The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever

✍ Scribed by Anderson, Elizabeth;Ayer, Alfred Jules;Betjeman, John;Boswell, James;Cohen, Chapman;Conrad, Joseph;Darwin, Charles;Dawkins, Richard;Dennett, Daniel Clement;Einstein, Albert;Eliot, George;France, Anatole;Freud, Sigmund;Gardner, Martin;Goldman, Emma;Grayling, A. C.;Hardy, Thomas;Harris, Sam;Hirsi Ali, Ayaan;Hitchens, Christopher;Hobbes, Thomas;Hume, David;Ibn Warraq.;Jillette, Penn;Larkin, Philip;Lovecraft, Howard Phillips;Lucretius Carus, Titus;Mackie, J. L.;Marx, Karl;McEwan, Ian;Mencken, Henry Louis;Mill, John Stuart;Omar Khayyam.;Orwell, George;Rushdie, Salman;Russell, Bertrand;Sagan, Carl;Shelley, Percy Bysshe;Shermer, Michael;Spinoza, Benedictus de;Stenger, Victor J.;Stephen, Leslie;Templeton, Charles;Twain, Mark;Updike, John;Van Doren, Carl;Weinberg, Steven

• Publisher: Da Capo
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 430 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Cambridge, Mass.
• ISBN-13: 9782001625628

✦ Synopsis

Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of notable non-believers.;Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Christopher Hitchens -- from De rerum natura (On the nature of things), Book I / Lucretius, translated by W. Hannaford Brown -- from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: a paraphrase from several literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne / Omar Khayyám -- Of religion, from Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes -- Theological-political treatise / Benedict de Spinoza -- The natural history of religion ; Of miracles / David Hume -- An account of my last interview with David Hume, Esq. / James Boswell -- A refutation of deism / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Moral influences in my early youth, from Autobiography / John Stuart Mill -- Contribution to the critique of Hegel's philosophy of right / Karl Marx -- Evangelical teaching / George Eliot -- Autobiography / Charles Darwin -- An agnostic's apology / Leslie Stephen -- Miracle / Anatole France -- Thoughts of God, from Fables of Man ; Bible teaching and religious practice, fom Europe and elsewhere and A pen warmed up in hell / Mark Twain -- Author's note to The shadow line / Joseph Conrad -- God's funeral / Thomas Hardy -- The philosophy of atheism / Emma Goldman -- A letter on religion / H. P. Lovecraft -- Why I am an unbeliever / Carl Van Doren -- Memorial service / H. L. Mencken -- from The future of an illusion / Sigmund Freud ; translated and edited by James Strachey -- Selected writings on religion / Albert Einstein -- from A clergyman's daughter / George Orwell -- In Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman -- Monism and religion ; An old story / Chapman Cohen -- An outline of intellectual rubbish / Bertrand Russell -- Aubade ; Church going / Philip Larkin -- The wandering Jew and the second coming / Martin Gardner -- The demon-haunted world ; The God hypothesis / Carl Sagan -- from Roger's version / John Updike -- Conclusions and implications, from The miracle of theism: arguments for and against the existence of God / J. L. Mackie -- Genesis revisited: a scientific creation story / Michael Shermer -- That undiscovered country / A. J. Ayer -- Thank goodness! / Daniel C. Dennett -- from A farewell to God, a personal word ; Questions to ask yourself / Charles Templeton -- Why there almost certainly is no God ; Gerin oil ; Atheists for Jesus / Richard Dawkins -- from God: the failed hypothesis, cosmic evidence / Victor Stenger -- A working definition of religion, from "Breaking which spell?" / Daniel C. Dennett / If God is dead, is everything permitted? / Elizabeth Anderson -- There is no God / Penn Jillette -- End of the world blues / Ian McEwan -- What about God? from Dreams of a final theory / Steven Weinberg -- "Imagine there's no heaven": a letter to the six billionth world citizen / Salman Rushdie -- The Koran ; The totalitarian nature of Islam / Ibn Warraq -- In the shadow of God, from The end of faith / Sam Harris -- Can an atheist be a fundamentalist? from Against all gods / A. C. Grayling -- How (and why) I became an infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- Credits and permissions -- Index.

✦ Subjects

Controversial literature