[In response to "What were the most dangerous books ever written?"]
THE GOD DELUSION Richard Dawkins
THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Charles Darwin
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE JK Rowling
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Aw man, I've already read all of those! Here I was hoping for a better reading list.
Most dangerous books ever written? IMO, the Bible and the Koran.
Have you read any of them, Mike?
Funny, Lincoln said a similar thing about Uncle Tom's Cabin.
You unlettered swine.
Those are the only books you can name, aren't they?
People like you, in doing this, reveal only the depth and breadth of their own ignorance.
Wow. I have all three. My bookcase is pretty freaking dangerous.
I even put my copy of the KJV between The God Delusion and God is not Great to see if anything would happen, like spontaneous combustion or something. Nothing yet.
Only the American version is called "Sorcerer's Stone". They change that sort of thing a lot for some reason. Like "The Golden Compass" is originally "The Northern Lights," As a side note, never watch the movie version, it's beyond terrible.
So it's OK to read the following then?
The Anarchists Cookbook
The Turner Diaries
Home Made Explosives for Fun and Profit
Hit Man- the manual
The A-Z of Bizarre Sexual Activities
Home Made Flamethrowers and other Incendiary Devices
The Revenge Manual
Stick-em, Knifefighting techniques from Folsom Prison.
@ Dan Onymous:
The Golden Bough's a bit out of date now, though not as much as the fundies' source book.
@ Offtopic:
You're so right about that film. I'd have liked to see Guillermo del Toro have a go at it.
Malleus Maleficarum <==== have a copy of this I think, just don't know where it is.
You've got to admit though, The God Delusion is not one of Richard Dawkins' best works and The Origins of the Species by means of Natural Selection was very incomplete.
They don't even know the title of Darwin's book, let alone the contents:
It's 'On the Origin of the Species'
To stoat100,
I knew that! I just always pick people up on not adding the subtitle, which is important, I mean it could be 'On the Origin of the Species by means of Lamarckian Evolution'. Now that wouldn't be too good would it?
@arcturus
She's not, she just did most of her writing in Edinburgh, she was born in England (Gloucestershire I believe)
But really it's kinda irrelevant. Let's just say that team GB has taken bronze, silver and gold, in keeping with the olympic theme :D
> THE GOD DELUSION Richard Dawkins
> THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Charles Darwin
> HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE JK Rowling
JONATHAN LIVINGSTON SEAGULL by Richard Bach
AND THEN THERE WERE NONE by Agatha Christie
DENVER METRO YELLOW BOOK
Your list may be right, Mike, if you hit somebody in the face really hard with the hardcover editions.
(BTW that's not a suggestion. Nosebleeds are hard to clean off of book covers.)
...Not 'The Amber Spyglass', then? In which the villains are all Christian fundamentalists, and which ends with the death of God at the hands of the heroes? In which God is explicitly stated to be an imposter? In which everyone goes to hell, however good a life they've lead, because God doesn't really care? No? Okay, teenage wizards it is, then. : D
(That isn't what I really think about the Amber Spyglass, though. Just in case.)
My personal vote for most dangerous book is Malleus Maleficarum. Carl Sagan refered to it as "quite possibly the most terrifying book ever written" in the Demon-Haunted World.
"The Anarchists Cookbook
The Turner Diaries
Home Made Explosives for Fun and Profit
Hit Man- the manual
The A-Z of Bizarre Sexual Activities
Home Made Flamethrowers and other Incendiary Devices
The Revenge Manual
Stick-em, Knifefighting techniques from Folsom Prison."
Sounds like the kind of books Tyler Durden would have on his bookshelf... :-)
If I was JK Rowling, I would be extremely flattered to be ranked on a level with Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin, and to have authored one of the most dangerous books ever written. I'd laugh all the way to the bank.
I'd vote for the Liber Paginarum Fulvarum, myself. All kinds of dangerous if it falls into the wrong hands.
And in re the Golden Compass:
"I'd have liked to see Guillermo del Toro have a go at it."
Maybe if they could get him to tone down putting eyes all over the place. I don't think that went well with the usual atmosphere of Hellboy, myself. Pan's Labyrinth is fine, that's del Toro's own baby, but I think he should perhaps restrain himself a little more when adapting someone else's works to the big screen. But I digress!
@Hauen: I fell over, twitching with outrage, when I so much as read a condensed review/synopsis of the last Twilight book. And I don't even believe that the Boy Who Lived is anything to be taken seriously!
Let's see, just off the top of my head...
MEIN KAMPF, Adolf Hitler
PROTOCOLS OF THE ELDERS OF SION
And yes, the MALLEUS MALEFICARUM
Any book that justifies genocide and slaughter, in short. This includes the Bible if you take it literally.
Christopher Hitchens hates you for forgetting about his book.
Also.I'm honestly surprised we don't see these people bitching about His Dark Materials more often, I wish they would, it would make a lot more people read them. Surely the openly anti-religious His Dark Materials series is more dangerous then Harry Potter.
To be fair to Mike, Harry Potter IS a pile of shite that stops grown-ups reading proper grown-up books like wot I read.
And it makes children believe in the devil and not baby jeebus.
However, I'm still left with the overriding impression that Mike is a big fishy flange.
I would say any that weigh more than 20 pounds, like those big compilations of news papers that libraries have (or used to have).
Or if you consider ancient hieroglyphs carved into large stone slabs to be books, then those.
Well, I got 2 out of 3. The most recent books I've read, and enjoyed. [Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy[/] by Douglas Adams is also on my Favorite Books list on my Facebook page. I would think you fundies would have a problem with that cos, well, some people enjoy it.
Of course he's more scared of the "God Delusion" than, say, the satanic bible which should be more anti-Christian. I'll bet it's cause the first is a lot more convincing. Scary, huh?
Small Reference Pools anyone? By way of experiment I have stacked God Is Not Great, The God Delusion and both the English and Polish editions of the first Harry Potter novel (why the first, the least dark and potentially "Satanic" volume in the series of seven?) together on the shelf and have yet to be smote with hell-fire.
(Edit: somehow I misread the list as including Christopher Hitchens' God Is Not Great. I suppose it'll do as a substitute as I don't have a paper copy of On the Origin of Species.)
Old Viking: I still have that book on the hard drive. In the same folder as "The Last Unicorn" and "Watership hill".
As for you, Mike, I feel very dissapointed. You didn't read anything yet, did you? That was just a copy-pasta of one of the fundy sites, and you didn't even tell us from which one...
Not "Mein Kampf". Not the "Communist Manifesto". Not even the Quran. Nothing by Nietsche. You'd think a christian's "worst of" list would include things that actually went against their beliefs. But no, in order to continue with the fairy tale, in order to dig deeper into their fantasy life that's not based in reality, we have this clap-trap of nonsense. Way to show us you have no idea what reality is.
Oh come on, what about Das Kapital, The Satanic Bible, Anything by Plato, etc, Learn your history!!
No place for The Gay Science? First use of Nietzsche's 'God is dead'
How about Milton's Paradise Lost. A piece that got described as the best publicity the devil could ever hope for.
The Principa Mathematica? Either one, they're both pretty good.
Really, if you're going to start talking threatening books you could at least sound educated while you do so.
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
The most dangerous books for a Christian would be the collected works of the Greek philosophers. If they read those, they would discover how much of their theology is borrowed from Pagan sources. That would lead them to wondering if Christianity really is the special revelation from god, as they insist it is.
And we surely can't have that!
The Malleus Maleficarum, the Bible, Vogon poetry, And The little Engine that could..
I have all the books this loser listed And more.. :::laughs insanely::: There all mine! Mine! Ahahahahahahaha!
I'll tell you what is the most dangerous book, and why. Which can be summed up in one pic:
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After all, to quote Isaac Asimov:
'Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived
It's the reason why I, and so many Atheists are what we are. You & your ilk, Mike J, clearly haven't read the OT & NT properly, otherwise you'd realise why it's so dangerous. And not for the obvious reasons, neither.
The other day at the library I put a book about abortion between two Bibles, just to see what would happen . . .
. . . nothing. I must say, it was fairly disappointing.
What's so special about The Philosopher's Stone? I found it to be the tamest of the seven books in the series.
Barring hiting someone with it, how is Philosopher dangerous? It's not even that heavy, really.
Try hitting someone with Stephen King's It or The Lord of The Ring Trilogy. That will cause some serious bruising...
Both books have more thought-provoking content than Harry Potter, as well.
@Patashu
We all wish it was.
Among the really dangerous books, which wasn't mentioned yet:
ON THE JEWS AND THEIR LIES - Martin Luther. The book which inspired german antisemitism. I think I don't need to explain the ghastly consequences this evil book caused some centuries later.
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