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The Functions of Deity: You may be surprised who your god is...
Everybody has a god - No exceptions - Everybody does. Everybody has to, because everybody must appeal to some authority to decide what is real and what is not real in order to make sense out of life. Everybody must attribute his origin to something, and everybody has to have some purpose in life. Everybody has an opinion about what is wrong with things in the world. And everybody has some idea of how to find safety from what is bad. Each one of these functions of deity requires us to make an un-provable assumption, a faith-based statement that goes beyond the sphere of science into the realm of religion and philosophy. Therefore I attribute these four functions to deity.
184 pages, Paperback
First published December 13, 2010
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July 8, 2013
Great book! Very good arguments for those who think they don't have a god, and great clarification for those who think they know who their god is.
My only gripe is a couple of weird interpretations of the scriptures. For example, on page 21, he talks about "a question on divorce and remarriage and the afterlife" in Matthew 22. I checked that chapter and there is no mention of divorce or "putting away". There is a mention of 7 brothers dying and passing on their wife to subsequent brothers, but that isn't divorce.
Another example is on page 25 when he mentions Peter's objection to Jesus having to die, then mentions suicide. It is really hard to believe that Peter was objecting to the Jews killing Jesus, only to suggest that he do the job himself.
Most likely both of these were simple mistakes resulting from hasty edits or disorganized grammar (as well as the toddler on page 93 being referred to as "it"), so I still give it all 5 stars.
My only gripe is a couple of weird interpretations of the scriptures. For example, on page 21, he talks about "a question on divorce and remarriage and the afterlife" in Matthew 22. I checked that chapter and there is no mention of divorce or "putting away". There is a mention of 7 brothers dying and passing on their wife to subsequent brothers, but that isn't divorce.
Another example is on page 25 when he mentions Peter's objection to Jesus having to die, then mentions suicide. It is really hard to believe that Peter was objecting to the Jews killing Jesus, only to suggest that he do the job himself.
Most likely both of these were simple mistakes resulting from hasty edits or disorganized grammar (as well as the toddler on page 93 being referred to as "it"), so I still give it all 5 stars.
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