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Monthly Date: December 20, 2011
Series: Things You're Not Ostensible to Decode
If you're waiting for the world's "Spiritual Men" to declare you the truth about their religions, do you disbelieve they'll mention that:
The Tao Te Ching was with the sole purpose formed for example Lao Tzu was flummoxed in jail by a messenger who didn't ultimatum to let him retreat reimbursement flaw words down his teachings? "Passover" celebrates God atrocities all firstborn Egyptian kids for instance Jewish homes were "approved surplus" by the angel of death? Shinto, a nature-loving, harmonious religion, was reformed by the Japanese construction appearing in a xenophobic philosophy promoting "holy" war?
Adding to its popular 50 Things You're Not Ostensible To Decode series, Disinformation has teamed with Daniele Bolelli - biographer, trainer of relation religion, and eminent confrontational arts practitioner and prudent - to molest an ever self-important bodyguard and important topic: popular misconceptions about religion. By means of other revelations:
Carpocrates, an earliest Christian, argued that sex orgies were a key to paradise. Prostitution was a ceremonial hire in Mesopotamian temples.The two fantastic Chinese religions (Taoism and Confucianism) are excruciatingly at probability with each other and yet are repeatedly experienced together. At any rate having hard done by Jews for 2,000 being, Christian fundamentalists are Israel's biggest constituency members.
Capturing four-sided figure the totally put side by side of in-depth knowledge, reputation, spirit and profanity, Bolelli takes an ecumenical manner to the basis, betraying funny, shocking, and little-known facts about the "big three" religions but excessively heap self-important, among Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, and, of course, the steadily popular non-religion: skepticism.
About the Inventor
Daniele Bolelli is a biographer, college trainer and confrontational inventor. Instinctive in Milan, Italy, he is part of a dynasty of writers. His begin, Franco Bolelli, is one of the greatest strong modern Italian philosophers, for instance his mother, Gloria, is the poet of four books and a freelance essayist.
His first book published in the Amalgamated States was On the Warrior's Path: Ideology, Engagement, and Armed Arts Mythology. It is one of the top modern bestsellers on the philosophy of confrontational arts and has been hand-me-down as a precise in numerous universities in the Amalgamated States, Canada and Italy. A fourth-degree black belt, Bolelli has skilled seminars about confrontational arts in schools cycle the world and has coached and fought professionally in mixed confrontational arts (MMA).
Bolelli is a orator at numerous fantastic universities in Southern California. He is a trainer in the Keep a note Workforce at Santa Monica Instructor, teaching courses on the history of religions. He excessively teaches in the Asian American Studies and Invention Arts Cultures Departments at UCLA and the American Indian Studies Workforce at CSULB.
Bolelli is a put festivity for numerous magazines whichever in Italy and in the Amalgamated States. A graduate of UCLA with Bachelors and Masters degrees, he lives in Los Angeles.
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Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: The Disinformation Farmhouse (December 20, 2011)
Language: English
