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Welcome back, everybody, to Religion on the Mind.

I am your host, Dr. Dan Koch, licensed therapist.

And today we've got author. And really, I would say at this point,

history of philosophy teacher, Christopher Bayer, also known as the editor of Harper's Magazine,

novelist. And Chris, you have just put out a book, Why I Am Not an Atheist, The Confessions of a Skeptical Believer. It was heartily recommended to me by a good friend of mine, and also your

publicist reached out. It was a little one-two punch there. And I'm very grateful. I've been

reading it and enjoying it. And thanks for being here.

Absolutely. Thanks for having me. I want to actually really heartily recommend the book to listeners.

For a reason that certainly was not obvious to me before I started reading it, just the title is very memoir heavy.

But really, the majority of the book is this tidy history of most of Western philosophy, very readable, very digestible.

I would say, if that sounds interesting to you, listener, you would come away from the book

with sort of like a good thumbnail sketch

of every single major philosophical figure from Plato and Aristotle to bacon, mill,

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