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 photos 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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10491 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-07
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 388 pages

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.

Customer Reviews

You Call This Crap Evidence?
If articles like the nonsense in this waste of a book are what atheists point to to support their position, then I can disprove the existence of Dawkins, Harris and Hitchens themselves. All that is necessary, apparently, is someone taking their writings out of context, abusing their material, and claiming they said something when they never did. Therefore, they don't exist. The title of this book is probably true for many, but this is not where one will find the proper knowledge of God. The subtitle of the book is even more revealing, the Disinformation guide! That's exactly what it is! It's all irrelevant. Not all religions are the same. Why don't you get a reliable book on comparative religion instead of this drivel. And if this claims to build on the foundation laid by Dawkins' then it's already doomed to fail because Dawkins' arguments are the worst of the worst and bear witness to a profound misunderstanding of the basic tenets of the world's most popular religions, the nature of God, and the arguments for his existence. What is this book useful for? It's quite telling that even in the name of systems that promote peace and harmony man will perpetrate some unspeakable atrocities and that the heart of man is desperately wicked and sinful.

Don't be fooled by the big names
This is a rather poor anthology of some (very good) author's lesser works. You know, ones they would be willing to let get published in a randomly thrown together anthology. Some of the works are amusing, but most are dull and uninteresting. Not recommended.

Aresome Atheist Anthology
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. Perhaps one of the best collections of pro-freethought literature I have seen.