God's warriors
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Great book to get, even though it's out of print:
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-Our…
Changed alot of my thinking about religion and spiritual practices in the West.
I found it most interesting that the author claimed (and I believe he makes a very convincing argument) that the rise of science was in fact a heretic movement within European Catholic system to find the Truth of God without resorting to priestly interpretations of the Bible. If you look at the writings of Newton, Galileo I mean they weren't "doing science" in our modern understanding of the word - rather they were searching for God and his Truth in their observation of natural systems. They were on a spiritual and faith based quest.
What we call "science" is really a heretically movement against the Church in Europe that became successful because it received the backing of political entities that were trying to break away from the Catholic church's sole and found science useful in both propaganda terms and in it's utilitarian function (the King that actually made use of physics equations were able to build more effective canon than say his "faith based" neighbor._