Excerpts   The Motivation

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"If each religious group takes comfort in worshipping only one God, then humankind, as the larger group must also have one God." cover_quarter.jpg (6316 bytes)
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It is quite clear today that evolutionary scholars, theologians, and common people alike have yet to offer practical answers to the apparent escalating evil around the world.

This book shows that people can adopt ways of life that will reflect true human capacities. It unveils subtle hypocrisies undermining people’s established values, beliefs, and purpose, genuinely offering practical answers everyone can realistically apply.

To achieve new understanding, we must be willing to read messages without imposing our successes and failures onto them.  To arrive at new solutions, we must open ourselves to possibilities, to which our finite experience may not relate.

From our experience, some people equate so-called facts with truths. As vast information in the world conditions us to be selective, “Is it a fact?” has become the mechanism we use to make our selections. Casually, we dismiss everything else as fiction or opinions, and neglect to ask ourselves some important questions: 

Can such facts merely weather the test of time, or can they survive the consistency test? Are such facts supported by so-called evidence, or are they self-evident? Do they obscure realities, or do they illuminate to the truth?

“Is it a fact?” satisfies our credibility requirement, but falls short of answering another important question: Is credibility a measure of agreeability, popularity, or instancy? Are we more concerned with whether it agrees with what we want to hear, inducts us into a larger crowd, or promise us some “quick fix”?

Why is credibility not a measure of adherence to the truth?

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