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This book proves to atheists that they don't exist, reveals to agnostics their true motives, and strengthens the faith of the believers. This book answers questions such as "Who made God?" and "Where did Cain get his wife?" The book uses humor, reason, and logic to send a powerful message. Here are some reactions from atheists who read the book . . .
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Rating :  - Platitudinous reassurance for believers in this time of increased scrutiny as to God's existence
Wow, this one is truly just for the believers. If you grew up on platitudinous answers and religious jargon, you'll grab this book and curl up by the fire for a wonderful evening of feel-good reading.
If, on the other hand, you're a thoughtful person who respects reason and cogent arguments, you need only open any page at random to see how ludicrous some of this book's verbiage can be. The title does offer a hint--this is a book to reassure believers that all those new books questioning God's existence are bad. This author doesn't begin to offer anything of interest to the non-believer, given it's fundamentalist pat answers that really don't make any sense to regular people.
Some examples....
True to the fundamentalist mind set, the author has no clue as to how non-believers employ reason. It's such a foreign concept that he assumes no one could possibly reject the notion of supernatural deities simply because it doesn't make sense. Quote:
"For your own sake, ask yourself what hinders you from coming to the Savior? Is it your pride? Do you prefer the praises of men to the praise of God? Do you fear man more than you fear God? Perhaps you are afraid your friends will laugh at you. ... Perhaps it's your love of money...."
Can I get an LOL? Then there's the same old unimaginative bait-and-switch about faith, suggesting faith in the supernatural is no different from "faith" in the realm of realities. It works for believers every time; it's ludicrous to the rest of us. Quote:
"If you decide to take a taxi to work, you will have to trust your life to the vehicle and the taxi driver, and trust the other drivers to stay on their side of the road. You will have to trust elevators, stairways, airplanes, the post office and banks. Believe me--we either live with faith or fall victim to paranoia. If, then, faith so evidently surrounds us, why should it be so offensive?"
Do they really see logic in that??
In responding to the atheist's question of who made God, the author says "For the answer, all I need is to be able to reason with you, and for you to be reasonable." At this point, and I am not being facetious, I laughed out loud. If there's anything this book lacks, it is reason and reasonableness.
Look, this guy asks us to believe that the Christian deity is for real, even though this deity is just like all the other pagan deities (who also had virgin births, resurrections, blood sacrifices and "bliss if you worship me - torture if you don't"). He wants us to believe some rather fantastical stuff about this pagan-like deity, and he bases it on the Bible, which he accepts as the perfect word of this perfect deity. (He criticizes the "traditional" church for not sticking to the Bible.) So let us charitably overlook the wickedness of this jealous, vindictive deity as portrayed especially in the OT, and look at only the contradictions....
In the book of Genesis, there are TWO accounts of creation, and they directly contradict each other. At least one of them has to be false. There are also two (or is it 3?) sets of "ten commandments" that contradict each other. At least one of them is false. Most Christians are completely oblivious to the fact that their perfect, holy scriptures contain more than 300 direct contradictions. Yet this author asks us to use those writings (of necessity picking and choosing among the true and false parts) as the basis for believing these amazingly fantastical tales about this particular ancient god that he's selected to believe is the one real supernatural being.
Which brings us back to the book at hand. Why doesn't this author offer anything that would convince, or even minimally appeal in some way to people outside the in-group of believers themselves? Because he can't. It would be an impossible task, given the material he has to work with.
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