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Porphyry’s Against the Christians was the most hard-hitting, incisive, and lengthy critique of Christianity that the ancient world ever knew. It was so dangerous that three Christian emperors wrote decrees ordering it to be burned. The Christians succeeded in destroying it, but they did not destroy—or seek to destroy—the fragments and traces of the work in Christian authors themselves. Thus testimonies and fragments of Porphyry’s great work survive. This is the material translated and commented upon in this book. Its purpose is to correct the errors and massive gaps of R. J. ...

Before you learned to speak, you were taught to obey. Before you could wonder, you were handed answers. God Is the Prison is a bold and poetic exploration of how religion is installed into the human psyche-not as choice, but as inheritance. Zakir Hossain joins a long tradition of radical truth-tellers-from Nietzsche, who declared God dead, to Marx, who named religion the opiate of the masses. But where others argued through reason, Hossain writes with fire and rhythm. This is not a dry critique. It's a lyrical jailbreak.

Here are some quotes on Religion. Which ones do you Believe? "Religion without humanity is poor human stuff". "No religion can be built on force". "God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight". "All religions and all communities have the same rights, and it is my responsibility to ensure their complete and total protection". "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree". "The essence of all religions is one". "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous". "Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for ...

A child always comes into the world knowing a lot. Of course, nobody bothers to ask a child anything. We, as adults, believe falsely that a child knows nothing. That's too bad. Immanuel (known as Jesus in many religions) speaks frequently about a child's knowledge. What if mothers and fathers took the time to ask a child, just when they start to speak, the following questions: Who are you? Where did you come from? Why are you here? If the child meets your questions with silence, then you have lost nothing - it is what you expected. But what if you receive answers? Are you ready to believe ...