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[Serious] Books That Shatter Faith: When Fiction Becomes Blasphemy
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Books That Shatter Faith: When Fiction Becomes Blasphemy
I love books that challenge the usual thinking, which counterfeit the crowd, here is my favorites specially the second one because I love fantasy and horror as well, what is your opinion about using fiction that way?

📖 The Testament – Elie Wiesel

A harrowing, philosophical take on faith after the horrors of history. It grapples with the idea of a silent, indifferent God in a world filled with suffering—a question as old as religion itself.

📖 Insane Entities – Michael S. AI

This one is something else entirely. It’s a horror novel, yet the deeper you go, the more it starts feeling like a distorted reflection of Christian salvation. The twist on the concept of a savior? Unsettling. The entities? Unlike anything I’ve read. And the best part? A blasphemy warning on Goodreads from a religious reader who was clearly rattled. If a book can get under someone’s skin like that, it’s doing something right.

📖 Children of Gabalawi – Naguib Mahfouz

Mahfouz took the core figures of Abrahamic religions and wove them into an allegorical neighborhood saga, portraying God as a distant, fading landlord. The novel was banned, denounced, and even led to an assassination attempt on Mahfouz himself.
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RE: Books That Shatter Faith: When Fiction Becomes Blasphemy
Howdy.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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HOWDY
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Hiyas.

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(March 31, 2025 at 10:15 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Hiyas.

hi, have you read any of this?
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Do you own a bookshop?

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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Almost any book on history: when you see how Christians treated Jews, how the Church participated and organized crimes, how Christianity perpetuated slavery, how Christianity denigrated people, etc.

That is why many Christian groups are attacking school and university curriculums whether calling it crt or woke or just banning it.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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(March 31, 2025 at 11:11 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Do you own a bookshop?

Boru

Nah, I just like reading.
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RE: Books That Shatter Faith: When Fiction Becomes Blasphemy
(March 31, 2025 at 11:13 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: Almost any book on history: when you see how Christians treated Jews, how the Church participated and organized crimes, how Christianity perpetuated slavery, how Christianity denigrated people, etc.

That is why many Christian groups are attacking school and university curriculums whether calling it crt or woke or just banning it.

I couldn't believe, the review on Insane Entities, while it is mainly a dark fantasy, the guy wanted it to be not sold. I understand his opinion, believers can't stand the idea of an evil twisted god if he existed.
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