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Title details for Divinity of Doubt by Vincent Bugliosi - Available

Divinity of Doubt

The God Question

by Vincent Bugliosi
Mel Foster
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Vincent Bugliosi turns his critical eye on both religious believers and the atheists who reflexively oppose them. Here he indicts both camps, and argues why agnosticism is the most responsible position to take with regard to such eternal questions as the existence of God. Bugliosi examines such developments as the decline of belief in evolution and the disturbing vengefulness of God as depicted in the Old Testament. He also questions that an all-powerful and all-knowing creator would have so badly miscalculated free will, leaving human beings to persecute and murder their fellow human beings. Vincent Bugliosi sets a new course - a middle path that urges us to recognize the limits of what we know, and what we cannot know about the ineffable mysteries of existence.

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    April 12, 2011

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      • ISBN: 9781666590098
      • File size: 326370 KB
      • Duration: 11:19:56

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      The author, who made his name prosecuting Charles Manson in the 1970s, now tackles the existence of God. This book will enrage some believers and make some nonbelievers laugh, but it's an entertaining, engaging work that will keep listeners on their intellectual toes. Narrator Mel Foster has a lively, deep voice that mirrors the author's tone almost exactly. When Bugliosi is sarcastic or is exasperated with an uneven argument, there is Foster, shading his voice so it rises at the end of a sentence or stops cold so listeners can get the joke. Foster does attempt some characterizations--some successful and some not--but he maintains listener attention through the sheer force of his energy and passion. R.I.G. (c) AudioFile 2011, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      April 4, 2011
      The question of the existence of God has captured the imaginations of pundits and pedants around the world. On one side are the theists, the believers. On the other side are the atheists, the ardent unbelievers. Bugliosi finds himself in a third category -- the agnostic, one who admits that he doesn't know if God exists, and may even insist that it isn't possible to know if there is a God. The author is a well-known attorney as well as a writer, whose best-known book, Helter Skelter, documented the horrific Charles Manson murders. He turns his attention here to a broad and often biting study of the proponents, and opponents, of Godism. He addresses some of the oldest questions in Christendom -- the problem of evil, the sometimes contradictory accounts of sacred events, etc. -- and sees no inevitability of a God in any of the answers proposed by even the best scholars. He ends his thoughts with a simple "God should only be a question." Sometimes pedantic but always eloquent, this is a fascinating read.

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