Warpaint Of The Gods Essential Thinking For The New Millennium

An incredibly powerful message of the underlying unity of all world religions, this book aims to introduce a voice of reason to the paradox of religious bloodshed that pervades the world today. It undertakes a ruthless examination of religion's role in the brutal internecine conflict that has ruled the Earth, and concludes that human beings are so preoccupied with their own ethnocentricity (religious and ethnic) that they are blind to the horrors they are inflicting on one another. Equally important, this blinkered view of humanity has prevented us seeing the real picture-that life exists not only on the microscopic speck of cosmic dust we call Earth, but in the distant realms of the Universe, too. This vast celestial ocean renders our genocidal affinities all the more ridiculous, because we are perpetrating them in the name of the very God who created the Universe. The author says that in spite of our relatively "advanced" stage of civilization and our attempts to convince ourselves we have risen above the age of savagery, we remain in the bloodbath, tirelessly murdering our fellow man. "Is it not time to awaken and wash away this incendiary religious war-paint that spurs us to these ceaseless, ever-mounting cycles of destruction?" he asks. "Is it not time we shed our partisan liturgical incantations and begin the quiet inward journey to find harmony and oneness with the Divine universal Force, the 'Deathless Reality', that dwells within all sentient beings?" Warpaint of the Gods is no ordinary publication-it's been rated as "brilliant" and in the genre of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet-and is bound to cause considerable discomfort to those who believe religions have been innocent bystanders to the carnage that has threatened the very existence of mankind. Given the wars ravaging our planet "in the name of God", the message of this book could not come at a more appropriate or pressing time. The book has received some excellent reviews, and its message of peace has been likened to those of some of the great peacemakers of our time, including Mahatma Gandhi, Thich Nhat Hanh and Martin Luther King. Whatever your religious affiliation, this is one book that could profoundly change your view of life.Warpaint Of The Gods Essential Thinking For The New Millennium, was published 2005 under ISBN 9780976260608 and ISBN 0976260603.