The Faith of a Religionist
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The Faith of a Religionist

Reflections Mundane and Sublime

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Faith of a Religionist

Reflections Mundane and Sublime

About this book

Mixing fiction with non-fiction, the author takes the reader on a ride through what irks him enough to write about, first in religion/theology and then in science, and includes the ideas that Abraham is a model for relating to God; an anti-dualistic bias is superior to the belief in the survival of the soul; the insistence that scripture is to be defended at all costs; the notion that theology can be systematized; the doctrine of the (paradoxical) atonement is simply a matter of faith; humans have no bearing on climate; evolution can only occur gradually; purity of race is an attainable goal; there is no serious competitor to materialism; mediums and spiritists are reliable guides to what the afterlife holds; and artificial intelligence poses little threat. The short stories are provided to offer lighter fare to the weightier topics in the non-fiction sections. The second such story has also been adapted into a film posted on YouTube.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Introduction
  3. A Fine Mess
  4. A Time to Speak and a Time to Sh . . . Refrain (Based on Ecclesiastes 3:7b)
  5. Poor Richard’s Almanac
  6. That’s Using Your Head
  7. By Way of Comparison
  8. That Makes Two of Us
  9. The Plain (or Plane) Truth
  10. What I (Tentatively) Believe
  11. Old Souls
  12. The Way Things Thankfully Aren’t
  13. What Do We Expect?
  14. Efficacy and Proportionality
  15. Letters from Home
  16. What or Who Would You Rather Do Without?
  17. Climate Control
  18. Condemned to Evolve
  19. Mixing Promotes Health (The Headline Reads)
  20. I Have a Mind to Object to This
  21. Plant One on Me
  22. Made-to-Order Hypothetical Entities
  23. The Day before Tomorrow
  24. The Decline and Fall of Materialism?
  25. The Rules of the Game
  26. The Its Have It
  27. The Limit Is the Sky with AI
  28. Futures—Concerning the End
  29. Conclusion
  30. Appendix
  31. Bibliography