50 Voices of Disbelief Why We Are Atheists

50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are atheists+ Features original essays that offer an extremely diverse range of viewpoints by the inclusion of authors from every continent except Antarctica+ Includes the presence of academic philosophers who work in philosophy of religion, such as John Schellenberg, Graham Oppy, Michael Tooley and others, to give the collection added intellectual gravitas+ Likely to have broad appeal given the current public fascination with religious issues and the reception of such books as The God Delusion and The End of Faith

Russell Blackford is a freelance writer, critic, and editor, based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches part-time in the School of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University, where he specialises mainly in philosophical bioethics and legal/political philosophy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Evolution and Technology, an on-line peer reviewed journal devoted to rigorous consideration of future prospects for the human species or its possible descendants.

Udo Schüklenk is a German-Australian philosopher. He has written or edited five books and published over one hundred articles in peer reviewed journals and books. His latest books are the co-edited volumes The Power of Pills (2006) and The Bioethics Reader (Blackwell, 2007). He is the Joint Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Bioethics and currently the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics at Queen’s University in Canada. His current research focuses on ethical and policy issues in drug research and development.

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Now More Important than Ever - Voices of Reason
Unbelievable!
My "Bye Bull" Story
How Benevolent Is God? - An Argument from Suffering to Atheism
A Deal-Breaker
Why Am I a Nonbeliever? - I Wonder ...
Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the Moral Character and Existential Status of God
Religious Belief and Self-Deception
The Coming of Disbelief
What I Believe
Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to Explain: The Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God
How to Think About God: Theism, Atheism, and Science
A Magician Looks at Religion
Confessions of a Kindergarten Leper
Beyond Disbelief
An Ambivalent Nonbelief
Why Not?
Godless Cosmology
Unanswered Prayers
Beyond Faith and Opinion
Could It Be Pretty Obvious There's No God?
Atheist, Obviously
Why I am Not a Believer
Evil and Me
Who's Unhappy?
Reasons to be Faithless
Three Stages of Disbelief
Born Again, Briefly
Cold Comfort
The Accidental Exorcist
Atheist Out of the Foxhole
The Unconditional Love of Reality
Antinomies
Giving Up Ghosts and Gods
Some Thoughts on Why I Am an Atheist
No Gods, Please!
Welcome Me Back to the World of the Thinking
Kicking Religion Goodbye à
On Credenda
"Not Even Start to Ignore Those Questions!" A Voice of Disbelief in a Different Key
Imagine No Religion
Humanism as Religion: An Indian Alternative
Why I Am NOT a Theist
When the Hezbollah Came to My School
Evolutionary Noise, not Signal from Above
Gods Inside
Why Morality Doesn't Need Religion
Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism
My Nonreligious Life: A Journey From Superstition to Rationalism
Helping People to Think Critically About Their Religious Beliefs
Human Self-Determination, Biomedical Progress, and God
About the Contributors
Index
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