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IN DEFENCE OF ATHEISM
THE CASE AGAINST CHRISTIANITY, JUDAISM AND ISLAM |
| By: |
Michel Onfray, Jeremy Leggatt (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1852429933 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781852429935 |
| Publisher: |
PROFILE BOOKS LTD |
| Pub. date: |
17 April, 2008 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism. This text demonstrates that organised religion is motivated by worldly, historical and political power; that the three monotheisms - Christianity, Islam and Judaism - exhibit the same hatred of women, reason, the body, the passions; that religion denies life and glorifies death. |
| Synopsis: |
In the twenty-first century, religion is making a comeback, bringing in its wake extremism of all kinds. From Christian anti-abortion campaigns to suicide bombers claiming the righteousness of Islam, we are witnessing a resurgence of fundamentalism. Michel Onfray's response to the threat of a post-modern theocracy is to lay down the principles of an authentic atheism: exposing the fiction that is God, he proposes instead a new philosophy of reason that celebrates life and humanity. In Defence of Atheism demonstrates that organised religion is motivated by worldly, historical and political power; that the three dominant monotheisms - Christianity, Islam and Judaism - exhibit the same hatred of women, reason, the body, the passions; that religion denies life and glorifies death. Onfray exposes some uncomfortable truths: Judaism invented the extermination of a people; Jesus never existed historically; Christianity was enforced with extreme violence by Constantine; Islam is anti-Semitic, misogynist, warlike and incompatible with the values of a modern democracy. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Serpent's Tail |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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