Posted by
Jeff Andrus on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 4:08:44 PM
At first glance The Gods of Business: The Intersection of Faith and the Marketplace is a plain spoken overview of major religions and how the world's faithful engage in commercial intercourse.
But author Todd Albertson is a hardheaded doctor of theology and the former owner of a multi-million-dollar transportation company that was roughly treated by People Who Believe In All That Is Holy. He intends his book to be a secular Michelin Guide for how the global businessman can get screwed nine different ways by folks who all claim a version of the Golden Rule. He gallops through the histories of diverse religions, offers excerpts from sacred texts and provocatively suggests the ways in which core beliefs are used to excuse greed and corruption regardless of race, creed, color or national origin.
If Albertson has a bias, it comes out in his arguments for regarding Secular Post Modernism as a religion. The zeal of its adherents matches that of Mohamed's for child brides, the Hindus' for adding little girl's to the funeral pyres of husbands and the Christian televangelist's for bilking the quick and the dead out of "seed money" to continue the ministry from another earthly mansion. What's bad is made worse by the Secular Postmodernist's unabashed narcissism and absolute refusal to embrace any notion of absolutes. Golden Rule be damned. Do unto others as it suits you.
Trinity Alumni Press is publishing The Gods of Business for a summer release. It will be available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Nobel and the usual outlets. The list price is twenty bucks. More information about the book is available at www.thegodsofbusiness.com.I got my galley proof for free because I edited the manuscript. Todd is a friend, and he paid me for the work. But not enough to like the book or say nice things about it. There are a number of authors whose books have appeared in the top ten of The New York Times bestseller list, and for about $500-$1,000 they will write a good review for whatever you give them to read. I'm not among that august company of whores, and having been bought for the equivalent of two bits and done my duty, I can say in my free time whatever I want.
I do like The Gods of Business<. I think it is a must read for anyone who wants to know why Jesus wept but still intend to do business with the bastards.