Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 388 pages
- Published by: The Disinformation Company August 7, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1932857591
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1932857597
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Book Dimensions:
11 x 8.7 x 1.2 inches
- Weighs: 2.8 pounds
Product Description
In the new mega-anthology from best-selling editor Russ Kick, more than fifty writers, reporters, and researchers invade the inner sanctum for an unrestrained look at the wild and wooly world of organized belief.
Richard Dawkins shows us the strange, scary properties of religion;
Neil Gaiman turns a biblical atrocity story into a comic (that almost sent a publisher to prison);
Erik Davis looks at what happens when religion and California collide;
Mike Dash eyes stigmatics;
Douglas Rushkoff exposes the trouble with Judaism;
Paul Krassner reveals his "Confessions of an Atheist"; and best-selling lexicographer
Jonathon Green interprets the language of religious prejudice.
Among the dozens of other articles and essays, you'll find: a sweeping look at classical composers and Great American Songbook writers who were unbelievers, such as
Irving Berlin, creator of "God Bless America"; the definitive explanation of why America is not a Christian nation; the bizarre, Catholic-fundamentalist books by Mel Gibson's father; eye-popping photographs of bizarre religious objects and ceremonies, including snake-handlers and pot-smoking children; the thinly veiled anti-Semitism in the
Left Behind novels; an extract from the rare, suppressed book
The Sex Life of Brigham Young; and rarely seen anti-religious writings from
Mark Twain and
H.G. Wells.
Further topics include exorcisms, religious curses, Wicca, the Church of John Coltrane, crimes by clergy, death without God, Christian sex manuals, the "ex-gay" movement, failed prophecies, bizarre theology, religious bowling, atheist rock and roll, "how to be a good Christian," an entertaining look at the best (and worst) books on religion, and much more.
About The Author
Russ Kick is the all-star editor of five previous Disinformation Guides and three Disinformation books. He has been labeled as an "information archaeologist" by the
New York Times in a major profile. He runs the popular blog TheMemoryHole.org and is well known for his intelligent and successful FOIA requests and unveilings.
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