A Manual for Creating Atheists - Softcover

Peter Boghossian

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1939578094 ISBN 13: 9781939578099

Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith--and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, A Manual for Creating Atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith--but for talking them out of it. Peter Boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than 20 years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.

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Review

"Peter Boghossian's techniques of friendly persuasion are not mine, and maybe I'd be more effective if they were. They are undoubtedly very persuasive--and very much needed."-- Richard Dawkins"

Up to now, most atheists have simply criticized religion in various ways, but the point is to dispel it.  In A Manual For Creating Atheists, "Peter Boghossian fills that gap, telling the reader how to become a 'street epistemologist' with the skills to attack religion at its weakest point: its reliance on faith rather than evidence. This book is essential for nonbelievers who want to do more than just carp about religion, but want to weaken its odious grasp on the world." --Jerry Coyne, Ph.D., author of Why Evolution is True

"A book so great you can skip it and just read the footnotes. Pure genius." --Christopher Johnson, co-founder, The Onion

About the Author

Peter Boghossian is a full-time faculty member in the philosophy department at Portland State University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1939578094
• ISBN 13: 9781939578099
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 280