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Write a customer review. Read reviews that mention kimball religions religious truth god claims absolute blind faith means obedience charles holy christian war christianity major points islam become. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. The author is obviously a devout person, being a Baptist minister. Yet he is able to maintain a very objective view of other religions and religion in general.
He doesn't denigrate other religions or even atheists. He analyzes the dynamics of religion both in broad terms and as they apply to corrupted and evil off shoots. If you have an open mind this book can help explain much of what we see in the world today as well as in the past. I highly recommend it. Everyone concerned about destructive fanaticism manifesting itself in the world's major religions should read this important book, praised by Publisher's Weekly as "Top Religion Book of He loves all three of these faiths with a deep-rooted passion and is also an admirer of Buddhism and of Gandhi.
For years he has served the cause of cross-cultural understanding and human rights as speaker, writer and National Council of Churches diplomat. The book's primary theme is to find out why certain followers of religion enslave themselves to doctrine, and why they dehumanize, even demonize, those who follow other paths.
It begins with a head-on discussion of whether religion itself is the problem, concluding, as most of us would, that genuinely transcendent religious faith -- like Martin Luther King's and Gandhi's -- provides history's cutting edge for good, but that coerced religious practice is intrinsically evil. More than once he writes that "freedom from religion is a corollary to freedom of religion. In some ways this is a weak structure, since many of the topics and subtopics overlap, but sorting them into five broad areas aids the reader in focusing on important issues: Kimball's final chapter, on inclusive belief, is cautiously hopeful, and ends in a quote from the Qu'ran, Surah 5: Keep this impressive book on your shelf next to Eric Hoffer's classic on political fanaticism, The True Believer.
Kimball did a good job with this book. Of course due to the topic there is no way he could exhaust this material. Humans are inherently afraid. Afraid of the unknown. They crave, seek out religion and a deity to abate some fear. Kimball does a good job. Let us cut him slack on not getting it all down.
Yes, I agree all religions and individuals who follow,"their" god are not talking about the same deity. Religion was forced upon me. Thank God, pun intended, I lost my religion and stayed with my spirtuality. Dan Williams,author of, " Above His Shoulders. Kimball is a committed Christian; an ordained Baptist minister who teaches in a Divinity school.
Part of what he is committed to is the notion that religion should always be a force for good. In this book, Dr. Kimball discusses five recognizable symptoms of immanent or established corruption of religion, which can transform what was good into a force for evil.
When one or more of these symptoms appear, corruption is very likely to follow. By recognizing these symptoms, people of good will may be able to take corrective action in time to prevent their religious institutions from turning bad, or, failing that, to turn them back around. The five symptoms are: Especially dangerous are claims to be the "Only True Religion," non-members of which are to be consigned to Hell, and the multiplicity of such claims makes it a certainty that most or all of them are false. Kimball has "always been puzzled and saddened by people who make clear that they couldn't be very happy in heaven unless hell was full to overflowing with people who disagree with their particular theology.