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Summary: Waste of time
Review: A lot of out of context quotes and mischaracterizations, mixed with a lot of bitterness. Won't convince a believer. Won't provide decent ammunition to skeptics. Much of it is so laughable that anyone who has read the Bible can point out its flaws. Some will find comfort chuckling to themselves about how evil Christians are (skeptics throughout history have never owned slaves, raped women, wiped out nations). If this book was written about Islam, no doubt it would be classed as it should be - as a hate tract. Atheist missionaries should easily be able to find better texts for their preaching.
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Summary: This book changed my life
Review: After coming out of an abusive fundamentalist church, I read this book. While I knew the group I left was wrong, I still clung to many of the ideas I was taught based on the Bible. Green's ability in dissecting the Bible for what's NOT there (how come God never had to magically touch a man in order heal the familiy's infertility, it was always the woman at fault?) helped me come to the conclusion that the Bible was not infallible. Green pulls back the veil to show that the Bible is full of horrific values which our upbringing, cult-ure, and indoctrination inhibit us from understanding its true nature. The book is irreverent and funny, which may cause doubters to put it down before they understand its message. That would be unfortunate, since this book freed my mind from the slavery of fundamentalism.
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Summary: Wow!!
Review: Green tears into christianity like a pitbull into a mailman.
I would have given this book 5 stars except for the fact that the author contstantly repeated herself. Also there were a couple of places where she takes some verses out of context. However I would say that the book is 90% on the money. I highly recomend this book for anyone who is serious about learning the errancy of the bible. If you're a woman this book will open your eyes to the horrific way in which women were treated in biblical times. Well worth the read.
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Summary: Bits and pieces
Review: I bought this book expecting a "guide" to the bible. It is not a guide in any systematic sense, but a series of unconnected essays full of homespun wit, few of which I found especially witty, and few of which are, in my view, a serious attack on the bible or christianity.It spends a great deal of space on the bible's role in oppressing women, which is something that doesn't really interest me, being neither a woman nor an oppressor of same. I flicked through it but there was nothing much there for me. I was going to give it a three, but for me personally it didn't even rate that.
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Summary: Dragons! Unicorns!
Review: I think anyone who has read the bible needs to read this book. It's not an attack. It has no mean sprit behind it but I am sure a lot of "saved" people will find it offensive. But they seem to find so much of the world offensive anyway. Books, Movies, TV or anything they don't agree with. Ignore them. Read the book.
Not only is the book fun to read it also is quiet funny. Pointing out all those odd things the bible says that no deeply religious person ever seems to notice.
Like: Cain's wife. How almost every birth mentioned in the bible is a boy. Noah, drunk and naked. God in hell. Dragons! Unicorns! A naked and howling god!? Jesus killing trees! Jesus telling us heaven won't last forever. Jesus being cursed by god!? Huh?
It's all very fun and interesting. If only I had this book back in those long and boring Sunday school mornings.
I recommend this book to anyone who has ever read or had the bible read to them. It's endlessly amusing, thought provoking and always fun to read.
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Summary: Love it or hate it!
Review: I was privileged to receive an autographed copy of this book, along with a personal letter from Ruth Hurmence Green, shortly after it was published. Unfortunately, this very funny lady died of cancer and is no longer around to see that her book is still making waves! If you are insecure about your faith, this book will make you very angry, but if you can take it, she'll make you laugh out loud - as God is my witness!
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Summary: Ruth Green wrote a fine incitful book on the Bible.
Review: It is rare that we find balance in this country on the topic of religion. Ruth Green takes nothing our of context (I checked dozens of times) and she is always accurate. I found that God ordained polygamy as proper, slavery as just fine, and instituted the "divine" right of kings. Horror and heartlessness is the true basis of the Bible. For example in 2 Kings 2 in the 20's God orders the killing of 42 children because they acted like kids!! This is just 1 example of irrational rage demonstrated by the "Lord God of the Universe." After reading this work I felt empowered to "corner a parson" and demand to know what's going on here. How come they never read this to their congregants from the pulpit. Anyone who reads this work will start thinking for themselves if they have the capacity to begin with.
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Summary: Slapdash sarcasm
Review: Many years ago, this was perhaps the first atheist book I ever read. I was unprepared for the sarcastic vitriol atheist writers can produce. Green represents atheist writers at their worst. (Don't worry, believers. We're not all like this.) Green was no professional author. She was also no professional Bible researcher. She randomly gathered lots of anecdotes from the Bible and presented them in the most sarcastic way possible. Though the things she says are true, she says it in a way that will alienate Christians instead of persuade them. There are other books that demolish the Bible in a much more complete, dispassionate and systematic way. Don't bother with this book unless you want to read a cheap shot at Christianity. Peter Roode's review of this book is the most accurate.
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Summary: Comprehensive and witty unveiling of Bible myths and claims!
Review: Ruth Green has done a masterful job of dissecting piece by piece every story and line of the Bible. Unlike the reviewer who choose not to read this book before reviewing, Ruth clearly demonstrates having read every last syllable of the Bible. Many theists are taught only selected portions of the Bible. They conveniently gloss over the more horrific aspects. Ruth takes all passages into account, those where God is shown to be grand and those where he's spiteful, cruel and morally repugnant. What makes the Born Again Skeptics Guide entertaining is Ruth's healthy dose of humor on almost every page. These comments are intended to show the absurdity of the Bible while maintaining the reader's interest. A couple examples I took from a random page include how Ruth describes a scene where Jesus feeds the multitudes when scant bread and fish (a very common story). To this she says "the Hebrew grocers hoped no one would catch on." Or when Jesus walked on water, Ruth points out, "anyone can walk on water, it all depends on the temperature." These examples come from a huge list of proposterous claims in one chapter. Other chapters dissect whole stories and one even is devoted to sex! And to think, the only book allowed sex offenders in solitary confinement is a Bible! I give this book 5 big stars; it's both informative and entertaining. A challenge to theists and a resevoir of ammunition to atheists.
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Summary: Even better than before!
Review: Ruth Green's classic book is back and better than ever in this new edition. Complete with a much-requested index, no freethinker should be without this great collection of Green's insightful and often humorous essays about the Bible. Tackling the Bible's acceptance of slavery, sexism, and brutality, Green paints a picture that is makes one wonder how anyone could choose to believe it as fact. A great book for the beginner and veteran freethinker alike, this book is informative, provocative, and fun to read. Who could ask for more?
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