Includes both volumes Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, and Morality and More Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, And Morality shrinked-wrapped in a boxed-set.
The popularity of Book One led Allen to take another good look at the Scriptures to interest the average reader in reasonable analysis of the most influential document in Western civilization. Includes direct quotes from Catholic, Protestant, and Judaic biblical scholars.
'Blind Faith' is a book written by an ex-Christian on a personal journey to find the light and truth in a world of darkness and deceitfulness. It takes the reader on a shocking but revealing journey through the Bible and the Christian religion. With sound facts, science and common sense the Christian bible and religion is systematically analyzed and dissected. This book exposes the truth about our God, his son Jesus and the Christian dogma. With this book, debunking Christianity has reached a new level of simplicity and ease.
Critics have raved about this delightful book Allen addresses the muddleheadedness (or "dumbth") that pervades all segments of American life and work, and offers 81 "rules" for good thinking.
Why Did Steve Allen Cross the Road? Steve Allen is a legend among comedians and entertainers. He's been playing to audiences on stage, radio, film, and television for more than fifty years, gaining acclaim for his unique wit and energy. Now for the first time, he shares more than a thousand of his favorite one-liners, anecdotes, limericks, quotes, and other generally funny things. The entries are divided into nearly two hundred categories to make it easy for anyone to find the right laugh for any occasion. If you're faced with the prospect of having to "say a few words," Steve Allen's Private Joke File is the perfect place to look for ideas and inspiration on such topics as awards, drinking, baseball, lawyers, dentists, insurance, marriage, the stock market, and dozens of other subjects. A sampling: * My wife and I had words, but I never got to use mine! * If ignorance is bliss, he should die of joy. * "How are the acoustics here?" "Great, I can hardly hear you!" * I learned to rumba very early in life ... I had a tricycle with a loose seat. * Room for rent, by young lady, freshly plastered. Steve Allen has also included a number of his favorite essays and monologues. Steve Allen's Private Joke File is great to flip through for fun or for function, and for those of us looking for a good laugh -- to give one or to have one -- it's indispensable.
With this book, your views on God will never be the same. With clear Biblical evidence, Jehovah is shown to be an entity with no sense of ethics, forgiveness, or compassion. Was Jehovah a god, or a demon? Why did he never promise a heaven or any kind of reward to his followers? Does any entity that murders thousands of devoted followers deserve to be worshiped? Jehovah has stopped punishing people in terrible ways, so its probably safe to buy this book.
Versatile entertainer Steve Allen is the creator of The Tonight Show and PBS's award-winning Meeting of the Minds. In But Seriously . . . he explores such topics as nuclear war, interracial justice, and Frank Sinatra. One article titled "How to Attack a Liberal" advises conservatives how to best ethically confront his beliefs. His reflections tackle weighty topics sure to be thought-provoking.
No one knows more about comedy than Steve Allen. For more than five decades as a writer, performer, and keen observer of the social scene, he has looked into every aspect of who''s funny, what''s funny, and why. Allen shares his discoveries in How to Be Funny, the book designed to help everyone develop their special talent for funniness.Now reissued in paperback, How to Be Funny covers all the basics, including joke telling, ad-libbing, writing humorously, performing comedy, emceeing, and much more. Allen takes you inside the world of comedy, from the early writings of Mark Twain, to the more contemporary work of Rodney Dangerfield and Bill Maher. Allen even provides homework assignments for the budding comic!Yet How to Be Funny is far more than just a book for aspiring comedians it will help anyone who wants to be a more amusing conversationalist, a more effective public speaker, and everyone who just wants to be the life of the party.
The success of Steve Allen's How To Be Funny led first to the republication of that book, and now occasioned a companion volume, Make 'Em Laugh. This new how-to book about the art of comedy includes an even richer assortment of examples of the author's unique humor. In Make 'Em Laugh, Allen laces his formal instruction with hilarious ad-libs, written jokes, TV comedy sketches, satires, song parodies, humorous essays, amusing autobiographical reminiscences, one-act plays, witty speeches, and stand-up monologues from his comedy concerts. Noel Coward called Steve Allen the most talented man in America, and he is probably the most borrowed-from comedian of all time. The perceptive reader will recognize many of the comic ideas that Allen originated during the "Golden Age" of television comedy - ideas that are still influential in the 1990's. If there were a college course in creating and performing comedy, Make 'Em Laugh would be the ideal textbook.
Rejecting belief without evidence, a scientist scrutinizes scientific, theological, and philosophical literature for a sign from God--and finds God to be an allegory. This remarkable book leaves no room for unproven ideas and exposes a universe without reason or purpose.