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Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe
by Greg Epstein
In Good Without God, Greg Epstein presents another, more balanced and inclusive response: Humanism. With a focus on the positive, he highlights humanity's potential for goodness and the ways in which Humanists lead lives of purpose and compassion. Humanism can offer the sense of community we want and often need in good times and bad, as we celebrate marriages and the birth of our children, and as we care for those who are elderly or sick. In short, Humanism teaches us that we can lead good and moral lives without supernaturalism, without higher powers . . . without God.
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The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
by Victor J. Stenger
In this new book, Victor J. Stenger, whose God: The Failed Hypothesis was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2007, reviews and expands upon the principles of New Atheism and answers many of its critics. He demonstrates in detail that naturalism--the view that all of reality is reducible to matter and nothing else--is sufficient to explain everything we observe in the universe, from the most distant galaxies to the inner workings of the brain that result in the phenomenon of mind.
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AAI Applauds Jimmy Carter for Courage and Integrity in Challenging Religious Values |
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Written by AAI Publicity
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Sunday, 26 July 2009 |
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Atheist Alliance International, an atheists rights and pro-separation of church and state group, praised former United States president and devout Christian Jimmy Carter for having the courage and integrity to condemn his own church and religious community for their use of scripture to justify and promote the ongoing oppression of women.
In an article published in TheAge.com, an Australian newsmagazine, the former president explained how he came to the difficult decision of leaving the U.S. Southern Baptist Convention, severing all ties after 60 years a member, based on its perpetuation of the biblical values of women as subservient and inferior. Carter went on to explain how this very dated and, frankly, immoral value system permeates far too many religious beliefs and he concludes with a call for all people and faiths to find “the courage to challenge these views.”“Atheist Alliance International heartily agrees with Mr. Carter and applauds his own courage for not only having the willingness to point out that the emperor of religious belief has no clothes but to act on his own convictions and remove himself from the participating and supporting of his own religious community for its continuing promotion of gender discrimination and oppression,” said AAI president Stuart Bechman. “Mr. Carter, in calling the leaders of his own faith community to task for supporting unjustifiable prejudices and stereotypes, is developing a reputation to open debates on subjects held to be taboo for far too long in our society,” Bechman said, adding, “We hope to see more public, private and world leaders exercise the conviction of fortitude and principle that Mr. Carter has practiced on these matters.”Atheist Alliance International (AAI) is an umbrella of democratically-organized atheist, humanist and other freethought groups in the United States and around the world. With over 60 affiliates across 4 continents, AAI works to protect and defend the rights of those with a worldview of reason, empiricism and naturalism; to promote democracy, separation of state and religion, human rights and freedom of conscience; and to build a thriving community and heritage based upon a worldview of reason, empiricism and naturalism that nurtures the development of ethical, engaged, educated, responsible, compassionate and capable human beings. |
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