Freedom from Religion in 30 Days: A REAL Wellness Approach to Critical Thinking, Exuberance and Personal Freedoms

WHY IT MATTERS Freedom From Religion (FFR) is about breaking away from the false claims and destructive effects of religion. It's also about the positive nature of a REAL wellness way to think more critically, live more exuberantly and enjoy more personal liberties. A large number of freedoms are available for the taking, once mental constraints of creeds and dogmas are eliminated. This book promotes three goals from beginning to end: 1. Science-based critical thinking, using reason to guide important decisions. Few decisions are as important as what you believe about religions, especially the one in which you were indoctrinated. 2. Happiness, joy, fun, adventure, meaning and purpose in life. These are the key elements in the REAL wellness dimension of exuberance. 3. Freedom to live the kind of life you desire. This is the dimension of liberty. While personal freedoms are affected by government forms (secular democracies, autocracies or theocracies) and other factors, a wide range of personal freedoms are present for the taking. REAL WELLNESS IS DIFFERENT I have no concerns about benign Christianity. I am not an evangelist for freethinking. I would not stand on a street corner holding aloft a sign reading, Don't Repent--Reflect, or shouting the praises of Sam Harris, Annie Laurie Gaylor or other influential secularists I want everyone to follow. I certainly can't imagine going on a mission to Haiti or anywhere else to save souls for reason, nor would I knock on doors to ask people if they've read the good book (e.g., High Level Wellness: An Alternative to Doctors, Drugs and Disease), or to offer a free copy of the Freedom From Religion Foundation's monthly newsletter Freethought Today. I'm not a missionary. I believe what Robert Green Ingersoll resolved to do in his speech, The Improved Man (1890): To give to all others the rights one claims for himself. All 30 essays address some aspect of religion as it affects mental freedoms and thus your values, commitments, beliefs, behaviors and ultimately quality of life and wellbeing. The format is inspired by Wilfred Funk's 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary. Within the 30 essays are four self-evaluations focused upon reason, exuberance, personal liberties and management of stress. Over 30 topics are covered in the essays, though religion is a theme throughout. The topics, besides religion in general and Christianity in particular, include politics, heroic freethinkers, mountebanks, dubious and needed holidays, ethics, prayers, play, commandments, parenting, happiness, sexuality, doubt, aging and death. In addition to informing and entertaining, FFR advances skills and awareness needed to slow the frightful trends that threaten our national interests. THE PRISON OF BELIEF Christianity really does poison everything, believing and following it truly is delusional and absurd, and its tenets actually are as ridiculous as Voltaire suggested. Although Christianity no longer has the power it wielded in the Middle Ages, and thus no longer engages in atrocities, such as the Inquisition's auto de fé carnival-like public executions of heretics, it has another insidious liability--it imprisons the brains of adherents. James Haught put it this way: When people accept supernatural claims of a religion, their lives are altered. They commit themselves to belief in miracles, prophecies and similar magic, which orients their view of reality. It confines them—hindering their ability to consider other possibilities. This narrowed lifestyle can be called 'the prison of belief.' This book will delight you if you're no longer willing to go along with pablum babble in ritual blather, such as In God we trust, so help me God or God bless America.
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Author/Artist:Ardell, Donald B.
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