Top Ten Picks- Worst Books Ever

Jill at Random Ramblings fun meme "Top Ten Picks" topic of the week is "Worst Books You've Ever Read.". Now my top ten may not signify poor writing- but for sure will signify destructive books that I read during college and at a time when I was researching world religions. 

1. Margaret Sanger’s ---The Pivot of Civilization----

-Who is Margaret Sanger? She would be the founder of Planned Parent Hood, who published a book (which has been out of print for years) sharing all her thoughts on race control and birth control methods.

Opening Lines of TPOC-

This book aims to be neither the first word on the tangled problems of human society to-day, nor the last. My aim has been to emphasize, by the use of concrete and challenging examples and neglected facts, the need of a new approach to individual and social problems. Its central challenge is that civilization, in any true sense of the word, is based upon the control and guidance of the great natural instinct of Sex.

What Sanger's introduction fails to state are the evil and downright disturbing my best friend is Hitler ideas this book encapsulates and how racist this woman really was.

The most urgent problem today is how to limit and discourage the over fertility of the mentally and physically defective. Possibly drastic and Spartan methods may be forced upon American society if it continues complacently to encourage the chance and chaotic breeding that has resulted from our stupid sentimentalism. PG.25

This one is even better…….

Every feeble-minded girl or woman of the hereditary type, especially of the moron class, should be segregated during the reproductive period. Otherwise she is almost certain to bear imbecile children, who in turn are just as certain to breed other defectives. We prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded. PG.101

Who are the "We"? White people? Government? Freaking Nazi's??? Whoever the "we" are suppose to be they went on to represent a racist who's goals in life were to keep certain human beings from having children. Sanger believed in sterilization and using abortion as birth control or in her words race and imbecile control- what a horrid ideal to live by. You can find tons of information about the foundation of Planned Parenthood and Sanger online.

2. The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx

By far the most destructive book ever written regarding peoples individual freedoms. Basically this book legitimizes that you have a right to things that you haven’t earned. It’s the philosophy of being punished for success, to take away what you have worked for and redistribute it to someone else. While at the same time, the fat-cats who dictate those same philosophy’s sit in their million dollar houses, eating all the food, using all the resources and not giving a crap about the people. Its called class warfare and to this day is happening in our own democracy.

3.Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

The book that forever knocked Adolf off the list of most popular baby boy names.

I will be honest- I read this as part of a research paper on WWII and could not finish, the man was clearly insane and filled with hate.

4. The Descent of Man by Charles Darwin

The author who ranks races by their levels of evolution and states that Jews and Black people are more ape than human. ....and then goes on to become the cornerstone of everything that your child will be taught about biology and genetics. AWESOME!

5. Dianetics by Ron L. Hubbard

WOW- did you know this guy was a science fiction author before he wrote Dianetics? One day Ron sat down with his buddies and bet them all a case of beer that he could create his own religion.....

Flash forward a few months you have Scientology with free beer and Tom Cruise.

6. He Came to Set the Captives Free by Rebecca Brown

Not only does this woman claim vampires and werewolves are real but she can teach you how to rebuke them..with stick figure illustrations to boot....One way ticket on the Crazy Train please....

7. A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren

I am a Christian says Brian- I believe in Jesus says Brian- I also believe that there was no apple, no serpant, no garden, no virgin birth, no cross, no resurrection, no Hell and I think God really didn't say what the Bible really says He said...

Ok then Brian what the *bleep* do you believe in then?

8. Your Best life Now by Joel Osteen

Just look at the cover...seriously I can't believe I read this.....it was one of those desperate at the dentist have nothing to read moments....

Listen here Mr. Happy who preaches the same sermon 7 days a week 365 days a year...... God is not an ATM machine....and that cancer rotting on the inside of a pancreas gives a person good reason to say "Im having a bad day and not having enough faith has nothing to freaking do with it"!

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My Two Fiction Selections...in no way close to the same as a Hitler or Sanger book make my list for their absurdity.

9. The Davinci Code by Dan Brown

Jesus in the mountains with a gal named Mary..secretly gets married and pops out some kids. Flash forward to present day: albino bad guys whipping themselves, looking for the holy grail and protecting Christ's last of kin ....and then people actually discussing if this could be real......WHATEVER........!!

10. The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb

I can’t even begin to tell you what this book was about, between the 5000 tragedies and the 1000 plot lines, things got to be a huge tangled web of whining, blaming and living through every real life tragedy since The Oklahoma City Bombing. How do you mix the events of Columbine, 9/11 and Katrina into one story? Hmmm lets see, blame President Bush for it all, he created the storm that destroyed New Orleans and made those kids go nuts and shoot up their school. He also is so evil, he diabolically made these fictional characters cheat on each other, go to jail and have a crappy life!!! The HORROR!!

I was tired, annoyed and emotionally drained after reading this.