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It frames belief in God, the “beyond,” the soul, and concepts such as sin and free will as harmful counter-concepts that devalue earthly life and undermine the body, health, and reason. Through structured sections on atheology, the history of freethinkers, and challenges posed by monotheisms, it develops a sustained critique of religious epistemology and postures toward life-affirming thinking.","IN DEFENSE OF ATHEISM  \nIN DEFENSE OF ATHEISM  \nThe Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam  \nMichel Onfray Translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt  \nV I K I N GCANAD A  \nVIKING CANADA  \nPublished by the Penguin Group  \nPenguin Group (Canada) , 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700 , Toronto , Ontario , Canada M4 P 2Y3  \n(a division ofPearson Canada Inc.)  \nPenguin Group (USA) Inc. , 375 Hudson Street , New York, New York 10014 , U. S.A.  \nPenguin Books Ltd , 80 Strand , London WC2 R 0RL , England Penguin Ireland , 25 St Stephen's Green , Dublin 2 , Ireland (a division of Penguin Books Ltd) Penguin Group (Australia) , 250 Camberwell Road , Camberwell,Victoria 3124 , Australia  \n(a division ofPearson Australia Group Pty Ltd)  \nPenguin Books India Pvt Ltd , 11 Community Centre , Panchsheel Park, New Delhi - 110 017 , India Penguin Group (NZ) , cnr Airborne and Rosedale Roads , Albany, Auckland 1310 , New Zealand (a division ofPearson New Zealand Ltd) Penguin Books (South Africa) (Pty) Ltd , 24 Sturdee Avenue , Rosebank , Johannesburg 2196 ,  \nSouth Africa  \nPenguin Books Ltd , Registered Offices: 80 Strand , London WC2 R 0RL , England  \nFirst published in France in 2005 by Editions Grasset & Fasquelle.  \nEnglish-language translation published in Viking Canada hardcover by Penguin Group (Canada) , a division ofPearson Canada Inc. , 2007 . Simultaneously published in the U. S.A.  \nby Arcade Publishing , Inc. , New York.  \n1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1 0 (RRD )  \nCopyright © Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2005  \nEnglish-language translation copyright © 2007 by Arcade Publishing , Inc.  \nAll rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above , no part of this publication may be reproduced , stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic , mechanical , photocopying , recording or otherwise) , without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.  \nDesigned by API  \nManufactured in the U. S. A.  \nLIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA CATALOGUING IN PUBLICATION  \nOnfray, Michel , 1959-  \nIn defense of atheism : the case against Christianity , Judaism , and Islam / Michel Onfray ; translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt.  \nFirst published 2005 in French under title: Traité d'athéologie.  \nISBN-13 : 978-0-670-06724-4  \nISBN-10 : 0-670-06724-5  \n1 . Atheism. 2 . Religion—Controversial literature. 3 . Monotheism—Controversial literature.  \nI. Leggatt , Jeremy II.Title.  \nBL2747 . 3 . 0541 3 2007a 211'. 8 C2006-906697-3  \nLibrary and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication data available upon request.  \nAmerican Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data available  \nVisit the Penguin Group (Canada) website [at www ](at www . penguin. ca)[. penguin. ca](at www . penguin. ca)  \nSpecial and corporate bulk purchase rates available; please see [www.penguin.ca/corporatesales](www.penguin.ca/corporatesales or call)[ or call](www.penguin.ca/corporatesales or call) 1-800-810-3104, ext. 477 or 474  \nThe concept of \"God \" invented as a counter-concept of life—everything harmful, poisonous, slanderous, the whole hostility unto death against life synthesized in this concept in a gruesome unity! The concept of the \"beyond, \" the \"true world \"invented in order to devaluate the only world there is—in order to retain no goal, no reason, no task for our earthly reality! The concept of the \"soul,\" the \"spirit,\" finally even \"immortal soul,\"invented in order to despise the body, to make it sick— \"holy\" ; to oppose with a ghastly levity everything that deserves to betaken seriously in life, the questions of nourishment , abode, spiritual diet, treatment of the sick, cleanliness, and weather! In place of health, the \"salvation of the soul \"—that is, a folie circulaire [manic-depressive insanity] between penitential convulsions and hysteria about redemption! 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