Billions of people were born in our world in dysfunctional families and societies. Their families were conceived under deceptions and oppressions. The deceptions disable them from dealing properly with the economic or physical malfunctions in their cultures. They look up for guidance from parents but could not find it because the parents themselves are afflicted with the same deceptions that disabled them from saving themselves. They look for extended family members and often find them quarreling and no better than their parents. They look for their societies but find them indoctrinated with deceptive ideologies that only serve the authority of their rulers and elites. Where do they go for guidance to find a solution to their problems? They turn to religion but find the same ideological plague that permeated their nations where they become servants of some rulers. They revolt over the religious institutions and mistakenly take their anger on the belief in God. Then they hide in their homes behind computer screens in virtual reality to find it plagued with deceptions of sexual immorality, heroic images of alcohol consumption, tobacco, and drugs deceiving them to imagine intellectual or physical prowess from sex, alcohol, tobacco or narcotics as portrayed in Sherlock Holmes, James Bond or other on-screen fiction. Where do they turn to next? Politics, and philosophy can help them for a while. They use politics to attempt to change their world but find themselves just engaging in mind-distracting deceptions. They use philosophy to understand the world and argue against the problems but get frustrated by the lack of action in philosophy. Money and business can help them escape thinking about the problems. Science can either help them earn a good living and escape thinking about the problem or can push them back to analyze and find a solution. This book is an analysis of people’s stories with deceptions in the world and a proposition to our solution out of the problem.

This book examines the behavioral changes, in the individual and the society, due to idolatry. The book presents both secular and religious meanings to idolatry. It attempts to redefine “idolatry” from the narrow literal religious meaning to the more inclusive secular meaning. The author argues that the modern practices of idolatry led to suppressing freedom of expression and creating classes of non-representative leaders in our world today. The authorities’ desire to enforce respect for non-representative leadership’s decisions on the population, in addition to the absence of efficient dispute resolution mechanisms, led to the current situation of terrorism. The author argues that “idolatry” is the cause of complacency, and that complacency is a symptom of idolatry. The intelligentsia, shackled by idolatry, have abandoned their traditional role as advocates for the causes of the less fortunate and representatives of those who could not present their grievances in the society. The author argues the failure of current leadership and provides evidence from a few scientific research references available on the web for the reader to examine further. There are references to Representative Leadership, and Causes of War among other valuable research references. The author proposes 3-pronged approach as a solution for terrorism: criticism, dispute resolution and representative leadership. Terrorism is a reaction to idolatry and the solution is to rid our societies from idolatry. The book does not stop at the problem of terrorism but goes further to argue that idolatry is the cause for the failure to plan for the needs of the earth’s population. The author rejects the myth that there are not adequate resources on this planet for the 7 billion of its inhabitants.

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