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In a groundbreaking historical work that addresses religious conversion in the West from an uncompromisingly secular perspective, Susan Jacoby challenges the conventional narrative of conversion as a purely spiritual journey. From the transformation on the road to Damascus of the Jew Saul into the Christian evangelist Paul to a twenty-first-century “religious marketplace†in which half of Americans have changed faiths at least once, nothing has been more important in the struggle for reason than the right to believe in the God of one’s choice or to reject belief in God altogether.  Focusing on the long, tense convergence of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—each claiming possession of absolute truth—Jacoby examines conversions within a social and economic framework that includes theocratic coercion (unto torture and death) and the more friendly persuasion of political advantage, economic opportunism, and interreligious marriage. Moving through time, continents, and cultures—the triumph of Christianity over paganism in late antiquity, the Spanish Inquisition, John Calvin’s dour theocracy, Southern plantations where African slaves had to accept their masters’ religion—the narrative is punctuated by portraits of individual converts embodying the sacred and profane. The cast includes Augustine of Hippo; John Donne; the German Jew Edith Stein, whose conversion to Catholicism did not save her from Auschwitz; boxing champion Muhammad Ali; and former President George W. Bush. The story also encompasses conversions to rigid secular ideologies, notably Stalinist Communism, with their own truth claims.  Finally, Jacoby offers a powerful case for religious choice as a product of the secular Enlightenment. In a forthright and unsettling conclusion linking the present with the most violent parts of the West’s religious past, she reminds us that in the absence of Enlightenment values, radical Islamists are persecuting Christians, many other Muslims, and atheists in ways that recall the worst of the Middle Ages.(With 8 pages of black-and-white illustrations.) The Skeptic's Dictionary Sample the Skeptic's Dictionary Lourdes In 1858 at a grotto by the river Gave near Lourdes France a 14-year-old peasant named Bernadette Soubirous claimed that Augustines Confessions and the Harmony of Faith and Does it really? If you dig into the disagreements in religion most of them are rooted in reason and not in faith A Pentecostal and a Presbyterian can both have faith History of Christianity - Wikipedia The history of Christianity concerns the Christian religion Christendom and the Church with its various denominations from the 1st century to the present Judaisms Strange Gods Real Jew News Judaisms Strange Gods Interviews Judaism Articles Talmud Articles Interview With Michael A Hoffman Pasternak: "Jews Must Become Christians!" Satanic Verses Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah - bibliotecapleyadesnet CHAPTER I CIVILIZATION Cities may burn floods may destroy pestilences may kill and wars may ravage yet a word may survive; the decrees of judges edicts of Islam - Wikipedia Islam is often seen as having the simplest doctrines of the major religions Its most fundamental concept is a rigorous monotheism called tawd (Arabic: The Bible And Christianity -- The Historical Origins The Bible is a lot of things to a lot of people but to Christians especially it is a source of inspiration and a guide to daily living To others the Bible is a Is Atheism a Religion? : Strange Notions There is a case to be made that in a very real sense atheism is a religion There's also a case to be made that the Queen of England is actually a seven foot lizard Secular Right A new Rasmussen poll highlights the divergence between left and right on perceptions of whos persecuted And just wow From the data one gets the impression that : conversion Product Features LED 2-3 Cell Maglite Conversion Kit 220 Lumens bright focused white
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