Monday, July 02, 2007

‘Atheist’s Bible’ is the latest to join anti-God bandwagon
By CARLIN ROMANO
McCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
Sunday July 01, 2007

To stir secular intellectuals, American philosopher Daniel C. Dennett last year published ‘‘Breaking the Spell.’’ British scientist Richard Dawkins soon followed with ‘‘The God Delusion.’’

At the same time, writer Sam Harris has kept grabbing middlebrow readers with ‘‘Letters to a Christian Nation’’ and other work. And, earlier this month, caustic British-American culture critic Christopher Hitchens goosed atheism to best-sellerdom - his ‘‘God Is Not Great’’ debuted at No. 1 on the all-important New York Times list.

Any surprise that atheism now turns up as a gift book, the kind stackable by the register? If atheism’s going mass, after all, you need not just a sacred text but an easily portable one.
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