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In his hard-hitting new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible, author Robert J. Hutchinson reveals how the Bible triggered a revolution in human thought and later established Western civilization's moral and philosophical foundation. He demonstrates how the ideas embedded in the ancient Biblical texts (such as the notion of inanimate matter guided by fixed laws) provided the intellectual basis for the development of empirical science... and argues that much-maligned Biblical laws actually paved the way for the development of democracy, limited government and the recognition of universal human rights.
The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible shows that the enemies of the Bible are all-too-often, despite their claims to the contrary, the enemies of reason and tolerance.
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The Bible was once regarded as the "Good Book." But today it's under relentless attack from liberal skeptics eager to justify their own political agendas. The late pundit Christopher Hitchens, author Sam Harris, British academic Richard Dawkins and other widely celebrated writers warn the world about the growing menace of religion in the public square. Plus, the Jesus Seminar and documentaries such as The Bible Unearthed claim to demonstrate that little or nothing the Bible says happened really happened anyway. Even pop culture has gotten into the act, with the TV dramas such as The West Wing and the popular magicians Penn and Teller featuring much-ballyhooed "debunkings" of the truth of the Bible.
But now, in The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible, writer Robert J. Hutchinson sets the record straight. Hutchinson sifts through archaeological and historical evidence to show that the Bible -- both the Old and the New Testaments -- is on solid ground as history, as a guide to morality and ethics, and as the creative force behind western civilization. In The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible, you discover:
- How modern archaeology supports, rather than undermines, the historical reliability of both Old and New Testaments...
- How the so-called "inconsistencies" in the four canonical Gospels actually testify to their authenticity...
- Why the ethical codes of the Old Testament were unique for their time -- and why that matters for life today...
- How there were few voices in the ancient world that discerned any distinction between what was legal and what was moral or right -- aside from the biblical prophets...
- How Biblical religion is not the enemy of science -- but actually made modern empirical science possible (which is why it developed only at one time and in one place in history, among millions of pious, church-going Christians in late medieval Europe)...
- Why, despite what liberal theologians and popular novelists will tell you, Christians always regarded Jesus as divine...
- Why you have to have a real ax to grind to think that the Old Testament takes a benign view of slavery -- and how the campaign to abolish slavery in Europe was led by devout evangelical Anglicans and a dozen popes...
- How critics of the Bible often mistake descriptions of actual human conduct for God's will...
- How by far the greatest slaughters in human history have been inflicted by "rationalists" and "atheists" -- often in the name of riding the world of "superstitious" Judaism or Christianity
- How the Bible laid the ground work for modern democracy...
- And much more!
About the Author
Robert J. Hutchinson is an award-winning writer and author who studied philosophy as an undergraduate, moved to Israel to learn Hebrew, and earned a graduate degree in New Testament. He writes frequently on the intersection of religion and popular culture. He lives in a small beach town on the west coast of the United States with his wife and children.
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- PublisherRegnery
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 1596985208
- ISBN 13 9781596985209
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages262
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