WHY DO RELIGIONS INSPIRE BOTH FEAR & LOVE, WAR & PEACE, GOOD & EVIL? This Book's Answers will Surprise & Challenge.

WILMINGTON DE. APRIL 2 2002 "If you grew up with fear of God, you are not alone. Millions of adults exposed as children to Biblical tales of death, disaster and destruction still experience anxiety, insecurity and fear of the Almighty generated by well meaning preachers, parents and adults as they instilled respect for the Almighty."

This is the opinion of educator and author Celia M. Murray Dunn.

Fear of God and the troubling effects it has on the young is only one of the many topics examined in this provocatively written yet inspiring new book "Religion that Harms, Religion that Heals: Celebrating the Power of the Human Spirit."

Other topics include why religions sometimes harm although they teach love and the ways we unwittingly remove a child's natural honesty, creativity and courage, replace these with social correctness thus leaving our young ones vulnerable and unprepared for life's many challenges.

Perplexed by her own attempts as a child to resolve the religious teachings which "affirmed God's goodness, yet constantly reminded us of His anger and punishment in the days of old," Murray Dunn,(who has also observed the effects of spiritual loss during 13 years of educating both children with special needs and the gifted)
remembers clearly her own loss resulting from the suggestion that the cruelty as biblically recorded might also be love.

"Cruelty parading as love," declares Religion that Harms, Religion that Heals: Celebrating the Power of the Human Spirit, "was, and still
is religion's method of keeping its followers in line..." "Without a God behaving like a monster, organized religions would have no power."

"If God were to be all loving and forgive all wrongs without punishment. . . then the church would be caught in a quandary." Who would
punish wrongdoers? So, in spite of claiming to follow Jesus' unconditional love and forgiveness, "our religion is, in fact, quite satisfied with a God who behaves exactly as we do."

Reminding us that organized religion has a history of punishing people who think, as in the examples of Galileo and Darwin, and challenging
us to ignore the many restrictions placed against expressing our spiritual heritage, this controversial book inspires us to rise up and reclaim the lost gifts of love, forgiveness, mercy and intelligence given at birth.

"Religion that Harms, Religion that Heals: Celebrating the Power of the Human Spirit" is a powerful reminder of hope, healing and comfort
written by someone whose own journey began with deep spiritual loss and ended in the discovery of the magnificence of the human spirit.

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