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008    130319s2013    nyua          000 0 eng   
010    2013000202 
020    9780307379344|q(hbk.) :|c$24.00 
020    0307379345|q(hbk.) 
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100 1  Myers, PZ|q(Paul Zachary) 
245 14 The happy atheist /|cPZ Myers. 
250    First edition. 
260    New York :|bPantheon Books,|c[2013] 
300    x, 190 pages :|billustration ;|c22 cm 
505 00 |tMorning in the Midwest --|tAbout the author --|tThe joke
       --|tThe great desecration --|tGet a job --|tIt's so easy 
       to be outraged! --|tI am not a spoiled child having a 
       temper tantrum --|tThe proper fate for a holy book --|tAsk
       but don't tell --|tDirty words --|tThe top ten reasons 
       religion is like pornography --|tThe purpose-free life --
       |tHappy Easter! --|tAfterlife? What afterlife? --
       |tSoulless! --|tWhat dreadful price must we pay to be 
       atheists? --|tImagine no heaven --|tDaughters of Eve --
       |tPrometheus's sin --|tSo alone --|tOne nation free of 
       gods --|tAn embryo is not a person --|tThe courtier's 
       reply --|tThe big pink guy in the sky --|tThe Karen 
       Armstrong diet --|tGod's little crisis of confidence --
       |tLaughter as a strategy for diminishing religion --
       |tWe're happier out of a straitjacket than in one --
       |tMarketing godless science --|t"Science is what we do to 
       keep from lying to ourselves" --|tOur brains are full of 
       contradictions --|tKen Miller, poster child for 
       compatibility --|tReligion fails as a source of knowledge 
       --|tScience as a lever to move the world --|tThe active 
       hand --|tThe proper reverence due those who have gone 
       before --|tNiobrara --|tWe stand awed at the heights our 
       people have achieved. 
520    Through his popular science blog, Pharyngula, PZ Myers has
       entertained millions of readers with his infectious love 
       of evolutionary science and his equally infectious disdain
       for creationism, biblical literalism, intelligent design 
       theory, and other products of godly illogic. In this funny
       and fearless book, Myers takes on the religious fanaticism
       of our times with the gleeful disrespect it deserves, 
       skewering the apocalyptic fantasies, magical thinking, 
       hypocrisies, and pseudoscientific theories advanced by 
       religious fundamentalists of all stripes. With a healthy 
       appreciation of the absurd, Myers not only pokes fun at 
       the ridiculous tenets of popular religions but also 
       highlights how the persistence of superstitions can have 
       dark consequences: interfering with our politics, slowing 
       our scientific progress, and limiting freedom in our 
       culture.--From publisher description. 
650  0 Atheism. 
650  0 Religion|vControversial literature. 
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