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What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lays out God’s primary qualities clearly: jealous, petty, unforgiving, bloodthirsty, vindictive—and worse! Originally conceived as a joint presentation between influential thinker and bestselling author Richard Dawkins and former evangelical preacher Dan Barker, this unique book provides an investigation into what may be the most unpleasant character in all fiction. Barker combs through both the Old and New Testament (as well as thirteen different editions of the “Good Book”), presenting powerful evidence for why the Scripture shouldn’t govern our everyday lives. This witty, well-researched book suggests that we should move past the Bible and clear a path to a kinder and more thoughtful world.
- Sales Rank: #13096 in Books
- Published on: 2016-02-02
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.10" h x 1.10" w x 6.30" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 320 pages
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Advance Praise for God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
“If you thought Richard Dawkins’ The God Delusion was hard on religion, gird your loins for Dan Barker’s book on God because he makes the New Atheists sound like diplomatic accommodationists in his unrelenting deconstruction of the Bible, a book he knows better than the Four Horsemen combined since he used to preach from it. You will never read the Good Book the same way again.”
—Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, monthly columnist for Scientific American, and the author of The Moral Arc: How Science and Reason Bend Humanity toward Truth, Justice, and Freedom
“Dawkins and Barker have both written books encouraging readers to become atheists. Who knew all they had to do was direct everyone to the Bible?”—Hemant Mehta, Editor of FriendlyAtheist.com�
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“With a twinkle that belies the canard that atheists are ‘strident’ and ‘militant,’ Dan Barker cheerfully refutes the common claim that morality comes from the God of the bible.”—Steven Pinker, author of How the Mind Works and The Better Angels of Our Nature
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“After reading Barker’s book, the absurdity and monstrosity of God is undeniable. Let us hope that Barker takes humanity a few steps further down the path of abandoning religion.”— Marshall Brain, author of How “God” Works
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“Dan Barker, a former preacher who knows the Bible far better than most Christians, has produced an excellent handbook for those who doubt the moral depravity of the biblical god.”—Dr. Hector Avalos, Professor of Religious Studies at Iowa State University and author of The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics (2015)
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“Barker’s scholarly index will both stupefy and enlighten even the well-informed reader.� And it proves beyond doubt that Dawkins’ condemnation was right—there is no more repugnant character in all of fiction than the Judeo-Christian god.”—Hector Garcia, PsyD, author of Alpha God
“Rich in reason, candescent in clarity—this is a must-read for any serious student of the Bible.”—Marian Wiggins, former senior editor, children’s curriculum, Gospel Light Publications
About the Author
Dan Barker, a former evangelical minister, is co-president of the Freedom from Religion Foundation, cohost of Freethought Radio, and cofounder and board member of the Clergy Project. A widely sought-after lecturer, debater, and performer, he regularly discusses atheism and life's meaning and purpose in the national media, with appearances on Oprah Winfrey, The Daily Show, The O'Reilly Factor, Good Morning America, and many others.
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Richard Dawkins was the Charles Simonyi Professor of the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society, and the Royal Society of Literature, and has Honorary Doctorates in both science and literature. His many bestselling books include The Selfish Gene (Oxford University Press), The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design (W.W. Norton & Co.), and The God Delusion (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt).
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111 of 119 people found the following review helpful.
Great content, beautiful illustrations, and highly readable
By Andrew L. Seidel
I loved this book. Dan Barker really did his homework. Everything from the content, to the foreword, to the beautiful illustrations by Gustave Dor�, make this book worth reading.
In the foreword, Richard Dawkins explains that he got more flak for one particular sentence in the God Delusion than the rest of the book combined: "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully.”
Apparently, Dawkins wanted to write a book defending the sentence but didn't know the bible well enough. Who better to take up the mantle than an ex-preacher? So Dan Barker did the job, with one chapter for each description in that sentence. The result is a highly readable smackdown of biblical proportions.
Barker actually goes further than Dawkins did. As Barker puts it: “Dawkins was too kind.” He adds eight more adjectives—each with a chapter—and a chapter on whether Jesus is any better than the Old Testament tyrant.
All in all, it would be difficult to argue that the biblical deity or his son has any redeeming qualities after reading Barker’s thorough takedown.
70 of 75 people found the following review helpful.
Reason And Common Sense
By A Customer
Whenever someone start's to talk about the bible, whether it be a priest, deacon or any other lay person, you can be guaranteed it will always be about the feel good stories about love, salvation, forgiveness or anything else that makes one feel good and secure. Dan Barker exposes the bible from all angles, not the good, but the bad and the ugly.
Quoting directly from the bible, be prepared to read how God is unjust, bloodthirsty, bully, angry, racist and just about anything else that will make one doubt their faith in this book. I'm sure the faithful will condemn this book, saying it has been misinterpreted or taken out of context, that we need some scholar to explain things and that they have all the answers. Unfortunately, they like to twist and turn things to fit their agenda and beliefs.
I'm sure God would be smart enough to write a book that us mere mortals could understand in plain English, without any double talk or sleight of hand. With all of these questions concerning the Bible, along with discrepancies and contradictions, one has to conclude the Bible was written by man. God needs to send down a revised edition without the hand of man directing it.
Would recommend the following for more reading.
1) Godless by Dan Barker
2)The Skeptic's Annotated Bible by Steve Wells
3)God's Problem by Bart Ehrman
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Oh my goodness.
By Dr. Paul Sommer
Unbelievable. So glad all this didn't happen. But this fictional character did exist in the minds and hearts of people for so long. Way too long. The book is shock and awe at what the bible contains. Thank goodness for cherry picking and thank goodness for the enlightenment because otherwise we might still be all to familiar firsthand with this character of fiction.
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