Max T. Furr
The mystery in my own life that empelled me to write my novel was the deep desire to know what is objectively knowable about life.
Once I realized that the only thing I knew was what I'd been taught by my parents and church--what I'd been TAUGHT to belive--and that other people of other cultures had been taught quite differently, I placed my own beliefs in abeyance and enrolled in college to study world religions, philosophy and paleoanthropology (biological evolution).
I must say that it was a mind opener. Thus, because society normally rejects philosophies critical of religious belief, I decided to write a novel based on biblical literality, but with a huge twist in part two--a twist that leads the reader to understand what the world would be like if a truly benevolent god were to appear and what might take place in a trial of the Old Testament god in an ethereal court of ethical justice.
Once I realized that the only thing I knew was what I'd been taught by my parents and church--what I'd been TAUGHT to belive--and that other people of other cultures had been taught quite differently, I placed my own beliefs in abeyance and enrolled in college to study world religions, philosophy and paleoanthropology (biological evolution).
I must say that it was a mind opener. Thus, because society normally rejects philosophies critical of religious belief, I decided to write a novel based on biblical literality, but with a huge twist in part two--a twist that leads the reader to understand what the world would be like if a truly benevolent god were to appear and what might take place in a trial of the Old Testament god in an ethereal court of ethical justice.
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