Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam - Onfray

Hardcover with dust jacket and 246 pages in very good condition.

This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the worlds three major monotheistic religionsChristianity, Judaism, and Islamhave attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death.

Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive questioned the role of the worlds three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray insists that not only is God still very much alive but also increasingly controlled by fundamentalists who pose a danger to the nature of human morality.

Documenting the ravages of religious intolerance over the centuries, the author makes a strong case against the three religions for their obsession with purity and their contempt for reason and intelligence, individual freedom, desire, and the human body, as well as their disdain for women, sexuality, and pleasure. In their place, all three demand faith and belief, obedience and submission, and extolling the next life to the detriment of the here and now.