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By Michael Lackey

This examine of atheist African American writers poses a great problem to those that see atheism in despairing and nihilistic phrases. Lackey argues that whereas so much white atheists mourn the lack of religion, many black atheists--believing the “God-concept” spawns racism and oppression--consider the demise of God a reason for private and political hope. 

Focusing on a little-discussed element of African American literature, this full-length research of African American atheists’ remedy of God fills an important hole in reviews that regularly forget about their contributions. interpreting how a trust in God and His “chosen humans” necessitates a politics of superiority and inferiority, Lackey implicitly considers the measure to which non secular religion is chargeable for justifying oppression, even acts of actual and mental violence.
In their secular imaginative and prescient of social and political justice, black atheists argue that in basic terms while the tradition adopts and internalizes a very atheist politics--one according to pluralism, tolerance, and freedom--will radical democracy be completed. Of basic curiosity to students of African American reports, this quantity will also entice spiritual students, philosophers, anthropologists, freethinkers, and spiritual and secular humanists.
 

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