Recent events have placed the Middle East and its dominant religion, Islam, at the epicenter of geo political concern. This is a book about the religious origins of the violent clash between Western and Muslim societal values. It places before Muslims, as well as Jews and Christians, questions calling for immediate answers; questions that because of political/religious correctness are not being addressed in the general discourse. It is also a book that maps a road out of this internecine morass.
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"My Jewish friend and I were talking about a mutual friend who had just been taken to the hospital. He had suffered a severe seizure and was close to death. This friend of ours was a former Roman Catholic and an outspoken atheist. My Jewish friend paused for a moment and then said to me: My son lives in Jerusalem. I would like to have him put a prayer for our friend in the Temple Wall. I was taken back. After all; the Temple Wall is the most sacred spot in Jewish religious and national consciousness. His offer clearly was a hand extended out of true compassion across a wide bridge between his religious tradition and mine and then to an unbeliever who time and again had, in our conversations with him, repudiated belief in any form of God.
Later, when I thought more about this heart felt expression of genuine concern, I said to myself: is one prayer for only one person enough? Shouldn't there be other prayers? What about the thousands who have suffered in the past and are suffering today as a result of the absolutist religious certainties that have grown out of our common Hebraic foundation? And, as for the history of Wall itself, don't we now see eerie parallels between 70 C.E. when...."
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The author brings together in this book a wide range of his professional interests; theology, philosophy, geopolitics and history. For over forty years as an international risk manager in several of America's premier institutions, he became aware of the role of religious belief as a major underlying force driving the geopolitical decision making process. In this book he discusses the origins and interconnection of Jewish, Christian and Muslim belief, and how they have led to the world conflict we see today.
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In his three books, the author brings together a wide range of professional interests, namely; theology, philosophy, geo politics and history. For over forty years, as an international risk manager in several of America's largest institutions, he studied the underlying forces driving the geopolitical decision making process. In his books he discusses the origins and interconnection of Jewish, Christian and Muslim beliefs and how these beliefs are now drivng the geo political process.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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Thought provoking,
This review is from: The Infidels (Paperback)
David Anderson provides a healthy debate about the basic pillars of the three main religions. In this book he questions the validity of following the often dogmatic ideologies which have sprung up to support the religions of today. I feel that the gist of his argument is the polarisation of todays religious debate does not futher the interests of mankind and the world as a whole.
I would recomend this book to people who are willing to challenge their own ingrained or inherent prejudices. The book has given me a great hope and feeling of a shared humanity; we have the capacity for great evil but in unity and strenght of will good can occur.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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A must read to understand source of terror,
This review is from: The Infidels (Paperback)
The book tells how the Hebrew teachings are the source of the Christain and Islam versions of violence. The author does a scholarly job of comparison of the three religions. A person with fundamental beliefs may not appreciate the condemnation of the my way is the only way to heaven by the author or that those beliefs are the source of religous based violence.
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