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What Makes an Atheist Get out of Bed in the Morning?

By Daniel Lazare, The Nation. Posted May 15, 2007.


In their rush to throw out God, atheist writers appear to have given little thought to what should replace the deity.

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Daniel Lazare is the author of, most recently, The Velvet Coup: The Constitution, the Supreme Court, and the Decline of American Democracy (Verso). He is currently at work on a book about the politics of Christianity, Judaism and Islam for Pantheon.

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