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Love & War
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ISBN13: 9798652225490
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2020
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 8 2020
Pages: 102
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Do you know where you were on 9/11? Most people do. Ask about the Challenger, or the day Kennedy was shot, or the week the lockdowns began, and the answers come just as fast. A few moments get stored differently than the rest of a life.There is a widespread sense that another one of those moments is close. Nobody agrees on what it will be. Some point to the climate, some to artificial intelligence, some to a social fabric that will not stop tearing, and several billion people who identify as Christian or Muslim point to something older that they call the last days. Almost nobody agrees, and almost everybody feels it. Whether you read the world from the right or the left, as a believer or an atheist, that sense is hard to shake.Love & War is written for anyone who has felt it and wants the pieces to sit together.Running underneath the world's great religions is one long through-line, a conflict between love and selfishness that started before any of us arrived. Jared Thurmon retells that through-line as a story rather than as doctrine. He borrows names, terms and themes from many faiths, which often harmonize. It opens with a war in the cosmos and closes on a remade earth, moving in between through recorded history, through empires, and through the long human habit of fusing religion with government.The author describes it as science fiction meeting history. Ten chapters, written as Episodes, running from Coup d'eJah to Earth 2.0. It is short enough to read in one sitting.The book began as a ten-part filmed series, and it reads the way the author would tell you the whole thing over a long lunch.You may think you already know this story. Most people have only ever seen the middle of it, the way you might catch twenty minutes of a film and decide it made no sense. Start to finish is a different experience. Jared says plainly where he stands and then leaves the verdict to you.
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