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so i need to read more books about god, his or her followers, saints, etc.

fiction, non fiction, mysticisim, poetry, jew christian hindu buddhist neo pagan, anything you can throw at me.

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 15:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The Tao of Pooh or the Te of Piglet

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

the origins of virtue
human instincts and the evolution of cooperation
by matt ridley

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 15:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Fiction:
Quarantine by Jim Crace (I think)

Non-fiction
The Origin of Satan by Elaine Pagels
The Life Of St. Columba by St. Adomnan

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 15:47 (twenty-three years ago)

caitlin on Quarantine : do you mean Greg Egan?
if so I also suggestPermutation City.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:14 (twenty-three years ago)

d'you mean greg evigan?
if so i suggest dad, dad, why hast thee forsaken me?

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I definitely meant Quarantine by Jim Crace

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Only Begotten Daughter - James Morrow

Everyone ends op in hell, even Jesus :-)

http://www.sff.net/people/Jim.Morrow/daughter.html

― Jan Geerinck (jahsonic), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Greg Evigan surely *is* God.

Or maybe I'm being ironic.

What do you reckon, though? Beard or no beard? It's a toughie.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 17:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Bible

― man, Tuesday, 11 March 2003 18:37 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll have to repost with authors tomorrow, but:
Who Wrote the Bible?
Who Wrote the New Testament?
and
The Unauthorized Version

― Nick A. (Nick A.), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 19:25 (twenty-three years ago)

tibetan book of the dead
autobiography of a yogi
aghora (but you've got to be a bit badass if you really want to read this)

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 11 March 2003 22:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I really enjoyed R.K. Narayan's prose summaries of the Mahabharat (sp?) and the Ramayana. As you know, I think all this god stuff is nonsense, but at least with Hindus you get giant monkey gods with swords and stuff.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

(Token Kirby mention...)

And didn't Kirby make all those Lord of Light ideas look *cool*? Okay, no one knows WTF I'm on about, but trust me, it was good.

― ChristineSH (chrissie1068), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 00:57 (twenty-three years ago)

The Confessions of St. Augustine

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 03:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Also, Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 03:25 (twenty-three years ago)

There's a book called 'The History Of God' by Judith Armstrong (I think) which looks at Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

― Amarga (Amarga), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

its karen, not judith and its ace. also augustine is my bitch.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 03:40 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, it was probably too obv

― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 04:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Alone of All Her Sex: the Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary, by Marina Warner.

Also Butler's Lives of the Saints.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 04:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Gene Wolfe's Book of the New Urth trilogy.

― Bosse-De-Nage (Bosse-De-Nage), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 04:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Bruno Bauer

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:04 (twenty-three years ago)

the magicians nephew

― jkl, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:22 (twenty-three years ago)

The Sermon on the Mount by Emmet Fox, part of which is linked to here. The first chapter, "What Did Jesus Teach?", doesn't seem to be on the web, but you'd love it, Anthony.

― dan (dan), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Did anyone read the recent "God: A Life" book (don't remember the exact title), that was like a biography of the Judeo-Christian conception of God?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:26 (twenty-three years ago)

"God: A Biography," if I remember right. Jack Miles. It's not, strictly speaking, the Judeo-Christian God that he handles, though -- only God as he appears in the Old Testament/Tanakh/Jewish Scriptures/whatever term you like. (He has a later book, "Christ: subtitle I forget," which I haven't read.) Miles is probably the best and most readable example of the "Bible as literature" school of academia.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:40 (twenty-three years ago)

yes, that's it! i read bits of the Christ one before i gave it to my dad last Christmas and it seemed quite interesting - giving God a personality and regret, lots of cool/frustrating characteristics that the Christian God doesn't usually have

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 12 March 2003 06:53 (twenty-three years ago)

dan! thanks so much for the emmet fox link : )

― xx, Wednesday, 12 March 2003 07:03 (twenty-three years ago)

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