Both books can be also shown to have done much good for those who take the message of a merciful God to heart.

Isaiah 38 is one of my personal favorite passages of the bible.

“Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen:
to loose the chains of injustice
and untie the cords of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free
and break every yoke?

7 Is it not to share your food with the hungry
and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—
when you see the naked, to clothe him,
and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? (that is: Other human beings)

8 Then your light will break forth like the dawn,
and your healing will quickly appear;
then your righteousness [a] will go before you,
and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard.

If every believer took those words to heart, our world would be a much brighter place.

I never read that book, though I have heard of it and I have read “Darwin on Trial” am familiar with fundamentalist arguments about creation etc, which I think are valid and should be allowed in the public forum of discussion with out fear of ridicule. However, I don’t see how that book or Christian fundamentalists creation theories have lead to any sweeping atrocities.

Instead, I believe you should have put Darwins book “The Origin of Species” on this list as number one since it HAS been linked by both secular and religious academic intellectuals to eugenics and it also heavily influenced Margaret Sanger and her own twisted philosophies.

I’m not attacking evolution, just Darwins version of it. He was not the first to put forth the theory and his version was not the only one. Jean Baptiste de Lamarck was a scientist who among others, also put forth the theory.

A good book to read about this subject (as to why Darwins book was so evil) is “From Darwin to Hitler: Evolutionary ethics, Eugenics and racism in Germany” by Richard Weikart

“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” is required reading in schools in Iran BTW.

http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/1119.htm

I do hope you revise your list. It’s a pretty good list, not perfect, but not without merit, but it seems to me that your ruin a very powerful message by putting such an obviously innocuous and harmless book as the ”most evil”.

No one here is going to be in any danger from ‘genesis fundamentalists’, annoyed, maybe, but you aren’t quaking in your boots from a ‘fanatical’ baptist(who will ‘nice’ you to distraction, but not death) or Christian Evangelicals. It simply makes the list seem silly.

Also the Koran should go up there. The twin towers would still be standing, and millions of people wouldn´t have to live under the vicious fantasy that is “Sharia law”.