Faith - Reason to Believe is a unique book seeking to restore faith in a power greater than ourselves, using logic and reason, rather than religious dogma. The author laments the decline in faith (especially Christian faith), where modern day acceptance of “anything goes” has been accompanied by a fall in moral standards, depression and despair; as well as threatening the survival of our western civilisation. The book explains how atheism is irrational and is just another religion. It is critical of relativism and environmentalism that have become part of the atheist dogma, in particular the current obsession with climate change. The author is also critical of religions that use fear-based tactics to maintain their followers and explains how one can determine truth from falsehood in religious teaching. The book connects the Eastern doctrine of karma with the Christian “Golden Rule” that we should treat others the way we would like to be treated and explains how all natural laws of morality can be derived from these moral anchors. The author explains how faith can give your life meaning, enable you to live a happier and more fulfilled life and may make you a better person.
Three children find a treasure map in their Grandpas shed and he tells them the story of how he came by it. It was from a time when he was a boy in the early 1960s. The story follows the adventures of seven children who are together over the summer holidays on a farm. While out fishing their boat is blown ashore onto a forbidden island. They meet a fascinating old man on the island who claims to be a survivor from an ancient civilisation that had discovered a youth potion that enabled him to live for thousands of years. He tells the children that they were all once citizens of this ancient land in previous lives and that they had been chosen to seek for certain moral truths about themselves. Once each child has discovered their own truth they would be able to find the treasure that existed on the island. The old man warns them that there is another survivor living on the island who is an evil wizard and strongly advises the children to avoid him. The story then follows the childrens quests for their moral truths which are encountered during the various adventures they have on the farm and in subsequent visits to the island. The adventures include horse riding, shooting, swimming, playing in an old haunted house and many other activities that country children engaged in before the age of television, computer games and smart phones. They encounter the evil wizard on a later visit to the island and become embroiled in a struggle of good versus evil.
In this final book of the freethinking trilogy Bill embarks on more travels and adventures as he seeks the “natural religion” or truth that is contained within the great religions of the world, hidden under piles of theological dogma. He confronts the “postmodern” atheist view that has become dominant in the West where political correctness favours environmental concerns over morality, faith and the value of humanity. The dogmas of the “atheist intellectuals” are exposed as just another religion. An equal challenge is issued to the religious fundamentalism promoting hatred and intolerance where each claims their religion is true and all others false that threatens our civilisation, our freedom and our very existence. The author also explains the error of relativism that assumes all religions are equal. The power of reason is used to discern the simple truths that have been taught over and again by the great teachers and sages of the past. Ultimately this book shows that our lives do indeed have meaning.
Follow Bill's adventures in forming a secret society that confronts modern science. This controversial book challenges mainstream theories on climate change, evolution, medicine, psychiatry, physics, geology, astronomy and archaeology.
Bill, a modern-day freethinker, confronts religious fundamentalism on the one hand and atheism on the other. This controversial book offers hope and possibly even faith to the world's thinkers.
Three children find a treasure map in their Grandpas shed and he tells them the story of how he came by it. It was from a time when he was a boy in the early 1960s. The story follows the adventures of seven children who are together over the summer holidays on a farm. While out fishing their boat is blown ashore onto a forbidden island. They meet a fascinating old man on the island who claims to be a survivor from an ancient civilisation that had discovered a youth potion that enabled him to live for thousands of years. He tells the children that they were all once citizens of this ancient land in previous lives and that they had been chosen to seek for certain moral truths about themselves. Once each child has discovered their own truth they would be able to find the treasure that existed on the island. The old man warns them that there is another survivor living on the island who is an evil wizard and strongly advises the children to avoid him. The story then follows the childrens quests for their moral truths which are encountered during the various adventures they have on the farm and in subsequent visits to the island. The adventures include horse riding, shooting, swimming, playing in an old haunted house and many other activities that country children engaged in before the age of television, computer games and smart phones. They encounter the evil wizard on a later visit to the island and become embroiled in a struggle of good versus evil.
In this final book of the freethinking trilogy Bill embarks on more travels and adventures as he seeks the “natural religion” or truth that is contained within the great religions of the world, hidden under piles of theological dogma. He confronts the “postmodern” atheist view that has become dominant in the West where political correctness favours environmental concerns over morality, faith and the value of humanity. The dogmas of the “atheist intellectuals” are exposed as just another religion. An equal challenge is issued to the religious fundamentalism promoting hatred and intolerance where each claims their religion is true and all others false that threatens our civilisation, our freedom and our very existence. The author also explains the error of relativism that assumes all religions are equal. The power of reason is used to discern the simple truths that have been taught over and again by the great teachers and sages of the past. Ultimately this book shows that our lives do indeed have meaning.
Faith - Reason to Believe is a unique book seeking to restore faith in a power greater than ourselves, using logic and reason, rather than religious dogma. The author laments the decline in faith (especially Christian faith), where modern day acceptance of “anything goes” has been accompanied by a fall in moral standards, depression and despair; as well as threatening the survival of our western civilisation. The book explains how atheism is irrational and is just another religion. It is critical of relativism and environmentalism that have become part of the atheist dogma, in particular the current obsession with climate change. The author is also critical of religions that use fear-based tactics to maintain their followers and explains how one can determine truth from falsehood in religious teaching. The book connects the Eastern doctrine of karma with the Christian “Golden Rule” that we should treat others the way we would like to be treated and explains how all natural laws of morality can be derived from these moral anchors. The author explains how faith can give your life meaning, enable you to live a happier and more fulfilled life and may make you a better person.
Writing from the view of a building technologist as well as and archaeologist, Tony Rook takes a practical approach in this introductory guide to the building types, techniques and methodology of the Romans.
Series blurb: The Ecology of Indonesia series explores one of the most biologically diverse areas of the world, incorporating current research from Western and Indonesian specialists. Each book describes in detail, Indonesia's fragile ecosystems, its unparalled biodiversity, its peoples andtheir use of natural resources, and the ecological problems which have resulted from rapid economic development.
University Challenge: Critical Issues for Teaching and Learning offers a nuanced and critical reading of university teaching, particularly the pressures under which academics in neoliberal, mass higher education must operate. It provides exciting thinking about slow pedagogies, powerful knowledge, the assessment arms race and the concept of vanilla teaching. Eight challenges currently encountered by those who teach in higher education are carefully examined. These include: teaching to meet all students’ needs; assessment and grading; learning to teach; and space and time in academic life. The research that underpins this work came from an international study and a conceptual re-evaluation of current practices, theories and the values of teaching and higher education. The author brings a rich understanding of university teaching as a critical and values-laden process, exploring important debates about the extent and limits of teachers’ and students’ responsibility in teaching and learning. The conceptual foundations provide a distinctive angle on some of the persistent problems which dog twenty-first-century academics working in marketised, mass higher education. This book will appeal to university teachers who wish to develop their work through scholarly enquiry and will be a resource to inform policy and management around teaching and curriculum.
This new book by an eminent legal scholar and author can be described in a number of ways: a work of reference; an essay in the study of style; a contribution to the prosopography of the late Roman quaestorship; and a reflection on the fall of the western (and on the survival of the eastern) Roman empire. Using an innovative method of analysis--already successfully employed in his acclaimed Emperors and Lawyers (OUP 1994)--the author examines the laws of a crucial phase of the later Roman empire (379-455 AD), a period during which the west collapsed while the east persisted. He allots the laws to their likely drafters and shows why the eastern Theodosian Code (429-438 AD), intended to restore the legal and administrative unity of the Roman empire, came too late to save the west. The book includes a Palingenesia--as stored on an accompanying floppy disk--allowing scholars to read the primary texts chronologically and judge the soundness of the arguments advanced.
This clear and comprehensive manual provides more information per square inch than any other guide available. With more than 3,500 items illustrated and defined, this unique work offers dealers, collectors, and interested amateurs a ready reference to a wide range of antiques. Drawings.
New Zealand is a great country for travelers--New Zealanders are friendly; getting around is a breeze; finding accommodations is easy and relatively inexpensive; the food is fresh and the wine is excellent. This practical guide will help travelers discover the very best that New Zealand has to offer. Color photos.
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