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Permalink Reply by George on May 11, 2010 at 6:09pm

There are a number of atheist manifestos.

As long as it's "an", rather than "the" manifesto, it's fine with me. Claiming to write the only atheist manifesto would be very presumptuous.

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Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on May 11, 2010 at 8:23pm

That you couldn't do better than this.

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on May 11, 2010 at 9:15pm

"Homo sapiens wards off death by abolishing it."

Whew ... there's a mouthful all by itself!

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Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on May 11, 2010 at 9:47pm

Read the introduction - it's brief, but beautiful.

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Permalink Reply by Loren Miller on May 12, 2010 at 6:08am

I did last night and just again this AM. It sets an intriguing stage, and I'm curious to see what follows.

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Permalink Reply by Фелч Гроган on May 12, 2010 at 6:26am

You can judge atheist books by the negative reviews. The OK stuff has theists frothing at the mouth. The stuff that really hurts they trivialise. Do they ever trivialise this (and Onfray himself, who's not a real academic).

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Permalink Reply by Gary Burk on May 12, 2010 at 7:15am

Marvelous! OnFrey may not be a "real academic" but he certainly is a poet
and appears to be a scholar. (Sigh), more business for Amazon and less discretionary time for me.

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Permalink Reply by Johnsky on May 13, 2010 at 12:41am

I have added this to my serious reading list. (Not the "I think I might read this, and will say I care" list).

The opening really delivered the author as a worthy intellectual.

I anticipate further eye-opening truths about life.

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Permalink Reply by ryan cameron on May 12, 2010 at 7:33am

We could use the "non-players of basket ball" manifesto as a boiler plate, or perhaps the "non believers in the great celestial teapot" - as I understand it that is a very large movement.

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Permalink Reply by Tarquin St John Sh'gn'sty on May 13, 2010 at 12:19am

As long as you call it 'An Atheist's Manifesto'

I can express my atheist manifesto in a sentence; "I do not believe gods due to lack of evidence"

If I wanted to express a persona manifesto based on various views and philosophies to which subscribe,I'd probably need a few thousand words:

Pragmatism

Utilitarianism

Egoism

Skepticism

Humanism

Materialism

Moral and cultural relativism

Structural functionalism

Theoretical Marxism

Cynicism


Misanthropy

---to name a few

NONE of the above are implied by or may be inferred from atheism, although many atheists probably subscribe to at least one of the ideas.

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