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"An entertaining and informative look at America's culture war from a writer who has been embedded in the front lines."
--Steven Pinker
Harvard College Professor of Psychology
Harvard University, and author of The Better Angels of our Nature
"It isn't often that inveterate honesty and inviolable reasonableness are combined with such a sweet disposition and a wonderful sense of humor. Those who don't yet know Herb will find in this wonderfully entertaining tale of how he became a fighting atheist a man of true wit, true warmth, and true wisdom."--Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction"Herb Silverman has long been one of the most important secularist activists in the United States. With this book, you'll find he is a wonderful storyteller as well. Herb's warm and thoughtful self-portrait shows what it can mean to be both Jewish and a Humanist. And his story of running for governor of South Carolina as an open atheist is laugh-out-loud funny and worth reading for anyone who ever loved and/or hated the bizarre but hopeful theater that is American political life."
--Greg Epstein
Harvard Humanist Chaplain and author of Good Without God
"Dr. Silverman is certainly unique for Charleston, maybe even unique for anywhere. When he came down here as a fine math professor but a cultural fish out of water, he simply created a flood of reason in which his newly discovered fellow infidels could swim. Herb presents a rational and persuasive alternative to those of faith, both with his words and his behavior."
--Judge Alex Sanders
Former President of the College of Charleston and Founder and President of the Charleston School of Law
"Herb Silverman's lively history of an atheist raised as an Orthodox Jew fills a real gap in the literature of the 'New Atheism, ' in that it describes the emergence of a creed based on human goodness without godliness in highly personal rather than abstract philosophical terms. In an account that will resonate with people raised in all faith traditions who have made the same journey, Silverman captures the essence of what it means to realize that you think differently from those around you--including the people who brought you into this world."
--Susan Jacoby
author of Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
"Iconoclastic atheist, humorist, and mathematician Herb Silverman takes you on an entertaining tour of his irreverent life, so far."
--Wendy Kaminer
Lawyer, social critic, and author of seven books
"Religious and irreligious people alike can learn from this book lessons about tolerance, freedom of expression, good manners, goodwill, and the importance of not stereotyping but the lessons are not presented in a holier-than-thou tone, as is often the case in the religion vs. science debate."--Review: Foreword Magazine
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