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AN Athiest Defends Religion: Why Humanity is Better Off with Religion Than Without It. Paperback - 2009

by Sheiman, Bruce

A new perspective.

Defending religion as a culturalinstitution in the face of resurgentatheistic thought


.For centuries, the theism-atheism debate has beendominated by two positions: stringent believerscommitted to the "yes, there is a God" argument,and atheists vehemently driven to repudiate notonly God, but also religion as a cultural institution.To date, this is the first and only mainstream bookin which a nonbeliever criticizes atheism and affirmsreligion.

An Atheist Defends Religion persuasively argues thatreligion is overwhelmingly beneficial for humanity,regardless of whether God exists, based on a newparadigm of 10 affirmative dimensions that make upreligious experience. It also puts to rest the theorythat religion is behind most of the world's sectarianviolence by showing that religion becomes evilwhen it is politicized. Readers will learn they donot have to be fundamentalists to be believers, andabout the value and benefits of religion itself.


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A new perspective.
Defending religion as a cultural institution in the face of resurgent atheistic thought . For centuries, the theism-atheism debate has been dominated by two positions: stringent believers committed to the "yes, there is a God" argument, and atheists vehemently driven to repudiate not only God, but also religion as a cultural institution. To date, this is the first and only mainstream book in which a nonbeliever criticizes atheism and affirms religion.
"An Atheist Defends Religion" persuasively argues that religion is overwhelmingly beneficial for humanity, regardless of whether God exists, based on a new paradigm of 10 affirmative dimensions that make up religious experience. It also puts to rest the theory that religion is behind most of the world's sectarian violence by showing that religion becomes evil when it is politicized. Readers will learn they do not have to be fundamentalists to be believers, and about the value and benefits of religion itself.

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  • Title AN Athiest Defends Religion: Why Humanity is Better Off with Religion Than Without It.
  • Author Sheiman, Bruce
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Original
  • Pages 256
  • Publisher Alpha, New York
  • Date 2009-08-04
  • ISBN 9781592578542

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Bruce Sheiman has been a student of philosophy and theology for 30 years and is the author of "Getting into Graduate Business School." His interest in the atheismtheism debate led him to the Unitarian Universalist Church of All Souls in Manhattan, one of the nation's most influential progressive religious communities.
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