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GODLESS -- Living a Valuable Life Beyond Beliefs
Paperback
ISBN13: 9780692324813
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Oct 30 2014
Pages: 280
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.59 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Godless is not a wholesale attack on religion. It affirms the community-building, good works, and contemplative activities of religious organizations. It makes the case for a personal way of life guided by positive values and for communal organizations which should welcome rational, secular, humanist, agnostic, atheist, and spiritual understandings of reality. Godless describes communal worship which is uplifting but does not promote beliefs in irrational superstitions.
Godless synthesizes what Rasley has learned from his study of the Basa Rai in the Nepal Himalayas, from Quakers, and the American philosophy of Pragmatism. The book describes a values-based way of living derived from the author's cross-cultural experiences. It encourages a spiritual response of awe and gratitude for being alive and conscious in this wonderful shared world.
Other books by Jeff Rasley -
Bringing Progress to Paradise; What I Got from Giving to a Mountain Village in Nepal describes an astounding Himalayan adventure which becomes a critical reflection on the damage charitable giving can do to the intended beneficiaries.
The rest of the story of Basa Village, is told in Light in the Mountains - Namaste, Rakshi, and Electricity in a Himalayan Village and its prequel India - Nepal Himalayas In the Moment (an honest Three Cups of Tea).
To get out of the snow and mountains for adventures on water and islands, check out the lyrical Island Adventures.
For a change of pace curl up with False Prophet. It's a romantic mystery and inspirational tale based on a legal case Rasley handled in his 30-year Indianapolis law practice.
If you enjoy sports action, history, humor, romance, set during the cultural revolution of the 60s, check out MONSTERS OF THE MIDWAY 1969: Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll, Viet Nam, Civil Rights, and Football.
Pilgrimage: Sturgis to Wounded Knee and Back Home, a Memoir begins with a motorcycle road trip to the Bacchanalia of Sturgis Bike Week, then takes a detour to the massacre at Wounded Knee, and crosses the ocean to a remote village in the Himalayas. Reconciliation is found back home in Indiana.
Hero's Journey - John Ritter, the Chip Hilton of Goshen, Indiana; a Memoir is a meditation on what makes a real hero and a nostalgic reminiscence about childhood heroes.
Polarized in the Time of Trump mourns the unhealthy polarization of the US body politic and proposes a cure.
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