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Originally Posted by Nakor
The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality by Andre Comte-Sponville
It covers some interesting topics on tolerance and religion as a culture even in the absence of belief.
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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
I believe this month's issue of Free Inquiry has a review of that book. I'd check, but my copy of that issue is at work.
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Just checked, and it's not the latest issue after all. It's the
June/July 2009 issue of
Free Inquiry (which shows you how far behind I am in some of my reading!). The review of André Comte-Sponville's
The Book of Atheist Spirituality by is entitled "Embracing the Unholy Spirit," and it's written by Bill Cooke, one of
Free Inquiry's Senior editors and author of
Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, and Humanism.
Overall, the reviewer gives the book high marks. He admits to being uncomfortable with some of Comte-Sponville's spiritualized language, but he admits that Comte-Sponville is "quite clear about being grounded in the material," and states that his discomfort is more his problem than Comte-Sponville's.
Cooke ends his review with, "As atheists, we need to avoid stiffening with a sectarian shudder when one of our own uses language with which we are uncomfortable. Any form of expression of an essentially atheist world view is good enough for me, and
The Book of Atheist Spirituality is the best so far to do so in language I myself might not use."