Blaming Jesus for Jehovah: Rethinking the Righteousness of Christianity
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| Rating | : | 4.23 (912 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01BNA6KH2 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 446 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Blaming Jesus for Jehovah, Price shows that trying to separate Old Testament from New--trying to separate Jesus from Jehovah--doesn't solve the problem. Loftus, author of Why I Became An Atheist and How to Defend the Christian Faith"Blaming Jesus for Jehovah is a masterpiece of scholarship. Price illustrates significant problems with the core concepts of Christianity, problems which are remarkably even worse than the fact that there's no discernible truth to any of it."--Aron Ra, author of Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism"Like Islam's derivative text, the Qur'an, the Bible's pages are filled with tribalism, misogyny, animal cruelty, slavery, and slaughter at the hand or command of God, and treating the book as a blueprint for living has caused centuries of unspeakable cruelty. In accessible, clear, and plain language it exposes the moral bankruptcy of Christianity."--Peter Boghossian, author of A Manu
Great Silence said Not for the faint of faith. I've always promised myself to remain open to the possibility that my Christian faith is wrong, and that I should read the best that the "opposition" has to offer. I could never maintain a faith that hides away in dark corners.Price is one of my favorite atheist authors. He plays a hard game, a fair game, and despite his body blows I hardly ever get any meaningful sense of malice from him. Of course he regards faith as unfounded, but he's never unnecessarily unpleasant about his arguments.This short little book is another firm, funny and well-researched depth . David Shank said But I still WANT to believe!. This is an incredibly well done discussion among the myriad of books on the same topic and are, shall we say, not so well done. And what is so compelling about this discussion is that Mr. Price pulls back the covers on the hypocrisy of mainstream christian belief in the face of what the bible itself says. Many of us know intuitively that what modern christians "believe" is very, VERY different from what Jesus and the bible (old and new testaments) actually teach. Modern christians have, in effect, made up their own version of christianity that has little to no. Price Explains His "Cognitive Dissonance" with the Bible Like Robert Price, I am drawn to the Bible's call for us to be loving and Christ-like, but like Price, I see a "cognitive dissonance" and a "schism" between the Loving God and the Cruel God, both of which are explained succinctly and clearly here. Old Testament genocide, biblical fabrications, and the infamous doctrine of eternal hell are addressed here by a former evangelist whose "cognitive dissonance" cannot reconcile the Bible's message of love and eternal perdition. Price's book is a solid complement to Dan Barker's God: The Most Unpleasant Character in A
Price does some bomb squad investigation around the deadly and hidden charge lurking under the moral foundations of Christianity.. Christians consider their religion virtually synonymous with morality, believing there can be no moral standard without a God to guarantee it, no moral behavior without belief in God and knowledge of his commandments. Having his loins girt with a lifelong regard for rational truth, wearing the breastplate of former fundamentalism and the helmet of biblical scholarship, Robert M. Disbelievers are objects of their suspicion, tarred with labels like "relativist" and "nihilist." But buried under the benign and placid surface of their own theology lies a ticking moral time bomb, and most of them have never realized the sinister implications of what they purport t
Price holds a PhD in systematic theology from Drew University (1981) and a PhD in New Testament from Drew (1993). He is the author of over a dozen books, as well as his own translation of the New Testament. He's also written about the historicity of Moses, the nuances and problems of Christian theology, and the endless fascinating details that become apparent in the Bible when viewed through clear eyes of the Hi