Name: The End of a Road

Author: John M. Allegro
Year: 1970
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 The End of a Road came out in 1970 in the slipstream of The Sacred Mushroom & the Cross. Allegro saw it as a companion volume. On the premise that Sacred Mushroom had demolished the church's pretensions to moral authority, he asked: Why should 20th-century people owe any allegiance to a fertility myth? What gave a fictional 1st-century rabbi the right to tell people how to run their lives, then or now--apart from a set of generalized "thou shalt nots" wrested from their context & impracticably vague by comparison with real contemporary law codes? It was time for people to stand on their own feet, to close the gate at the end of the church's road, & step out on the road of compassion, responsibility & common sense.
"This book is not a post-mortem examination of a moribund Church. In it I am not primarily concerned with the cult of the sacred fungus, which fully deserved all the abusive epithets heaped upon its perversions by the Romans when they tried to suppress the Christians. It deals with the end of one road, & more particularly the opening up of a new, wider highway for all men to travel. We shall look to some of the problems now facing mankind & bearing down on us with the dramatic advances in modern technology in a shrinking world, & see how old & inadequate moral sanctions can be revised or replaced by new ones. We shall discuss how the present catastrophe of a discredited Christianity can be turned to good account thru seizing the opportunity for fresh, creative thinking in a society free from the inhibitions of religious dogma. Let the dead bury their dead. (p. 18)
The End of a Road was published by:
Macgibbon & Kee, London-1970 Hardback 1st edition
Dial Press, NY, 1970-Hardback 1st US edition ISBN: 1135620660
Dial Press, NY, 1971-Paperback
Panther, London-1972 Paperback


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