By M.P. Klinov
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Review & Description
The existence (or non-existence) of God is a hot topic at the moment, thanks to such new atheist writers as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens. M.P Klinov is not a new atheist, but he IS a Soviet ex-patriot. Having had religion denied him during his formative years, he is understandably curious about the role God and religion.
Says Klinov: "What they did not tell us in the USSR was that throughout the world, people who had religion chose to have it. I have since discovered that, not only do these people take the right to choose belief for granted, they may not think much about what it is they have chosen to believe."
Armed with curiosity about what drew people to religion, Klinov observed that much religious dogma was not so much about God, as it was about the desire of human beings to be protected in this world and the next. He began to research the roots of morality, selfishness, lust for power, and other subjects that bear on our ability (or lack thereof) to live in harmony and lasting peace.He found he'd opened a Pandora’s box of ideas about what makes the human being dependent on the God role. In his struggle to understand why people, while declaring their love of God, continually show their intolerance of his creatures, he drew upon the fields of physics, biology and other scientific disciplines to explore how the idea of God integrated (or failed to integrate) with scientific theory.
The result is THE GOD ROLE, which the author hopes to follow with a second volume further exploring human nature. Read more
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