OUR MISSION STATEMENT
At
the Atheist Bookshop we are on a 'mission without God'.
The mission of the Atheist Bookshop, is to provide an internet resource
which is much more than just a book retailer and much less than a large
corporation profiting from atheist readers and writers. We intend to
provide a book outlet that fosters a community of likeminded people and
tailors its products and services, to the desires and needs of that
community.
In the interests of atheism, we advocate and support a charitable
atheist organisation. The Richard
Dawkins Foundation (RDF). To this end, we donate a pecentage
of our net profit to the RDF, for redistribution as it sees fit. We are
not a charity, nor are we a charitable fundraising organisation. We are
a 'for profit', private enterprise, retail bookshop, who voulantarily
donates, on a percentage wise, ongoing basis, to a charitable cause we
believe our customers will gladly endorse.
Why the RDF? Well simply stated, the RDF is something of a
meta-charity for many other atheist charitable causes. It has been a
pioneering organisation which has set about defending the rights, to
possess charitable status for non-proffit, secular orginisations
worldwide. Furthermore, it has found a way to act as an intermediary
for people wishing to donate funds for any worthwile secular cause, on
ether side of the Atlantic. It has gained charitable status in the US
and the UK (and other countries may follow suit). By donating
to the RDF we are benifitinging a number of worthwile atheist causes
and facilitating the more general acceptance of secular/atheist
charities in the proccess.
Aside from selling books, advocating atheism and supporting atheist
charitable organisations, the Atheist Bookshop endevours to become a
great resource for writers, who wish to become published or to promote
their own existing publications, consistent with atheist or secular
worldviews and values. To this end we endevour to support atheist
writers and would-be writers, with a raft of services and information
relating to the process of writing and publishing in general, as well
as specific resources of relevance to athist & secular writing
and publishing.
Our intention is to be a comprehensive community and support network,
for atheist literature, while selling atheiest books and promoting
atheism in general. We do intend to sell our books at prices lower than
you would find elsewhere and still provide a margin of our net profit
to the RDF. We are not out for big profits, but merely to cover our
costs, survive, and justify a small donation to an atheist charity.
Larger profits would go to existing retailers, who have no intrest in
atheism, beyond profiting from the books it inspires.
Like our products and services, the management of the Atheist Bookshop,
is for
atheists, by
atheists. We hope you will agree, that it is important to support the
community of which you are an important part. So why, we ask, would you
buy atheist books anywhere else?