Adams Vs. God: The Rematch - Softcover

Adams, Phillip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0522854389 ISBN 13: 9780522854381

Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing, 2007

Synopsis

Phillip Adams says he stopped believing in God at the age of six. At sixty-eight he has gathered the best of his essays on God and godlessness into this bible-banging, irreverent book.""Adams v God: The Rematch"" takes up where his 1985 book ""Adams v God"" left off, bringing us right up to date. From politics to prostitution, from the deep North of Queensland to the deep South of the USA, from Shiites to Jehovah's witnesses, Adams pulls no punches about the fictions of the faithful.For Adams, 'God is a word given to absence...of information, of comprehension, of answers. The idea of God grows in the way a balloon grows, a membrane inflated by ignorance.''I don't see God as a great, huge overwhelming idea - I see him as a very small, nervous idea. A timid, pipsqueak of a notion against the immeasurable, preposterous, inexpressible vastness of what is and isn't.'""Adams v God: The Rematch"" is a book for our times. It exposes the dangerous links between religion and politics, and the dogmatism of ideologies as a cause for conflict in the world.

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About the Author

Phillip Adams is a prolific and sometimes controversial broadcaster, writer and film-maker. He is the author of over 20 books, including The Unspeakable Adams, Talkback, Retreat From Tolerance and A Billion Voices. His writing has appeared in many of Australia's most influential publications and he has been a contributor to The Times and The Financial Times in London, and to the New York Times and is a regular columnist for The Australian newspaper. For the last 15 years he's presented ""Late Night Live"", one of Australia's most influential radio programs, on Radio National and Radio Australia. As well as two Orders of Australia, Phillip was Australian Humanist of the Year (1987), Republican of the Year 2005, and received the Longford Award, the film industry's highest accolade in 1981, the same year that he was appointed Senior ANZAC Fellow. Phillip lives on a cattle property specialising in the production of chemical-free beef. He is a collector of rare antiquities, including Egyptian, Roman and Greek sculptures and artefacts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Melbourne University Publishing
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0522854389
• ISBN 13: 9780522854381
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277