Faithless
Subtitle: a journey out of religion with stops for light refreshment along the way
By: Tony Philpott
Publisher: The Liffey Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Raheny, Dublin, Ireland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781908308481
Subjects: Religious education; Humor; Religion
Description: A humorous memoir which charts both a personal and social history of religion's conflict with secular thought, and whose central theme concerns the break-up of the author's relationship with a man-made deity. Sacred cows are butchered with sharp wit, deities are probed with the zeal of a meticulous proctologist, and all that is miraculous is interrogated under the hot light of reason. All of this is accomplished by viewing religion through the memories of a young boy growing up in Ireland in the 1950s and 60s whose already jaundiced eye had begun to see the flaws in blind faith.