Comments on: Top 10 Most Controversial Non-Fiction Books

By: peter2112

peter2112 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:27:39 +0000

So, now we have it. An Excellent list and very educational and profound. But here is how I look at it : # 10, # 5 and # 2 should be MANDATORY reading for Neo-Nazis, The KKK, Racists, and the complete and utter pea brains that do not believe that the Holocaust never existed. I suppose that June 6, 1944, D-DAY, the turning point of World War II never existed either. If Eisenhower were still alive would you not believe him as he saw the utter carnage and suffering that these Holocaust survivors had to endure, on a first hand basis when the War ended……….# 9 should be mandatory and required reading for the country of India. And I’m not talking about just schools, but every last citizen that lives int that country. It has been said that that the population of India will exceed the population of China by the year 2050. The dictionaries in that country don’t seem to have the word Co*dom or safe s*x in them. I will be long gone before that population explosion comes to fruition, I hope………..#7. That one is my favorite as I get to admit that I am a very firm believer in the Theory of Evolution and would love to rub it into the faces of Creationists, Fundamentalists, Southern Baptists, Born Again Christians, Pat Robertson, Fred Phelps Jr. and any conservative Right Winger that live across of this nation of ours. Select anyone of the following that I have mentioned for Book # 7 and ask them if they have ever heard of the words “fossils”, “The Big Bang Theory or even ask them what Carbon-14 dating is and see what kind of an answer you get from them……….# 6, I wonder if former Vice-President Al Gore has this book lying around somewhere in his house. Chances are, that is a negative. And for those of you who do not believe in Global-Warming, better think again. ITS OUT THERE, AND IT EXISTS !!. Watch VP Al Gore’s documentary “An Inconvenient Truth” and really take it in. If you should happen to live another 200-300 years from now, you’ll find out………….#4, I honestly really did not know that DDT was supposed to eliminate mosquitos carrying malaria, in which “vice versa” occured and spread malaria to humans. I am not an entomologist, however on YOU TUBE, you can find in its entirety a made for TV movie entitled “The Hellstrom Chronicle” a documentary how insects may take over the world in a few million years from now. Its quite interesting. It comes on as 13 parts on YOU TUBE………….# 3, Mind Blank on that one for me, which leads to………No. 8 and No. 1. I am an agnostic bordering on being atheist. I was baptised as a Roman Catholic. But the only time I ever go to church is for weddings and funerals. People like the aforementioned Pat Robertson and Fred Phelps, and right-wing republican should shoved into a time machine with me at the controls and go back to the Spanish Inquisition to live out their lives and see what comes of it. I would return to present day earth and live a bit less worry free………that’s all

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 05:40:05 +0000

This list is supposedly non fiction.

If so, why is the bible here?!

By: Dalek6450

Dalek6450 — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 06:52:47 +0000

*Thumbs Up*

I think Listverse needs a way of adding “Thumbs-up”, “+1″, etc.

By: Dalek6450

Dalek6450 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 13:12:14 +0000

Scams using “Science” are usually found by other reputable scientists or by the average person of at least average “intelligence”. Science has proof of findings and makes progress. What does religion do? Apart from being used to “control” the opinions of it’s followers. It has created wars and needless deaths (e.g. the Crusades). All religions seem to do this in one way or another-Christianity, Islam, Scientology (although viewed as more of a cult). Religions and cults do seem awfully similar. What use does wasting time worshiping a non-existent being, supplying funds for the continuation of this belief, creating conflict, blocking the development of science and attempting to discredit or stop the teaching of proven scientific fact (e.g. Evolution).

By: Dalek6450

Dalek6450 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:54:02 +0000

Sorry I just saw your comment my comment said pretty much the same thing.

By: Dalek6450

Dalek6450 — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 12:52:59 +0000

About 1#
“…it can not be denied that this book gave more to the growth of the West than any other.”

On the contrary, in history a separation of church and state promoted science and therefore growth and advancements. It is what allowed the West to fend off the East during the time of the Ottoman Empire, whereas the Ottoman Empire shrank due to a lack of education and religion blocking science.

By: peter8172

peter8172 — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 21:54:42 +0000

I’m Amazed that “The Satanic Verses” by Salmin Rushdie is not on this list.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 07:54:25 +0000

Why is the Bible in non-fiction books list?

By: THE GRAND DEBATE

THE GRAND DEBATE — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:10:38 +0000

Great list! Just like the Bible, the Quran should also be in that list.

By: diligentdave

diligentdave — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 02:20:02 +0000

The Bible didn’t stunt the growth of the West. Paganism had overtaken Christianity. The Bible, without the true Christian church had to have centuries to work on people, and they had to go through A LOT, until the renaissance gradually helped civilization evolve into what it became at it’s zenith. Of course, when the sun is rising in one part of the world, it is setting in another.

Today, paganism, heathenism, and hedonism are taking over the whole world. Many feign to be religious, including many as Christians. But true religion, as defined in the Bible, is NOT what religion, by-and-large, has become in this day and age. Religion has become in Christianity, a world of slogans, verbal declarations, and empty shells.

Hedonism plunged the world into the Dark Ages. Priestcraft and those practicing it used their ability to read and to control those who couldn’t, into forms of worship that were distanced from how they were when they were originated.

Science, so-called, while it has brought and brings many truths to light, even today, is becoming (and has long been) the domain of many scam artists, par excellence. Look at “climate change” ‘science’. “Chicken Little” is as much “science” (if ‘climate change’ is science, as “science” is, then!

What holds true for religion, holds true for “science” or anything—

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

(New Testament | 2 Timothy 4:3 – 4)

Ditto religion; ditto science; ditto politics; ditto commerce; ditto anything!