God-botherers and Other True Believers: Gandhi, Hitler, and the Religious RightBerghahn Books, 2008 - 229 pagini When reason fails to guide us in our everyday lives, we turn to faith, to religion; we close our minds; we reject austere reasoning. This rejection, which is a faith-based social and intellectual malignancy, has two unfortunate consequences: it blocks the way to knowledge that might enhance the quality of life and it opens the way to charlatans who exploit the faith of others. Examining two unquestionable malignancies of "the Christian Right" in present-day politics in the United States and the "secular religion" of Hitler's National Socialism, as well as the third, more complex case of Gandhi, the author asserts that we need religion, but we also need to make sure it does no harm. |
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Cuprins
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS | 1 |
FAITH REASON AND CONSEQUENCES | 15 |
Oneness | 26 |
3 | 71 |
THE NEED FOR ENEMIES | 116 |
THE FREEDOM FIGHT | 149 |
GANDHIS CHARISMA | 160 |
GANDHIS RELIGION AND POLITICAL Reality | 178 |
THE FIRST CAUSE and the LastT WORD | 199 |
Diseducation | 207 |
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