The Case for God
What religion really means
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4.3 • 3 Ratings
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history, a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God. Militant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness with the zeal of missionaries and find an eager audience.
Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong shows that meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith', and 'mystery' has been entirely altered, so that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God - and, indeed, reason itself - in a way that our ancestors would have found astonishing.
Does God have a future? Karen Armstrong examines how we can build a faith that speaks to the needs of our troubled and dangerously polarised world.
Customer Reviews
For the open minded free thinkers
I recommend this to anybody who has little understanding on religion and want to learn about it beyond the "science vs. religion", "fundamentalist vs. atheist" context. It opened my mind to the limitations of our understanding, and argues that the New Atheist argument is primarily based on fundamental misunderstandings of the Bible and religion in general. She clearly explains how faith and reason are entirely compatible and both are needed for a prosperous, meaningful future.
Simply stated, this book changed the way I see the world