"All God Worshippers Are Mad: a little book of sanity" seeks to demonstrate in a logical and common sense manner that the fundamental beliefs held by all monotheists are incomprehensible and lunatic. The method employed is to take the obscurantist vocabulary of monotheism and translate it into plain language. In doing so, the book attempts to show that god worshippers themselves do not understand the things they claim to believe, and by which they live their lives.
For the reader who believes in god, this polemical little volume may help them to understand why secularists get so frustrated and infuriated when in debate with god worshippers. For the secularist, this book is a reminder that not everyone is susceptible to reasoned argument. The reminder is a timely one for those who live in an era of the resurgence of Islamic Jihad. A clear understanding of the irrationality of monotheism is something which matters urgently when confronted by the global rise of religious fascism.
What is said in this little book will no doubt be found impolite and overly-provocative by those authoritarian people within the politically correct establishment who conflate morality with niceness. They will probably utter the familiar refrain that we ought not to denigrate other people’s deeply and sincerely held beliefs. Instead we should live in a permanent state of apology for the crime of having minds of our own. But religions are no more above criticism than any other ideologies. They have no entitlement to a privileged status. Besides which, large numbers of god worshippers feel free to denigrate and insult everyone else’s deeply and sincerely held beliefs, so why should they have special permission to be hypocrites?
Topics covered:
01. God
02. Prayer
03. Worship
04. God the Infinite
05. Immortality and Heaven
06. Soul / Spirit
07. Salvation
08. Faith
09. Spreading The Word
10. Theocracy
11. Theocracy and Nuclear Armageddon
12. God, Guilty of Genocide
13. Religion and Morality are Mutually Exclusive
14. God worship is Immoral
15. God worship is Obscene
16. Everything is God’s Fault
17. If it’s in The Book, then it Must be True
18. Claiming Incomprehensible Beliefs
19. Is Islamism the New Fascism?
20. The Moderates
For the reader who believes in god, this polemical little volume may help them to understand why secularists get so frustrated and infuriated when in debate with god worshippers. For the secularist, this book is a reminder that not everyone is susceptible to reasoned argument. The reminder is a timely one for those who live in an era of the resurgence of Islamic Jihad. A clear understanding of the irrationality of monotheism is something which matters urgently when confronted by the global rise of religious fascism.
What is said in this little book will no doubt be found impolite and overly-provocative by those authoritarian people within the politically correct establishment who conflate morality with niceness. They will probably utter the familiar refrain that we ought not to denigrate other people’s deeply and sincerely held beliefs. Instead we should live in a permanent state of apology for the crime of having minds of our own. But religions are no more above criticism than any other ideologies. They have no entitlement to a privileged status. Besides which, large numbers of god worshippers feel free to denigrate and insult everyone else’s deeply and sincerely held beliefs, so why should they have special permission to be hypocrites?
Topics covered:
01. God
02. Prayer
03. Worship
04. God the Infinite
05. Immortality and Heaven
06. Soul / Spirit
07. Salvation
08. Faith
09. Spreading The Word
10. Theocracy
11. Theocracy and Nuclear Armageddon
12. God, Guilty of Genocide
13. Religion and Morality are Mutually Exclusive
14. God worship is Immoral
15. God worship is Obscene
16. Everything is God’s Fault
17. If it’s in The Book, then it Must be True
18. Claiming Incomprehensible Beliefs
19. Is Islamism the New Fascism?
20. The Moderates