conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled Godless about University, Colorado, B.A with the genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: the author was born in 1944. He has a B.A. in philosophy (1970) from the University of Southern Colorado in Pueblo, Colorado , USA and a Ph.D. in psychology (1979) (with a minor in philosophy) from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 1980 to 2013, he worked as a counselor. Now retired, he spends his time reading & on nature walk.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: Delete the last sentence.
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: the author was born in 1944. He has a B.A. in philosophy (1970) from the University of Southern Colorado in Pueblo, Colorado , USA and a Ph.D. in psychology (1979) (with a minor in philosophy) from the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 1980 to 2013, he worked as a counselor.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is a description for a book titled GODLESS about Stepek, GODLESS with the genre: Literature & Fiction, Contemporary?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Mr. Stepek shares a provocative tale that zeros in on the trauma of male bulimia and addiction that is both compelling and forceful. And while there are many books, both fiction and non-fiction that are superbly written and which address the subject of bulimia and addiction, none genuinely tap into the heart and soul of the subject quite the same way as GODLESS.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is the first two paragraphs for this book?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Godless
  But with the secular crowd, their political ideology keeps shutting off open scientific inquiry. Over and over again, they can only accept one answer: AIDS doesn't discriminate, IQ is an artificially contrived social construct with no genetic component, there are no innate differences between the sexes, and the human soul was created by random mutation and natural selection. Their religion prevents them from engaging in honest discussion because science without God leaves them with no arguments against barbarism—like bestiality, abortion, slavery, and eugenics.
  The only lesson liberals learned from Hitler is: Don't discriminate! Not that human life is sacred, but that we must never say people are different. Girls are the same as boys, and homosexuals are the same as heterosexuals, and blacks are the same as whites. That's their plan for nipping any aspiring Hitlers in the bud. Stripped of a belief in God, they have no coherent philosophical argument against genocide. Rather than defending human life, most of the time liberals are manufacturing excuses to kill it. So we all have to waste money and do pointless things—like letting girls try out for the fire department and the Navy SEALs—because the alternative would be to discuss the undiscussable.
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is another paragraph?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Like the victims of the Holocaust, animals are rounded up, trucked hundreds of miles to the kill floor and slaughtered. Comparisons to the Holocaust are not only appropriate but inescapable because, whether we wish to admit it or not, cows, chickens, pigs and turkeys are as capable of feeling loneliness, fear, pain, joy and affection as we are. To those who defend the modern-day holocaust on animals by saying that animals are slaughtered for food and give us sustenance, I ask: If the victims of the Holocaust had been eaten, would that have justified the abuse and murder? Did the fact that lampshades, soaps and other "useful" products were made from their bodies excuse the Holocaust? No. Pain is pain.24
conversations.from: human
conversations.value: What is the last five paragraphs?
conversations.from: assistant
conversations.value: Like the victims of the Holocaust, animals are rounded up, trucked hundreds of miles to the kill floor and slaughtered. Comparisons to the Holocaust are not only appropriate but inescapable because, whether we wish to admit it or not, cows, chickens, pigs and turkeys are as capable of feeling loneliness, fear, pain, joy and affection as we are. To those who defend the modern-day holocaust on animals by saying that animals are slaughtered for food and give us sustenance, I ask: If the victims of the Holocaust had been eaten, would that have justified the abuse and murder? Did the fact that lampshades, soaps and other "useful" products were made from their bodies excuse the Holocaust? No. Pain is pain.24
  This is liberalism's real strength: It is no longer susceptible to reductio ad absurdum arguments. Before you can come up with a comical take on their worldview, some college professor has already written an article advancing the idea. With Darwin as their god, everything is just a matter of personal preference. For Singer, the utilitarian ethic is based on "quality of life" and prevention of suffering of living things smart enough to teach at Princeton. For Hitler, it was increasing the population of "Aryans." For liberals, the utilitarian ethic is equality of outcome—which they will enforce with fascistic zeal through confiscatory taxation, abortion on demand, racial quotas, gender-norming strength tests, and "everybody gets an 'A' and a blue ribbon."
  The fundamental difference between our religion and theirs is that theirs always tells them whatever they want to hear. Like the "living Constitution," Darwinism never disappoints liberals. They never say, "Well, I'd like to have cheap, meaningless sex tonight, but that would violate Darwinism." They can't even say, "I'd like to have cheap, meaningless sex tonight with a goat, but that would violate Darwinism." If you have an instinct to do it, it must be an evolved adaptation. Liberals subscribe to Darwinism not because it's "science," which they hate, but out of wishful thinking. Darwinism lets them off the hook morally. Do whatever you feel like doing—screw your secretary, kill Grandma, abort your defective child—Darwin says it will benefit humanity! Nothing is ever wrong as long as you follow your instincts. Just do it—and let Mother Earth sort out the winners and losers.
  I am eternally indebted to Ned Rice, who gives me more jokes than I will ever admit. Jim Downey gives me enough ideas in a single phone call for an entire chapter, several of which are included here.
  Published in the United States by Crown Forum, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. www.crownpublishing.com