Religion on Trial: Cross-Examining Religious Truth Claims (Second Edition) (ebook Edition)

Overview

With ten thousand religions in the world today and two being added every day, how are we to know which, if any, is true?

Religion on Trial takes a serious look at whether all religions are saying nearly the same thing and  ultimately lead to the same destination—and if not, whether any of the world’s religions can withstand a closer examination using the evidentiary methods developed in law, history, and science.

For if any religions are to be left standing, they (or it) must have claims made not in a corner immune from rigorous examination but testable by all serious inquirers using methods that have been employed in other fields dealing with truth claims. Religion on Trial is a relentless search for the truth that puts religious claims to rigorous cross-examination—nothing less than eternity is at stake.

Praise for Religion on Trial

“Religion on Trial is a hard-hitting cross-examination of religious truth claims and the critical importance of basing beliefs on evidence.”
—Oliver H. G. Wilder-Smith, Associate Professor of Medicine at Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

“If the truth of the world’s religions were put on trial according to the canons of evidence as applied in
the courts of law, would any be proven ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’? Religion on Trial comes to the
surprising conclusion that there is a religion that indeed presents ‘many compelling proofs’ for its relentlessly objective factual claims.”
—Dr. Henry Hock Guan Teh, Solicitor and Trial Lawyer, Malaysia

“As one who has dedicated his professional life to the scientific method and to the pursuit of facts no
matter where they may lead, Religion on Trial confirms what the laboratory has always taught: we should not ask people to believe that which cannot be proven.”
—Dr. Willy Humbert, Docteur ès Sciences, ingénieur de recherches, Université Louis Pasteur et C.N.R.S.
(Centre national de la recherche scientifique), Strasbourg, France