Atheism For Dummies (For Dummies (Religion & Spirituality)) (7 page)

A Catholic priest writing a secret book filled with his atheist opinions

One of the most beloved authors in American history calling Christianity “bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory”

The 19th century speeches of “The Great Agnostic”

Hilarious satires and other humor that skewers the sacred

The fake scripture of a delicious parody religion

Manifestos of humanism

Powerful denunciations of religious belief in the 21st century

A humanist chaplain’s description of how a billion people are good without God

A “faitheist” who doesn’t believe in God but seeks common ground with the religious

With all those diverse voices of unbelief, you just may see something worth picking up yourself.

Understanding What Atheism Means in Everyday Life

After a person is an atheist, her question about whether God exists is replaced by questions about the best ways to live her life without God following her around, solving her problems, and giving her a place to put her feet after she is dead.

In other words, the question is how to be an everyday atheist.

The chapters in Part IV of this book are all about regular folks who don’t believe in God, including

How many there are and where they live

Why such simple things as the numbers and locations of atheists are really tricky to figure out

The most interesting corners of the disbelieving world
(*cough* Québec)

How atheism plays out in political identity