God.Org

GOD.ORG: WHY RELIGION REALLY MATTERS. Much of the Western First World is headed toward a thoroughly secularized form of culture, where any recourse to value systems and guidance from religion is almost completely taboo. This is a very bold experiment. It is fair to ask: Can we in the Western First World survive, if we become thoroughly cut off from our roots? GOD.ORG is a scholarly, yet very readable, examination of these issues--both from an historical perspective and from the perspective of the here and now. CHAPTERS: 1. In the Beginning was the Word and the Word was Information; 2) Looking for God; 3) The Gods of Fields, Rocks, Fields, and Streams; 4) The Gods of Sex and Violence vs. the God of Love and Peace; 5) Brotherly Love, Revolt, Revolution, and Revelation; 6) Humanism, Human Rights, and Indigenous People's Rights; 7) European Enlightenment, Deism, and the Monkey on Darwin's Back; 8) The Religions of Darwinism, Materialism, and the Death of God; 9) Science, Secular Humanism, and Environmentalism; 10) Reformations, Congregationalisms, Church, Mosque, and State; 11) Fundamental vs. Fundamentalism; 12) Why the World needs Rome (and Assisi); 13) What is Marriage for and Why are Church and State Involved? 14) Christianity, Islam, and the Next Generation; Epilogue: A Personal Reflection Life, Death, Afterlife.