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The Laughing Jesus : Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom by Freke, Timothy;Jesus Christus.;Gandy, Peter is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Laughing Jesus : Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom about?
Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, authors of The Jesus Mysteries and Jesus and the Lost Goddess, return with a powerful indictment of Jewish, Christian, and Islamic fundamentalism and a passionate reinterpretation of Gnostic spirituality. According to Freke and Gandy, religiously inspired acts of violence, such as the attacks on 9/11, are nothing new. They are the continuation of a long and bloody history of brutality caused by mistaking bizarre old books for the Word of God. The time has come to end religious intolerance and wake up to oneness by rediscovering the Gnostic way of transforming oneself and the world. Freke and Gandy's Incendiary New Book Is a Wake-Up Call to the World What if the Old Testament is a work of fiction, Jesus never existed, and Muhammad was a mobster' What if the Bible and the Qur'an are works of political propaganda created by Taliban-like fundamentalists to justify the sort of religious violence we are witnessing in the world today' What if there is a big idea that could free us from the us-versus-them world created by religion and make it possible for us to truly love our neighbors'and even our enemies' What if it is possible to awaken to a profound state
Who reads The Laughing Jesus : Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Freke, Timothy;Jesus Christus.;Gandy, Peter
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group;Harmony Books
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781400082780
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Self Help, Fiction, Christian
- Rating
- 3.94 / 5 (35 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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