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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