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Thursday, 8 October 2026

"This book directs a similar challenge to atheists, to reject a final baseless posit of religion..."

“Richard Dawkins has popularised the idea that most people have no trouble denying the existence of gods for which there is no evidence…. He urges them to go ‘just go one god further.’ This book directs a similar challenge to atheists to reject a final baseless posit of religion: the worship of self-sacrifice.
"It’s time for the secular world to fully grow up and break free from the bonds of religious morality. This is the only path to self-conscious, rational progress in the field of morality, and to the civilisational progress it will enable.”
~ Ben Bayer from the free-to-read Preface to his new book Breaking Free From Faith-Based Morality

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