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Over at The Guardian<\/em>, John Gray writes on What Scares the New Atheists<\/a>, a great read:<\/p>\n

In 1929, the Thinker\u2019s Library, a series established by the Rationalist Press Association to advance secular thinking and counter the influence of religion in Britain, published an English translation of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel\u2019s 1899 book\u00a0The Riddle of the Universe<\/a>. Celebrated as \u201cthe German Darwin\u201d, Haeckel was one of the most influential public intellectuals of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; The Riddle of the Universe sold half a million copies in Germany alone, and was translated into dozens of other languages. Hostile to Jewish and Christian traditions,\u00a0Haeckel<\/a>\u00a0devised his own \u201creligion of science\u201d called Monism, which incorporated an anthropology that divided the human species into a hierarchy of racial groups. Though he died in 1919, before the Nazi Party had been founded, his ideas, and widespread influence in Germany, unquestionably helped to create an intellectual climate in which policies of racial slavery and genocide were able to claim a basis in science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over at The Guardian, John Gray writes on What Scares the New Atheists, a great read: In 1929, the Thinker\u2019s Library, a series established by the Rationalist Press Association to advance secular thinking and counter the influence of religion in Britain, published an English translation of the German biologist Ernst Haeckel\u2019s 1899 book\u00a0The Riddle of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBest Article I've Read about Atheism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Over at The Guardian, John Gray writes on What Scares the New Atheists, a great read: In 1929, the Thinker\u2019s Library, a series established by the\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2015\/06\/best-article-ive-read-about-atheism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Best Article I've Read about Atheism\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over at The Guardian, John Gray writes on What Scares the New Atheists, a great read: In 1929, the Thinker\u2019s Library, a series established by the\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/euangelion\/2015\/06\/best-article-ive-read-about-atheism\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Euangelion\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/michael.bird.33\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-19T05:55:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-06-12T11:58:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Michael F. 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