Christianity's Dangerous Idea
How the Christian Principle & Spirit Offer the Best Explanation for Life & Why Other Alternatives Fail: Volume One
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False claims and fallacies about Christianity --and the Bible, the book upon which it is built --abound for reasons that are subtle, myriad, lucrative, and even destructive. One of the many reasons these fallacies and claims have an enduring power among intellectuals in particular is that those reasons seemingly negate Divine authority in academia, in the media, and in the minds of many.
According to famous Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin, intellectuals hold anti-God ideas regarding issues like creation and evolution not because such viewpoints have any intellectual or logical power, but because they make those who hold them feel good about themselves and prove that God must not have any intellectual bearing on their lives. In other words, skeptics believe to even acknowledge that God might be a possible cause for the creation of the world is an unpardonable sin --and those who commit such a transgression have no place in the academic world and must be excommunicated. To maintain their own personal equilibrium, academics must portray the idea of God as foolish, and those who argue in favor of His existence as unenlightened or even crazy. The idea of God cannot be true, but must instead be a virus or mere wish fulfillment. Otherwise they are accountable for their actions and choices to a higher power.
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Today many in Hollywood and the media have declared open warfare on the family, education, and Christianity in general. Intellectuals have labeled religion, particularly Christianity, as mere wish fulfillment or a virus of the mind, something to be eradicated at all costs. In Christianity’s Dangerous Idea, Jonas Alexis picks up where he left off in his previous books and continues to examine the ideological fallacies that have been fabricated in order to attack Christianity and the people who promote those fallacies. This latest book is a tour de force of rigorous logic and testable evidence for the Christian worldview from history, science, experience, common sense, and final destiny. More importantly, Alexis subjects the rivals of Christianity to the same rigorous testing. Christianity’s Dangerous Idea clearly demonstrates the destructive nature of popular atheistic and anti-Christian philosophies, spread throughout Western culture by such famous people as Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, David Cronenberg, Steven Spielberg, Alan Moore, William S. Burroughs, Philip K. Dick, Bruce Lee, Ayn Rand, Bart D. Ehrman, Richard Dawkins, and many more. In a scholarly yet readable fashion, Alexis shows that what the ancient Greeks often referred to as “the cult of Dionysus” has become mainstream in our modern age.
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Jonas E. Alexis has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s degree in education. He is the author of In the Name of Education and In the Name of Knowledge and Wisdom, and is now researching and teaching abroad.