Ten books that led to wide scale death, destruction and evil governmental regimes – books that would have been better unwritten.
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Excerpt from the original: “Books are one of our greatest resources. But many times in history books have been written which are misleading or untrue. In some cases this has led to wide scale death and destruction and evil governmental regimes.
This is a list of ten of the worst books of this type – books that have done more harm than good. The common thread in all of these books is deception – invariably not intentional, but the consequences are the same regardless.”
Items in this podcast:
10. Malleus Maleficarum
9. Coming of Age in Samoa
8. The Prince
7. Mein Kampf
6. The Pivot of Civilization
5. Democracy and Education
4. Baby and Childcare
3. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
2. The Manifesto of the Communist Party
1. Darwin’s Black Box
the most evil book ever written was the bible. people kill people anyway, but when its in the name of god, well thats when folks go over board big time.
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By whose standards are these evil? I have never laughed so hard in my life. They are anthropological, theoretical and philosophical gold. And if not that they are lessons from the past. In any case “evil” isn’t the word. Thought provoking and idea challenging, but not evil. Just because you don’t agree with something doesn’t make it evil ( I do disagree with some, I mean hunting down women and burning them isn’t a good idea ).
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Tope ten books to screw up the world?
1.The Holy Bible
2. The Quaran
3. The Holy Bible
4. The Quaran
5. …. you get the picture…
I like that
1. holly book bhagabath gita
2.baibel
3.quran
4.tripitak
Where is the Holy Bible? That one should have been #1 on the list.
I get a lot of good out of the bible, and knew some numb nut would moan about it not being on the list. Also, the word “religion” is man made. It’s a word, so easily thrown around by morons, that is used to divide the masses. Stop picking a part things you don’t like, and focus on further improving things in your own lives. Intelligently questioning text in the bible is one thing. But to go and say the bible should be amongst the “top 10 books that screwed up the world” is ignorant, and not at all intelligent. For those that said that, please, do the world a favour and grow a brain.
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