God Who?: A Paradigm for Religious Tolerance and Global Peace

by David Frederick

Overview

I broke away from society's mold before it could imprison my dreams. I searched old books for wisdom of the ages. I sought truth that never changes, truth cast aside by today's insane media-driven politics and its imaginary bell-curve of acceptable thinking, truth that is and will always be the only hope for mankind and the eventual achievement of world peace, truth about God.

The ancient writers call each of us to be unique, to think for ourselves, to dare to be different, and to do all we can in each passing generation to clear away the cobwebs of colloquial confusion, replacing them with a functional morality that cries out to be communicated to this modern world by every means available ... including this book, a paradigm for religious tolerance and global peace.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940155305064
Publisher:	Brighton Publishing LLC
Publication date:	06/20/2018
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	326 KB

About the Author

I was born in 1943 while World War II was in full swing, however the tiny town where I was reared was safe in Midwest rural farming country, surrounded by hardwood forests we explored as young boys, lots of creeks to wade in, abandoned mines to explore, tall trees to climb and vines to swing from, raspberries to pick wild, and the feeling someone good was always looking out for us no matter where we wandered. We were safe. Life was like that in my home town. Peaceful. When I was 25, delivering a 33-foot sailboat to its new owners in the Virgin Islands, I was caught in a full January gale. I was alone in 60-foot waves, fighting for 72 hours without sleep to claw away from the fatal rocky northern shore of the Dominican Republic. It was impossible to see through the driving rain beyond the bow of the boat. I was uncertain of my position, doubting my progress to windward away from the certain death being driven on that shore would mean. One prays in such situations. I prayed and promised to read the next Bible cover-to-cover if I survived. The storm suddenly abated, and the next day I was safe at anchor off the shore of Aguadilla, Puerto Rico resting before continuing my journey to St. Croix where the new owners awaited their boat delivery. I kept that promise for the past half-century and read not only the Christian Bible but every religious text I could find that tells the age-old story of man and his quest to understand the ultimately unknowable power that is the God of every religion. The power that pacified those angry waves long ago, allowed me to live and write this book. The power mankind can agree upon, power by which we can build bridges of agreement between diverse cultures and beliefs, bridges toward a lasting global peace… for the children’s sake. And, may we all heed the sounds of that drum and bugle corps and the solemn reports of their rifle salute at our soldier’s cemetery that echoes still in that small Ohio town and in this little boy’s heart.