Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism and Humanism

The starting point of this book, which is set firmly in the highly respectable tradition of Voltaire's Dictionnaire Philosophique, was a chance comment by the British humanist Barbara Smoker lamenting that there had never been a revision of Joseph McCabe's Rationalist Encyclopedia. Cooke emphasises in his preface that his work is intended for those who like to think for themselves and are not prepared to follow a route set out for them by others. It is not, he assures the reader, a handbook against religion nor a sustained attack on the falsity of religion. Mercifully, it also does...