Author: Charles A. Morse
Pen Name: Charles Moscowitz
Contact
Information:
(617) 271-5044 charlesmoscowitz@gmail.com
Book Title: GOD
Book
Subtitle:
A Biography
Biography:
Charles Moscowitz
is an award-winning radio talk show host who presently hosts a weekday commentary
and interview program on YouTube and subscribing podcast platforms. Moscowitz
is the author of over a dozen non-fiction books including The Nazi Connection
to Islamic Terrorism, published by WND Books, 2010. Moscowitz columns have been
published in The Boston Globe, The Washington Times, WND, Newsmax and Frontpage.
Book Summary:
This book is the
musings of an old guy, a personal view of God. Moscowitz begins the narrative by
presenting his evidence that God exists with the contention that there is no
contradiction between belief in God and Science. He then proceeds to sketch a
history of belief in God in western Judeo-Christian culture. Likewise, interspersed
in the narrative, is a description of what Moscowitz contends has been a war
against God and, as such, a war against man. A self-described secular American
Jew, Moscowitz delves into historic controversies between Judaism and Christianity
and within Judaism while contending that America is a Christian nation and that
Jesus, philosophically speaking, is an American.
Manuscript
status: To be completed no later than the end of August
2020.
Projected
final word count: 30-40 thousand
Contact Information
Email: charlesmoscowitz@gmail.com
Phone: (617)
271-5044
Address: 258
Harvard Street #240, Brookline, MA 02446
TITLE
OVERVIEW
This book,
written in the first person, draws upon the personal insights and experiences
of Charles Moscowitz, a self-described secular American Jew who has assumed various
aspects of traditional Jewish belief and practice. Moscowitz contends that a study
of God involves an understanding of immutable philosophical principles which transcend
all faiths and ideologies. This is because, Moscowitz contends, God is true and
his creation, both in its real and abstract elements, is true and is knowable
to a degree. Moscowitz looks at that which is known.
Moscowitz
argues that immutable and divinely inspired principles, while voluntary in
terms of their levels of acceptance by the various peoples and cultures of the
world, are nevertheless universal in nature.
Moscowitz
delves into various controversial questions in this book including whether the
Jews were responsible for the crucifixion of Jesus. Moscowitz wades into controversies
such as why so many Jews became radical revolutionaries in the 19th
Century and subsequently became involved in the 1917 Bolshevik coup in Russia.
Moscowitz traces this involvement to the corrupting influence of 16th
Century false messiah Shabbatai Zvai and his misinterpretation of mystical
texts which emanated from the 15th Century Lurianic Palestinian school
in Safad.
Moscowitz
views America as representing the ultimate flowering of Christian civilization
which is why Moscowitz claims that, given that Christianity draws its moral and
ethical code from the Torah of Sinai, America is, in the spiritual sense, both
a Christian and a Jewish nation.
Marketing
Charles
Moscowitz is an experienced public communicator. As a radio talk show host,
columnist, author and former congressional candidate in Massachusetts,
Moscowitz has been interviewed on hundreds of radio talk shows and on several TV
shows over a 20-year period.
Presently,
Moscowitz hosts a weekday commentary and interview livestream on YouTube and
subscribing platforms with a growing online audience. The Charles Moscowitz
program has 1,577 YouTube subscribers and the program is carried by several
podcast platforms including Spotify, iHeartRadio, iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher
and others.
Moscowitz has
interviewed several major YouTube personalities and podcast hosts on his
program and he plans to market this book primarily by means of getting booked
for interviews by such personalities on YouTube and on Podcasts. Such
interviews are often promoted through social networks.
How will the
reader benefit from reading this book?
The reader
might find, as a result of reading this book, that their mind and their heart might
become more open toward the proposition of believing in God. The reader may get
a better understanding of the various factors that established the American
idea and that of western civilization overall.
What gave you
the idea to write this book?
God is a
concept that, I contend, we all believe in whether or not we choose to
acknowledge it. I have always believed in and prayed to God. As I reach toward an
older age, I feel compelled to share my views and experiences with my brothers
and sisters from all walks of life.
Do you have
potential candidates to write a foreword or introduction?
Sean Hannity,
Laura Ingraham, Glenn Beck, Dennis Prager
AUTHOR BACKGROUND
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/1chuckmorse
Podcast: http://chuck-morse-speaks.podomatic.com
Website: https://charlesmoscowitz.com/
Author page: http://t.co/oxZNlr94Fw
Blog: http://awhigmanifesto.blogspot.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charlesmoscowitz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/moscowitz10001
SAMPLE CHAPTERS
Forward
Who am I to write about God?
Jesus
The Covenant
Conspiracy against God and Man
Israel
The Moral Arc
Forward
This book is personal. This book is about my belief
in God which emanates from my background as a secular American Jew who has, as
an adult, embraced various traditional Jewish beliefs and practices. I am an
American Jew who is immersed in American culture. How could I be otherwise? I would challenge you, dear reader, to know that
you also hold a personal belief in God, whether or not you acknowledge it, and
that your belief is likewise rightfully tempered and influenced by your own faith
background. I would expect that you would honor your faith as I honor mine. Having
said this, I am an unabashed and unapologetic American and I seek to play my
part in defining and advancing my vision of America. My belief in God emanates
from Judaism and from the Christian and secular traditions that gave birth to this
great and pluralistic American Republic.
This book about God is not about Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism
or any of the other great religions or cultures of the world. I focus on
Judaism because I am a Jew and I focus on Christianity because Christianity is the
font of America, my beloved country. Does this mean that I am Eurocentric? Not in
the chauvinistic sense. I do not believe that America is inherently superior to
other nations and cultures. If I were Muslim from Iran, or Hindu from India, I
would write a book about God from the perspective of those faiths and cultures.
If I can write a book about God than anyone, including you dear reader, is qualified
to write a book about God because God is universally understood and because God
is true.
As an American I embrace a pragmatic view. I believe
that universal truths transcend any particular religion or culture, truths that
are universal because they are true in the same way that God is true. These
truths have been identified in an ongoing process of knowledge that includes millennia
of revelation and collective human experience. These truths, in a nutshell, are
the principles that respect, preserve, protect and defend the sovereign self-evident
natural rights and freedoms of the individual who, according to the Bible, is created
in the image of God. The intellectual disciplines of philosophy and political
science should focus on how to protect those rights, once defined, and how to
establish institutions that protect those rights. It is up to the nations and the
peoples of the world, operating as agents of free will, to either embrace or not
embrace these truths and, as such, to enjoy the benefits and the blessings or to
suffer the consequences of their choices.
Who am I to write about God?
Really! Who am I to write about God? What kind of arrogance
is this? I am no expert and I am certainly no saint. I am no scholar nor am I a
man of the cloth. I am a poor schlub, a sinner, a pitiful supercilious twit! As
I mince toward the finish line of my life, as I glance back over my shoulder at
a past laden with squandered opportunities and wasted time, I realize that I am
hardly qualified to write a book about God! I am too tired, too burned out and too
wasted. I can barely rouse myself out of bed in the morning let alone rally my
attention span long enough to write a book about the King of the Universe!
And…yet…Here I go!
I believe in God. I have always believed in God. I pray
to God. I talk to God. Every human being on the face of the earth, every person
alive today and every person who has ever lived since the beginning of time, indeed
every living creature including the amoeba believes in God. This is because God
is true, and we know it. Those of us who claim to believe otherwise are lying
to themselves and to everyone else. As Thomas Jefferson observed in the Declaration
of Independence, God is self-evident. I believe that God created us all equally,
both men and women, and that God endowed us with certain unalienable rights
including life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our belief in God, in and
of itself, is not a question of faith, I would argue, but rather our belief in
God is a question of reason and science. Speculation regarding various denominational
particulars relating to our belief in God are, indeed, matters of faith and theology
such as whether there is a son of God or a Trinity, or the specified definition
and meaning of heaven or hell or the soul. This is likewise the case regarding questions
such as whether Muhammad or Joseph Smith or L. Ron Hubbard or Buddha were prophets.
Religion based upon belief in God as the creator of
the universe constitutes a synthesis of faith and science. If God is true than
science, which is a study of that which is true, cannot exist as science, per
se, without God. Historic evidence indicates that believers in God find guidance
and solace from organized religion or in a system of belief which provides a means
of contemplation and worship, a method by which defined moral and ethical values
may be studied and adapted, and a process by which such values may become incorporated
into a secular society. Religion is established and molded by organizers who try
to understand God, the mysteries of existence, and the immutable moral and
ethical principles emanating from faith and science yet, given the imperfect
nature of people, religion, per se, tends to reflect both the better and darker
tendencies and motives of its leaders and thinkers. Religion thus contains
repositories of both inherited wisdom and truths as well as certain mistakes
and irrelevancies. Every generation strives to discover and correct mistakes
while deepening and advancing an understanding of truths and, by doing so, advancing
personal and societal notions of morality and faith. God based religious
systems, while far from perfect, nevertheless contain structures by which the
adherent may seek truths and meaning in life, solace for life’s problems, atonement
for sin, a means of redemption, contemplation of death and afterlife, a ritual structure
that marks important personal and historical events with a continuity to the
past and a way toward the good life.
God is true…God is real.
Let us begin by examining a single exhibit for proof
that God is real. Let us begin by considering the eye of a bee. The eye of a
bee consists of hundreds if not thousands of perfectly shaped and coordinated living
particles, all arranged in multiple shades of color, all forming a shape that is
virtually identical to that of millions of other eyes of bees. What happens to
the eye of the bee that makes it see? What explains vision? The eye of the bee is
located inside a living machine that is likewise made up of untold numbers of
perfectly arranged living parts, all serving various purposes and all somehow
working together to constitute the living bee. How could it be that this incredibly
intricate machine, this single tiny bee, is alive? How do the wings of the bee cause
it to fly? How does the bee coordinate with tens of thousands of other bees to
establish hives and create communities where each single bee knows its role? Science
and engineering serve to examine the practical mechanics of life and its means
of function, but, science alone, stripped of God, cannot explain the moment of
action, the moment that something becomes alive, the moment that the eye sees, that
the ear hears.
Did all of this happen by accident?
Did this perfectly tuned universe that is the single
bee simply come about through a process of breeding with other bees? How did the
bee come about in the first place? And what about the birds and the beasts? Did
the entire planet that we call earth, with its vast and interdependent aspects,
with trillions upon trillions of perfectly coordinated particles forming billions
upon billions of separate entities both alive and inanimate, with water, air, rock,
earth, wind, fire, with tens of thousands of living species of various complexity,
did all of this simply emerge out of nothing due to some mysterious big bang? Did
all of life somehow magically emerge out of what 19th Century British
naturalist Charles Darwin call a warm little pond? How and at what point did the
non-life in Darwin’s warm little pond become alive? Can something that is not
alive become alive and, if so, how and when? Does the big bang explain the
creation of the planet and all of life not to mention the entire universe? And
what was the cause of the big bang? What existed before the big bang? How did
energy come about? Is the entire universe a perpetual thing that has existed
forever, a thing that will continue to exist forever? If so, how could this have
happened? Did nothing exist before existence? Was there no beginning of existence?
How did it all start?
God is proven by Mathematics.
The science and philosophy of Mathematics involves an
abstract means by which entities are identified and quantified through established
symbols. Mathematics provides a rational abstract means of defining and
counting things and how things intersect with each other. First identified in
ancient Babylonia, China and in Mayan civilizations, the Greek Pythagorean
school would coin the term Mathematics and the Romans would develop Mathematic knowledge
with advances in engineering, architecture, economy, and the arts. By practical
application, the abstract concepts of Mathematic theory would become proven over
time to be true when applied to phenomena and to physical things. Mathematic
knowledge has proven to be a basic concept and a building block required to sustain
and advance civilization.
The mathematic concept of the zero signifies nothingness.
Rudimentary symbols connoting zero have been used since ancient Babylonia and Mayan
civilizations and were advanced by 7th Century Indian mathematician
Brahmagupta and Islamic mathematician Mohammad ibn-Musa al-Khwarizmi who advanced
Algebraic theory and knowledge. The relationship of somethingness to nothingness,
of material and the void, is a basic and observable element of nature and existence.
Ludwig Van Beethoven skillfully used the abstract interaction with and the energetic
tension of nothingness, or no sound, or the pause, and its relation to somethingness,
or sound, as a means to compose intricate music and to create great symphonic works.
Popular American musician Billy Preston’s 1974 hit Nothing
from Nothing, where he sings Nothin’from nothin’leaves nothin, restates
the principle of the zero which is that nothing is nothing, that something is
something, and that, as such, something cannot be nothing or something cannot come
out of nothing. And, as Billy Preston sang, you have to have somethin’ if you
want to be with me. Thus, the big bang, which theoretically came out of nothing,
cannot have simply occurred out of nothing and resulted in something. Either
there is something or there is nothing. Both something and nothing are two entirely
separate ideas. One cannot become the other and vise versa. This is the basis
of science which is the study and analysis of that which is true. And…Thus…the
only way something can be created out of nothing is by means of a divine and
supernatural event and that divine event can only be enacted by what we call God.
Various cultures and religions have attached various names to describe the same
universal God, the creator of the universe. Only God can be and only God is the
creator of something out of nothing.
Thus, the Book of Genesis theoretical description of
the creation of the universe, a description that could be viewed either metaphorically
or literally, holds up to the logic of science. Only God could have created the
heavens and the earth. These things could not have simply existed in space eternally
or these things could not have emerged out of nothing. Logic indicates that creation
had to have been created at some point. Since something, creation, the heavens
and the earth and all of the rest of creation, could not have simply emerged out
of nothing, as the zero principle indicates, than only God, by means of mystical
and supernatural powers that are beyond the comprehension of us mere mortals,
could have created something out of nothing.
Only the Lord God, Creator of the Universe, the Lawgiver
could have created this incredible and intricate design and tapestry that makes
up creation, that makes up all of existence and all of life, that makes up the world
and the entire universe. Only the Lord God, and God alone, could have created all
things out of nothing, life out of non-life. Only the God, and God alone could
have created the world and the entire universe out of nothingness.
