God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World (58 page)

21
. Schipper,
Taoist Body
, 5.

22
. Schipper,
Taoist Body
, 4.

23
. Michael,
Pristine Dao
, 47; Fieser and Powers,
Scriptures of the East
, 186.

24
. Schipper,
Taoist Body
, 158.

25
. Lao Tzu,
The Sayings of Lao Tzu
, trans. Lionel Giles (Radford, VA: Wilder, 2008), 31.

26
. Livia Kohn, ed.,
The Taoist Experience: An Anthology
(Albany: State Univ. of New York Press 1993), 288.

27
. Thomas Michael,
Shadows of the Pristine Dao
(Albany: SUNY Press, forthcoming). According to Michael, “The first line of the Daodejing is arguably the most famous line in the entire tradition of East Asian religion and philosophy, but also the most widely mistranslated line in the entire tradition of Western sinology” (1).

28
. Paul Tillich,
Systematic Theology
(Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1951), 1.238.

29
. Schipper,
Taoist Body
, 188.

30
. Alexander M. Bickel,
The Least Dangerous Branch: The Supreme Court at the Bar of Politics
, 2nd ed. (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1986), 71.

31
. Victor Mair, “The
Zhuangzi
and Its Impact,” in Kohn,
Daoism Handbook
, 32.

32
. Mair, “Chuang-tzu and Erasmus,” in Mair,
Experimental Essays on Chuang-tzu
, 86.

33
. Mair,
Wandering on the Way
, 75, 21, 46, 57, 44, 42, 211.

34
. Mair,
Wandering on the Way
, 274.

35
. Zhuangzi,
Zhuangzi,
trans. Hyun Höchsmann and Yang Guorong (New York: Pearson Longman, 2007), 194. A later Daoist work, by “the Master-Who-Embraces-Simplicity,” tells of a fit women who had lived by foraging in the mountains for over two hundred years when she was captured, brought back to the city, and force-fed an urban diet. Her hair fell out, she aged rapidly, and died after two years (retold in Schipper,
Taoist Body
, 169).

36
. Zhuangzi,
Zhuangzi
, trans. Höchsmann and Guorong, 188–89.

37
. Zhuangzi,
Zhuangzi
, trans. Höchsmann and Guorong, 123.

38
. Rumi,
The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
, trans. Coleman Barks (New York: HarperCollins, 2003), 123.

39
. Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero/No Limit,”
Bringing It All Back Home
, Columbia Records, March 1965, http://www.bobdylan.com/#/songs/love-minus-zerono-limit.

40
. Mair,
Wandering on the Way
, 376.

41
. Schipper,
Taoist Body
, 164.

42
. Catherine Despeux, “Women in Daoism,” in Kohn,
Daoism Handbook
, 405.

43
. Schipper,
Taoist Body
, 160.

44
. James Miller,
Daoism: A Short Introduction
(Oxford: OneWorld, 2005), 115.

45
. See Russell Kirkland, T. H. Barrett and Livia Kohn, “Introduction” in Kohn,
Daoism Handbook
, xiii-xiv.

46
. Liu Xiaogan, “Taoism,” in Sharma,
Our Religions
, 238.

47
. Zhuangzi,
Zhuangzi
, trans. Höchsmann and Guorong, 95.

48
. Zhuangzi,
Zhuangzi
, trans. Höchsmann and Guorong, 195.

49
. See Kohn,
Taoist Experience
, 291–92.

50
. Sima Qian,
Shiji
, 63.2142, quoted in Fieser and Powers,
Scriptures of the East
, 179.

51
.
Huainanzi
1, quoted in Michael,
Pristine Dao
, 130.

Chapter Nine: A Brief Coda on Atheism: The Way of Reason

1
. “Voice of the People 2005: Religiosity Around the World,” Gallup International, http://extranet.gallup-international.com/uploads/internet/Religiosity%20around%20the%20world%20VoP%2005%20press%20release.pdf.

2
. See, e.g., Jeffrey M. Jones, “Some Americans Reluctant to Vote for Mormon, 72-Year-Old Presidential Candidates,” Gallup News Service, February 20, 2007, http://www.gallup.com/poll/26611/some-americans-reluctant-vote-mormon–72yearold-presidential-candidates.aspx.

3
. Stephen Prothero,
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know—And Doesn’t
(New York: HarperOne, 2007), 40.

4
. President Barack Obama, “Inaugural Address,” January 21, 2009, http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/inaugural-address/.

5
. See http://the-brights.net. To his credit, Hitchens refuses to drink the “bright” Kool-Aid. In his
God Is Not Great
, he calls bright-ism “a cringe-making proposal” (5).

6
. Richard Dawkins,
The God Delusion
(Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006); Sam Harris,
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
(New York: W. W. Norton, 2004). The chapter titles are from Michel Onfray,
The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
, trans. Jeremy Legatt (New York: Arcade, 2007). Onfray’s book first appeared as
Traité d’athéologie
in France in 2005 and then as
In Defence of Atheism
in the United Kingdom in 2007.

7
. Richard Dawkins, “Is Science a Religion?”
Humanist
57, no. 1 (1997), http://www.thehumanist.org/humanist/articles/dawkins.html.

8
. Harris,
End of Faith
, 173.

9
. Hitchens,
God Is Not Great
, 56.

10
. Onfray,
Atheist Manifesto
, 134.

11
. Hitchens,
God Is Not Great
, 58; interview with Christopher Hitchens and Ralph Reed,
Hannity & Colmes
, Fox News, May 16, 2007.

12
. Hitchens,
God Is Not Great
, 280, 64.

13
. “Has the World Changed?—Part Two,”
The Guardian
, October 11, 2001, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/oct/11/afghanistan.terrorism2.

14
. Harris,
End of Faith
, 15.

15
. Harris,
End of Faith
, 52–53. Harris insists that this sentence has been widely misconstrued. See his “Response to Controversy,” http://www.samharris.org/site/full_text/response-to-controversy2/.

16
. Richard Dawkins,
A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
(New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2003), 117.

17
. Dawkins,
God Delusion
, 306.

18
. Chris Hedges,
I Don’t Believe in Atheists
(New York: Free Press, 2008), 6.

19
. Quoted in Gustav Niebuhr, “A Nation Challenged: The Evangelist,”
New York Times
, November 20, 2001, B5. Graham first made this comment a few days earlier on NBC’s “Nightly News” on November 16.

20
. Harris,
End of Faith
, 123. See, too, Martin Amis’s denunciation of “Thanatism” in his “9/11 and the Cult of Death,” Times Online, September 11, 2007, http://tiny.cc/wnlRw.

21
. David Foster Wallace, “All That,”
The
New Yorker
, December 14, 2009, 79.

22
. In
The Atheists Are Revolting!
(n.p.: Lulu.com, 2007), Nick Gisburne contends that asking whether atheism is a religion is “the silliest question of all.” “You won’t find atheists praying to gravity, or to evolution,” he writes. “Atheism is simply not a religion by any recognizable definition of the word” (56).