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Exit Religion Enter God

By Beth Houston

Book information

Publisher
Independently published
Year
2019
ISBN
9780998819624, 9780971919099
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2564836 bytes)
Pages
\934
Time added
2023-05-19 12:22:38

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EXIT RELIGION, ENTER GOD might be the perfect book for you if you are: •Spiritual but not religious •Questioning your religious beliefs •Philosophically inclined •A Deist This bundle contains these previously published books: 1. Born-Again Deist: My Journey Beyond Religion to the Plain Truth of God 2. Natural God: Deism in the Age of Intelligent Design: A Deconstruction of Atheism and Religious Fundamentalism 3. A new author’s preface BORN-AGAIN DEIST recounts the author’s four-decade journey "from being spiritually inclined to born-again Christian to progressive Christian to disillusioned agnostic to delighted Deist." While acknowledging that her Christian born-again experience was spiritually real, she explains how her religious experience was socially constructed and fraught with contradictions. Broadly deconstructing "text worship," including biblical literalism, Houston argues that religious myths, superstitions, and claims of "special revelation" must be transcended by a belief that does not contradict our innate, God-given faculties of reason, conscience, intuition, experience, volition, emotion, and aesthetic sensibility, referred to collectively as common sense. She reminds us that belief is belief, not absolute truth. Deism, literally God-ism, is a humanist, minimalist religion "of God and only God." To underscore her case for democratic religion, she cites American revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, and on the other hand exposes with numerous examples the dark side of deified religion and the exploitation of naïve faith. In NATURAL GOD, Houston positions Deism as the Golden Mean between atheist-materialist Darwinism and religious fundamentalism. She argues that exquisitely designed Creation necessitates a transcending Intelligent Designer that is immanently engaged in the perpetual process of creating novelty sustained within the secure margins of natural laws. Houston’s explication, sprinkled with satire, demystifies Charles Darwin and deconstructs Darwinism/neo-Darwinism on the one hand, and on the other continues her demolition of biblical literalism with a critique of the modern quest for the historical Jesus. The God she affirms is the Creator of Nature, the Natural God, whose truth and spiritual Presence, independent of priestly mediation, are democratically available to all. Preface To Exit Religion, Enter God BOOK 1 Born-Again Deist My Journey Beyond Religion to the Plain Truth of God Chapter 1 The Coming of Age of Deism Chapter 2 A Philosophical Basis for Deism Chapter 3 Born-Again Deist Chapter 4 Portrait of a Barbaric God Chapter 5 Biblical Misinterpretation Chapter 6 Deconstructing Paul Chapter 7 To Worship God, Not the Bible Chapter 8 The Fallible Bible Chapter 9 Mythic Origins of the Bible Chapter 10 The Witches’ Hammer in the Twenty-First Century Chapter 11 The Reformation Myth Chapter 12 Freedom of Conscience v. Theocracy: The Rise of Deist Democracy Chapter 13 Interlude: A Word From Our Founders and Distinguished Guests Chapter 14 The Exploitation of Magical Thinking Chapter 15 Snake Oil and Sanctimony Chapter 16 The Emperor’s No Clothes Chapter 17 Pat Robertson’s Mug Shot Chapter 18 Criminal Faith Chapter 19 Education v. Indoctrination Chapter 20 Taboo Chapter 21 New Deism Paradigm Shift Selected Bibliography BOOK 2 Natural God Deism in the Age of Intelligent Design: A Deconstruction of Atheism and Religious Fundamentalism PART I Deism Nouveau Chapter 1 New Deism: The Golden Mean Chapter 2 Deist Democracy: The Higher Ground Chapter 3 Transcending the “Historical Jesus” Meme PART II The Intelligent Design Shuffle Chapter 4 The Origin and Evolution of Charles Darwin Chapter 5 Darwin’s Descent Chapter 6 Calculated Construction: The Science of Intelligent Design Chapter 7 Neo-Darwinism on Steroids Chapter 8 The Tinkering Watchmaker: The Deology of Intelligent Design PART III Slouching Towards Deism Chapter 9 Hogtied Chapter 10 Logos Lost Chapter 11 Soror Mystica Chapter 12 Aesthetic Transfiguration Chapter 13 The Big Other: Sex, Diversity, and the Meaning of Life Selected Bibliography

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