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IS GOD A TERRORIST?

In an age of terrorist outrages committed in the Name of God, peaceful religious believers recoil in horror from such a possibility. But if God is infinite whereas our minds are not, we cannot exclude it. Religious terrorists always claim they are doing God’s Will when they kill and maim their victims.

For dogmatic atheists the issue is how to discredit belief in God. An invented God that is a violent tyrant serves their agenda only too well.

In this highly readable book the author takes a very different view. Terrorism is not the exclusive preserve of religious extremists – neither are intolerance, hostility, and violence. He argues that the current state of our religious and secular cultures has its origins in the values and social ethics of the archaic warrior-hero culture described in Homer’s epic poems Iliad and Odyssey. Like predatory beasts, intolerance, hostility, and violence have stalked human society since ancient times.

If you want to know how, and why, religious terrorists kill and maim – and what we could be doing about it – then you should read this book.