How useful is traditional religion? Is it equipped to deal with many of our contemporary problems? Will anything that we've been taught ever be of use in daily life? These are just some of the problems in this new book that chronicles the battle between traditional religion and contemporary life.
J. David Rich addresses these questions as well as the nature of the relationship among religion, economics, government, and ethics, offering a short history of their respective developments to help facilitate discussion. He then offers his views on the current status of each and forecasts how they might effect our collective future. Rich attempts to defuse a number of contested issues, including abortion, drug use, privacy, liberty, the environment, and the basics of religion. Each issue is discussed in depth from the four principal perspectives of Myths of the Tribe. Rich concludes that religion, economics, government, and ethics are linked by three concepts: the encouragement and frustration of personal responsibility, not harming another person except in self-defence, and avoiding the control of adults who harm no one else. The practical result of Myths of the Tribe would be a more ethical society, the disappearance of superstition and religion, free and open markets, and the end of government.
J. David Rich is an Assistant Chief Counsel for the state of Arizona who enjoys writing and sailing.
296 pages
ISBN 0-87975-824-4
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