What Your Preacher Didn't Tell You: That You Really Ought to Know - Brossura

Winsor, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1462057268 ISBN 13: 9781462057269

Casa editrice: iUniverse, 2011

Riassunto

What your preacher didn’t tell you is this: Christianity was a Medieval invention that contradicts what Jesus taught. He didn’t believe that he was divine or that anybody was bound for heaven. Winsor quotes the Bible itself to explain how preachers obfuscate its meaning.

Followers are deceived by tricks such as the conflation of terms that are not synonymous. “Son of Man” referred to mankind in general, not to Jesus. “Kingdom of Heaven” referred to a future earthly kingdom that Jesus hoped to rule, not to Heaven itself. His own prayer asks Yahweh to establish it and make life "on earth as it is in heaven” (Matthew 6:10). Jesus thought it would come very soon: “...you will not have gone through all the towns of Israel before the son of man comes” (Matthew 10:23). He expected Yahweh to bring people to the kingdom “in clouds with great power and glory” (Mark 13:26).

Fundamentalists falsely assert that there is no wall of separation between Church and State. They create de facto religious tests and poison our public discourse. Christian dogma conflicts with historical and scientific facts and even with Biblical text. Its interference in politics undermines our ability to seek real-world solutions to real-world problems. Preachers often claim that the Bible’s text is too complicated for lay people to understand, but if you’re armed with the clues in this book, it is fairly straightforward reading. If you have questions about the Bible, Christianity, and how they relate to modern science and American democracy, you’ll find real answers here.

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L'autore

John Winsor is not a Bible historian, but he has read a great deal of what they've written. Much of it is pedantic and can baffle the uninitiated. He has distilled it into a straightforward argument against religion in general and Christianity in particular. Historians do the tedious work of studying the trees, but Winsor presents the forest in a way that, just maybe, only a layman can and your preacher certainly never will.

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• Editore: iUniverse
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1462057268
• ISBN 13: 9781462057269
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 168