We are born into an automatic social contract--democracy--that we never consent to. While seemingly championing the individual and the value of individual choice, democracy ultimately degenerates into collectivism and mob rule. Coupled with a reified religious mythology, widespread economic and market collapse, and deep political corruption, the individual is lost within a democracy to the collective majority. However, can a just, viable form of governance and society exist without the coercion of democracy? The End of Democracy and Faith presents an alternative vision that wrests the value of individual choice from mob rule and restores the consent and supremacy of the individual in the social contract. Eschewing faith and hope instead for a movement toward building bonds with our fellow men and women and for taking the reins and helping each other save our future, it explores the connections between our morality, identity, history, philosophy, and economy. And with the introduction of the concept of the voluntary state, it offers a philosophical foundation in support of using freedom instead of coercion to handle our responsibilities regarding our own income, retirement, health care, and way of life. The promises of democracy and any individualism inherent to the founding of the nation have been largely replaced by a perilous, disenfranchising collectivism. Pursuing an alternative social reality--one that can truly enable free markets, overcome religious myth, and restore individual choice--represents a true challenge to the moral depravity of democracy and faith. "A significant amount of research and thought obviously went into this book. The information is relevant to the current times..." ~ Chanticleer Reviews "There are certain elements holding back our economy, the author asserts, though economists rarely make mention of them, due to their status as societal sacred cows. His arguments against democracy are the most engaging sections of the book, in part because such cases are so infrequently made. " -- Kirkus Reviews "This book contains many original and outstanding new concepts for analyzing, monitoring and considering helpful alternatives which may lead us away from our present unwavering path toward more suffering and ultimate economic destruction. The author is an economist and has written a well-crafted, admirably researched and referenced, new thesis, based on fresh-original thinking. All it takes to appreciate this work is a reasonably open mind. After completing this book I can't imagine how any thinking person will not come away from it without several new stimulating ideas." ~~ Robert Steven Thomas -- Author of Intelligent Intervention . "We all know that religion is responsible for millions of deaths over the course of history, but this book takes things a step further,exposing religion for all of its faults, explaining in rational terms why many stories in the Bible to not stand up to logical scrutiny and demonstrating why society would be better off if religion was replaced with a secular system of ethics." "This book presents a solid case for the elimination of democracy and religion from public life." "It adds up to a very good bit of reading and a book I recommend to those who don't mind swaying away from tradition and looking for better ways to create a truly just and free society." ~~ Bryan Carey--Amazon Vine member and Top Reviewer, Adjunct Professor of Accounting, Finance, Management and Philosophy.