distributed by the Giordano Bruno Foundation (gbs), where Schmidt-Salomon serves as the co-founding chair and spokesperson. According to gbs, 50,000 copies have been sold. Telepolis writes that Schmidt-Salomon mentions a pretty combination of science, philosophy and arts as an opposite of religion. But part of the manifesto appears not fully developed. However, taking its claims seriously, criticism like this would be welcome to foster the great project of a Leitkultur of enlightenment and humanism. A legal dispute of the author with a cardinal of the Catholic church in Germany drew broad media coverage to the theses of the manifesto. On 25 May 2008, Gerhard Ludwig Müller, preached in a sermon about a section of the manifesto concerning mountain gorillas and infanticide. Müller attributed certain Nazi-views of the promotion of infanticide to the author, for which Schmidt-Salomon sued the cardinal for false assertion of facts and slander. In a decision of the Higher Administrative Court of Bavaria, the cardinal was found to have violated the duty of truthfulness and due diligence, and was charged to pay the legal fees of Schmidt-Salomon. The cardinal appealed against the Bavarian court decision, and eventually in 2011, the Federal Administrative Count of Germany declined the cardinal's appeal. In 2009 in the Spiegel, the largest weekly news magazine in Europe, Karen Duve described the manifesto as "astute and highly relevant for current affairs". The Institute for Research on Religious and Ideological Issues (EZW) of the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) criticized that in the manifesto God would be psychologized in a way that would form a mirror-image of the creationist slogan of the "intelligent designer". In the 2017 book New Atheism: Critical Perspectives and Contemporary Debates the 2005 manifesto is marked as the first project of gbs in the then upcoming New Atheism, which is stated to provide a philosophical guideline for a secular ethics, that integrates scientific findings with humanist values and fights infringement on individual liberties. References External links Manifesto of Evolutionary Humanism on giordano-bruno-stiftung.de/en Books with atheism-related themes 2005 non-fiction books New Atheism