Atheism A Reader

This unique anthology assembles the best writings on atheism, agnosticism, and skepticism by some of the world's great thinkers past and present.

Introduction

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(25)

PART 1: SOME OVERVIEWS

Agnosticism (1889)

25

(9)

Thomas Henry Huxley

An Agnostic's Apology (1876)

34

(19)

Leslie Stephen

The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)

53

(7)

Emma Goldman

Why I Am an Unbeliever (1926)

60

(9)

Carl Van Doren

PART 2: THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

A Refutation of Deism (1814)

69

(9)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

What Is Religion? (1899)

78

(9)

Robert G. Ingersoll

Is There a God? (1952)

87

(8)

Bertrand Russell

The Claims of Theology (1973)

95

(14)

A. J. Ayer

PART 3: THE IMMORTALITY MYTH

On the Nature of Things (ca. 60 B.C.E.)

109

(9)

Lucretius

Immortality (1868-70)

118

(6)

John Stuart Mill

Can We Survive Our Own Deaths? (1993)

124

(15)

Antony Flew

PART 4: THE NATURE OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF

The Natural History of Religion (1757)

139

(8)

David Hume

Evangelical Teaching (1855)

147

(24)

George Eliot

Humanity's Gain from Unbelief (1889)

171

(14)

Charles Bradlaugh

Miracle (1895)

185

(8)

Anatole France

PART 5: RELIGION AND SCIENCE

Autobiography (1876)

193

(6)

Charles Darwin

The Antichrist (1888)

199

(10)

Friedrich Nietzche

On the Scopes Trial (1925)

209

(7)

H. L. Mencken

The Demon-Haunted World (1995)

216

(13)

Carl Sagan

PART 6: RELIGION AND ETHICS

The System of Nature (1770)

229

(11)

Paul-Henri Thiry

baron d'Holbach

The Age of Reason (1796)

240

(5)

Thomas Paine

A Letter on Religion (1918)

245

(5)

H. P. Lovecraft

The Faith of a Heretic (1961)

250

(13)

Walter Kaufmann

PART 7: RELIGION AND THE STATE

Theologico-Political Treatise (1670)

263

(6)

Benedict de Spinoza

The Spirit of Rationalism in Europe (1865)

269

(7)

W. E. H. Lecky

God in the Constitution (1890)

276

(11)

Robert G. Ingersoll

The Lord's Day Alliance (1928)

287

(16)

Clarence Darrow

Monotheism and Its Discontents (1992)

303

(10)

Gore Vidal

PART 8: RELIGION AND SOCIETY

The Christian Church and Woman (1885)

313

(12)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The Priest and the Child (1895?)

325

(10)

J. M. Robertson

Religion and Sex (1919)

335

(8)

Chapman Cohen

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