The Secular Outlook: In Defense of Moral and Political Secularism shows how people can live together and overcome the challenge of religious terrorism by adopting a secular outlook on life and politics.
- Shows how secularism can answer the problem of religious terrorism
- Provides new perspectives on how religious minorities can be integrated into liberal democracies
- Reveals how secularism has gained a new political and moral significance.
- Also examines such topics as atheism, religious criticism and free speech
Introduction: The Secular Outlook.
1. Atheism, Agnosticism, and Theism.
The Alpha Privative.
Atheism and Liberal Concepts of God.
Atheism as an Unpopular Position.
A Definition of Atheism.
Motives for Atheism.
Atheist Values.
Spiritual Excellences and the Liberal Decalogue.
Agnosticism.
The History of Agnosticism.
Huxley and Russell.
Pascal’s Wager.
Pascal’s Insight.
Atheism or Non-Theism?
2. Freethought I: Criticism of Religion.
“Écrasez l’Infâme”.
Religion and Evil.
Religious Violence.
Father and Daughter.
How to Discover a Relationship between Religion and Violence.
Ramadan v. Hirsi Ali.
Religion “per se”.
Textual Relativism.
Can Translation Mitigate All Immoral Passages in Scripture?
Can Interpretation Mitigate All Immoral Passages in Scripture?
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