The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings For The Non-Believer - Contents

Contents

• Chapter 1: Lucretius: De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) - Books I, II, III, V, translation by W. Hannaford Brown
• Chapter 2: Omar Khayyám: Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations by Richard Le Gallienne
• Chapter 3: Thomas Hobbes: Of Religion, from Leviathan
• Chapter 4: Benedict De Spinoza: Theologico-Political Treatise
• Chapter 5: David Hume: The Natural History of Religion, Of Miracles
• Chapter 6: James Boswell: An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq.
• Chapter 7: Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Refutation of Deism
• Chapter 8: John Stuart Mill: Moral Influences in My Early Youth, From Autobiography
• Chapter 9: Karl Marx: Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right
• Chapter 10: George Eliot: Evangelical Teaching
• Chapter 11: Charles Darwin: Autobiography
• Chapter 12: Leslie Stephen: An Agnostic's Apology
• Chapter 13: Anatole France: Miracle
• Chapter 14: Mark Twain: Thoughts of God, From Fables of Man; Bible Teaching and Religious Practice, From Europe and Elsewhere and A Pen Warmed Up in Hell
• Chapter 15: Joseph Conrad: Author's Note to The Shadow Line
• Chapter 16: Thomas Hardy: God's Funeral
• Chapter 17: Emma Goldman: The Philosophy of Atheism
• Chapter 18: H. P. Lovecraft: A Letter on Religion
• Chapter 19: Carl Van Doren: Why I am An Unbeliever
• Chapter 20: H. L. Mencken: Memorial Service
• Chapter 21: Sigmund Freud: From The Future of an Illusion, translated and edited by James Strachey
• Chapter 22: Albert Einstein: Selected Writings on Religion
• Chapter 23: George Orwell: From A Clergyman's Daughter
• Chapter 24: John Betjeman: In Westminster Abbey
• Chapter 25: Chapman Cohen: Monism and Religion An Old Story
• Chapter 26: Bertrand Russell: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
• Chapter 27: Philip Larkin: Aubade, Church Going
• Chapter 28: Martin Gardner: The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming
• Chapter 29: Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World The God Hypothesis
• Chapter 30: John Updike: From Roger's Version
• Chapter 31: J. L. Mackie: Conclusions and Implications, From The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God
• Chapter 32: Michael Shermer: Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story
• Chapter 33: A. J. Ayer: That Undiscovered Country
• Chapter 34: Daniel C. Dennett: Thank Goodness!
• Chapter 35: Charles Templeton: From A Farewell to God, A Personal Word, and Questions to Ask Yourself
• Chapter 36: Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly is No God, Gerin oil, and Atheists for Jesus
• Chapter 37: Victor Stenger: From God: The Failed Hypothesis, Cosmic Evidence
• Chapter 38: Daniel C. Dennett: A Working Definition of Religion from "Breaking Which Spell?"
• Chapter 39: Elizabeth Anderson: If God is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?
• Chapter 40: Penn Jillette: There is No God
• Chapter 41: Ian McEwan: End of the World Blues
• Chapter 42: Steven Weinberg: What About God? From Dreams of a Final Theory
• Chapter 43: Salman Rushdie: "Imagine There's no Heaven": A Letter to the Six Billionth World Citizen
• Chapter 44: Ibn Warraq: The Koran, The Totalitarian Nature of Islam
• Chapter 45: Sam Harris: In the Shadow of God, From The End of Faith
• Chapter 46: A. C. Grayling: Can an Atheist Be a Fundamentalist? From Against All Gods
• Chapter 47: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: How (and Why) I Became an Infidel