Generation Atheist - Softcover

Riley, Dan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0988179504 ISBN 13: 9780988179509

Publisher: Dan Riley, 2012

Synopsis

The human journey is an emotional quest to find truth and meaning.  Countless books have presented this journey through the eyes of people who concluded their search with devotion to God, salvation by Jesus, or commitment to religion.  But there's a changing zeitgeist in America and the world: a growing number of people are finding truth and meaning from the opposite perspective. Through 25 personal narratives, Generation Atheist tells their stories. The people in this book come from different religious upbringings, races, sexual orientations, and genders. Many have gone through very emotional journeys in coming to a sustained, open atheistic worldview. Most were quite religious at one point in their lives. Through the internet, humanity is engaged in a global conversation unlike any before in history -- about who we are, why we are here, and how we should live -- and these individuals have an important perspective to share.  
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About the Author

From 2008-2011, Dan Riley worked as a campus organizer in the outreach department at the non-profit think tank the Center for Inquiry.  He got to know many secular student leaders during his time with CFI.  Finding many of their personal journeys to atheism to be fascinating, compelling, and unique, he decided to create a book that tells their stories.  The initial work that has resulted in Generation Atheist began at a student conference in 2009.  Dan is a 2006 graduate of Duke University. 

Review

This compendium is wonderful proof of the fact that there is a large constituency of courageous young people able to think for themselves and conclude, by themselves, that those who profess authority on the basis of mystical dogma should have no power over others, as decreed by the Founding Fathers.  It is to the great credit of these young people that they have been prepared to write so intimately and intelligently about the difficulties they encountered in their personal journeys to "Enlightenment". -- Sir Harold Kroto, Nobel Prize winner, Chemistry, 1996

Dan Riley has captured the common concerns and fears of many atheists living in a country dominated by religion, and he has presented them in a way will help readers to get a feel for the world in which atheists live. -- JT Eberhard, writer, "What Would JT Do?"

Dan Riley's book shares the stories of 25 atheists who all come from different backgrounds. Together, though, they also tell the stories of so many other people who are walking down their own path now or who will soon begin their own journey to enlightenment. No matter where you are in your life right now, there's a way to leave your faith and become an atheist. It's never easy, but Dan shows us that it is indeed possible.--- Hemant Mehta, author, I Sold My Soul on eBay 

About this edition

• Publisher: Dan Riley
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0988179504
• ISBN 13: 9780988179509
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 294