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[[London|LONDON ]] -- FOR centuries, we have been told that without [[religion]] we are no more than egotistic animals fighting for our share, our only [[morality]] that of a pack of wolves; only religion, it is said, can elevate us to a higher spiritual level. Today, when religion is emerging as the wellspring of murderous [[violence]] around the [[world]], assurances that [[Christian]] or Muslim or Hindu fundamentalists are only abusing and perverting the noble spiritual messages of their creeds ring increasingly hollow. What [[about]] restoring the dignity of [[atheism]], one of [[Europe]]'s greatest legacies and perhaps our only [[chance]] for peace?
More than a century ago, in ''The Brothers Karamazov'' and [[other]] works, Dostoyevsky warned against the dangers of godless [[moral]] [[nihilism]], arguing in [[essence]] that if God doesn't [[exist]], then everything is permitted. The [[French]] [[philosopher]] Andre Glucksmann even applied Dostoyevsky's critique of godless nihilism to 9/11, as the title of his book, ''Dostoyevsky in Manhattan,'' suggests.
