The New Enlightenment

It is with this premise that this author starts his quest. Has religion in the past 30 centuries been a cause of human problems instead of a solution? Is religion often ''a proxy for tribal and national interests?'' Are doctrinal religions becoming especially dangerous today as the philosophical underpinnings for increasingly destructive political movements based upon uncompromising, fundamentalist viewpoints? In this profound and intriguing philosophical treatise, Grady Means argues effectively that humans are spirit-seeking creatures who need a different God than the anthropomorphic deities advanced by doctrinal religions.

To overcome the effects of traditional ''Theonomics''-- religions as fundamentally economic and political entities, driven by predictable forces of supply and demand -- mankind must seek out a new rationalism, not unlike that of the 18th Century and the founding of America, in which humans find spiritual comfort through their free minds and souls.

Grady Means is a retired businessman and government executive, who has spent his life writing and speaking about business and management, politics, foreign affairs and religion.

Grady served in government as an Assistant to Vice President Rockefeller in the White House and as an economist working on health, poverty, and human welfare issues at the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.

He practiced management consulting for 30 years and was a Managing Partner at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, running billion dollar businesses focused on Corporate Strategy Consulting and Government Consulting.

At this stage of his life, he launches and manages startup businesses, writes, rides his motorcycle, hikes, sails, surfs, golfs, spends time with family, but, for the most part, just thinks about things.

He splits his time between the east and west coasts.