— Book club : Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot by Seth Andrews — Black Hole Coffee House 4504 Graustark St Houston, TX
We will discuss Christianity Made Me Talk Like an Idiot by Seth Andrews for the August book club meetup.
Seth Andrews will be speaking at Houston Oasis the following Sunday August 21 at 11AM
Meeting Place :
Black Hole Coffee House
4504 Graustark St
Houston, TX
Look for Oasis signs or a book club group.
Book Summary :
Seth Andrews wasn't an idiot during his thirty years as an evangelical
Christian. He wasn't unintelligent, nor did his IQ shift when he
ultimately left religion entirely. He considered himself thoughtful,
moral, reasonable, and at least as smart as the average person. In other
words, he wasn't an idiot. Yet strangely, he often sounded like one. In
any other context, Christians would likely smirk, scoff, or recoil at
many of their "normal" beliefs and practices: reenacted Easter
crucifixions, eating monthly communion "flesh," singing hymns about
being washed in blood, and the embrace of a Bible containing scripture
verses about golden hemorrhoids, apocalypse dragons, and human
sacrifice, So what gives? Are these notions embraced only because
they're familiar? Do they make any sense? And do they cause otherwise
reasonable people to sound like idiots? Seth Andrews admits that, for
himself, the answer was a definite yes. For everyone else? Read the book
and decide.