Bøker av Billy Lee Harman

A question this book asks is how novel is any novel, and another question it asks is whether the fictional cosmology it presents is actual, and another is whether anyone knows.Superficially, Dust is a story of a team of immortal space aliens who travel the universe trying to bail worlds out of the trouble they get themselves into. But those and other fantastical characters are a means of concisely giving focus to a perspective of the history of humanity, beginning with the cave paintings at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc about 30 millennia ago and culminating on 9/11, with the continuing terror in the Middle East. Most of the story is the civil rights issues of the twentieth century, from the Russian revolutions through the Montgomery bus boycott to the Palestinian problem showing both failures and successes, but it's also ordinarily personal.So the main questions this book asks are not only how much fact is in any "fiction" and how much fiction is in any "non-fiction, but also why and for whom.

This book is a sort of memoir, but I didn't write it to aggrandize my separate self but to ask how responsible we should or can be for one another, or for ourselves. We speak of responsibility and determinism and free will and predestination in terms both sociological and theological. But the theoretical question is how real is the labyrinth of differences we imagine or perceive and enjoy or decry. And the practical question is how we can deal with whatever it is. And both questions ask what anyone is.Billy Lee Harman

Throughout history, humans have killed one another and blamed that on religion, and such has accelerated in the 21st century after the establishment of humanity's most popular religion. And yet scripture of each of the six most popular religions either says God is merciful or idealizes compassion in other ways. So I've summarized those scriptures in this book. My hope is that, if people learn their common scriptural ideals, they'll understand that they have no excuse to be one another's mortal enemies. And, to facilitate that, I've tried to keep this book short while including all indications of doctrine. Billy Lee Harman

Throughout history, humans have killed one another and blamed that on religion, and such has accelerated in the 21st century after the establishment of humanity's most popular religion. And yet scripture of each of the six most popular religions either says God is merciful or idealizes compassion in other ways. So I've summarized those scriptures in this book. My hope is that, if people learn their common scriptural ideals, they'll understand that they have no excuse to be one another's mortal enemies. And, to facilitate that, I've tried to keep this book short, while including all indications of doctrine, while preaching none of them. The origin of the word "angel" is a Greek word meaning "messenger" and not "preacher". Eastern or western or dualistic or monistic, scripture of each of those religions expresses the notion that truth will make us free, and prejudice is inherently ignorance.Billy Lee Harman