Authors Spread Anti-Religious Joy for The Holidays
Hayley Grieve — September 29, 2009 — Social Good
After the success of the atheist bus advertising campaign in January, a group of 42 prominent UK atheists (including Richard Dawkins) have gotten together to spread their own brand of Christmas joy.
Their book titled “There’s Probably No God, The Atheists Guide to Christmas,” is already climbing the charts at Amazon. The book aims to donate half of it's profits to a charity that deals with HIV issues. “Given some of the comments the Pope made earlier this year about condoms and AIDs, we thought it was appropriate,” Sherine said. Before you label this a holiday downer, reader reviews so far say it's upbeat, funny and leaving them craving mince pies and Christmas caroling already!
Their book titled “There’s Probably No God, The Atheists Guide to Christmas,” is already climbing the charts at Amazon. The book aims to donate half of it's profits to a charity that deals with HIV issues. “Given some of the comments the Pope made earlier this year about condoms and AIDs, we thought it was appropriate,” Sherine said. Before you label this a holiday downer, reader reviews so far say it's upbeat, funny and leaving them craving mince pies and Christmas caroling already!
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