A Manual for Creating Atheists

· Pitchstone Publishing
4.5
34 reviews
Ebook
271
Pages

About this ebook

For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith--and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, A Manual for Creating Atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith--but for talking them out of it. Peter Boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than twenty years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value critical thinking, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace rationality and reason.

Ratings and reviews

4.5
34 reviews
A Google user
April 23, 2014
I really enjoyed this book and look forward to applying some of its lessons to my own encounters with the faithful. I wish it were longer with more transcripts of interventions.
Leigh Burl
April 2, 2014
Learned a lot by reading this book. Powerful stuff indeed.
cane prevost
March 30, 2014
Everyone should read this.

About the author

Dr. Peter Boghossian is a full-time faculty member in Portland State University's philosophy department. He was thrown out of the doctoral program in the University of New Mexico's philosophy department.

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