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Atheists in general need share no particular political or metaphysical views, but atheists of the most modern, Western, militant sort, escaping from a merely nihilistic mind-set, are usually humanists of an especially triumphalist kind. In this paper I offer a critical analysis and partial history of their claims, suggesting that they are members of a distinctively Christian heretical sect, formed in reaction to equally heretical forms of monotheistic idolatry.

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This page is a summary of: Atheism Considered as a Christian Sect, Philosophy, December 2014, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0031819114000564.
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