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- What Is Reasonism?
- When I was writing The Tyranny Of God in 2008, I was looking for a word that can define my philosophy. Defining myself as an atheist did not seem the right fit for many reasons. I looked for the right word. There were rationalism, positivism,...
- About Reasonism.Org
- My name is Marquez Comelab. Whether you are a Christian, Muslim, Jew, Agnostic or Atheist, I welcome you to the Reasonism website! This website came after I wrote the book, The Tyranny Of God , a book which details my mental and intellectual journey of...
- The Tyranny Of God now on Apple iTunes Store
- We love paperback but now with new technology making books more accessible and often at lower costs, The Tyranny of God is now available as an iBook/e-book on Apple's iTunes Store. This article takes you through how the e-book looks like on the iPad...
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- What do you think about the U.N passing an anti-blasphemy law?
- On the 24 th of November 2008, the U.N. passed a draft resolution against defaming religion. It was sponsored by the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). They want nations to pass legislation against blasphemy. At this point in time,...
- The Tyranny Of God - Profile
- DETAILS: ISBN: 978-0-646-50169-7 TITLE: The Tyranny Of God: Liberating Ourselves From Our Own Beliefs AUTHOR: Marquez Comelab PUBLISHER: OrangesAndLime Publishing BOOK RELEASE: December 2008 LANGUAGE: Australian English PAGES: 316 "Everything we do is...
- "What did you find out? Is there or isn?t there a God?"
- Based on what I have read and understood, I cannot see how a supernatural being that exists beyond time and space can exist. I am also more inclined to believe the following: There is no Heaven, there is no Hell and there is no life after death....
- "Tell us about your book?"
- I came to a point in my life where I really wanted to know whether there was a god. It seemed painful and sad to think that there is nothing beyond this life, but what if there is indeed no Heaven, no God and no Hell? If God does not, then how should I...
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- Project Reason
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- Two Thousand Years Later - The Passion Of The Christ
- Following the release of the film: The Passion Of The Christ , we should take this opportunity to remember what it was that Jesus Christ may have died for. Perhaps we can re-think and re-learn the message He had been trying to tell us two thousand...
- The God Delusion
- Religions have survived for thousands of years and their arguments have evolved to survive that long. There is something odd about religions and religious doctrines and ideas. There are many things not fitting in. Not many of us are able to articulate...
- The Selfish Gene
- Before reading this book, I always felt that there was something not quite right about religious explanations as to how human beings, animals, plants and all life came to being, regardless of whether one takes The Book of Genesis literally or...
- Infidel
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali writes about the details of her life growing up in Somalia, as a Muslim. Then, she escapes to Europe to avoid a pre-arranged marriage. There, she details how her mind transformed from a Muslim who believed in Islam to an atheist. Since...
- The End of Faith
- Sam Harris points out the absurdity of religious beliefs and their ability to make human beings commit attrocities (Witch Hunts, The Inquisition and The Holocaust) to each other. He points out the folly of 'religious moderation' as breeding grounds for...
- Gladiator Graveyard
- The Caged Virgin
- As a Muslim, Ayan Hirsi Ali provides us with an objective and intelligent insight and analysis of Islam, Muslims and most importantly, the treatment of, and attitudes towards, Muslim women and their place in their families and societies. Coming from a...
- Letter to a Christian Nation
- After releasing his first book, The End Of Faith , Sam Harris received a lot of angry letters from Christians. He responded to all of them with this book.
The Tyranny Of God
Paperback Edition
Is there a God? Where do the animals, plants and human beings come from? Are scriptures the words of gods? Does religion teach us to live moral lives? Why do so many people kill and are killed over it? How should we live our lives if God exists? How should we live it if God does NOT exist?
This book explores the truth behind our beliefs in God and the propensity of human beings to be religious. In an honest attempt to seek the answers to life's deepest questions, I probe into how life began. I then progress to investigate the true nature of religions and their impact on our lives and the rest of humanity.
The main purpose of this book is not to argue against religion. Rather, it tells our story and how we have come to oppress ourselves with the tyranny of our own beliefs. I wrote this book to include everything I discovered to be relevant in my search for the truth, not just the truth behind God and morality, but also behind us and our existence. Instead of reading this book with the expectation that it is trying to prove the tyranny of God, I would like to recommend you read it as a story book: as a book that tells the story of humanity from the Big Bang.
REVIEW
"While Comelab's writing is always moderate in tone, its message clearly undermines current distractions with accommodationist arguments towards presumed religious "moderates". It is written with the fresh confidence of a young man who has had early success in his adopted country and only recently come to realise the truth of atheism. For those like me whose only worry about Atheism has long been its faultering progress, Comelab reminds us that much of the energy must continue to come from those who have more recently learned the truth. He seems more than bright enough to soon progress to seeing atheism not as an end but as a starting point to the kind of understanding that should enable us to work towards a future incomparably better than any heaven the faithful can imagine."
- TONY SMITH (AUSTRALIA)