Book recommendation for Christian DPers
Submitted by Solly Gratia on Tue, 01/24/2012 - 19:52I've just finished reading Jay Richard's (the apologetics guy) book 'Money, Greed and God'. Written in a popular style, yet resting on a full knowledge of Austrian economics and libertarian ideas, this is a very good explanation of how these two sets of ideas wed easily with Christianity - Catholic or Protestant. The book is based on demystifying 8 'myths' about the free market, with general and Christian objections to it. these include the zero-sum myth, the greed myth, and the usury myth (in this one he mentions the Salamanca school). It partly follows his own travels from Jim Wallis type leftism, plots a course safely around Ayn Rand, and delivers some interesting information, such as the invention of Kitty Litter!
Less than $10 + p&p on Amazon US
http://www.amazon.com/Money-Greed-God-Capitalism-Solution/dp...
£4 on Amazon UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Money-Greed-God-Capitalism-Solution/...
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Here is one
I have not read it (yet), but one is "The Victory of Reason: How Christianity Led to Freedom, Capitalism, and Western Success" by Rodney Stark
“It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till." -J.R.R. Tolkien
"Who is this Babylon?" by Don
"Who is this Babylon?" by Don K. Preston
Here's a couple.
Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People - Sheldon Emry
Heirs of the Promise - Sheldon Emry
Go ahead...Flame away.
If not for your own betterment, for the betterment of your argument you should do research into the opposition:
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel Dennett
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris
Why I am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell
and of course RIP Hitch...
God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
We can only be kept in the cages we do not see. - Stefan Molyneux
You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing. - Alan Watts
How I wish that Islamic fanatics were to check their premises
and become advocates of reality, reason, individual freedom for women as well as men, not to mention children, and give up their fanaticism.
It is easy to conclude that they have been indoctrinated by their culture, their parents, their clergy, and are in need of deprogramming.
Are you suggesting that the same is true of people of any religion?
I recommend Richard Dawkin's The Blind Watchmaker and The God Delusion
Thomas Paine The Age of Reason and Common Sense
George H. Smith: Atheism: The Case Against God
Andrew Dickson White's The History of the Warfare Between Science and Theology in Christiandom as well as his Fiat Money Inflation in France
And here is a link to many quotations of Robert G. Ingersoll:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/ingersoll.htm
Where did this concept "Check your premises!" come from? You will find it in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand who proposed a philosophy for living on Earth, devoted to reality, reason and the concept that Man is not a sacrificial animal but has a Right to his or her own Life!
Enjoy!
"Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the
The myth of a Christian
The myth of a Christian Nation: How the quest for political power is destroying the church:
http://www.gregboyd.dreamhosters.com/books/myth-of-a-christi...