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This volume is a testament to that courage and to the fact that we modern unbelievers may take pleasure in realizing that we have philosophical and epistemological roots going back centuries. --American Rationalist This anthology brilliantly samples the work of the leading thinkers of the European and American Enlightenments that culminated in our era's secular naturalism. Especially relevant are the sections by Locke, Jefferson, and Madison that counter the regressive efforts by today's religious Right to lead us back to the Dark Ages. --Edd Doerr, president of Americans for Religious Liberty and a columnist for Free Inquiry Joshi's enlightening The Unbelievers featured his analyses of the defenses of atheism offered by such noted nonbelievers as H. L. Mencken, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others. What has long been missing from the atheist corpus is a compilation of detailed arguments from the earliest writers on the controversial topic: Voltaire, d'Holbach, Bentham, Madison, Jefferson, and Paine. The Original Atheists has now filled this void and, in effect, completed the magnum opus Joshi started in 2011. --William Harwood, author of God, Jesus and the Bible

Praise for The Unbelievers: <br><br> In this important, incisive work S.T. Joshi paints sympathetic yet critical portraits of fourteen representative nontheists of the past century and a half, particularly those who have been outspoken in their opposition to conservative religious traditions and ideas.... This new and original book merits a wide audience. <br><br>--Edd Doerr, president, Americans for Religious Liberty, past president, American Humanist Association<br><br>Praise for I Am Providence <br><br> This exhaustive double tome should stand as the definitive Lovecraft biography for a long time. <br>-- Publishers Weekly

This anthology brilliantly samples the work of the leading thinkers of the European and American Enlightenments that culminated in our era's secular naturalism. Especially relevant are the sections by Locke, Jefferson, and Madison that counter the regressive efforts by today's religious Right to lead us back to the Dark Ages. --Edd Doerr, president of Americans for Religious Liberty and a columnist for Free Inquiry Joshi's enlightening The Unbelievers featured his analyses of the defenses of atheism offered by such noted nonbelievers as H. L. Mencken, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others. What has long been missing from the atheist corpus is a compilation of detailed arguments from the earliest writers on the controversial topic: Voltaire, d'Holbach, Bentham, Madison, Jefferson, and Paine. The Original Atheists has now filled this void and, in effect, completed the magnum opus Joshi started in 2011. --William Harwood, author of God, Jesus and the Bible

"""""This volume is a testament to that courage and to the fact that we modern unbelievers may take pleasure in realizing that we have philosophical and epistemological roots going back centuries."" --American Rationalist ""This anthology brilliantly samples the work of the leading thinkers of the European and American Enlightenments that culminated in our era's secular naturalism. Especially relevant are the sections by Locke, Jefferson, and Madison that counter the regressive efforts by today's religious Right to lead us back to the Dark Ages."" --Edd Doerr, president of Americans for Religious Liberty and a columnist for Free Inquiry ""Joshi's enlightening The Unbelievers featured his analyses of the defenses of atheism offered by such noted nonbelievers as H. L. Mencken, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and others. What has long been missing from the atheist corpus is a compilation of detailed arguments from the earliest writers on the controversial topic: Voltaire, d'Holbach, Bentham, Madison, Jefferson, and Paine. The Original Atheists has now filled this void and, in effect, completed the magnum opus Joshi started in 2011."" --William Harwood, author of God, Jesus and the Bible"

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S. T. Joshi (Seattle, WA) is a freelance writer, scholar, and editor. He is also editor of the American Rationalist. His previous books include The Unbelievers- The Evolution of Modern Atheism; Documents of American Prejudice; In Her Place- A Documentary History of Prejudice against Women; God's Defenders- What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong; Atheism- A Reader; H. L. Mencken on Religion; The Agnostic Reader; and What Is Man? And Other Irreverent Essays by Mark Twain.

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