I would like to recommend everyone here a very powerful book I read.
It's about atheism and also suicide.
It's called "The Tyranny of God".
It was written by Joseph Lewis.
It was written in the 1920's but it's as relevant as ever.
It's available for free:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30900/30900-h/30900-h.htm
Here are some quotes I liked from it:
"If there were a God, and the world were governed with stern justice, tempered to our feeble intelligence, existence might become tolerable, but as it is, with a so-called God "ruling above," the earth is an abominable place and life a long series of terrifying torments."
"If the world is the result of an established plan, as some say, it must be the conception of a hideous monster whose three cardinal principles are Disease, Despair and Death"
"It were a great deal better, after a full summary of life, were we to be created utterly devoid of feeling, equally impervious to joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. We should be manifestly benefited, for the greater part of our life is now full of sorrow, anxiety, fear, pain, disappointment and worry".
"Instead of life's being a privilege, it is a prison, wherein we must suffer fearful pains and still more fearful thoughts. Physical pain registers a high degree of intense feverish suffering, but mental torture is fired with the scorch of hell."
It's about atheism and also suicide.
It's called "The Tyranny of God".
It was written by Joseph Lewis.
It was written in the 1920's but it's as relevant as ever.
It's available for free:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30900/30900-h/30900-h.htm
Here are some quotes I liked from it:
"If there were a God, and the world were governed with stern justice, tempered to our feeble intelligence, existence might become tolerable, but as it is, with a so-called God "ruling above," the earth is an abominable place and life a long series of terrifying torments."
"If the world is the result of an established plan, as some say, it must be the conception of a hideous monster whose three cardinal principles are Disease, Despair and Death"
"It were a great deal better, after a full summary of life, were we to be created utterly devoid of feeling, equally impervious to joy and sorrow, pleasure and pain. We should be manifestly benefited, for the greater part of our life is now full of sorrow, anxiety, fear, pain, disappointment and worry".
"Instead of life's being a privilege, it is a prison, wherein we must suffer fearful pains and still more fearful thoughts. Physical pain registers a high degree of intense feverish suffering, but mental torture is fired with the scorch of hell."
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