A Secular Bible

[Ray Moscow]

Interview with AC Grayling about his new book (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/apr/03/grayling-good-book-atheism-philosophy)

[BioBeing]

Interesting. I may have to get the book.

For some reason, it is subtitled A Humanist Bible here in the States, not A Secular Bible.

[BioBeing]

In fact, the name chosen for USA is even more interesting, as Amazon pulls up this as a "similar item"

The Good Book of the Humanist Bible (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449983588/ref=s9_simh_gw_p14_d0_i2?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=1Z5FTKMN6Y0AMN109D7A&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=470938631&pf_rd_i=507846): The UnWrit Book of Books Of the Unholy Scriptures and the UnVarnished Gospel Truth of Reality

[Ozymandias]

Calling it a humanist bible seems like a cheap marketing ploy to me. He presumably doesn't mean it to be a bible, in the sense that he doesn't believe it to be infallible (I hope). To call it such seems to me to muddy the waters and, just like religion, attempt to shove his own personal view down our throats.

I won't be reading it.

[BioBeing]

Do you think he thinks the "real" bible is infallible? Somehow, I doubt it very much.

[trendkill]

It sounds very interesting, I looked it up on Amazon (no strange alternate titles came up, btw) and I'm really curious now as to what it actually contains.

[jimbo]

Here's a look inside the book http://thgdbk.net/tagged/Genesis/
I am still not sure if this is a great book or a lost opportunity.