Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and IslamSimon and Schuster, 2011 M04 1 - 264 pages This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world’s three major monotheistic religions—Christianity, Judaism, and Islam—have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death. Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive questioned the role of the world’s three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray insists that not only is God still very much alive but also increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose a danger to the nature of human morality. Documenting the ravages of religious intolerance over the centuries, the author makes a strong case against the three religions for their obsession with purity and their contempt for reason and intelligence, individual freedom, desire, and the human body, as well as their disdain for women, sexuality, and pleasure. In their place, all three demand faith and belief, obedience and submission, extolling the “next life” to the detriment of the here and now. Tightly argued, this is a work that is sure to stir debate on the role of religion in American society—and politics. |
Contents
Atheism and the Escape from Nihilism | |
Toward an 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 PostChristian Secular Order | |
BIBLIOGRAPHY Atheology | |
Other editions - View all
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam Michel Onfray Limited preview - 2011 |
Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam Michel Onfray Limited preview - 2007 |
The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam ONFRAY, MICHEL No preview available - 2012 |
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