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    Senior Member mmmmm's Avatar
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    Fellow religiously concerned Homo sapiens, read any good books lately (besides the...

    ...bloody Bible)? I'm currently reading The New Inquisition by Robert Anton Wilson. It's great! I heartily recommend this heartily agnostic slice of heaven to any who may be interested.

    What about you? Have anything that particularly stands out? I swear if it sounds good enough I'll make attempts to read it.
    A lot of good recommendations here, a few sound pretty tempting. Thanks everyone!


    And Daniel, I have actually read the book of Mormon. It was interesting (to say the least), but didn't exactly make a compelling argument for conversion to your faith. Nevertheless, if we were to meet sometime we'd no doubt now have something to talk about and so I thank you for your input.

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    I'm reading the book of Romans: God’s Wrath Against Sinful Humanity

    18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

    21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like a mortal human being and birds and animals and reptiles.

    24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.

    26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed shameful acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their error.

    28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
    God’s Righteous Judgment

    2 You, therefore, have no excuse, you who pass judgment on someone else, for at whatever point you judge another, you are condemning yourself, because you who pass judgment do the same things. 2 Now we know that God’s judgment against those who do such things is based on truth. 3 So when you, a mere human being, pass judgment on them and yet do the same things, do you think you will escape God’s judgment? 4 Or do you show contempt for the riches of his kindness, forbearance and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness is intended to lead you to repentance?

    5 But because of your stubbornness and your unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of God’s wrath, when his righteous judgment will be revealed. 6 God “will repay each person according to what they have done.”[a] 7 To those who by persistence in doing good seek glory, honor and immortality, he will give eternal life. 8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil, there will be wrath and anger. 9 There will be trouble and distress for every human being who does evil: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile; 10 but glory, honor and peace for everyone who does good: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. 11 For God does not show favoritism.

    12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law. 13 For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God’s sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous. 14 (Indeed, when Gentiles, who do not have the law, do by nature things required by the law, they are a law for themselves, even though they do not have the law. 15 They show that the requirements of the law are written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness, and their thoughts sometimes accusing them and at other times even defending them.) 16 This will take place on the day when God judges people’s secrets through Jesus Christ, as my gospel declares.
    THAT'S SOME GOOD STUFF!

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    I read Grandpa Bud to my 5 year old.

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    Do you judge a book by its cover. if you say no then read the book of Mormon another testment of Jesus Christ. And See for your self of it be the word of Christ.

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    3 good ones to check out.

    Tibetan book of the Dead (intended to be read to a person when and after they die)
    A New Earth - Eckhart Tolle
    Why does E=MC2?

    All enlightening, eye opening reads.

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    God is not Great.......Christopher Hitchens...

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    Ok, I'll check it out. Not too long ago I read Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follet. It taught me everything I ever wanted to learn about the Church, and then some.

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    I've been going through my h.p. lovecraft collection


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