Bibliography: #BIB24791

web link	bahai-library.com/bibliography/BIB24791
reference type	Book
title	The Hereafter Business : Modern Day Witchcraft or Everlasting Life? : of interest to those, religious and non-religious, who are interested in the evidences of their belief
author	MacLennan, Howard Kenneth
year	2004
date	2004
publisher	iUniverse, Inc.
place published	New York, NY ; Lincoln, NE ; Shanghai
issue	10.
abstract	Using a trial format, the author pits science against religion. Religion generally loses the argument, but the author ends with Pascal's wager, which puts the weight on the side of the believer in God. The book is self-published and not very sophisticated in its handling of theological, philosophical and scientific argument. Historical understanding of the Bahá'í Faith is quite limited and many of the author's "facts" are incorrect. From the introduction: "Christianity, Judaism, Islam and the Bahá'í are all in the business of preparing man for the Hereafter. Each, through a revelation from God, claims to be his agent, and to have special powers in the operation of their business. Each claim that there is a personal God, who created the universe and man, and if man participates in the sacraments of their religion, he will achieve everlasting life. To evaluate these claims, the author uses the trial format, with the State charging monotheism with being guilty of violating the laws of advertising, by the use of witchcraft-crafty science and fortune telling, in the making of false claims and misleading statements about reality in the universe. The Prosecution provides the scientific evidence and the Defense the religious evidence. Each call witnesses and cross-examine each other’s witnesses, enabling the author to provide the best arguments on both sides of the issue, leaving the reader as the juror to decide which of the two presentations of evidence is the most logical and believable."
notes	Bahá'í Faith: pp. xi, xiii, xiv, xvii, xx, 3, 11, 15, 78, 79, 114, 128, 165, 167, 176, 183, 202-203.
language	English
keywords	MONOTHEISM; SCIENCE; PROOF; EVIDENCE; RELIGION; HUMANISM
number of pages	xxi, 224

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