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Date: January 27, 2012 03:44PM
After you've run through the New Atheists, and you've had your fun making hilarity out of the believer's beliefs, what next?
Alain de Botton, a man after mine own heart, suggests Secularists look to Religion to understand and incorporate that which Religion does well: propagate a way of life. His new TED Lecture, Atheism 2.0:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oe6HUgrRlQde Botton's Atheism 2.0 starts from a basic premise: "…of course there are no deities or supernatural spirits or angels etc. Now let's move on. That's not the end of the story, that's the very very beginning."
de Botton's TED talk is about what comes next (perhaps)…
Human
An example of a de Botton 'Sermon':
http://vimeo.com/10601416