Author: Harbour, Daniel
Intelligent Person's Guides; Hardback; Book
156 pages
Published: April 2001
Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd
ISBN: 0715629158

Atheism has always been open to the attack that it is a sterile concept and that atheists clearly don't believe in anything. In this remarkable book, Daniel Harbour turns this disadvantage into the spearhead of his defense of atheism and incisive attack on religion, whether Christian, Muslim, Buddhist or Zen. He argues that the battle between the two has wrongly been fought on the narrow issue of the existence of God. In reality, the question is based on what is morally good and bad, i.e. whether a religious belief or an atheist belief puts one in a better position to do good. Usingmodern examples such as gay marriages and racial hatred, Daniel Harbour casts a light on the ideas atheism stands for.A controversial polemic arguing that atheism is preferable to religion as it does not burden the mind with any preconceived views of mankind and the world. A controversial polemic arguing that atheism is preferable to religion as it does not burden the mind with any preconceived views of mankind and the world.The debate about atheism has staled in recent years. This book returns to its core issues - the existence of God, the value of faith, the role of religion in society - and casts them in a new light. The real question, it argues, is how we should consider our urge to understand the world.