Synopsis "Q"
This is the Fourth Testament of A New Bible. It advocates and justifies atheism, with befitting quotations that epitomize universal truths, for it is offered in the language of inspired men and women, and completes a tetralogy of volumes having a common cause. The earlier testaments deal with the Origins of the Universe, Stars, Sun, Earth, Life and Humankind. The Third Testament is the story of human progress as known from the evidence of archaeology and the chronicles of the more ethical historians through to the present day. The four testaments speak for the freethinker and New Atheist, and for everybody who truly seeks to understand the world that we inhabit. The previous testaments have been twice published. In 2018 as A New Bible in Three Testaments, and in 2020 re-expressed as a hybrid, print-and-audio volume The Book of The Universe, Stars, Sun, Earth, Life and Humankind."The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic." John F. Kennedy. Address to Yale University. 11 June 1962."And on the matter of faith, let's be clear. A truly liberal society guarantees the freedom of all religions, but it accepts the tyranny of none. People must be free to live without threat or fear. To say the things, write the words and live the lives they choose. Does that offend some people? Yes, of course. But the price of freedom is the risk of offence. And, for me, that price is always worth paying." Menzies Campbell. 2007 when leader of the Liberal Democrats in Britain."The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known." John Stuart Mill. 1806-1873.
