The Unspoken Truth About Religion - Paperback

by Dick Johnson (Author)

This book has already received the following awards:
1) a coveted IndieReader Discovery Award
2) a President's Award from the Florida Authors & Publishers Association
3) a rare nonfiction indie B.R.A.G. Medallion
4) a Gold Star Award from The Book Designer

Religion is held to be the source of our values and morality, the impetus behind all things good. Yet it sustains an unparalleled acquaintance with death, destruction, and terrorism. And generation after generation we fail to acknowledge, much less explore, this glaring incongruity. Historians have written endlessly on the many origins of religion, and critics have written countless volumes on the immeasurable atrocities committed in its name. But here we are in the 21st century, splicing genes and colliding particles at near the speed of light, and we still don't have a coherent understanding of why we practice this most enigmatic of human behaviors.

Our technical knowledge, that which reflects the rational side of human behavior, is doubling every couple of years, rapidly increasing the human ability to not just innovate, but to destroy and devastate. Yet our understanding of religion, the only irrational behavior we widely embrace and encourage, has remained virtually unchanged throughout history. The immense significance being, it is our irrational behaviors that have always been and will always be the greatest catalyst for human conflict. Only to the extent we understand our emotionally driven behaviors can we mitigate the rapidly growing dangers that naturally accompany our soaring awareness. This book provides the understanding that humanity needs to purge itself of religious conflicts and terrorism the world over.

Author Biography

The author is uniquely adept at explaining the human experience in a way that people from all walks of life can recognize as truth. For anyone who truly seeks understanding, he offers complete factual, and often categorical, answers to every conceivable question regarding religion. In the form of a simple book, this author provides the objective awareness that humanity needs, to permanently eliminate the harmful effects of religion.