For god's sake kindle ebook
Four Australian thinkers come together to ask and answer the big questions such as What is the nature of the universe Doesn t religion cause most of the conflict in the world And Where do we find hope We are introduced to different belief systems Judaism Christianity Islam and to the argument that atheism like organised religion has its own compelling logic And we gain insight into the life events that led each author to their current position. For god's sake just gimme the damn number Jane Caro flirted briefly with spiritual belief inspired by 19th century literary heroines such as Elizabeth Gaskell and the Bronte sisters Antony Loewenstein is proudly culturally yet unconventionally Jewish Simon Smart is firmly and resolutely a Christian but one who has had some of his most profound spiritual moments while surfing Rachel Woodlock grew up in the alternative embrace of Baha i belief but became entranced by its older parent religion Islam. For god's sake Provocative informative and passionately argued For God s Sake encourages us to accept religious differences but to also challenge vigorously the beliefs that create discord For God s Sake An Atheist a Jew a Christian u0026 a Muslim Debate ReligionStarts off honest enough a nice feel to the book at least from the first 1 4 of the first chapter by an atheist she says she is an atheist basically because she was brought up that way this worries me I would prefer somebody who has seriously though about the topic studied read and thought a lot arghh Hope she isnt the weakest link here still too early to tell The intro style overall feel seems good The muslim thus far and the Christian as i read it thus far their brains are put to lunch when the belief virus awakens The Judaism guy thus far sounds very intelligent and reasonable I am intrigued at his secular judaism view imo round one beings to him for chapter one Dunno if I will tidy this review or not will do it as a sort of diary of impressions Chapter two Jane sounding very insightful a big scare at childbirth Rachel the muslim still has her brain out to lunch Simon the Christian not so smart fluffs around with confirmation bias is woefully impressed with apologetic style nonsense The Secular Judasim guy Anthony delivering insights refreshing perspective Jane and Anthony 1 4 of this chapter well worth reading If this keeps up they alone will make the book well worth a purchase the other two useful s a perspective insight as examples of the dangers of the god virus effects. For god's sake in spanish Rachel Simon some good points but both lose it when they claim sky magic Rachel talks about Adam Eve as if that actually happened sigh Simon also ironically with Rachel think that to be human requires something non human ie magic man in the sky yada yada What is a good life Again Jane and Anthony steal the show while both Simon and Rachel ironically require something that is outside our life that is not our life to have a good life ie reduces to our lives are not good unless insert their respective made up sky gods here ie a negation of life SR both away with the fairies here. For God's sakeandme How to know right from wrong J A well worth reading I want to friend these two R S genuine but in cloud cuckooland at times Their idea of right and wrong To stop thinking and use their respective magic books to tell them what right and wrong is Simon especially fluff with his imaginary friend in the sky as stable ground something etc sigh Am starting to think this book should be 50% the size Where do you find hope Anthony the best here followed by Jane Simon and Rachel again stop thinking and appeal to their respective magic books Simon blathers how the garden of eden story speaks of hope oddly seems to leave the door open for a literal take classic inversion christianese style Two nudists in a garden eat an apple and God decides to kill them and every other living thing and every descendant thereof Otherwise intelligent people such as Simon and Rachel having their brains lined with pages from a magic book sort of kills hope for me Obviously at least one book isn t correct one of the good things about the God s sake book is that it really does contrast different believer frames while they are blissfully unaffected by the other believer variant Summary Jane s contribution well worth five stars for me the big surprise is thar Anthony also five star material Alas the believers let the team down when they appeal to their respective magic books While none are idiots it does make me think that when they talk about their gods as real then 1 send Rachael to her room with blunt scissors and cardboard geometric shapes in lieu of cardboard butterflies to cut out and 2 Simon sit further away from him on the bus just in case he finds out his god is just make believe Paperback A decently interesting discussion of various religious points of view revolving around common questions asked of religion but it lacked depth due to the brevity of each segment and didn t feature much in the way of challenging intellectual debate A good read I d recommend it but nothing spectacular Paperback
Jane Caro wears many hats including author lecturer mentor social commentator columnist workshop facilitator speaker broadcaster and award winning advertising writer Jane runs her own communications consultancy and lectures in Advertising Creative at The School of Communication Arts at UWS She has published three books The Stupid Country How Australia is dismantling public education co authored with Chris Bonnor 2007 The F Word How we learned to swear by feminism co authored with Catherine Fox 2008 and Just a Girl UQP 2011 She has also appeared on Channel 7 s Sunrise ABC s QA and ABC s The Gruen Transfer:
For god is sake What is it to be a human being Jane and Anthony solid interesting logical.
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