I Saw A Book About Various World Religions at the Supermarket [View All]

[GiovanniC]

It was called "Why So Many Gods?", a title which intrigued me. I opened it up and it was a very colorful book with lots of large headings and a very "aimed at teens" feel to it. A quick skim showed that it had almost every world religion you can think of, and briefly explained the beliefs of each group.

I was just about to get it, when I noticed a section at the end of each religion synopsis called "The Trick".

"The Trick" explains why each religion is full of shit.

Except Christianity. For the Christian relgions (Baptist, Catholic, Protestant, etc.) it says "No trick here."

For, say, Hinduism, it says something to the effect of "Hinduism believes in many different gods, but there is only one God, which is why Hinduism is wrong."

For Judaism it says something like, "You can't just believe in part of the Bible. Either it's all true, or none of it is, and since we know that the Bible is all true, Judaism is wrong."

For Atheism, it says something like, "Atheists don't believe in God, but God exists, therefore Atheism is wrong."

The entire book was full of these proclamations denouncing all religions using lots of false logic and circular reasoning. I can tell based on the book's design that it will sucker in a lot of people, especially younger people. I'm 25, but if I hadn't read a few sections pretty carefully I probably would have wasted my money on it. It looked, at first glance, to be an easy-to-read reference guide on the various religions.

I shudder to think how many people will be suckered in by this book.