The Information God
Agadjanian's book is introduced as "The Modern Pragmatist's Guide for Connecting to God" or more simply, an "alternative outlook" about God. The author explains that man's connection with God is through a global field of information and energy, representing the collective mind. Overall, The Information God is an optimistic explanation (and justification) of mankind's relationship to God.
But the Christian religion today might find it difficult to accept Agadjanian's theories. He believes that sexual orgasms, even through oral sex, give us a closer contact with God. He also states that "...homosexual love is one of the many means to accomplish this goal." Even the restaurants where we eat or the bars where we drink are actually "...holy places, for actual direct contact with God."
Another means of connecting with God is through flowers and jewelry, especially as gifts to beautiful American women, whose bodies receive and amplify the "information-energy signals" to our God. TV also connects us closer to God, "more effectively than any other...spiritual phenomenon."
To Aroutioun Agadjanian, Jesus Christ has been replaced today by modern sports heroes, at least in the minds of our young people. Though Jesus may have been a hero to his followers 2000 years ago, our leaders today, such as politicians, scientists, movie stars and athletes, are what we worship most.
The author credits God as "powerful enough to make almost any reasonable wish happen." However, such good news does not apply to wars and killing. People, Agadjanian claims, kill other people to obtain their information-energy or soul, or as God would have it, "...simply in order to grow." At the same time, "God takes a tiny sum of money and puts much of it into...chosen people's hands."
As radical as this author's words may seem in The Information God, they do present some food for thought. But grammatical errors, which include omission of words and commas, and which often impede sentence clarity, become a problem for which the publisher and/or author should be responsible.
The Information God was published in Toronto in 1999.