[Hac-announce] Book Discussion Reminder: Saturday, December 19 "Seven Types of Atheism" by John Gray

[Carol Ritter]

<https://www.meetup.com/cthumanist>
Saturday, December 19, 2020
2:30 PM to 4:30 PM EST

Online event Link:

 https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4120669052?pwd=S1VQTzFxMERJd2ZoRjBKL2NUZGladz09


Details

Our book for December is "Seven Types of Atheism" by philosopher John Gray.

>From Amazon:
For a generation now, public debate has been corroded by a shrill, narrow derision of religion in the name of an often vaguely understood “science.” John Gray’s stimulating and enjoyable new book, Seven Types of Atheism, describes the complex, dynamic world of older atheisms, a tradition that is, he writes, in many ways intertwined with and as rich as religion itself.

Along a spectrum that ranges from the convictions of “God-haters” like the Marquis de Sade to the mysticism of Arthur Schopenhauer, from Bertrand Russell’s search for truth in mathematics to secular political religions like Jacobinism and Nazism, Gray explores the various ways great minds have attempted to understand the questions of salvation, purpose, progress, and evil. The result is a book that sheds an extraordinary light on what it is to be human.

"[John Gray] challenges the presuppositions and positions of contemporary atheists and secular liberals in this powerful book . . . Gray alluringly invites readers to reconsider what atheism is and should be." – Publishers Weekly


[cid:2977955d-20d9-4a09-a2ff-32749afeebe2]



https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4120669052?pwd=S1VQTzFxMERJd2ZoRjBKL2NUZGladz09
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://cthumanist.org/pipermail/hac-announce/attachments/20201218/2c25b731/attachment-0001.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image.png
Type: image/png
Size: 249594 bytes
Desc: image.png
URL: <http://cthumanist.org/pipermail/hac-announce/attachments/20201218/2c25b731/attachment-0001.png>