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Title: At Least in Hell the Christians Won't Harass Me by Andrew F. Knight ISBN: 0-9661026-3-0 Publisher: Knight Publications Pub. Date: 15 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (15 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Knocks religion out, some credulity left standing.
Comment: Andrew Knight packs a wallop, even by the mere title of his book, 'At Leat in Hell the Christians Won't Harass Me.'

Ironically, atheists do not believe in Hell anymore than Heaven, although I strongly believe this book was not written for atheists, but for theists who want to replace their religion with something.

In any case, Andrew nails Christianity in a humourous and unflinching manner to my extreme delight. His assault on the Draconian Christian 'code' is brilliant, modern day, and to the point.

He also paints a grim picture of the nature of mindless proselytizers for Jesus. This is a great section of the book, and shows how the dogmatic can turn ugly when faced with mind numbing contradiction (The Bible vs. Logic). I would liked to have read more of this type of experience from various people.

Also, the chapter on 'The Benefits of Christianity' is excellent! A quick read too. ;)

From there the book takes a left hand turn into what appears to existentialism, though Knight makes a good case for Time Travel...making one think differently about the concept of travelling forward in time.

However, I can't abide with the assertion of an afterlife, for there is nothing logical to convince me of this, and I found it unnecessary to analyze Heaven and Hell with any mathematics, as that seems a bit frivolous, like analyzing whether the Easter Bunny is true based on extensive math calculations that Joe Reader wouldn't understand anyway.

So the title is good, but it seems to only apply to about 1\4 of the entire book. I certainly don't believe an afterlife is possible, and wouldn't want to read a book slamming Christianity only to find math problems associated with Time Travel or the existence of Heaven and Hell.

Still, despite the existential arguments for an afterlife, it could be a good segway between absolute credulous Christianity\theism and atheism\science\rationality.

Dan The Burke

Rating: 5
Summary: This book makes one think -- and my head still hurts!!
Comment: Reading this book is like riding a roller coaster: you may like the ride, you may not like the ride, but you'll get off a different person, and you won't forget the experience! As I read the reviews here, they sounded like critiques of different books, but this work IS several things wrapped into one package... I haven't taken the time to pull apart the formal logic piece by piece (a line by line analysis would be fascintating!). Sadly, I don't have the calculus background to follow the mathematics. But like a good statistics textbook, this volume leaves me with a palpable desire to get the skills needed to absorb (or rationally reject) Knight's arguments in this fascinating and frustrating book... A note about the writing style jarring sometimes, a bit amusing always, but above all it shows a fresh and lively mind overactively at work. The task he has tackled is one which an academic approach would have turned into deadening drudgery. In short, it's fun to read! Several friends (mostly engineers and computer geeks!) are in line to read my copy! If they weren't so cheap, they would buy copies of their own from amazon.com! (P.S. Christians and other theists will not enjoy this volume and should probably read Leviticus instead).

Rating: 1
Summary: Bogus logic, bogus math. Don't bother.
Comment: Chapter one was fun. In Chapter one, the author has some nasty things to say about street witnessers, but from there it's all downhill.

Turns out the guy is a dualist. He belives that life is eternal because anything we don't remember effectively didn't happen. Since our lives right now definitely are happening, they must be remembered (therwise they couldn't be real now) and so "remembering", conciousness, must continue forever, or at least without temporal boundary.

There are a couple of obvious problems with this: I know that I forget things that did happen; and just because *I* don't remember the content of *your* experence, it doesn't mean your experience is not real. Likewise, that the content of my current experience will not be remembered by me in 100 years does not mean that this experience (typing) is not real now.

Anyway, after this gem I just flicked through the rest of the book. He tackles time travel, epistemology, ontology, ethics and eschatology with the same kind of bogus logic, and thows in a good dash of bogus math. From "What is Deja Vu?":

"A sensation can be modeled mathematically as a vector, where the absolute value of the sensation is the absolute value (length) of the vecter, and the feeling of the sensation the direction of the vector"

Yawn. I wonder how he calibrates his axes, or even chooses them. And this from "Orgasms and Differential equations":

"A positive stimulus increases a person's position while a negative stimulus decreases a person's position. The greater the distance, the harder the pull." ... "We leaned earlier that absoljute sensation is proportional to the distance of the stimulus, which is proportional to the rate of change of one's position."

His point - that eternal torment makes no sense because you'd get used to it - would come across better without the bad math.

Having abandoned christianity year and a bit ago, I don't need something sillier to replace it with. This person's views merit a bad web page, maybe, but not a book.

Snappy title, but don't bother.

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