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Dandelion_Wine said:
The Sword of Shannara by Terry Brooks
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I really enjoyed these books along with Robert jordan’s books. I wonder how I will like them now as a Catholic. I find that my tastes have changed. I dont have a problem with the fantasy aspect…but sometimes books have really immoral content I just get bored with. Might have to make a run to the library this weekend!
 
The Venerable Bede’s Ecclesiastical History of the English People, in the Loeb edition. I always wanted to read it and the cloudy, rainy days of January just seemed like the right time.
 
NAB Catholic Book of Jeremiah, JPS Tanakh Book of Ezekiel.

I finished Glenn Beck’s Arguing With Idiots last month, and may switch to the second tier book on my list which would be The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings, Barnes and Noble Classics Edition.

I figure why not indulge in a book of heresy from time to time, at the very least to form a better understanding of more modern evil.

Lol at Beachcomber’s signature.
 
Fatherless - Brian J. Gail

Should be arriving in the next couple of days.
 
Richard Dawkins’ ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ which got me so upset I had to find an outlet and found you guys. My first post is to tell you what a devastating attack it makes on faith as if those who believe in God are totally deluded. Grr! Evolution just doesn’t feel true. It seems so horrible. And yet the pope seems to think it is. I don’t know what to think. Fortunately, I may have found the antidote in a new book by someone called Scrooby, juicily titled The Attempted Murder of God.
The publishers set up a fun online game last year and I’ve been waiting for news of its follow-up. Instead, the game disappeared and now they seem to have moved into publishing. I can’t seem to get the ISBN to check out on Amazon so I don’t know what’s up with that, but it looks just about what I need to read right now, so I bought me a copy and I’ll let you know the verdict. If anyone else can think of an antidote to Dawkins, please let me know.

turin
God Bless.
 
Just finished Blood of the Fold by Terry Goodkind. Now I’m reading The Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan. It’s the first in the Ranger’s Apprentice series.
 
turin said:
Richard Dawkins’ ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ which got me so upset I had to find an outlet and found you guys. My first post is to tell you what a devastating attack it makes on faith as if those who believe in God are totally deluded. Grr! Evolution just doesn’t feel true. It seems so horrible. And yet the pope seems to think it is. I don’t know what to think. Fortunately, I may have found the antidote in a new book by someone called Scrooby, juicily titled The Attempted Murder of God.
The publishers set up a fun online game last year and I’ve been waiting for news of its follow-up. Instead, the game disappeared and now they seem to have moved into publishing. I can’t seem to get the ISBN to check out on Amazon so I don’t know what’s up with that, but it looks just about what I need to read right now, so I bought me a copy and I’ll let you know the verdict. If anyone else can think of an antidote to Dawkins, please let me know.

turin
God Bless.
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Rent a copy of Ben Stein’s “Expelled.” Not a scholarly film, but a good one. Dawkins comes off creepily obsessed. There obviously have to be some underlying personal issues going on.Hard to take him seriously afterwards.
 
Just finished Anne of Green Gables. Awsome book, I’m surprised I never read it before.

I just started Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ.
 
I’ve been reading God’s Battalions–The Case for the Crusades, by Rodney Stark. Mr. Stark is a sociologist of religion, not a Catholic. He previously had styled himself ‘not religious’ but ‘not atheist’ either. Now, I believes he considers himself “independent Christian.”

The book, in any case, is not a religious apologetic. It is a well documented historical summary of the Crusades and what preceded them, and an attempt to dislodge the historical misperceptions advanced by those whose dislike for Christianity colors their narrative of the Crusades.
 
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Richard Dawkins’ ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ which got me so upset I had to find an outlet and found you guys. My first post is to tell you what a devastating attack it makes on faith as if those who believe in God are totally deluded. Grr! Evolution just doesn’t feel true. It seems so horrible. And yet the pope seems to think it is. I don’t know what to think. Fortunately, I may have found the antidote in a new book by someone called Scrooby, juicily titled The Attempted Murder of God.
The publishers set up a fun online game last year and I’ve been waiting for news of its follow-up. Instead, the game disappeared and now they seem to have moved into publishing. I can’t seem to get the ISBN to check out on Amazon so I don’t know what’s up with that, but it looks just about what I need to read right now, so I bought me a copy and I’ll let you know the verdict. If anyone else can think of an antidote to Dawkins, please let me know.
turin
God Bless.
Cracker_Mom said:
Rent a copy of Ben Stein’s “Expelled.” Not a scholarly film, but a good one. Dawkins comes off creepily obsessed. There obviously have to be some underlying personal issues going on.Hard to take him seriously afterwards.
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Thanks Cracker Mom. I’ve never heard of Stein but I found this on Wikipedia and will rent it out -

“Stein has publicly denounced the theory of evolution, which he and other intelligent design advocates term “Darwinism,” declaring it to be “a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies,” “the most compelling argument yet for Imperialism,” and the inspiration for the Holocaust. Stein does not say belief in the theory of evolution alone leads to genocide, but that scientific materialism is a necessary component. He co-wrote and stars in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a film that aims to persuade viewers that the theory of evolution was instrumental to the rise of the eugenics movement, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, and portrays advocates of intelligent design as victims of intellectual discrimination by the scientific community, which has rejected intelligent design as creationist pseudoscience.”

Makes it sound kind of like evolution is like evil-solution or something. I read somewhere that Dawkins and his evilution friends were trying to get the people who deny evilution treated like Holocaust deniers!! I can’t believe the world has suddenly got to the point where it’s okay to deny God but not okay to deny evilution!! I just don’t get where we’re going with all this stuff. Scary to think someone could pass a law somewhere on the planet that says people who believe in God and deny evilution could be sent to prison or something like Holocaust deniers. Dawkins sounds like some kind of mad scientist scheming to sort of ethnically cleanse the world of faith!! Can anyone really do that? Oh yeah, they did that in the Soviet Union before it collapsed, I remember…

God bless,
turin
 
turin said:
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Richard Dawkins’ ‘The Greatest Show on Earth’ which got me so upset I had to find an outlet and found you guys. My first post is to tell you what a devastating attack it makes on faith as if those who believe in God are totally deluded. Grr! Evolution just doesn’t feel true. It seems so horrible. And yet the pope seems to think it is. I don’t know what to think. Fortunately, I may have found the antidote in a new book by someone called Scrooby, juicily titled The Attempted Murder of God.
The publishers set up a fun online game last year and I’ve been waiting for news of its follow-up. Instead, the game disappeared and now they seem to have moved into publishing. I can’t seem to get the ISBN to check out on Amazon so I don’t know what’s up with that, but it looks just about what I need to read right now, so I bought me a copy and I’ll let you know the verdict. If anyone else can think of an antidote to Dawkins, please let me know.
turin
God Bless.

Thanks Cracker Mom. I’ve never heard of Stein but I found this on Wikipedia and will rent it out -

“Stein has publicly denounced the theory of evolution, which he and other intelligent design advocates term “Darwinism,” declaring it to be “a painful, bloody chapter in the history of ideologies,” “the most compelling argument yet for Imperialism,” and the inspiration for the Holocaust. Stein does not say belief in the theory of evolution alone leads to genocide, but that scientific materialism is a necessary component. He co-wrote and stars in Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed, a film that aims to persuade viewers that the theory of evolution was instrumental to the rise of the eugenics movement, Nazi Germany, and the Holocaust, and portrays advocates of intelligent design as victims of intellectual discrimination by the scientific community, which has rejected intelligent design as creationist pseudoscience.”

Makes it sound kind of like evolution is like evil-solution or something. I read somewhere that Dawkins and his evilution friends were trying to get the people who deny evilution treated like Holocaust deniers!! I can’t believe the world has suddenly got to the point where it’s okay to deny God but not okay to deny evilution!! I just don’t get where we’re going with all this stuff. Scary to think someone could pass a law somewhere on the planet that says people who believe in God and deny evilution could be sent to prison or something like Holocaust deniers. Dawkins sounds like some kind of mad scientist scheming to sort of ethnically cleanse the world of faith!! Can anyone really do that? Oh yeah, they did that in the Soviet Union before it collapsed, I remember…

God bless,
turin
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Googlesearch Hitler Lenin, Mao et al; John Dewey’s (name removed by moderator)ut is interesting, too. Fides et Ratio:thumbsup:
 
Right now I’m reading:

“The Man who was Thursday” by G.K. Chesterton. About a spy hiding within Europe’s most dangerous Anarchist Terrorist Group in the back drop of the early nineties(?).

“Spice and Wolf” by Isuna Hasekura. About a traveling Middle Age style merchant who runs into a shapeshifting wolf. Thinking that the women/wolf may be able to bring him luck, he takes her along, consequences follow (I’m guessing, read half-way through the book).

“Hogs in the Shadows” by Milo S. Afong. Marine Snipers in Afganistan and Iraq, nuff said :o

👍
 
eichenb2 said:
“A Shorter Summa” by Peter Kreeft (Ignatius Press)
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I’m reading a different version, “Aquinas’s Shorter Summa: Saint Thomas’s Own Concise Version of His Summa Theologica”. Good luck to you, Aquinas is such a worthwhile read, slow though (for me anyways, I’m a quick reader and there is a lot of rereading involved here).

Also reading Teresa of Avila’s Interior Castle, and Irving Stone’s The Agony and The Ecstasy, a biographical novel on Michelangelo, which is very well-done.
 
Just finished Spice and Wolf… its a much better love story than novels like Twilight. 👍

Though I have to disagree with the author’s presentation of a church that sort of resembles the Catholic church. Then again it’s not like we believe that world was created by God and his twelve angels (God created the universe alone), nor is it the setting really based in medieval Europe (I think).

All in all, the story of two really different companions becoming close is heart warming enough to reccomend it.
 
Just started William Carr’s History of Germany 1815-1985.Good, but he has put out a 4th edition that goes to 1990 and so I may need to get it!
 
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