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MY GOAL IS NOT TO CHANGE MINDS THAT ARE UNCHANGEABLE.
IT IS TO DEFEND AGAINST THEM.
Stan Biderman, The Secularist’s Bible
ABOUT STAN BIDERMAN
author of The Secularist’s Bible and Other Astonishing Absurdities and founder of The Secularist Press
Stan Biderman is a serial creative and an accidental secular warrior. A University of Texas School of Law graduate, Biderman served as the counterculture business lawyer of Austin representing head shops, a gay bar, carneys, and a nascent single store called Whole Foods. Biderman was also CEO of BookPeople, the largest independent book store in Texas. Since the late 80s, Biderman has been a leader in the revitalization of the hippest street in Texas, South Congress. He is the author of two award-winning books: Everything Changes: A Spiritual Journey (Plain View Press) and Bullet Trains to Yaks: Glimpses into Art, Politics, and Culture in China and Tibet (Irony Press), co-authored with his wife Kathryn Minette. Biderman and his wife are avid art collectors of provocative and political art amassed from all over the globe and currently live in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has two children who occasionally think he’s funny and five grandchildren who aren’t sure yet. They call him Saba.
My POV
What began as a series of daily musings—I call them “bits”—has transformed into a book and a movement. As a child of Holocaust survivors, a child of immigrants, as a father, and as a grandfather, I see the vulgarity and greed of religious fundamentalists. I see the chaos, the disrespect for our institutions, the disregard for the Constitution, and the shamelessness of the religious hypocrites. I wrote this book to provide a 75-year-old perspective to people feeling alienated and hopeless in this current environment.
WHY NOW?
I see the situation spinning out of control—people are lost—and I have a perspective that I hope contains some guidance. I hope to be the grandfather you need at this time.
THE impact
Like most true patriots, I object to religion’s overstepping in our culture and government: from prayer meetings in the White House to censorship in our libraries and religious symbols in our schools. While there are the best and the worst in all religions, religious fundamentalists are blatantly disloyal to the ideals of our founders. True patriots respect the separation of church and state in our Constitution.
“The enemy of reason is my enemy.”
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The Secularist’s Bible
And Other Astonishing Absurdities
by Stan Biderman
The Secularist’s Bible is at once an urgent clarion call to secular resistance, an absurdist memoir, and a family history of Holocaust survival—unified by one driving imperative: we must unite to defend democracy from fundamentalist onslaught.
Available September 2026
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Published by The Secularist Press