Spiritual Envy

Spiritual Envy
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As the host of one of National Public Radio’s most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life’s most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time. Now he brings his wide-ranging knowledge and perceptive intelligence to a thoughtful and thought-provoking exploration of belief; and lack of belief.
Many books and pundits advocate for a specific God, while others adamantly declare there is no God. Yet these strident viewpoints often speak right past each other, rarely convincing anyone but the already convinced. In – Spiritual Envy – Krasny helps believers and nonbelievers alike understand their own questions about faith and religion, about God and human responsibility.
Krasny challenges each of us to look closely at faith and its power, and to examine the positive and negative aspects of religion as expressed in culture, literature, and human relationships. Personal and universal, timely and timeless, this is a deeply wise yet warmly welcoming conversation, an invitation to ask one’s own questions; no matter how inconclusive the answers.

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Michael Krasny. Spiritual Envy

MORE PRAISE FOR SPIRITUAL ENVY

MICHAEL. KRASNY. SPIRITUAL. ENVY. AN AGNOSTIC’S QUEST. Foreword by Joyce Carol Oates

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. MY GOD

Chapter 2. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND GOD’S EXISTENCE. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

Chapter 3. THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND A CODE OF ONE’S OWN

Chapter 4. WHERE IS GOD? More on Codes and God’s Place in Mine

Chapter 5. GOD’S IDENTITY

Chapter 6. THE UNIVERSE AND THE FACE OF GOD

Chapter 7. WHO ARE THE AGNOSTICS?

Chapter 8. THE FORCE THAT IS OR ISN’T, AND COINCIDENCES MINUS ANSWERS

Chapter 9. FROM NOWHERE TO SOMEWHERE. Spiritual Envy

Chapter 10. RESPECT FOR THE FAITHFUL, THE FAITHLESS, AND THE WISHY-WASHY

Chapter 11. ACCURSED TIME

Chapter 12. ESCAPING TIME

Chapter 13. DELIVER US FROM EVIL

Chapter 14. DOING GOOD

Chapter 15. COSMIC JOKING

Chapter 16. SEPARATING THE AGNOSTICS FROM THE HERDS

Chapter 17. PEACE UNTO THEE AND ME, AND AN OLD ELVIS TOP-TEN HIT

Chapter 18. SOME FINAL THOUGHTS

Acknowledgments

Index

About the Author

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“A much-needed cleansing agent for the dogmatic certainty that infects so much of today’s public discourse.”

— Don Lattin, San Francisco Chronicle

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I can offer no good reason why killing (or any other form of meanness) is not permissible, other than the importance of adhering to human-made laws or to one’s own code. The Misfit wished he could have been there to see Jesus raise the dead, and I wish I could know whether God really handed commandments to Moses on Mount Sinai. The real challenge of hewing to the particulars of one’s own code is to stand behind it in times that require courage and in moments that put life and death on the line.

In Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s character Raskolnikov makes philosophic attempts to be a Nietzschean superman and kill, without conscience, his old landlady. from this, we have come, in the United States, to an age of the Misfit and an age in which the moral weight of murder has diminished. Mass murder and serial killing especially have become a significant part of American life and popular culture, and subjects of philosophical meditations on evil and a world without the moral force of God. In the past few decades, so many infamous figures have been identified with serial killing that someone produced a collection of serial-killer playing cards — featuring the likes of John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, Ted Bundy, members of the Manson family, and other representatives of mayhem — apparently worth collecting like the traditional bubblegum cards of my youth.

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