Finding God, Losing God: The Spiritual And Irreverent Upside Of Losing Faith

Zach found God and Jesus. His half-brother, Bart, had forgotten where he'd last left them to fend for themselves. Zach explained to Bart that God was like a cosmic Vito Corleone, willing to make him an offer he "couldn't refuse." Bart countered that Zach's God was more like an Orwellian free-range chicken, pecking his soul into submission. Can such opposing, iron-clad reasoning be resolved into any sensible epistemology worthy of navigating one's way in this world or the next? Their conversations are blistering and real, and while we're laughing, we will definitely think about the high price one pays for finding and abetting God.If you're looking for love without god, you've come to the right place. Bart Nedelman defends the no-god, no-need-for-god proposition and makes the case that there is far more love, peace, and civil liberty to go around when no God is around - and a far more fulfilling and spiritual upside to cutting God loose to fend for itself. Finding God, Losing God is a moral slugfest and a religious romp. Bart makes the cost-benefit take of finding God or losing this archaic fiction and well of human misery well worth considering and long overdue. But why stop there?It's open season on a rogues' gallery of miscreants and theological thugs of all stripes: Tea-Party whiners, fundamentalist Islamist bullies, evangelical goons-for-Christ politicians, and rock star televangelists who glibly mislead their painfully naïve and gullible adherents, especially about whom Jesus wants them to vote for. Bart calls them on the unrelenting mayhem and gratuitous harm they cause with their genitalia obsessions, gay-bashing, misogyny, and the irrational and intellectual insults that faith-based politicians and religionists attempt to push across our boundaries every day. Bart exposes evangelical Christian faith-based politics for what it is - the manipulation of the most vulnerable and ignorant among us.

• | Author: Bart Nedelman
• | Publisher: Bart Nedelman
• | Publication Date: Dec 15, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 492 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0996526307
• | ISBN-13: 9780996526302