This book is subtitled, “Rewriting the Ten Commandments for the Twenty-first Century.” These two humanists are not the first to re-write the Ten Commandments. However, like probably all of the others before them, they greatly improve upon the “original” ten, which is extremely easy to do. Lex Bayer is on the board of the Humanist Connection, a group that reaches out to Stanford University and Silicon Valley. John Figdor is a humanist chaplain at Stanford. Like many other atheists, they believe it is not enough to simply reject a belief in God. Atheists, they contend, should become humanists and have something to live for. They can learn to live ethical and happy lives.

Humanist trailblazer Paul Kurtz, founder of the Institute for Science and Human Values (ISHV), died on October 20, 2012 at his home in Amherst, New York at the age of 86. However, he was fortunate to have lived a good, long and incredibly productive life.