An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism

Download or read book An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism written by Daniel Harbour and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 2001 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atheism has always been open to the attack that it is a sterile concept and that atheists clearly don’t believe in anything. In this remarkable book, Daniel Harbour turns this disadvantage into the spearhead of his defense of atheism and incisive attack on religion, whether Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Zen. He argues that the battle between the two has wrongly been fought on the narrow issue of the existence of God. In reality, the question is based on what is morally good and bad, i.e. whether a religious belief or an atheist belief puts one in a better position to do good. Using modern examples such as gay marriages and racial hatred, Daniel Harbour casts a light on the ideas atheism stands for.