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The happy atheist / PZ Myers.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, [2013]Edition: First editionDescription: x, 190 pages : illustration ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0307379345 (hbk.)
  • 9780307379344 (hbk.)
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Contents:
Morning in the Midwest -- About the author -- The joke -- The great desecration -- Get a job -- It's so easy to be outraged! -- I am not a spoiled child having a temper tantrum -- The proper fate for a holy book -- Ask but don't tell -- Dirty words -- The top ten reasons religion is like pornography -- The purpose-free life -- Happy Easter! -- Afterlife? What afterlife? -- Soulless! -- What dreadful price must we pay to be atheists? -- Imagine no heaven -- Daughters of Eve -- Prometheus's sin -- So alone -- One nation free of gods -- An embryo is not a person -- The courtier's reply -- The big pink guy in the sky -- The Karen Armstrong diet -- God's little crisis of confidence -- Laughter as a strategy for diminishing religion -- We're happier out of a straitjacket than in one -- Marketing godless science -- "Science is what we do to keep from lying to ourselves" -- Our brains are full of contradictions -- Ken Miller, poster child for compatibility -- Religion fails as a source of knowledge -- Science as a lever to move the world -- The active hand -- The proper reverence due those who have gone before -- Niobrara -- We stand awed at the heights our people have achieved.
Summary: Through his popular science blog, Pharyngula, PZ Myers has entertained millions of readers with his infectious love of evolutionary science and his equally infectious disdain for creationism, biblical literalism, intelligent design theory, and other products of godly illogic. In this funny and fearless book, Myers takes on the religious fanaticism of our times with the gleeful disrespect it deserves, skewering the apocalyptic fantasies, magical thinking, hypocrisies, and pseudoscientific theories advanced by religious fundamentalists of all stripes. With a healthy appreciation of the absurd, Myers not only pokes fun at the ridiculous tenets of popular religions but also highlights how the persistence of superstitions can have dark consequences: interfering with our politics, slowing our scientific progress, and limiting freedom in our culture.--From publisher description.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"I'm an atheist swimming in a sea of superstition, surrounded by well-meaning, good people with whom I share a culture and similar concerns, and there's only one thing I can do. I have to laugh." --PZ Myers
 
On his popular science blog,  Pharyngula , PZ Myers has entertained millions of readers with his infectious love of evolutionary science and his equally infectious disdain for creationism, biblical literalism, intelligent design theory, and other products of godly illogic. This funny and fearless book collects and expands on some of his most popular writings, giving the religious fanaticism of our times the gleeful disrespect it deserves by skewering the apocalyptic fantasies, magical thinking, hypocrisies, and pseudoscientific theories advanced by religious fundamentalists of all stripes.

With a healthy appreciation of the absurd, Myers not only pokes fun at the ridiculous tenets of popular religions but also highlights how the persistence of Stone Age superstitions can have dark consequences: interfering with our politics, slowing our scientific progress, and limiting freedom in our culture.

Forceful and articulate, scathing and funny,  The Happy Atheist  is a reaffirmation of the revelatory power of humor and the truth-revealing powers of science and reason.

Morning in the Midwest -- About the author -- The joke -- The great desecration -- Get a job -- It's so easy to be outraged! -- I am not a spoiled child having a temper tantrum -- The proper fate for a holy book -- Ask but don't tell -- Dirty words -- The top ten reasons religion is like pornography -- The purpose-free life -- Happy Easter! -- Afterlife? What afterlife? -- Soulless! -- What dreadful price must we pay to be atheists? -- Imagine no heaven -- Daughters of Eve -- Prometheus's sin -- So alone -- One nation free of gods -- An embryo is not a person -- The courtier's reply -- The big pink guy in the sky -- The Karen Armstrong diet -- God's little crisis of confidence -- Laughter as a strategy for diminishing religion -- We're happier out of a straitjacket than in one -- Marketing godless science -- "Science is what we do to keep from lying to ourselves" -- Our brains are full of contradictions -- Ken Miller, poster child for compatibility -- Religion fails as a source of knowledge -- Science as a lever to move the world -- The active hand -- The proper reverence due those who have gone before -- Niobrara -- We stand awed at the heights our people have achieved.

Through his popular science blog, Pharyngula, PZ Myers has entertained millions of readers with his infectious love of evolutionary science and his equally infectious disdain for creationism, biblical literalism, intelligent design theory, and other products of godly illogic. In this funny and fearless book, Myers takes on the religious fanaticism of our times with the gleeful disrespect it deserves, skewering the apocalyptic fantasies, magical thinking, hypocrisies, and pseudoscientific theories advanced by religious fundamentalists of all stripes. With a healthy appreciation of the absurd, Myers not only pokes fun at the ridiculous tenets of popular religions but also highlights how the persistence of superstitions can have dark consequences: interfering with our politics, slowing our scientific progress, and limiting freedom in our culture.--From publisher description.

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