God Has Skin in the Game

John Milbank, Professor of Politics, Religion and Ethics notes that: “the politics that we practice today is a politics without the soul. It is thereby a perverse politics, an anti-politics and even, in the end, an impossible politics. If we are to survive as recognizably human, we need to return to a politics of the soul, albeit in a new guise.” Even more poignantly, what is missing from most contemporary political discourse is an understanding of which concept of existence underlies our common thinking and our institutions. As a society, we suffer from cultural and historical amnesia, but most important of all, O'Reilly makes it clear that we suffer from metaphysical amnesia about the soul and its relationship to something higher than itself.


Ayn Rand, Walter Lipmann, Richard Hofstadter, Alan Bloom, Thomas Sowell, Michael Savage, Clarence Thomas, Ann Coulter, Shelby Steel and supporters of conservatism, have all decried the anti-intellectualism characteristic of political correctness in academia and media to the detriment of rational political policy but O’Reilly fingers the underlying issues and articulates them by illuminating the deeper intentions of all political and religious players on the left and the right. Nothing escapes his savage, yet strangely benevolent gaze, and no one is spared.


God Has Skin in the Game presents a new framework for the origins of the universe, one that connects the dots between science and religion. O'Reilly's quantum-based philosophy is one that anyone can embrace, regardless of race, creed, or culture. A modern alternative to the biblical Fall of Man, it challenges the political order to reorient itself towards eternity, and the timeless values of moral and intellectual excellence. Many of the ideas presented may seem shocking, and even intolerant, but they will lead you on an intellectual adventure that can change your life.


Understanding how an immutable or unchangeable Being can act within and without time, or affect change without changing Itself, might be said to be the puzzle of the ages. Some writers, unaware of this more fundamental paradox, have attempted, merely, to link the absence of classical knowledge in our culture to current political and social difficulties. The problem is much larger than the absence of classicism; it has to do with an inability to synthesize what we already know about energy as it is understood by quantum physics, and Existence as it is understood by religion, into a new and dynamic understanding of life.


The root cause of ideological conflict in America is the inability to advert to which of these two theories of causality we employ, either consciously or unconsciously. Understanding the kind of reasonable political compromise that could come from an improved articulation of these largely hidden positions brings us back to the Founders. God Has Skin in the Game shows you how America can become the moral and economic powerhouse that the Founding Fathers intended it to be by, rediscovering and acting on our common metaphysical heritage.