{"id":935,"date":"2013-08-20T19:27:51","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T09:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/?p=935"},"modified":"2013-08-20T19:27:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T09:27:51","slug":"kindle-edition-of-50-great-myths-about-atheism-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/2013\/08\/20\/kindle-edition-of-50-great-myths-about-atheism-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle edition of 50 GREAT MYTHS ABOUT ATHEISM – now available"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Blackford<\/a>For anyone who didn’t get the news, the Kindle edition of 50 Great Myths About Atheism<\/em> was released for a few days ago, and if you\u00a0want to read it in that\u00a0format and live somewhere appropriate…\u00a0it’s available at an excellent price from the main Amazon site<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The hardcover (mainly for university libraries) and paperback versions will also be available soon – early September in the UK and about a month later elsewhere.<\/p>\n

For the one or two people who don’t know by now,\u00a050 Great Myths About Atheism<\/em> responds to many prejudices, libels, misconceptions, and half-truths relating to atheism and atheists. Udo Schuklenk and I give the \u201cmyths\u201d as good a run as we can, identifying anything plausible, or any grain of truth, that we can find, while setting the record straight. In a long final chapter, we offer a history of atheist thought and explain why\u00a0atheism is now the most reasonable answer to the God question.<\/p>\n

I know some of my friends already have the book, so I’m looking forward to their feedback. I hope you folks will\u00a0enjoy it!<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, it carries wonderful endorsements:<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been my lot to have encountered all but three of the 50 Great Myths about Atheism listed by Blackford and Sch\u00fcklenk, most of them many times. It is useful to have them all listed in one book \u2013 and so readably and authoritatively refuted. The long final chapter treats theological arguments with more respect than I would have bothered with, but the refutation is all the more convincing for that. The whole book builds inexorably to its conclusion: the Reasonableness of Atheism.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Richard Dawkins<\/strong>, author of The God Delusion<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWith humor, wisdom and sound philosophy, Blackford and Sch\u00fcklenk dismantle 50 important myths about atheism.\u00a0 In doing so, they have done atheists and religious believers a great service, for putting aside the myths enables us to see where real differences remain.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Peter Singer<\/strong>, Princeton University<\/p>\n

\u201cAtheists are routinely called \u2018aggressive,\u2019 but their strong values include a tolerance rarely shown them by the religious. This book\u2019s calm ripostes defend atheists everywhere against unreasoned assaults from the dwindling faithful. \u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Polly Toynbee<\/strong>, The Guardian<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBusted! Fifty times over! So say Blackford and Sch\u00fcklenk \u2014 the New Mythbusters\u2014with reason, conviction and style. I enjoyed this book immensely.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Graham Oppy<\/strong>, Monash University<\/p>\n

\u201cA brilliantly wide-ranging exploration of misconceptions about atheism and their relationship to our ideas about minds, human nature, morality \u2013 for pretty much everything we care about.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Ophelia Benson<\/strong>, co-author of Does God Hate Women?<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a book that\u2019s as enjoyable to read as it is informative. Sharp, clever, and witty, it systematically dismantles misconceptions about atheism. Even God could learn something from it!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2014Ronald A. Lindsay<\/strong>, President, Center for Inquiry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For anyone who didn’t get the news, the Kindle edition of 50 Great Myths About Atheism was released for a few days ago, and if you\u00a0want to read it in that\u00a0format and live somewhere appropriate…\u00a0it’s available at an excellent price from the main Amazon site. The hardcover (mainly for university libraries) and paperback versions will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,98,6,11,13],"tags":[248,40,216,48],"class_list":["post-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements-2","category-books-2","category-personal","category-philosophy","category-religion","tag-50-great-myths-about-atheism","tag-books","tag-russell-blackford","tag-udo-schuklenk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/hellfireclub\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}