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The foremost advocates of nonviolence, such as Ghandi and Martin Luther King, based their nonviolent postions on deeply held spiritual beliefs. In this essay, well-known atheist, Casey Dorman examines whether a nonviolent position requires an underlying spiritual belief and concludes that it does not. He further examines the practical, non-spiritual, arguments in favor of nonviolence and nonviolent resistance, even in the face of ruthless and tyrannical opponents. This essay, which is informative and readable, provides the philosophical basis for the author's ideas in his 2017 novel, 2020.

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Casey Dorman has a Ph.D. in psychology and is the author of 12 novels and the non-fiction essay, Is God Really Necessary? A Glimpse Into the Mind of an Atheist. He was the editor-in-chief of Lost Coast Review from 2009-2016.

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