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From: tino@hou2f.UUCP (A.TINO)
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Subject: The Clarion Heritage
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Date: Tue, 18-Feb-86 12:25:09 EST
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Posted: Tue Feb 18 12:25:09 1986
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For all you fans of secular humanism, skepticism,
rational psychotherapy, atheism, and other good
stuff....

Here's a fun book that satirizes various biblical myths
while maintaining a consistent secular humanist viewpoint:

	THE TALES OF ATAVAN (Lotus Press, 1985)
	 Part 1: "The Clarion Heritage"
			
			by Oscar Region


It's pretty funny and it also makes some important philosophical
and psychological statements.

From the advertisement:
	Can Atavan save us from the moral majority before it's
	too late?  This glint-eyed revolutionary performs 
	Unmiracles, to the astonishment and praise of multitudes.
	He saves confused and tortured souls from pointlessness
	and self-destruction as he exposes the greed and deceit
	of mass mysticism. ...

Dr. Albert Ellis, director of the Institute for Rational Emotive
Therapy in NYC, says this about the book:
	
	An unusually well-written and interesting work of fiction
	that is well off the beaten path.  It beautifully beats
	the drum for unconditional self-acceptance, rather than
	specious self-esteem that is based on highly conditional
	religious claptrap.  Highly readable and worthwhile
	literature.  It is most unusual in its field.

_______
Al Tino
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