Onfray exposes what he sees as the destructive history of organized religion and the fiction that is God while presenting a new, authentic atheism that celebrates life and humanity. Some strong language.
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam
โ Scribed by Onfray, Michel
- Publisher
- Skyhorse;Arcade Pub
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 154 KB
- Edition
- Translation
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 161145008X
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Synopsis
Odyssey of the freethinkers -- Atheism and the escape from nihilism -- Toward and atheology -- The tyranny of afterlives -- Bonfires of the intelligence -- Seeking the opposite of the real -- The construction of Jesus -- The Pauline contamination -- The totalitarian Christian state -- Selective exploitation of the texts -- In the service of the death fixation -- Toward a post-Christian secular order
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