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Peter B. Lockhart

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Auckland, New Zealand

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Peter Lockhart (1954- ) was born in Auckland, New Zealand, to a Cornish mother. He circumnavigated the globe by ship by age 4, and spent some time in a Catholic Orphanage in Cornwall. He went to Australia in 1958. For twenty three years he had a career in the financial services industry. His first book, "The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks," was first published in 2011. This book is his contribution to the discussion regarding the rise of atheism in the new millennium, and it was inspired by the books of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. The book has been well received and it discusses the personal real life experiences of the author and his reasons for rejecting religion. ...more

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	The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks 3.91 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Burket's Oral Medicine by Michael Glick (editor), Martin S. Greenberg (Editor), Peter B. Lockhart (Goodreads Author) (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Ring The Bell

Recently I watched the film “The Big Short”, and to say I loved it would be an understatement. Suffice it to say that film rang a lot of bells with me.

The men in the film all saw the meltdown that was the Subprime Housing Crash and the Global Financial Crisis coming years before it happened – as I did. Nobody listened to them just as nobody listened to me. Well some listened to me.

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Primary Sources, Historical Collections: Our own religion in Ancient Persia, being lectures delivered in Oxford presenting the Zend Avesta as, with a foreword by T. S. Wentworth

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“Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: “The majority is always wrong.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

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“In boxing, to avoid being punched, you can block, parry, slip, sidestep,
or get out of the ring. It works exactly the same, in stock market
investment.”
― Peter B. Lockhart

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“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

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“Socrates put it perfectly in financial matters at least: “The majority is always wrong.”
― Peter B. Lockhart, The Naked Emperor: Why Religion is Bollocks

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“In boxing, to avoid being punched, you can block, parry, slip, sidestep,
or get out of the ring. It works exactly the same, in stock market
investment.”
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“The United States does nothing about the gross morbid obesity, and nothing about the gross morbid stupidity, of its citizens.”
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“Make no mistake dear reader, this Depression was deliberately visited upon the world by the corrupt enemy within the halls of power in the United States of America, who with their poison words of deceit, have in the name of free enterprise and prosperity, by the destruction of regulations put into place after the last Depression, have repeated history with this one.”
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