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World Turned Upside Down : The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power by Melanie Phillips (2011, Trade Paperback)
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Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories: AIDS was created in a CIA laboratory, Princess Diana was assassinated, and the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.
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PublisherEncounter Books
ISBN-101594035741
ISBN-139781594035746
eBay Product ID (ePID)102877083
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Book TitleWorld Turned Upside Down : the Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power
Number of Pages512 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2011
TopicReligion, Politics & State
GenreReligion
AuthorMelanie Phillips
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight0 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal201/.72
SynopsisIn what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. An astonishing number of people subscribe to celebrity endorsed cults, Mayan armageddon prophecies, scientism, and other varieties of new age, anti-enlightenment philosophies. Millions more advance popular conspiracy theories: AIDS was created in a CIA laboratory, Princess Diana was assassinated, and the 9/11 attacks were an inside job. In The World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this explosion of irrationality is the slow but steady marginalization of religion. We tell ourselves that faith and reason are incompatible, but the opposite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible, Phillips asserts, that gave us our concepts of reason, progress, and an orderly world on which science and modernity are based. Without its religious traditions, the West has drifted into mass derangement where truth and lies, right and wrong, victim and aggressor are all turned upside down. Scientists skeptical of global warming are hounded from their posts, Israel is demonized, and the US is vilified over the war on terror--all on the basis of blatant falsehoods and obscene propaganda. Worst of all, asserts Phillips, this abandonment of rationality leaves the West vulnerable to its legitimate threats. Faced with the very real challenges of spiraling demographics and violent, confrontational Islamism, the West is no longer willing or able to defend the modernity and rationalism that it once brought into being.
LC Classification NumberBL65.S8P45 2011
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