S. Egroeg Reklaw Bücher

This book is based on a true story of my life when I was ten years old. After sharing it with my three children, they never stopped asking me questions. I realize that most kids find it irresistible to have a little puppy of their own. I found out for some reasons, not only it creates deeper affections, but it also brings the family closer together. After this experience, it was my dream to put the story in a book for all young boys and girls to read and share it. I eagerly anticipate your enthusiasm for reading the story, and I thank you for your support. From 3rd graders to early middle.

The work is a critique of religion, in general (and Christianity, in particular), alleging that it is nothing more than a random composite of fanciful tales invented by the priests and, as such, a cultural dysfunction, that the old socialist cliché, "Religion is the opiate of the people," is an astute appraisal of this vestigial relic, and that all devotees are misguided victims, emotional homunculi, seduced by "priestly lies," and so addicted to this "poppy madness" that "deprogramming" is virtually impossible. While the content of this book is couched in casual style laced with caustic wit, it is fundamentally a serious work . . . not to be taken lightly. A special feature makes this book rather unique. It is a collection of reflections, under the generic caption "radical ruminations," of one St. William of the Orphic Cross at Salem Monastery (shades of Søren Kierkegaard's Judge William, but without "the leap of faith"), which I have supposedly discovered, proofed, and arranged in their proper order. This fictional feature, a find of "momentous import," lends a mysterious air to the manuscript, characteristic of the aura of religion itself. There is another feature, a novel turn, one that may not be readily apparent to the reader, but even ally a facsimile of the alleged nature of religion. That is to say, in other words, the manuscript . . . itself an invention . . . is simply the embodiment of its own critique.