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    An Atheist Manifesto
    An Atheist Manifesto
    An Atheist Manifesto
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    An Atheist Manifesto

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1985
    An Atheist Manifesto
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    Joseph Lewis

    Joseph Lewis grew up in a secular household. He discovered the significance of religion at age nineteen, was baptized in a Baptist church at age twenty, and is now thirty and a recently confirmed Catholic. He has earned two associate degrees in intelligence studies and foreign language while actively serving in the United States Air Force. He can be reached at josephdrev@gmail.com.

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    • 3/5
      Mostly a little blue book, short and easy to read. Much of the ground is familiar, but the work is well written and passionate. It's very interesting to read these works from the pre-Boomer generation, and realize that they sound nearly identical in idea, content, and form to the books written by the so-called "New Atheists" today. If this author were alive today, no doubt he would be given the modifier of "militant", though the work is anything but militant in tone or creed. It is, in fact, calling for a much kinder, gentler world. Overall, not a bad read, and only takes about an hour.
    • 1/5
      The author just has an axe to grind against Christianity. This offers no intellectual insight into atheism at all. The alleged facts and quotes the author throws out are not documented, therefore bear no weight to me at all.
    • 4/5
      A powerful indictment of religion--Christianity in particular--but not written in a way that is likely to convert a believer to the truth.
    • 3/5
      Mostly a little blue book, short and easy to read. Much of the ground is familiar, but the work is well written and passionate. It's very interesting to read these works from the pre-Boomer generation, and realize that they sound nearly identical in idea, content, and form to the books written by the so-called "New Atheists" today. If this author were alive today, no doubt he would be given the modifier of "militant", though the work is anything but militant in tone or creed. It is, in fact, calling for a much kinder, gentler world. Overall, not a bad read, and only takes about an hour.

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    Title: An Atheist Manifesto

    Author: Joseph Lewis

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    AN

    ATHEIST

    MANIFESTO

    BY

    JOSEPH LEWIS

    THE FREETHOUGHT PRESS

    ASSOCIATION : NEW YORK

    Copyrighted, 1954,

    and in the 178th Year

    of American Independence

    by JOSEPH LEWIS

    All rights reserved

    Second Edition, 1956

    Third Edition, 1958

    PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    JOSEPH LEWIS

    Author of

    THE TYRANNY OF GOD

    THE BIBLE UNMASKED

    VOLTAIRE: THE INCOMPARABLE INFIDEL

    SPAIN: A LAND BLIGHTED BY RELIGION

    BURBANK THE INFIDEL

    ATHEISM

    THE BIBLE AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

    FRANKLIN THE FREETHINKER

    LINCOLN THE FREETHINKER

    MEXICO AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

    SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE CATHOLIC CHURCH

    SHALL CHILDREN RECEIVE RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION?

    THE TEN COMMANDMENTS

    THOMAS PAINE: AUTHOR OF

    THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

    IN THE NAME OF HUMANITY

    THE TRAGIC PATRIOT

    INSPIRATION AND WISDOM FROM THE WRITINGS OF

    THOMAS PAINE

    AN ATHEIST MANIFESTO

    INGERSOLL THE MAGNIFICENT

    AN

    ATHEIST

    MANIFESTO

    Many ask what difference does it make whether man believes in a God or not.

    It makes a big difference.

    It makes all the difference in the world.

    It is the difference between being right and being wrong; it is the difference between truth and surmises—facts or delusion.

    It is the difference between the earth being flat, and the earth being round.

    It is the difference between the earth being the center of the universe, or a tiny speck in this vast and uncharted sea of multitudinous suns and galaxies.

    It is the difference in the proper concept of life, or conclusions based upon illusion.

    It is the difference between verified knowledge and the faith of religion.

    It is a question of Progress or the Dark Ages.

    The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature.

    If you believe that there is a God; that man was created; that he was forbidden to eat of the fruit of the tree of knowledge; that he disobeyed; that he is a fallen angel; that he is paying the penalty for his sins, then you devote your time praying to appease an angry and jealous God.

    If, on the other hand, you believe that the universe is a great mystery; that man is the product of evolution; that he is born without knowledge; that intelligence comes from experience, then you devote your time and energies to improving his condition with the hope of securing a little happiness here for yourself and your fellow man.

    That is the difference.

    If man was created, then someone made a grievous mistake.

    It is inconceivable that any form of intelligence would waste so much time and effort to make such an inferior piece of life—with all the ills that flesh is heir to, and with all the misery and suffering that is so essential a

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