Books You Want Horribly Destroyed.

[Nouw]

I don't hate any books, even if they're boring.

Same here, It's just I'm ashamed that we have books like Twilight on the market and that their more popular then Oscar Wilde.

Agreed. They need to read better books, like Poe.

Poe is a racist, so no thanks.
The thing is that we all have our tastes and I do read Poe but I will take Oscar Wilde or H.P.Lovecraft any day.

Whatever floats your boat. I quite enjoyed some of his short stories.

Anyone here know Robert A. Heinlein?

 

[ANImaniac89]

First your generalization of a Christians/deists is a bit um............... wrong

Sorry, I dozed off and dreamt of a world in which the Texas Board of Ed. just passed a resolution to limit the references to Islam in textbooks, a senatorial candidate wants to discourage masturbation, several other senatorial candidates want to ban abortion under all circumstances, at least one thinks birth control is the equivalent of abortion, major US religious leaders back laws in Africa that require neighbors to report on each other for homosexuality - which would be a crime that could be punished by death, a former VP candidate was blessed by a preacher who spends his vacations hunting witches in Africa, the Republican party leader in Hawaii believes there current candidate for governor is the first "righteous" one since the state's founding - because the current Republican governor is Jewish, where a bunch of conservative politicians bullied the rest of Congress into codifying more limitations on abortion into the health care bill, where a bunch of know-nothings wants to prevent the building of mosques - both in NYC and Kentucky (the latter despite a law to exempt houses of worship from zoning rules; it was only meant to be used for Christian churches), where the Republican party just voted en masse to not repeal DADT, etc.

My apologies. Obviously the illusion of dominionist Christians trying to undermine the secular nature of our government and culture was all in my head. We atheists should all just quiet down and stop being all rude to all the poor, helpless religious people.

Oh wait... it wasn't. That all really happened - just in the last couple of months (and I'm leaving out a bunch of crap, too - including the equally egregious offenses of other monotheistic religions).

Christ your single minded, you fight so hard for your beliefs about how the world should work.
you drone on and on like some one who has be spoon fed propaganda and likes the taste.
ALL HAIL! RICHARD DAWKINS KING POPE OF ALL ATHEISTS, he Serving his shit to you flies and you fucking love the taste, it can be hard to swallow, but by SCIENCE* it makes you feel like such a fucking rebel.

(* yes that a south park reference ^_^)

 

[Orthon]

keep in mind that at the time i posted that, that is 5 posts per page dedicated to twilight burning. and to reiterate my point in my previous post on catcher: it is a book in which the protagonist/ narrater in a pompus ass who thinks he is better than everyone else, and has no problem saying it every paragraph, every page, every inner thought. maybe its just me but i dont like to read about whiny bitches

Actually, I'm reading Catcher at the moment, for a school assignment.
So far I like it, truth be told. While I don't want to get into a giant discussion over the book, out of fear that I'll go too far off-topic(topic is bookburning, after all), I'll say this: I actually never think he's saying he's better than everyone else. In fact, he criticizes himself at some parts of the book. He's just very unhappy with alot of things which makes him very angsty and whiny. Won't argue about him being whiny. He really is.

Bleh, dunno how I did on the " trying not to get into a discussion" part.

 

[Romidude]

Any religious text. Seriously, the world would be a lot more peaceful without religion.

HA! War would exist ether way, and don't destroy books, It's monstrous

Name one war that wasn't Religiously driven or Politically driven (I.E. DEM R TEH COMMEIZ SHEWT DEM!).

All war is political. And every war past 1500's. WW1, WW2, AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, AMERICAN REVOLUTION, WAR OF 1812, French Revolution, and Vietnam War.

Civil wars? Are you serious? That's just idiotic bickering, Revolutions are by the people, for the people. Vietnam war was created by just how fucking stupid some people are. And the World Wars were already stated.

Right, because no wars have been based on economy. EVER.

Well, I'll admit you got me there, But why is everyone protecting and helping this guy? He couldn't do it himself so you felt sorry for him?

 

[The Clinger]

Dawkins books were mostly reactionary. I believe (but I am not absolutely certain) that he has at least once said that he wrote his book because of the movements in America against his field of research (evolutionary biology.)

The main points of his book are that religion should not be held above criticism, and a message that it is OK to be an atheist. And yes, he can be a dick.

I would say the bible, just to be cute, but meh. If I had to choose one, I would say "You Can Lead an Atheist to Evidence, But You Can't Make Him Think: Answers to Questions from Angry Skeptics" by Ray Comfort.

 

[BlindTom]

None of them. It's really upset me that this thread contains cretins willing to go along with this. Hopefully they are 12 and will outgrow this shit.

Oh yes great moral one. Thank you for pointing out my evil ways.

np