To Set Prometheus Free: Religion, Reason and Humanity

Product Description In 2007 A.C. Grayling published Against All Gods: Six Polemics Against Religion and an Essay on Kindness, which has sold nearly 10,000 copies in hardback. Professor Grayling deliberately kept the essays in that book short and to the point as they were polemical contributions to the debate. Grayling stands by what he wrote in that book and still encourages blunt speaking and writing when it comes to the debate about the need for more secularism in society, because quieter methods have failed to abate the negative influence of religion. However, whilst the brevity of the essays served its purpose many correspondents have asked for a fuller statement of the case against religion, which Professor Grayling provides in To Set Prometheus Free with the essays collected here. Contents: Preface-Where are we in history? -Why I do not subscribe to religious beliefs-Why Bertrand Russell was not religious-Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism-The War of the Books-The Good Life About the Author A.C. Grayling is Professor of Philosophy at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also a writer and broadcaster and the author of many books on philosophy.