Beschreibung:
What is the purpose of religion? What is the meaning of faith? What is the nature of God? These are basic questions that have been asked by human beings for thousands of years. But recently these questions have erupted into open battle between two opposing camps. One side argues that religion is inherently destructive, that faith is irrational, and that God is a relic of archaic civilizations and immature science. The other responds that there is one true religion, that faith is the commitment to this religion, and that God is described in its holy documents. Each camp seeks to prove why the other is at best wrong, and at worst dangerous. These extremist positions present either/or choices between faith and reason, religion and science, and have led to condemnation, demonization, and even a rejection of the very idea of finding common ground.