| A wide-ranging work of philosophical and social commentary examining our metaphors for “God” in religion, literature, science, psychology, palaeontology, and government. The context for this examination is the author’s concise argument that the emerging scientific proofs in support of a pantheistic and holistic worldview are ultimately going to reconfigure the dominant metaphors for “God” favoured by Judeo-Christian-Islamic monotheism. |
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The End of Religion |
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The question posed by the book is this: “Do our metaphors for God serve us, or do we serve the metaphors, giving credence by our religious practice to the idea that the universe is fragmented rather than organically, subatomically, and consciously unified?”
The author’s objective is “to suggest the grounds upon which we may be able to arrive at new, truly pantheistic metaphors for God, metaphors that hold the potential to renovate religious thought (both Western and Eastern) in the interest of arriving at spiritual thinking consistent with our highest ideals as we have so often expressed them.” |
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Gaj on religion: “Each religion admits of pantheism to its own degree, but most also envisage such a grievous separation of ‘God’ from the individual as to justify every kind of violation of the logical consequence of pantheistic thinking: ‘Love each other.’” |