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Faith No More$
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Phil Zuckerman

Print publication date: 2011

Print ISBN-13: 9780199740017

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: January 2012

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740017.001.0001

The Apostate Worldview

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8 (p. 121 ) The Apostate Worldview
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Faith No More
Author(s):

Phil Zuckerman

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199740017.003.0009

Many Americans see nonreligious people as suspect: they are considered to be immoral and generally of bad character. This chapter, based on interviews with many apostates from various religions and walks of life, counters the negative stereotyping of the nonreligious. The worldviews of apostates are explored and analyzed—their morals, their values, how they feel about death and the meaning of life, the things they have lost by rejecting religion, and all that they have gained.

Keywords:   apostasy, atheism, morality, values, meaning

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