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Imagine No Superstition: The Power to Enjoy Life With No Guilt, No Shame, No Blame

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Let me first say that the author has written one book but published it under a number of different titles. Even the audio book is this book under a different title. I find this somewhat disingenuous. So beware that any book you buy under this author's name will likely be this book.

Aside from sticking in some unnecessary Latin, which few people will understand or care about and which sounds and reads pretentious, this is a well-written, very intelligent book by a former priest turned agnostic turned atheist. He takes us through each step of his evolution. This is not a scholarly treatise nor does it pretend to be. It is a book of reason. In other words, you're invited to use your own reason, logic, to overcome the useless fear and guilt that is caused by religion --- all religions.

We learn the sadness, sickness, of giving up the happiness of the one and only life we have for a great, grand, wonderful afterlife that will never be.

You'll enjoy this book and you'll learn a lot from it. If you're a rehabilitating believer in the superstitious, you'll find this little book a real help.

Highly recommended.

I put this book in my all-time top ten. Pretty good, as i've read almost 2,000 books. This book is informative, entertaining and very well written.

Review of Stephen F. Uhl's Imagine No Superstition
(Golden Rule Publishers, Tucson, Arizona, ISBN 978-0-9793169-0-6)
Reviewed by Philip E. Johnson, Ph.D.

Simple and Profound, December 11, 2006

Stephen Uhl's book is both profound and simple. Profound in that it deals with some of the most important concepts facing the world today; simple in that is clear and persuasive. Dr. Uhl is able to speak from an unusual perspective. He is a former Roman Catholic Priest, and has moved very carefully and thoughtfully to an agnostic/atheist position. His insights are remarkable, and many of us who are increasingly doubtful about the existence of the supernatural, and worried about the effects of a belief in the supernatural, will find the book a very solid grounding for our currently vague concerns. An excellent and thoughtful exposition of important and even crucial ideas.

Philip E. Johnson, Ph.D., Author, Educator

Once again, the atheist community gives birth to...ta dah!...yet another swollen blob of narcissism who thinks he's Mr. Spock. ("Does it appear I may have studied too much" he coyly asks on p 15).

This is a man who can pen such immortal lines as: "Congratulations are in order if you have thoughtfully progressed this far with me. Surely we have lost many fellow travelers; we may have run too fast for them" (p 139). Yes, I haven't exaggerated a bit, he is a swollen blob of narcissism, isn't he?

Where does the atheist community find these people, that's what I want to know. I can go for weeks--months even--without meeting a true narcissist in my life, but the atheist community appears to be composed ENTIRELY of these types.

This is a man who can pen such howlers as: "It wasn't so very long ago that almost everyone believed the earth was flat (p 103).

Wow. You have to really avoid reading to say something like that. Because clearly he doesn't know that the Greeks argued the world was round from the third century BC. And the ancient Jews and all subsequent Christians believed the same thing. The Talmud even called the world spherical. That the world was round was common knowledge throughout the west starting with the THIRD CENTURY BC.

This is a man who has a chapter entitled "Faith Can Lead To Extremes", apparently written with a straight face and not a shred of irony.

Funny thing: it was atheists promoting communism that made the 20th century the worst abattoir in the history of the world. The newest books by historians are now claiming between one hundred million and one hundred and fifty million human beings slaughtered.

By those without faith. By atheists.

The second the communists took over in Russia Lenin wrote out a secret order calling for the "mass execution of priests". Nor were the killings of unarmed, frequently elderly, nuns and priests simple gun shots to the head. Archbishop Andronnik of Perm was buried alive. Archbishop Vasily was crucified and burned. Father Johannes was dismembered. The sheer viciousness of this behavior is beyond comprehension.

The League of Militant Atheists was founded. It became illegal to preach Christianity. All children were taught only atheism. Millions of Christians were sent to the Gulag for merely owning a copy of a bible or attending a church. Or they were branded 'insane' and sent to psychiatric hospitals that were little more than torture chambers. All church hospitals, colleges, schools, agencies, newspapers, and magazines were against the law. Churches were torn down or turned into stables or dance halls or museums of atheism. Centuries old priceless religious objects were destroyed. Vast treasure troves of religious books were burned.

For merely believing in Christ hundreds of thousands of clergy were tortured, murdered, or sent to the Gulag to starve to death. Among the 1,000 Catholic priests alone only twelve would survive. May I repeat that? Twelve would survive. In Estonia not a single member of the clergy survived.

Communists in Spain murdered priests, raped and murdered nuns, atheists in Mexico had priests shot for merely saying a Mass.

Right about the time Uhl was fleeing from the priesthood, in the village of Haiduong in Vietnam communists shoved chopsticks down the ears of two children for the 'crime' of listening to a teacher talk about religion. The teacher had his tongue held out by pliers and then sliced off with a bayonet. One priest who refused 'reeducation' had eight nails hammered into his head.

It is ominous and telling that the first time in history a regime declared itself officially atheist and set out to promote atheism it resulted in one hundred and fifty million human beings murdered.

Yet Uhl appears to have never heard a word about any of this, as he chatters on cheerfully about how he wants everyone to be free of such terrible qualities as shame and guilt. Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, not to mention the average serial killer and Charlie Sheen, are all terrific examples of people without shame or guilt.

No person with an IQ above wet cement would want more of these pests inflicted upon us.

This is a truly rare book. Not a single redeeming quality from page one to the end.