Former prosecutor will release his book that undermines religion's claims of any just god. Analyzing myths, the Bible, the Koran and Anglo-American law, Geoff J. Henley in Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: A Lawyer's Case for Disbelief in God writes a devastating critique of scripture and organized religion through the lens of the common law. The books novel analysis will spread the current debate regarding God and atheism into whole new arenas.
Dallas, TX (PRWEB) May 14, 2008 --A Texas Lawyer echoes Albert Einstein's remarks that the Bible is childish in his upcoming book.
Just as 9/11 has raised questions about Islam and how science has challenged Creationism, Geoff J. Henley explains in Beyond Reasonable Doubt: A Lawyer's Case for Disbelief in God the how common legal principles show no just God exists.
"This book shows that just as scientists in white lab coats through countless experiments have explained our existence better than scripture, so have common law judges through trial and error over the centuries discovered principles of justice that are superior to those ascribed to God," says Henley.
The Dallas-based litigator analyzes the Bible and the Koran on everything from creation to damnation. In often funny accounts of creation myths from sources as different as Genesis, Apache Indians and Ancient Egyptians, the former district attorney illustrates that every culture's creation myths to explain natural origins are no different than a criminal's desperate alibi to explain his predicament.
Henley argues throughout the work that differences in religious views inevitably lead to tragic, expensive and embarrassing sectarian divides, whether it is Jews and Arabs, Sunnis and Shiites or clergy like minister John Hagee who has been criticized for labeling the Roman Catholic Church an apostate 'whore' of Christianity.
Henley describes how gods condemn humanity based on our existence alone, but then demand fealty to obtain forgiveness for fictitious crimes. In Chapter 26, he explains that faith is a "contract of adhesion"--like the one-sided agreements that corporations force upon consumers in everything from bank loans to car purchases--that give humanity no choice, but to pay homage or burn in Hell.
"It's Yahweh, or the highway," Henley explains.
The former prosecutor shows that greedy evangelists, abusive polygamists and Catholic pedophilic priests are no different than the Old Testament patriarchs and how leaders of all faiths manipulate natural occurrences for simple financial gain.
In this riveting work that covers everything from Genesis to Revelations, Henley relies on the law and biblical scholars, and shows among other things:
- That we do not have the "best evidence" of God's alleged revelations
- That the Gospels are unreliable hearsay
- That Christianity damns the mentally ill like President Reagan and Terri Schiavo
- That the Ten Commandments are brutal and borrowed
- That the Koran and the Bible have equally absurd creation myths
- That under Intelligent Design is "junk science" under Daubert v. Merrell Dow
In addition to the upcoming release of Beyond Reasonable Doubt, Henley has placed a number of videos on YouTube that discuss the book or build upon its themes of reason and common sense, and hope without faith.
Set to the music fo Wagner, some of the videos portray the tragedies of 9/11, the President Kennedy assassination and several natural disasters, like Hurricane Katrina, but the hope that follows from individual and community efforts.
Alluding to Voltaire in one video Myanmar + Lisbon + New Orleans=No God, Henley echoes the underlying argument the philosophe made in Candide that any just god could actually intervene in nature.
To see the videos, click these links:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVh5jl6rb7A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg-fTGFg4vg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fow5IhbgQEk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKKKNjbNm8s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTZsQpf0GHc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ZhmGkJ3-8
Beyond Reasonable Doubt will go on sale soon.
To interview the author or obtain advanced copies for review,
CONTACT:
Geoff J. Henley
2205 N. Henderson Avenue
Dallas, Texas 75206
P (214) 821-0222
F (214) 821-0124
www.henleylawpc.com
ghenley @ henleylawpc.com
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