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God, Do You Exist?: The Questions of a Curious Agnostic

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Do you think that the Ten Commandments are a valid source of morality? Before you say yes, read pages 205-217. Do you believe that the Christian doctrine of Salvation is a fair and just plan initiated by a god? Read pages 322-331 for a very different view.

This book expresses some very harsh criticisms of religion which are based, not on historical or scientific incompatibilities, but on the intrinsic value of religious doctrines in themselves. It is an unusual approach seldom seen -- at least by this reviewer.

I am 65, I just finished reading "GOD, DO YOU EXIST ?", & I am faced with a deep quandry of whether to continue down my list of books to read, or to read this book again immediately. It is amazingly close to my thought processes. I was indoctrinated as a Christian. The stork must have been blown off course by a storm, because I think I would have been more compatible had I been delivered to a Buddhist family. Fortunately, I was delivered to loving parents that were moderate Christians. As I matured & grew in mental reasoning power, I could no longer accept the religious non-logical arguments. I have been an agnostic for 50 years. This book is a fantastically well written logical explanation of the agnostic viewpoint. I have never sent a book gift in my life, but my relatives & friends are about to receive this book. Reading this book was almost like sitting around a campfire discussing these points with the author. The only "amateur proofreader" comment I have is that on page 331, paragraph 2, line 3: "...could have be the motivation..." should perhaps be "...could have been the motivation...". I started dog-earing pages & high-lighting words that seemed note-worthy as I do with all books, but I soon discovered that I was dog-earing & highlighting every page ! This book has no padding, every page is just saturated with tremendously reasonable logical thought provoking ideas. I will probably only read another armful of books before I come back & read this one again. This is a super book. This is definitely one book that should be required reading for all high school seniors. Wow !!!!!!!!!!

Although I've been raised as a Lutheran and have many friends who are Catholic, I find that the older I get, the more I question religion, its teachings, and practices. I found this book enlightening in many apsects and was really glad to find out someone else (many, in fact) has the same questions and doubts about religion. While there is no absolute right or wrong answer, many ideas are brought to light and give cause to deep reflection to find your own answer. Great read!

I remember that when I read Dawkin's "the god delusion" i got the feeling that i was wasting my time....
Now after reading "god do you exist" i feel still worse.
Here are some examples:
"A truly agnostic person has to live with the fact that believers could be right" Oh my god do you exist?
"Evolution doesn't provide assurance of any of those things (missing links)and probaly never will". The author probaly has been lazy with his old evolution books.
"It requires faith in the scientific method to start with and then further faith is needed to belive in that the missing links in the evolutionary chain may yet be found or at least that it existed"
God please send this guy to highshool again !Tell him to read "Evolution, what the fossils say and why it matters"
"Creatonists believe while evolutionists theorize" Got it! The guy is a creationist....
I just bought the wrong book by mistake. The author is a christian desguised as an agnostic.
"There fore evil exists because i exist. God help me! I want to exist!"
No kidding.
Just before closing down:
"I want to believe and I do hope that there exists a being behind the smoke and stench of the hellfire and damnation wich religion continuosly threatans us. I hope that being is a being of pure love who createsd this world with love and to love and for love"
"If I prayed I would pray for my hopes to be true"
Ok. He wants some afterlife. One foot in christianity another in "agnosticism"
"Ican and I hope however! I hope there exists a life beyond this world which will include me! I hope there's is a purpose for all that happens in this world is not innherentely evil but merely incomprehensible.

Are you so affraid of dying? Why don't you live like a man and die like a man? You'll just become nothing like we all!
I refuse to believe this book is a book about agnosticism.
This man cries out his anguishes into a book and tries to sell them.
I didn't like at all the coments about evolution. When a man sits at a desk to write a book, he must do some research before, the author is a complete ignorant.