A Manual for Creating Atheists

Peter Boghossian

ISBN 10: 1939578094 / ISBN 13: 9781939578099

Editore: Pitchstone Publishing, 2013

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New softcover in printed wraps. Text is clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6 x 0.6 x 9 inches) Includes appendices [3], glossary, and index. 280 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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. Codice articolo 100550

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Titolo: A Manual for Creating Atheists

Casa editrice: Pitchstone Publishing

Data di pubblicazione: 2013

Legatura: Paperback

Condizione: New

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Riassunto:

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 twenty 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.

L'autore:

Dr. Peter Boghossian is a full-time faculty member in Portland State University’s philosophy department. He was thrown out of the doctoral program in the University of New Mexico’s philosophy department. Dr. Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine and the executive director of the Skeptics Society.

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