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At the dawn of the 20th century, Nietzsche pronounced that God was dead. A century later, renowned French philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray convincingly affirms that He is back and here to stay, unless we all ask of ourselves “at what cost”? His proposed solution, the forging of a new, post-Christian morality, owes a debt to Epicurus, Hume, Rousseau and Voltaire, among other freethinkers, and is sure to stimulate discussion and debate.

Onfray’s treatise arises from a sense of outrage that only three hundred years since the triumph of the Enlightenment and the forging of laws separating church and state, politics and religion have once again rekindled their age-old alliance and are now fast gaining hold of our purportedly secular and democratic society. While acknowledging their beneficial aspects, Onfray digs deeply into the key fallacies of monotheistic religions, which he believes have conferred onto humankind a legacy of hatred and nihilism. He points to what all three have in common: an embedded hostility to reason and progress; to liberty and freedom; to learning and all but one single chosen book; to nature, sexuality, women, pleasure, and desire and to all impulses promoting life and vitality here on earth. Onfray traces these shared legacies historically and in recent events, demonstrating how they remain overshadowed by a renewed and overriding quest for healing and redemption.