God Is a Heartless Recluse

About the Book

The story of an atheist’s search for universal ethics, God Is a Heartless Recluse demonstrates that theists’ claim of God as their Heavenly Father is delusional. A god who allows terminal childhood diseases, mass murderers, cannibals, and genocides is at best a heartless recluse. In reality, God is a figment of megalomaniacal minds that don’t have the courage to accept the facts: Humans evolved from earlier primates. God is a human invention: animism, panpsychism, pantheism, polytheism, monotheism. The universe is indifferent to humanity. Paradise is a fictional luxury resort. Humanity is an adolescent civilization with the potential to mature, spread across the Milky Way, then to other galaxies and other universes—to live forever in this eternal multiverse.

About the Author

John Likides (MA in English, City College of CUNY) is the author of Foundations of Meaning (2013), Eros Triumphant (2010), Infinite Sustain (2007), and Out of the Labyrinth (2003). His work has appeared in Confrontation, The Portable Lower East Side, and other journals. He teaches ay CUNY and other universities. He works in threes: Writes literary romance novels of ideas about synchronicity and reincarnation investigated by freethinkers, composes soundtracks for his books, and paints the covers of his books and CDs. An atheist, he aspires to a spirituality that facilitates humanity’s perpetual improvement and systematic expansion across the galaxy.