What book have you read that most challenged your personal beliefs about religion,morales, and society?
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Hidden Power for Human Problems by Frederick W. Bailes.
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Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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The Bible. The more I studied it, the more I realized that it wasn't moral, ethical, or even respectable...even though I'd always been told it was the definitive work on ethics and morality. After that, the most influential (on me) work I've read on ethics is Ethics for a New Millennium by the Dalai Lama.
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When I was in junior high, I read 1984. In 1984 ironically. It changed my views of society a little. Books are books. Your life should be changed by actual experiences. IMO
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It would have to be the Bible. REading it convinced me that I had to change from being self centred to God centred, and that the only way I could do that was to acknowledge that Jesus is Lord, and believe that He rose from the dead, having died to cover my rebelion/egocentricity.
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Piers Anthony - God of Tarot and it's follow-ups)
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The Purpose Driven Life by Rick warren
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The immitation of Christ.
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way, way, way too many to name...some highlight authors were: Ayn Rand Daniel Quinn Robert Pirsig Ralph Waldo Emerson Ken Carey Somerset Maugham Thomas Wolfe (...the one that wrote Look Homeward Angel) CS Lewis Helen Schucman J.J. Hurtach Aldous Huxley Ursula Le Guin . . . .
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A Course In Miracles http://acim-search.miraclevision.com/std-second-edition-and-supps/index.html -
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Without a doubt, Friedrich Nietzsche's views on morality as expressed in a number of his works saved me from an unthinking, blindly-believed tho' illogical & uncomfortable Catholicism.
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Jared Diamond's "Guns, Germs, and Steel"
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history book in 7th grade did it for me, at least made me run screaming from the catholics
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The Bible. I grew up with Nietzsche, Marx, postmodernism and Freud so I had it a bit "the other way around" if you wish. After numerous internet and library searches and some outloud " What???"s going on while reading it I ended up loving it.
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Dalai Lama's book of happiness and Thich nat han's when things fall apart, as well as seat of the soul by gary zukov changed my life to a certain extent. It gave me hope when there was none and made me look at difficult situations in a positive light.
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The Bible. After that, I'd have to go with C.S. Lewis' evangelsitic/apologetic works, particularly Mere Christianity, Miracles, and Screwtape Letters.
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The Koran.I was appalled by what I read in it.Like many religious books, the tone was extremely authoritarian and menacing. I came away from the experience feeling glad that I had not been raised in a family where this book had been taught to me. A book that made a very positive impact on me when I was 17 was a book of three essays by John Stuart Mill written in the 1860's. The essay "on representative government" did a very good job arguing why democratic government was in pronciple a good idea. The essay "on liberty" argued for maximum freedom of speech, thought and expression. The essay "on the subjection of women" argued for complete equality between the sexes 150 years ago.
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Daniel Quinn's Ishmael.
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Guns, Germs and Steel.
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As an 18-year-old recent graduate of a Catholic highschool, Nietzsche's "Geneology of Morals". ;-)
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To call of livers (rus)about Petrashevsky(look a pictures following further) V. I. Ulianov-Lenin "About publicity(Ленин. О глаÑноÑти)" , W. Golding. The master of flies, Bible, Kuran, E. M. Remark. On the western front without changes. and Three companions.
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