Book description
'Heresy is a brilliant book' - The Times
'Enthralling' - The Sunday Telegraph
'In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. This sentence - and the words of all four gospels - is central to the teachings of the Christian church and has shaped Western art, literature…
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1 author picked Heresy as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Nixey writes with forensic, impassive precision about the fantastical myth woven about the body of a theology which has distorted opinion, crippled spiritual sense, duped so many innocents and distorted intellectual clarity for centuries. Religion, the root of so much evil behaviour, religion vaunting itself as the saviour of mankind, and the Bible as a ‘love letter from our Father in heaven.’ The mind clear of this pernicious rubbish reels; preaching balderdash in the name of the only true sense, the single purest reason.
Nixey has done any thinking individual a great service in exposing the mendacity with generous scholarship…
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