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Article: Religion's anthropocentric conceit: atheism's cosmic modesty is more moral.
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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One of the first books I read upon my arrival in the United States was a fundamentalist tract that had, I was told, sold very well. The book was called Mind Siege: The Battle for Truth in the New Millennium, and not since Mein Kampf had I read a more venomous, misanthropic travesty of reality and truth. And nowhere have I seen a clearer example of what I view as "anthropocentric conceit" than in this book. After repeated invocations of the "lies" of humanists, feminists, and liberals (including religious liberals), the inherent evil of homosexuality the United Nations, and art the authors cannot understand, they had the temerity to picture their reception upon reaching ...