Mainstream Atheist/Nonbeliever Authors: A New Enlightenment?

[lilandra]

Hi,

I deconverted 3 years ago from Christianity and am surprised by how many of the modern fiction authors are nonbelievers. I don't mean Dawkins and Hitchens, who write overtly atheist books.

A list: ( I am sure there are more)

Terry Pratchett
Anne Rice(reconverted maybe)
Neil Gaiman
Isaac Asimov
Arthur C. Clarke
Douglas Adams

Dave Barry?

Maybe, people will look back on this period as a Neo-Enlightenment with a flowering of nontheist literature.

 

[nasher168]

Don't forget Philip Pullman. The film adaptation might have been crap, but the books in His Dark Materials series are fantastic and definitely overtly atheist (the world is ruled by the iron grip of a catholic-like church and God is killed towards the end by a child by accident).

 

[lilandra]

Don't forget Philip Pullman. The film adaptation might have been crap, but the books in His Dark Materials series are fantastic and definitely overtly atheist (the world is ruled by the iron grip of a catholic-like church and God is killed towards the end by a child by accident).

I can't believe Orson Scott Card is a Mormon!

 

[lilandra]

Don't forget Philip Pullman. The film adaptation might have been crap, but the books in His Dark Materials series are fantastic and definitely overtly atheist (the world is ruled by the iron grip of a catholic-like church and God is killed towards the end by a child by accident).

It is paradoxical how many atheist authors like Pullman and Lovecraft's fiction has magic in them.

 

[ImprobableJoe]

I can't believe Orson Scott Card is a Mormon!

He's also a giant douche-nozzle, to the point that I refuse to read any of his books.