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    Adam's Rating : 9.5     Rotten Rating : 0     Review Date : 12/29/09 1:31 PM        Bookmark and Share

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    This was an autobiography by former evangelical preacher Dan Barker. The first few chapters showed how this man went from having doubts in the back of his mind to being a full-blown atheist.

    The most heartbreaking part of the story was how this good man was completely ostracized by his Christian "friends". Just about everyone he knew disowned him as a friend.

    Barker's journey to becoming an atheist was fairly simple. He first disliked the side of religion that tells you to ignore science, reason and history. Also, he assumed that someone else had done the research to verify that the bible was true. Here are some of the things that he found when he did the research himself.

    - Nobody knows who wrote the Bible.
    - The New Testament is largely made up of the accounts of Peter, Paul, Luke and Mathew. None of them ever met Jesus and all lived well after his death.
    - And the most striking detail:

    Luke and Mathew lived well after the others (some 60 to 100 years after Jesus) yet they wrote about all of the stories that make up the core of Christianity. They knew things that the others didn't seem to know.

    For example, Paul never claimed to have met Jesus on the road to Damascus (actually, Paul said next to nothing about Jesus). Yet somehow Luke knew much, much more about the guy that was actually there. He also detailed the resurrection, betrayal by Judas and many, many other stories that are now central to Christian belief but not mentioned by people that lived closer to the time that Jesus is said to have lived.

    I could go on and on. The contradictions alone are staggering. What Barker does take great pains to detail is the immorality and general wickedness that occur in the Bible. It really is stunning because you only ever hear the rosy things on sunday.

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