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    The God Hater

    Written by Bill Myers

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    A cranky, atheistic philosophy professor loves to shred the faith of incoming freshmen. He is chosen by a group of scientists to create a philosophy for a computer-generated world exactly like ours. Much to his frustration every model he introduces-from Darwinism, to Existentialism, to Relativism, to Buddhism-fails. The only way to preserve the computer world is to introduce laws from outside their system through a Law Giver. Of course this goes against everything he's ever believed, and he hates it. But even that doesn't completely work because the citizens of that world become legalists and completely miss the spirit behind the Law. The only way to save them is to create a computer character like himself to personally live and explain it. He does. So now there are two of him-the one in our world and the one in the computer world. Unfortunately a rival has introduced a virus into the computer world. Things grow worse until our computer-world professor sees the only way to save his world is to personally absorb the virus and the penalty for breaking the Law. Of course, it's clear to all, including our real-world professor, that this act of selfless love has become a reenactment of the Gospel. It is the only possible choice to save their computer world and, as he finally understands, our own.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEChristian, Inc. Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2010
    ISBN9781596449299
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    The God Hater
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    Bill Myers

    Bill Myers (www.Billmyers.com) is a bestselling author and award-winning writer/director whose work has won sixty national and international awards. His books and videos have sold eight million copies and include The Seeing, Eli, The Voice, My Life as, Forbidden Doors, and McGee and Me.

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    • 3/5
      A combination of fiction and allegory--a professor who's made a name for himself as a "God hater" is drawn into his brother's attempts to create a virtual society, that can be used to model our society, with surprising results.
    • 5/5
      This story will stay with you long after finish it. A fresh perspective on what the Savior did over 2,000 years ago.
    • 4/5
      I have so been looking forward to reading The God Hater by Bill Meyers. With an intriguing sci-fi premise (artificial intelligence, virtual communities, consciousness transfer) the story does require some suspense of disbelief, but is a fast-paced, engaging read that I’ll be keeping on my shelf.Using a virtual society, Travis McKenzie, the brother of the reclusive and God-hating university professor Nicolas McKenzie, is attempting to build an accurate model of human life that can be used as a market research model. Unfortunately his models keep self-destructing. Each and every society based upon evolutionary, atheistic models fails utterly as a barbaric ‘survival of the fittest’ mentality eventually cases each community to self-destruct.Travis eventually calls in his brother Nicolas for help. The pair of them, along with Nicolas’ Christian colleague Annie, and her young son are swept into a web of danger that none of them have foreseen or could have imagined.I blasted through this engaging read in only a day, and I love way Meyers has portrayed the logical results of atheism, and spiritual philosophies devoid of a holy creator. The parallels that Meyers has drawn between this virtual world’s need for a moral law, and thenceforth, for salvation, and the world that we ourselves dwell in, are fascinating. Even I wasn’t sure how things were going to turn out, and what connections Meyers would make – even though the book’s premise was made quite clear from its promotional copy.There were a few minor loose ends and inconsistencies within the book itself, and, as I mentioned earlier, you’ll need to set yourself into suspended disbelief mode in order for some of the technology present to jive for you. That being said, I still highly recommend The God Hater as a fascinating read – its both entertaining, and a thoughtful exploration of the viability of various philosophical stances.Good stuff.Reviewed at quiverfullfamily.com
    • 4/5
      I really liked the analogy of computer programing a virtual world like ours and how to get the characters to think and create their own world to be an image of ours.
    • 4/5
      The God Hater is the first book by author Bill Myers that I have had the opportunity to read - and I truly enjoyed this book. In this novel, Myers gives us a view into the life of a philosophy professor who has turned his back on God and all religion, amassing joy in shredding the faith of anyone in his path. He is pulled into helping a computer-generated world like ours, in order to fix the continuing destruction of the society that continues in a lawless society. The professor soon realizes that he must not only personally explain the rules that are needed to keep the society going, but that his personal sacrifice is all that will save those who live in this virtual community. I like how the author, Bill Myers, uses technology and science to show that a society without God will self-destruct. I was impressed by the plot and the detail that went into describing the different characters and their interactions and relationships to each other. My favorite part of this book is where the parallel between the professor in the virtual community and Christ is discovered. The ending of the book was both interesting and frustrating at the same time. I found it a bit difficult at times to keep up with who the actual “good guys” and “bad guys” were. I enjoyed reading this book and I definitely give this book a thumbs up!