When Religion Becomes Evil Five Warning Signs (plus) [Paperback]

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition, leading religion and Middle East expert Charles Kimball shows how all religious traditions are susceptible to these basic corruptions and why only authentic faith can prevent such evil.

The Five Warning Signs of Corruption in Religion

1. Absolute Truth Claims
2. Blind Obedience
3. Establishing the Ideal Time
4. The End Justifies Any Means
5. Declaring Holy War

A wise, perceptive, and fair assessment ... Just the book for todays and tomorrows journey of faith.A bold, powerful, truth-telling analysis of the ways in which religions can become destructive.Effectively confronts, analyzes and explores the maddeningly diffuse forms of religious impulse...Charles Kimball has uttered a cry that resonates like a fire bell in the night. I cannot imagine a more timely or insightful book for the time in which we live.Dr. Kimball writes insightfully and prophetically... The book will inform and stimulate...Required reading for all who would understand the age in which we live.There are few people as uniquely equipped to speak to our need for understanding world religions and faith.Exactly the book that is needed right now.....Clear, passionate, and full of wisdom...A powerful and even-handed moral analysis of the abuses that are found in all major religious traditions.A great deal of insight ....Kimballs clear and steady voice provides a helpful guide...As long as there are writers as relentlessly honest as Kimball, there will always be ground for hope...[R]eadable, well researched, well written and compelling.Extremely informative, well written, and timely. Highly recommended.Well-reasoned and focused.Kimball...displays a fair hand in assessing how the worlds leading religions can be used for both good and evil.[T]imely and persuasive . . . . deserves to be widely read.[A] thought-provoking analysis.Kimball is well suited tol-