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The Outsider Test for Faith
- How to Know Which Religion Is True
- De: John W. Loftus
- Narrado por: Matthew O'Neil
- Duración: 6 h y 41 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 12
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 12
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Author John W. Loftus, a former minister turned atheist, argues we would all be better off if we viewed any religion - including our own - from the informed skepticism of an outsider, a nonbeliever. For this reason, he has devised "the outsider test for faith". He describes it as a variation on the Golden Rule: "Do unto your own faith what you do to other faiths." Essentially, this means applying the same skepticism to our own beliefs as we do to the beliefs of other faiths.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Book with Poor Narration
- De Irreverend Walker en 01-07-16
- The Outsider Test for Faith
- How to Know Which Religion Is True
- De: John W. Loftus
- Narrado por: Matthew O'Neil
Great Book with Poor Narration
Revisado: 01-07-16
This is another terrific book form Loftus that is seriously undermined by a truly uninspired performance. It's feels like O'Neil's goal is to read the text as fast as humanly possible. Over and over again while listening I just wanted to scream, "slow down!" There is no personality, no warm, and no sense of connection to the material. It does not for one second feel like he's trying to convince me of the value of the test being presented. It sounds like he's being forced to read a text he doesn't care about. He might as well be reading the phone book. There a ton of big ideas in this book. It presents a challenging method of thinking that is foreign to many people. It features a deluge of information and references to external data. These heady concepts need a narrator who knows how to pace the content in a way that makes it easy for the listener to absorb. O'Neil goes so fast, and with an unchanging pace that gives no weight to any one sentence more than another, that it's very easy to just tune out. The world desperately needs more books like this that plainly lay out the the importance of reason, logic, empiricism, and evidence-based thinking. Sadly it is read like it was an unwanted school assignment by a bored narrator who wanted to be anywhere else. A book like this deserved so much better.
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On the Historicity of Jesus
- Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
- De: Richard Carrier
- Narrado por: Richard Carrier
- Duración: 28 h y 8 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 834
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 748
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 738
The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been raised have usually been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical, and the theological in the surviving records of Jesus. Historian and philosopher Richard Carrier reexamines the whole question and finds compelling reasons to suspect the more daring assumption is correct.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very detailed analysis with a clear conclusion
- De E. Moore en 07-09-15
- On the Historicity of Jesus
- Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
- De: Richard Carrier
- Narrado por: Richard Carrier
A Devastatingly Effective Demonstration
Revisado: 05-22-15
After this book I am utterly convinced Jesus was a myth and nothing short of the discovery of significant new archeological evidence will have a chance to alter that conclusion.
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