Summary of Timothy Keller's The Reason for God

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#1 Religion can be a major barrier to world peace. It can create a slippery slope in the heart, and lead to the marginalization of others or even active oppression, abuse, or violence against them.

#2 There have been several attempts to control or even ban religion in the twentieth century. Soviet Russia, Communist China, the Khmer Rouge, and Nazi Germany were all determined to tightly control religious practice in an attempt to stop it from dividing society or eroding the power of the state.

#3 The secularization thesis is now largely discredited. Religions are not just a temporary thing that helped us adapt to our environment; they are a permanent and central aspect of the human condition.

#4 The second strategy is to try to socially discourage religions that make claims of having the truth. We could encourage our citizens, regardless of their religious beliefs, to admit that each religion is just one of many equally valid paths to God and ways to live in the world.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822541863

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Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Religion can be a major barrier to world peace. It can create a slippery slope in the heart, and lead to the marginalization of others or even active oppression, abuse, or violence against them.

#2

There have been several attempts to control or even ban religion in the twentieth century. Soviet Russia, Communist China, the Khmer Rouge, and Nazi Germany were all determined to tightly control religious practice in an attempt to stop it from dividing society or eroding the power of the state.

#3

The secularization thesis is now largely discredited. Religions are not just a temporary thing that helped us adapt to our environment; they are a permanent and central aspect of the human condition.

#4

The second strategy is to try to socially discourage religions that make claims of having the truth. We could encourage our citizens, regardless of their religious beliefs, to admit that each religion is just one of many equally valid paths to God and ways to live in the world.

#5

The idea that there are inferior religions is so common that it has become a stereotype. However, most people don’t realize that splinter sects like Judaism, Islam, Christianity, and Hinduism believe in the same God, but have different beliefs about his nature.

#6

The religions of the world each have a grasp on part of the truth about spiritual reality, but none can see the whole elephant or claim to have a comprehensive vision of the truth.

#7

The assumption that all religions are equally true is a product of social conditioning. We like to think that we think for ourselves, but it is not that simple. We think like the people we most admire and need.

#8

The flaw in this approach to religion is that it assumes that any exclusive claims to a superior knowledge of spiritual reality cannot be true. But this objection is itself a religious belief. It assumes God is