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020 _a0307379345 (hbk.)
020 _a9780307379344 (hbk.)
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092 _a211.8
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100 1 _aMyers, P. Z.
_q(Paul Zachary),
_d1957-
_9234982
245 1 4 _aThe happy atheist /
_cPZ Myers.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bPantheon Books,
_c[2013]
300 _ax, 190 pages :
_billustration ;
_c22 cm
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
505 0 0 _tMorning in the Midwest --
_tAbout the author --
_tThe joke --
_tThe great desecration --
_tGet a job --
_tIt's so easy to be outraged! --
_tI am not a spoiled child having a temper tantrum --
_tThe proper fate for a holy book --
_tAsk but don't tell --
_tDirty words --
_tThe top ten reasons religion is like pornography --
_tThe purpose-free life --
_tHappy Easter! --
_tAfterlife? What afterlife? --
_tSoulless! --
_tWhat dreadful price must we pay to be atheists? --
_tImagine no heaven --
_tDaughters of Eve --
_tPrometheus's sin --
_tSo alone --
_tOne nation free of gods --
_tAn embryo is not a person --
_tThe courtier's reply --
_tThe big pink guy in the sky --
_tThe Karen Armstrong diet --
_tGod's little crisis of confidence --
_tLaughter as a strategy for diminishing religion --
_tWe're happier out of a straitjacket than in one --
_tMarketing godless science --
_t"Science is what we do to keep from lying to ourselves" --
_tOur brains are full of contradictions --
_tKen Miller, poster child for compatibility --
_tReligion fails as a source of knowledge --
_tScience as a lever to move the world --
_tThe active hand --
_tThe proper reverence due those who have gone before --
_tNiobrara --
_tWe stand awed at the heights our people have achieved.
520 _aThrough 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.
650 0 _aAtheism.
_994670
650 0 _aReligion
_vControversial literature.
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