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Create Your Own Religion

A How-to Book without Instructions
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Create Your Own Religion by Daniele Bolelli is an invitation to critically evaluate the inherited values, beliefs, and worldviews that shape humanity's understanding of existence. Drawing on three thousand years of mythology and religious teachings, Bolelli explores the myths, misinformation, and prejudices embedded in traditional religions that hinder a peaceful, guilt-free life. The book encourages readers to retain useful insights while shedding outdated dogmas, ultimately inspiring individuals to develop personal, meaningful answers to life's fundamental questions.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in Religion & Spirituality who are open to questioning established doctrines and exploring personal spirituality. It suits those who appreciate philosophical inquiry and seek to create authentic belief systems rather than adopting inherited ones.

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Create Your Own Religion is a call to arms—an open invitation to question all the values, beliefs, and worldviews that humanity has so far held as sacred in order to find the answers we need to the very practical problems facing us. Writer, philosopher, and professor of comparative religion, Daniele Bolelli, leads the reader through three thousand years of mythology, misogyny, misinformation, and the flat-out lies about "revealed truth" that continue to muddle our ability to live a peaceful life, free of guilt and shame and the ultimate fear of death.

"Our worldviews are in desperate need of some housecleaning," says Bolelli. "We enter the 21st century still carrying on our backs the prejudices and ways of thinking of countless past generations. What worked for them may or may not still be of use, so it is our job to make sure to save the tools that can help us and let go of the dead weight."

In Create Your Own Religion, he examines a variety of answers pushed forth by many religions to address the key questions of human existence and, on the basis of this knowledge, he encourages us to come up with our own answers.

Irreverent and illuminating, Create Your Own Religion challenges readers to re-examine what it means to be human and bring a better way of life into existence.

"With a cheerful, good-natured smile, Daniele Bolelli torpedoes the often luxurious but spiritually leaky battleships that sail under the various flags of the world's organised religions" - Tom Robbins

"Daniele Bolelli is in the house. Minds will be blown. Lives will be changed" - Joe Rogan

"Bolelli's direct confrontation with dogma without giving an inch and without prescribing a new dogma is about as fresh as it gets. His brand of radically honest philosophy is the perfect cure to liberate our minds" - Mike Vallely

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781938875021

Publisher: Disinformation Company

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 30 April 2013

Country: United States

Imprint: Disinformation Company

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Daniele Bolelli is a writer, college professor and martial artist. He teaches at Santa Monica College and California State University, Long Beach and is the author of 50 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Religion. Born in Milan, his father, Franco Bolelli, is one of the most influential modern Italian philosophers.

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