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Godless in America: Why I wrote it

#39: July - Oct. 2007 (Non-Fiction)
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Getting away, for a moment, from the line of inquiry DH is persuing, who did you envision as your audience for the book, George? Religious believers? Other atheists? People who were on the fence?
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MadArchitect wrote:Getting away, for a moment, from the line of inquiry DH is persuing, who did you envision as your audience for the book, George? Religious believers? Other atheists? People who were on the fence?
I hoped the book would be useful to nonbelievers to help them clarify their own thinking about atheism, etc., and would help some theists to gain a better understanding of atheism and what it means to be an atheist in the United States, or, at least, how this atheist perceives it.

I can't honestly claim I had a specific target audience in mind when I wrote the book, except to say that I was fairly confident fundamentalist religionists probably would not be reading it.

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