Author Description

This book will hopefully be of interest to religious free thinkers and humanists. So, although the chapters are eclectic there is a strong religious humanist thread running through them. Some of them attempt to understand religious issues through the lenses of spiritual leaders. They discuss the beliefs and authentic lives of spiritual teachers such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the Buddha, Norbert Capek, Jesus Christ, Mahatma Gandhi and Albert Schweitzer. Other chapters ask challenging questions: Do we need a God? Is prayer effective? Should religion influence ethics and government? Is Christianity on the left or the right of politics? Can there be just wars? How could anti-Semitism have co-existed with established religion? Can religion move us from a meaningless existence to a meaningful life?