Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. The true story of how a father, a son, a brother, a friend, a dog lover, a year-Catholic, and a close personal friend of Jesus Christ became a full blown non-believer; but somehow remained a decent person. Kindle Edition , 81 pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. I think it was pretty good, but then again, I wrote it. Feb 11, Morgan Wyatt rated it really liked it Shelves: This short memoir by Doug Phillips recreates his personal spiritual revelation.
Doug Phillips as a lifelong Catholic, former altar boy, married in the church, and the whole nine yards finds himself at a crossroads when faced with unanswerable questions. Phillips writes in a conversational style when many po Several people of various religious faiths recommended The Bad People Stole My God to me.
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Phillips writes in a conversational style when many pop culture reference. Warning if you are looking for some warm spiritual fuzzies this is not the book for you. Phillips wrestles with personal issues with high degree of insight and profanity. I would recommend it. Dec 08, Kerry rated it really liked it. This short treatise was very interesting. I am sure it is a common enough story but was interesting reading from the point of view of an old atheist to listen to someone else talk about their decision to choose reality over superstition. I was intrigued by the process, particularly the part played by reading the Bible.
I remember well that reading the Bible many years ago cemented my faith that religion was superstitious nonsense and was interested to hear someone else going through a similar pr This short treatise was very interesting. I remember well that reading the Bible many years ago cemented my faith that religion was superstitious nonsense and was interested to hear someone else going through a similar process.
An interesting little read but he needs to get a better editor next time! Oct 28, Siobhan O' Sullivan rated it really liked it. I really enjoyed this, Philips is a witty, interesting writer. Jun 08, Peter rated it it was amazing Shelves: Jun 08, Steve rated it really liked it. Aug 30, John rated it liked it Shelves: Philips' short account is sad but humorous. His points are well represented by other authors, some of whom he references.
His book's value is the readable account of one man's reason for saying goodbye to the church. If you read it as a believer, be prepared to ask questions. And I recommend talking to someone who is scholar enough and of sufficient faith to give you the christian view of things. Dec 14, Jim rated it liked it Shelves: I quit after I read 20 percent. I just hated the writing style. I gave it another chance and made it as far as 70 percent.
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I guess living so far away from his family means he has no one to edit and proofread for him. I did enjoy the content, which is why I tried it twice.
Maybe it would work better as an audio book. Apr 11, Tamara rated it it was ok. I came to a few of the conclusions the author cites in my own personal spiritual journey, so I was interested in the topic. There's no God, there's no country! Just me and this fucking wheelchair for the rest of my life. Think someone could spend half their life in a slam with a horse bit in their mouth and not believe? Think he could start out in some liquor-store trash bin with an umbilical cord wrapped around his neck and not believe?
Got it all wrong, holy man. I absolutely believe in God. And I absolutely hate the fucker. A horrific series of famines drove an entire nation to this in The Reynard Cycle. This is invoked through a bet in The Book Of Job. In it, Satan asks God if Job would lose his faith in him if he would lose everything.
God offers Satan to do some dirty work to find out. It gets subverted though, as Job retains his faith in God and he is rewarded with more of what he had before. In The Screwtape Letters , Screwtape's nephew, the lesser devil Wormwood, must have proposed trying this tactic to wrench humans away from God with the looming horrors of the Second World War, but Screwtape counters that while the horrors may affect some humans so, others wind up coming through the trial with renewed faith and many more are made to confront death - which forces them to confront those questions, thus enabling them to perceive and accept God's grace.
Unlike his movie counterpart , in Fight Club , the intense and self-destructive Tyler Durden uses this to explain why he does what he does. If you're male and you're Christian and living in America, your father is your model for God. And if you never know your father, if your father bails out or dies or is never at home, what do you believe about God? All in the Family: Season 8's "Edith's Crisis of Faith. So when she witnesses her son-in-law, Mike, and the family's friend, Beverly LaSalle jumped and brutally beaten in a robbery attempt, and Beverly dies of his injuries, Edith wonders why God allowed the bad guys to win.
She temporarily renounces her Christianity Edith realizes that some things aren't meant to be understood — i. There was a throwaway gag in one episode of Frasier where he learnt that a radio show he hated had received national syndication. Frasier's response was something along the lines of "Well, that's great news for her - and also for the many atheists who will welcome this new proof of their theory. Mal was apparently a Catholic in his earlier years, but lost his faith at the Independents' crushing defeat at the Battle of Serenity Valley. His change is often described as deciding "God disagreed with him politically.
As he tells reporter Tommy Dolan at a hobo fire, "I lost my God. In Deadwood , Reverend Smith is suffering from some kind of brain disease, but doesn't do himself any favors by continuing working and thinking it's God's will that he got sick. Diane clung to her Catholic faith because she had believed in what Sister Mary had taught them years ago but losing her mother to a long painful battle with breast cancer and being raped the same night. Feeling her faith had long failed her and that God had just let it all happen, Diane had got her fellow students to humiliate Sister Mary and kill her.
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When They Cry uses an extremely dark take on this in the backstory of Miyo Takano, making this trope the root cause of both her megalomania and as a result the Endless June. Cracked loves this trope. The Music Video Show does this in episode Proposing a solution to the problem of evil is called a Theodicy. The podcast God Awful Movies reviews bad religious movies, almost always Christian. They've started to joke about how apparently every atheist's mother has cancer, since this is used to invoke the trope in so many of these movies.
SCP - -2 are Living, heart-stealing Shadows that can only be killed by silver bullets fired accompanied by prayer. Doesn't matter who you're praying to while you shoot, just as long as you mean it. When the Foundation sends a team into their Eldritch Location , they get picked off one at a time, and the last one to die makes it as far as their nest.
After seeing how are born, he can't pray anymore. Not and mean it. Justin in El Goonish Shive upon seeing Susan's "kitty face" , thinks to himself that there is no god.
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This is likely taken from the Simpsons example below. Marten in this strip of Questionable Content after Faye drunkenly headbutts him in the crotch and then vomits on him. In The Simpsons episode "Last Exit to Springfield," when the school photographer gets Lisa to smile for her school photo and sees the horrible 19th century style braces she's wearing because there's no dental plan at the Power Plant where Homer works he gasps out "There is no god!
The episode "Cartmanland" sees Cartman inheriting a million dollars and buying his own private theme park. Kyle is dumbfounded at the idea that God would reward such a rotten person, and ends up getting a hemorrhoid. As things get better for Cartman, Kyle's condition worsens and he renounces his faith. At the point where Kyle is on the verge of death yes, from a hemorrhoid , Stan brings him to the theme park in time to see Cartman's dream destroyed by his own greed, at which point Kyle makes a miraculous recovery.
Kyle looking up, smiling: You are up there!