Atheism

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Michael Ruse

What Everyone Needs To Know®

• The first fully comprehensive treatment of the atheism issue, considering the topic historically, philosophically, theologically, sociologically and psychologically.
• Stresses that atheism is a moral issue and not just a matter of the facts
• Features a discussion of the meaning of life and whether or not one can be a happy and satisfied atheist
• Written in an easily accessible style

Atheism

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Michael Ruse

What Everyone Needs To Know®

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Atheism

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Michael Ruse

What Everyone Needs To Know®

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Atheism

What Everyone Needs to Know®

Michael Ruse

What Everyone Needs To Know®

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What Everyone Needs to Know®

Michael Ruse

What Everyone Needs To Know®

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Atheism

What Everyone Needs to Know®

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Easter for a non-believer

I have ambivalent feelings about Easter. I am sure I am not alone in this attitude towards the greatest of events on the Christian calendar, especially among people who grew up, as I did, in intensely religious (and loving) families but who have long put their Christian beliefs behind them. As it happens, my family were Quakers and that religion does not mark out the church festivals. But I went to a school that had a great musical tradition and each year there was a performance of one of the Bach Passions, alternating the St Matthew with the St John.

Posted on April 4, 2015

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Atheism: Above all a moral issue

The New Atheists ' Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, and the late Christopher Hitchens ' are not particularly comfortable people. The fallacies in their arguments beg to be used in classes on informal reasoning. The narrowness of their perspectives are remarkable even by the standards of modern academia. The prejudices against those of other cultures would be breathtaking even in the era when Britannia ruled the waves. But there is a moral fervor unknown outside the pages of the Old Testament. And for this, we can forgive much.

Posted on January 3, 2015

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