Escape from God: The Use of Religion and Philosophy to Evade ResponsibilityHope Publishing House, 1991 - 291 من الصفحات A philosophical study on the high price of life, love & happiness which probes the significance of pain & suffering. By looking at the complex, demanding & compassionate Christianity that Jesus lived & died for, this text examines why the human experience inevitability encompasses both joy & suffering, disappointment & success, heartbreak & achievement. It details how philosophy, theology & psychology have been twisted & subverted to draw believers away from, instead of closer to, God. |
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On Atheism and Agnosticism | 57 |
On Hume | 138 |
On Hinduism Islam and Confucianism | 148 |
On the Hopeless Circle the New Age | 160 |
On Judaism | 186 |
On Christendom | 192 |
On the Myth of Omnipotence | 215 |
On the Myth of Omniscience | 239 |
On Gautama Buddha and Jesus | 245 |
On Having a Rationale | 71 |
On Joy and Motivation | 84 |
On Existentialism | 94 |
On Russell | 111 |
On Camus and Darrow | 122 |
Reference Notes and Library Key | 271 |
Acknowledgments | 281 |
Index | 283 |
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
absolutely Adeimantus agnostic agnosticism atheists Augustine become behavior believe Buddhist Camus Charles Hartshorne choose Christian claim classical theists commit complete contradiction created creative creatures Darrow Dean Turner deny despair divine entity Erhard escape escapist eternal everything evil existence Existentialism existentialist experience explain fact faith Father feel freedom of choice fulfill God's happen heaven Hinduism human Hume Ibid ideals illusion incompletion individual insisted insofar intellectual intrinsic value Jesus Judaism judgments living Living Bible logical loneliness Lord meaningful means mind moral moral nihilism Morris motivation murder Muslim nature never nihilism nihilist Nirvana nothingness notion object omnipotent one's oneself ourselves pantheism Paul Johnson person philosophy possible Ramtha rational rationale real life need realistic reason relationship religion responsibility Russell Sartre sense Shirley MacLaine simply spirit Stalin suffering theologians things thought tion true truth ultimate reality understand University wrong York
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الصفحة 138 - For my part when I enter most intimately into what I call myself, I always stumble on some particular perception or other, of heat or cold, light or shade, love or hatred, pain or pleasure. I never can catch myself at any time without a perception, and never can observe anything but the perception.
الصفحة 114 - That Man is the product of causes which had no prevision of the end they were achieving; that his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs, are but the outcome of accidental collocations of atoms; that no fire, no heroism, no intensity of thought and feeling, can preserve an individual life beyond the grave...
الصفحة 139 - I may venture to affirm of the rest of mankind, that they are nothing but a bundle or collection of different perceptions, which succeed each other with an inconceivable rapidity, and are in a perpetual flux and movement.
الصفحة 116 - Brief and powerless is man's life ; on him and all his race the slow sure doom falls pitiless and dark. Blind to good and evil, reckless of destruction, omnipotent matter rolls on its relentless way; for Man, condemned to-day to lose his dearest, to-morrow himself to pass through the gate of darkness, it remains only to cherish, ere yet the blow falls, the lofty thoughts that ennoble his little day...
الصفحة 207 - For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek : for the same Lord over all, is rich unto all that call upon him.
الصفحة 205 - I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling; 9 also that women should adorn themselves modestly and sensibly in seemly apparel, not with braided hair or gold or pearls or costly attire 10 but by good deeds, as befits women who profess religion.
الصفحة 102 - What is meant here by saying that existence precedes essence? It means that, first of all, man exists, turns up, appears on the scene, and, only afterwards, defines himself.