A review by leevoncarbon
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Hans Rosling

challenging informative reflective

4.75

 “Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think.”  With that subtitle, one might expect that the author(s) are utopian fantasists. But as the main title indicates, his real purpose is to challenge us to allow good data to lead us to good conclusions. Brilliantly written, he identifies the 10 different lenses we can wear that distort our vision.  I personally share the Christian hope of a new heaven and earth and believe that all will not be well until that comes to pass.  But I recognize in my Christian community how in a misguided effort to validate our conviction, we can be prone to put on tinted glasses that create the impression that everything is bad and getting worse. But the credibility of our hopeful message is lost when we simply get our facts wrong.  As is stated in another of our convictions, it is the truth that sets us free.