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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Onfray, Michel, 1959-     Subjects     Atheism.     Christianity -- Controversial literature.     Judaism -- Controversial literature.     Islam -- Controversial literature.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Onfray, Michel, 1959-       by title:      Atheist manifesto : ...         MARC Display

Atheist manifesto : the case against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam / Michel Onfray ; translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt. by Onfray, Michel, 1959- New York : Arcade Publishing, [2011] Subjects Atheism.   Christianity -- Controversial literature.   Judaism -- Controversial literature.   Islam -- Controversial literature. ISBN:  9781611450088 (paperback ; alk. paper) : 161145008X (paperback ; alk. paper) : Description:  xvi, 246 pages ; 23 cm Contents:  Odyssey of the freethinkers -- Atheism and the escape from nihilism -- Toward and 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 post-Christian secular order. Requests:  0 Summary:  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. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray starts from the premise that not only is God still very much alive but increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose a danger to the human race. Documenting the ravages from 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, sexuality and pleasure, and for women in general. In their place, all three demand faith and belief, obedience and submission, extol 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.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 211.8 On Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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