Churchmen generally contend that great figures in history, such as America's founders, were conventional believers. This book chronicles dozens of famous people such as Isaac Asimov, W E B DuBois, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Benjamin Franklin, with quotes that reveal their rejection of the supernatural.
A collection of articles and essays that covers such topics as biblical errancy, the miraculous, the number of churches in America, the scepticism of Mark Twain, and Upton Sinclair and Jesus. It also discusses issues such as fundamentalists' attacks on science and culture, extremism, and the debate over religious instruction in public schools.
A collection of essays including: Why I Am An Agnostic; The Myth of the Soul; Absurdities of the Bible; Voltaire; and The Skeleton in the Closet. This work deals with beliefs in the inerrancy of the Bible, the immortality of the soul, miracles, and heaven as being completely at odds with human experience and science.
A collection of essays that addresses the many and diverse aspects of atheistic humanism. It disposes of the perennial charge that a naturalistic world outlook presupposes values which it cannot justify. It criticises sociologists of belief who refute themselves by refusing to admit that there is such a thing as 'objective knowledge'.
Argues that the divine attributes of God are merely projections of human powers; life everlasting cannot be empirically demonstrated, for it runs counter to all the evidence for mortality given by the natural world, which is the only world we know. This book covers skepticism, faith, and the corruption of organized Christianity.
Did Jesus ever live? Was he the Messiah as Christianity has claimed? And what are the true foundations of the Christian religion? This book takes us through the ancient Mediterranean world to show how Christianity appropriated the ceremonies and myths of paganism to elaborate the Resurrection story.
Discusses the demonstrative evidence of evolution, the physical basis of life, naturalism and supernaturalism, agnosticism and Christianity, and the Christian tradition in relation to Judaic Christianity.
A collection of articles, essays, and speeches that analyses atheism and its relevance to society. It provides an analysis of Ayn Rand's contribution to atheism, explaining how her objectivist metaphysics and laissez-faire economic principles rested on a purely godless worldview.
A collection of atheist and rationalist literature. It features twenty essays and twenty-nine samples of atheist and rationalist verse by such authors as GJ Holyoake, Robert Browning, John Keats, Annie Besant, Rudyard Kipling, Thomas Hardy, and Charles Bradlaugh.
