Fourth Anniversary Event
Time: 7:00 pm.
Location: Artserve auditorium, 1350 E. Sunrise Blvd.
Special Presentation by
Ron Aronson
Author of Living Without God: New Direcitons f or Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists
and the Undecided
Join our CFI Fort Lauderdale Community
in celebrating its Fourth Anniversary
Ron Aronson is the Distinguished Professor of the History of Ideas, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, at Wayne State University
His recent book was published in September by Counterpoint Press. In his comment on the book jacket, Christopher Hitchens writes: “Ronald Aronson demonstrates that atheism represents much more than what one does not believe: that it is the precondition for a generous humanism….”
Aronson
also wrote the cover article on “The New Atheists” in The Nation
in June, 2007 and has published recent articles on secularists and
secularism in USA Today (October 20) and The Nation (October 28). An
excerpt from his book , along with a review, will appear in a
forthcoming issue of Free Inquiry. His book has also been reviewed in
The Humanist and the New York Times.
Mr. Aronson makes a good argument that Americans are far more secular or at least less religious than is often recognized. But, he says, contemporary secularism has lost the buoyant confidence it once gained from “its essential link to the idea of Progress, which promised so much and came to such grief during the 20th century.”
“To live comfortably without God today,” he says, “means doing what has not yet been done: namely, rethinking the secular worldview after the eclipse of modern optimism. Indeed religion is not really the issue, but rather the incompleteness or tentativeness, the thinness or emptiness, of today’s atheism, agnosticism and secularism. Living without God means turning toward something.”
