RE: Your Three Most Influential Books
June 11, 2015 at 10:54 pm
(This post was last modified: June 11, 2015 at 10:55 pm by Mudhammam.)
Tough question. Besides the Bible, which was drilled into my head from infancy and will always remain there, J.D. Salinger's The Catcher In The Rye definitely shaped my attitudes and thoughts as a youth. I often found myself writing like that afterwards as a teenager. George Smith's The Case Against God was the first book that really challenged the Christian indoctrination I received growing up... so much so that my parents felt compelled to take it from me (I was 15 at time) and demand that I only read Christian authors. I never was able to finish it. I think I'll have to pick it up again sometime, if only for the sake of nostalgia. Finally, I would probably say Dawkins' The Greatest Show On Earth, which I read in 2011, really revealed to me the simplicity and beauty of evolution which I had never much understood or appreciated... so those are probably the books that immediately come to mind as sparks that expanded my thinking in a positive way.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
