Religion: the Failed Narrative: Clashing Religious Doctrine and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism

Religion: the Failed Narrative: Clashing Religious Doctrine and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism

by Richard C. Johnson
Religion: the Failed Narrative: Clashing Religious Doctrine and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism

Religion: the Failed Narrative: Clashing Religious Doctrine and the Threat of Nuclear Terrorism

by Richard C. Johnson

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Overview

God emerges like a hologram in our consciousness and is falsely presented as the champion who will save us from death. Science, with its focused methodology, tells the true story.

God is the main character in religion, but he is a figment of the imagination. Humans experience consciousness like amnesia victims: We dont know where we came from or why we are here, and we fantasize that we keep on living after our bodies physically die. Thus humanity turns to religion, a powerful source of consolation and comfort. Science, however, offers some more concrete answers.

Author Richard C. Johnson argues that God emerges as an adjunct of human consciousness, where he is conjured up in response to the isolation engendered by self-awareness. Huge conflict results, Johnson explains, because claims about God are made from doctrine rather than observation. The result of these conflicts has consistently been war. In an age of nuclear weapons and terrorism, religious conflict must be deconstructed by honest discussion. Johnson explores this seemingly impossible task and proposes methods by which it can be accomplished.

In Religion: The Failed Narrative, Johnson convinces us that irrational religion cannot guide us and that only rational science has proven to be a capable leader.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781450276382
Publisher: iUniverse, Incorporated
Publication date: 01/13/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 96
File size: 217 KB

About the Author

RICHARD C . JOHNSON earned a doctorate in chemistry and has spent four decades as a researcher and laboratory business owner. He was raised Protestant and converted to Catholicism in marriage. His religious and scientific backgrounds combine to give him a special vantage point to view our troubled world. Johnson resides in Tucson, Arizona.
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