Who has read the "God is not great" by Christopher Hitchens

[Blessedone]

As a christian I think on my own and felt that this man had a interesting point of view. Not every word is to be taken literally and by this I mean the title of the book.Christopher writes about not agreeing with the God that people love to preach about as if they invented Him.

[EricH]

Moved from the Welcome Forum to the general Discussion Forum

[Blessedone]

Personally, I don't know why a Christian would waste their time reading material put out by someone attacking the Christian faith? If I am going to take the time to read a book, I want it to be something of value, as my time is limited. I don't care about reading a book about why the author thinks "God is not great." The title alone tells me the book is a heretical piece of garbage.

By the way, when it comes down to someone arguing against the existence of God, or the God of the Bible, I don't have an open mind. The existence of Jehovah God is a settled reality with me, and no amount of reasoning from a non-believer will change that.

And the judgements came....so quickly. As expected, the faith turns to hate right away.

[nebula]

As a christian I think on my own and felt that this man had a interesting point of view.

OK, I went to Amazon to read a review of the book. This was the first sentence:

"Hitchens, one of our great political pugilists, delivers the best of the recent rash of atheist manifestos."

Amidst the Washington Posts review is found this:

"What Hitchens gets wrong is religion itself.

Hitchens claims that some of his best friends are believers. If so, he doesn't know much about his best friends. He writes about religious people the way northern racists used to talk about "Negroes" -- with feigned knowing and a sneer. God Is Not Great assumes a childish definition of religion and then criticizes religious people for believing such foolery. But it is Hitchens who is the na

[Blessedone]

Personally, I don't know why a Christian would waste their time reading material put out by someone attacking the Christian faith? If I am going to take the time to read a book, I want it to be something of value, as my time is limited. I don't care about reading a book about why the author thinks "God is not great." The title alone tells me the book is a heretical piece of garbage.

By the way, when it comes down to someone arguing against the existence of God, or the God of the Bible, I don't have an open mind. The existence of Jehovah God is a settled reality with me, and no amount of reasoning from a non-believer will change that.

And the judgements came....so quickly. As expected, the faith turns to hate right away.

At least you weren't blind sided by it. What faith turned to hate? I am coming against a book that seems to be attacking the faith. Certainly that is why the title indicates. The God Christopher Hitchens serves may not be great, but that is not the case with my God who is the God of the Holy Bible.

The God of the Bible is the same God that man has created in His own image. He has created an egotistical,jealous,vengeful,merciless,sadistic and insecure persona of all the most negative traits of man. This image of God given to the world by christians has manifested countless wars,ignorance and utter pain to millions of people...and in the name of who may I ask?

[nebula]

The God of the Bible is the same God that man has created in His own image. He has created an egotistical,jealous,vengeful,merciless,sadistic and insecure persona of all the most negative traits of man. This image of God given to the world by christians has manifested countless wars,ignorance and utter pain to millions of people...and in the name of who may I ask?

Blessedone -

Who do you believe Jesus is?

[EricH]

once the nature of the book and the post were uncovered, moved to apologetics.

[OopsMartin]

Let's just remember that God does not need us to wage war on His behalf. God is quite capable of defending Himself and in profound ways. This is why unbelievers become believers in many unusual and unexpected ways.... and often when they least were expecting to change their minds.

[EricH]

Blesssedone,

Given your characterization of the Christian God, I have changed your status to unbeliever. That means that although you can read posts in any forum, you can only post in the outer court. If you are here to ask questions, you are welcome.

[Blessedone]

Personally, I don't know why a Christian would waste their time reading material put out by someone attacking the Christian faith? If I am going to take the time to read a book, I want it to be something of value, as my time is limited. I don't care about reading a book about why the author thinks "God is not great." The title alone tells me the book is a heretical piece of garbage.

By the way, when it comes down to someone arguing against the existence of God, or the God of the Bible, I don't have an open mind. The existence of Jehovah God is a settled reality with me, and no amount of reasoning from a non-believer will change that.

And the judgements came....so quickly. As expected, the faith turns to hate right away.

At least you weren't blind sided by it. What faith turned to hate? I am coming against a book that seems to be attacking the faith. Certainly that is why the title indicates. The God Christopher Hitchens serves may not be great, but that is not the case with my God who is the God of the Holy Bible.

The God of the Bible is the same God that man has created in His own image. He has created an egotistical,jealous,vengeful,merciless,sadistic and insecure persona of all the most negative traits of man. This image of God given to the world by christians has manifested countless wars,ignorance and utter pain to millions of people...and in the name of who may I ask?

I knew this was an attempt by an unbeliever to turn people away from the God of the Bible. Thanks for admitting it. I utterly reject everything you just said, as well as your attacks on God.

If admitting to foolishness as...YES I AM A NONBELIEVER will give you peace of mind. Fine as you please but my personal truth and life decision won't change because of you and the same should apply to you. My ideas should not be enough to turn away anybody and their God. Because of a limited mind people don't get along and therefore drag their Gods with them and create harmful discorse. To reason and give others a change to reason freely regardless of being right or wrong I think would not be such a terrible act in the eyes of God.