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Jonathan Kirsch



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Average rating: 3.82 · 3,572 ratings · 495 reviews · 25 distinct works • Similar authors
The Harlot by the Side of t...
3.80 avg rating — 951 ratings — published 1997 — 26 editions
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God Against the Gods: The H...
3.94 avg rating — 723 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions
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A History of the End of the...
3.64 avg rating — 457 ratings — published 1997 — 19 editions
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The Grand Inquisitor's Manual
3.70 avg rating — 413 ratings — published 2008 — 16 editions
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King David: The Real Life o...
3.82 avg rating — 309 ratings — published 2000 — 14 editions
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The Short, Strange Life of ...
3.71 avg rating — 194 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions
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Moses: A Life
3.90 avg rating — 175 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions
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The Woman Who Laughed at Go...
3.94 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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Kirsch's Handbook of Publis...
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Bad Moon Rising
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“Then as now, demonization of the victim is the necessary precondition for genocide.”
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor's Manual
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“Precisely because the Inquisition provides a blueprint for building and operating the machinery of persecution...the Inquisition was and still is a danger to human life and human liberty.”
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor's Manual
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“...free-associative sexual libel...is typical of the impulses of religious authoritarians to demonize all heretics by attributing to them every manner of outrage that a perverse human mind could imagine.”
― Jonathan Kirsch, The Grand Inquisitor's Manual
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