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    Morality Is The Problem

    By Jake Yaniak

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    Why would God create the Devil in the first place?
    In this book you might just find the answer to this and many other questions.

    The title of this book is no play on words; Morality IS the problem with the world, and not the solution to its ills. In this book on moral philosophy the reader will travel to the very heart of our ethical judgments and consider the logical structure of morality itself. The purpose of this book, however, is not to merely illustrate the nature of our moral faculties, it is to expose them to the light of Reason - to uncover the pretenses and illusions that give rise to our moral categories in the first place.

    While the focus of this book is chiefly philosophical, it addresses many theological questions as well, especially as they relate to the Christian religion, offering in the Conclusion an immensely valuable but long forgotten way of understanding the doctrines of Christianity.

    This book will interest anyone sincerely interested in the study of meta-ethics and metaphysics, as it offers a clear, logical demonstration of the is/ought problem, as well as a logical explanation for the importance, nay, the necessity of free will for moral agency. It does not merely suggest that moral agents must have a free will; it demonstrates logically that if they do not have a free will, then moral judgments concerning them contain a contradiction.

    Atheists and agnostics may be interested in this book because it offers solid critiques of the traditional arguments in favor of theism. On the other hand, if these same readers are willing to keep an open mind until the Conclusion of the book, they may just find that there is a God that they can accept after all - a God that, far from asking that they surrender their reason, dwells within Reason itself.

    Christians may be interested in this book because it attempts to revive the mystery and profundity of a religion that has, of late, been all but overrun by men seeking political and social influence. There are many Christians who have become disillusioned with this modern church, and they may find in this book a way to understand and answer their calling outside of the all too familiar picket lines and ballot boxes.

    Whoever the reader happens to be, however, there is undoubtedly something within this book that will challenge and engage their interests.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJake Yaniak
    Release dateDec 15, 2013
    ISBN9781310434433
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    Morality Is The Problem
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    Jake Yaniak

    I honestly don't tend to think of myself as a writer. There are things I need to say, however, and stories that I want to tell. And so I write, and I try to make no pretenses. For Christmas one year my parents bought me a Lord of the Rings computer game. I started playing it and was so inspired by the story that I put the game aside and did not touch it again until I had read The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. Those books sparked within me a love of reading in general and a love of fantasy literature in particular. My favorite genre, however, is philosophy, particularly as it relates to ethics and metaphysics. This, together with my love of the fantastic, is the inspiration for my writing. In my reading I have seen how ideas affect history. For this reason it has been important to me to not just tell a story, but to show how the characters interact with different ideologies and ethical dilemmas. I want my readers to at least understand, even if they do not sympathize with, the villains of the story.

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      We have the Moral Argument all wrong. Universal morality isn’t evidence of God’s existence, it’s the reason we need God. Human morality is flawed from its foundation, a fiend from whom we need salvation.Yaniak’s new book is philosophy made interesting, from a Christian perspective. Besides presenting an unusual take on the dilemma of the origins of human morality, he has a style of writing that draws you in and keeps you interested. I thoroughly enjoyed it, though I confess occasional bewilderment. Like any good philosopher, Yaniak spins his web in circles. For example, he rails against the illogic of determinism, then relies heavily on causation from the beginning of the world. In a discussion about Problem of Evil, Yaniak seems to prove that God exists but could not be the God of the Bible. So it takes a bit of concentration to pick out his fine brush strokes, and I’m likely to misrepresent him somewhere in the paragraphs ahead!In seeking to elucidate God, free will, moralism, and good and evil, Yaniak flirts with both pantheism and materialism, while staying an arm’s length from both. God, for example, is not the apple, nor in the apple, nor encompassing the apple, but is the state of the apple. God is its existence, and a tenuous existence it is indeed, once you follow the logic.Yaniak’s flirtation with materialism is equally intriguing, especially when he discusses Original Sin. We are not merely born of Adam, we are Adam. This he argues by tracing backward: At what point did I become me? At birth? Conception? Why do we choose these arbitrary benchmarks? I am me while yet I am my father, though in an earlier state. While yet I am my father’s father. I am Adam. I ate the apple in the Garden of Eden.By ignoring the duality of mind and body, or soul and body, effectively discarding any moment of incarnating “life,” we are all Adam. It doesn’t matter whether we read the story of Adam and Eve literally or figuratively. We are all one, and the implications are astounding. Judgment becomes swift and righteous. When I murder my brother, I am immediately suffering for my wrong, for I am he. Salvation also carries new meaning. Good and evil take on a different light. My relation to my neighbor, and to the fly on the wall, is merely a matter of degree … the ancestry simply traces further back through evolution. Who is to say it is wrong for Hitler to murder Jews while we happily step on cockroaches? We tend to sympathize with one and not the other, letting our sympathies drive our morality, but this is to misunderstand both God and who we are.Yaniak returns often to the topic of gay rights, probably because it is such a hot topic in Christianity today. His eventual conclusion boils down to a definition of love which seems beneath us, but I confess the topic made for a fascinating moral playground.In the end, I must rate this as one of the most fun philosophical journeys I’ve taken in many years. You won’t think about life the same after this one.