Representations of Atheism

[KichigaiNeko]

Thanks, I'll look into it.

I've actually currently reading Good Omens by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman which I like. But I wonder more if Pratchett's works lend themselves more to 'Religion and Human Behavior' or something... Which is certainly not a bad thing! But it would be a different angle than what I'm currently looking at, which is more towards how atheism is portrayed and how it influences the way a book has been written, the choices and moral decisions made by a character, etc etc , hence why I want to get a wider range of sources =)

To be honest, there's a number of ways I can choose to go at this point, I just want to find out what I have to choose from.

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Terry Pratchett IS atheist and uses Discworld to explore this. This is evident in how his witches and wizards behave (the atheistic intellectual elite) how his peasants look to the gods and the gods themselves (how the either are or are not due to belief). This Discworld is a pretty good reflection of our own, 'The Last Continent' I think you will find very funny (as it pokes fun at the cussies across the pond)

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your meaning here??

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Try "Reaperman" for starters.

"The amazing Maurice and his educated rodents" is probably the best book on self awareness and its consequences I have ever read.

And it's one of his childrens books!

There is also the three works involving the "Wee Freemen" particularlly gruesome involing the development of a child born to 'witchcraft' and how she develops her value system in dealing with the world around her and it's value system.

One thought is that....
people will "wake-up" one day and start to think....this is crap (religion) how it is used by humanity to condone a myriad of horrors we inflict on each other, and realise 'I am separate from all this'
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