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Godless Grace: How Non-Believers are Making the World Safer, Richer and Kinder
“Atheists and other nonbelievers are per se immoral. … Since god is the source of all morality, it’s impossible for a nonbeliever to be a good person.”
That’s the conventional wisdom, especially among fundamentalist Christians. And it’s utterly false. Authors David Orenstein and Linda Ford Blaikie disprove the smear in the most persuasive possible way: by telling the stories of dozens of real-life nonbelievers who devote their lives to doing good for others.
Orenstein and Blaikie’s new book, Godless Grace: How Nonbelievers Are Making the World Safer, Richer and Kinder, portrays nonbelievers both from America and around the world.
Some examples:
The nonbeliever soldier, who joined the army to fight religious fanaticism at age 40, right after September 11
The crusader against sexual harassment in Panama
The Filipino nurse practitioner who builds bridges between her humanist organization and religious groups to fight violence against LGBTQ individuals
The former Lutheran who took a pay cut to work as a paramedic so he could help others
The British survivor of priest sex abuse who now devotes her time to aiding other victims
The Hungarian who fights against the billion-dollar illegal wildlife trade in southeast Asia
The Argentine mechanical engineer who develops joint replacements in his day job, and organizes nonbelievers – in the land of Pope Francis – in his spare time
The Canadian who developed an alternative to Alcoholics Anonymous for fellow nonbelievers
Orenstein and Blaikie describe not only what these folks do, but why. Hint: fear of hell has nothing to do with it!
Going beyond the individual profiles, Godless Grace presents a comprehensive picture of nonbelief around the world and predicts where the movement is heading. With a forward by prominent secular professor Dr. Phil Zuckerman and an afterward by President of American Atheists David Silverman, it is a must-read for anyone looking for definitive proof that people can be “good without a god.”
Godless Grace: How Nonbelievers Are Making the World Safer, Richer and Kinder will be available from Humanist Press in October 2015.