As an atheist and a secularist, one of my greatest concerns has long been the tone of negativity that, in my perception, we often put forward to the rest of the world. It's a concern I much share with Paul Kurtz, a secularist hero and my former boss at the Center for Inquiry in Buffalo, NY, who has long been worried about ensuring that humanists have positive, constructive messages to offer about the virtues of a life of unbelief. So how fortunate to have just learned of the release of the Harvard humanist chaplain Greg Epstein's new book
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe.
The book description suggests that it is exactly what I, and Kurtz, are looking for:
With the current state of the economy, the ongoing wars that rage across the globe, and the unsettling changes to the earth's climate, questions about the role ...
