Churches throughout the world's developed nations are losing
members in droves. As a result, parishes are downsizing or
consolidating to remain intact-- in many cases to just survive.
There must be a reason, and this author opines that antiquated
Church doctrines are no longer relevant to 21st century minds. If
religions are to remain viable entities in our rapidly accelerating
world, they must be willing to re-examine their outdated doctrinal
systems to better resonate with an educated populace. Primitive man
created his gods and goddesses-and fi nally "God"-- in his own
image, believing that these entities manipulated the forces of
nature that were beyond his own ability to control. In doing so, he
imbued his divine creations with his own best-and worst-attributes
because they were what he witnessed around, and about, himself. His
gods, like their mythological counterparts, were often powerful,
tyrannical and self-aggrandizing beings, demanding praise, worship
and blood sacrifi ce; gods who would wrathfully smite those who
would not bow down in worship to them. But that was then, and this
is now. Instead of rigid religious rules and antiquated beliefs,
our psyches crave an inner directed experience of the Divine from
which we can derive a sense of value, purpose and meaning for the
lives we live. This book hopes to sound a wake-up call to the
world's major religions before they fi nd themselves placed on
dusty library shelves, among other "quaint and curious volumes of
forgotten lore." i Unless this reconstruction can happen, religion,
as it has existed for millennia, cannot help but wither and die.
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