There is a euphemism often used in the Judeo-Christian world to refer to certain parts of the bible. In this book, I put God on trial for crimes against all of humanity. So, I first needed to set psychology free. When I was in the seminary in the s, psychology was included in the philosophy department. In fact, philosophy—the love of wisdom— had several branches; among them were ontology the study of the nature of reality , epistemology the study of how we know what we know , ethics the study of moral behavior , and cosmology the study of the universe—physical and metaphysical.
So, before we can set psychology free, we first need to spend some time looking at epistemology, and cosmology. Imagine trying to collect all of the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle that have been scattered throughout the house by a three-year-old child. To make matters worse, the dog has chewed up a corn flakes box, and now pieces of it are in the mix. Some faculty of yours has to be able to tell the corn flakes box pieces from the genuine jigsaw-puzzle pieces. Then comes cosmology, which is the part of you that figures out how the real puzzle pieces go together.
The process involves three main questions:. How do we know what we know? How do we decide what is true? How do we organize what we know into a philosophy of life? With this framework in place, I created a courtroom scene to bring Yahweh to trial for crimes against humanity. The prosecution called three expert witnesses and the defense called four expert witnesses.
In the next four blogs I will cover the four parts of this new book, namely:. Today — August 18, - is an anniversary of sorts. For twelve very stressful days, I wondered if I would have a home to go back to. The smoke was so dense that not even the Fire Department of Geyserville could tell me if it had survived.
When I finally returned everything, in front of my house, and behind it — including my propane tank — and on both sides was destroyed, but my house was in pristine condition.
