A Manual for Creating Atheists

by Peter Boghossian

“Virtually all religions rely upon early childhood indoctrination as the prime infection strategy.”

Currently, the DSM grants religious delusions an exemption from classification as a mental illness.

By 2015, my Atheism course at Portland State University will hopefully become a MOOC. The course should be free and open to the public.

Conspicuously absent from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s information Web page are epistemologists:

German psychiatrist and philosopher Karl Jaspers (1883–1969) offers three criteria for delusion: certainty (someone is absolutely positive their belief is true), incorrigibility (the belief is incapable of revision), and impossibility or falsity of content (bizarre or highly improbable content)