FAITH IN FAITHLESSNESS
Table of Contents
Preface
IntroductionFROM THE EARLY CLASSICS
1 Theologico-Political Treatise, Benedict de Spinoza
2 Thoughts on Religion, Denis Diderot
3 The System of Nature, Paul-Henry Thiry, Baron d'Holbach
4 The Natural History of Religion, David Hume
5 The Age of Reason, Thomas Paine
6 A Refutation of Deism, Percy Bysshe Shelley
7 Immortality,John Stuart Mill
8 Evangelical Teaching, George Eliot
9 The Spirit of Rationalism In Europe, W.E.H. Lecky
10 The Christian Church and Women, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
11 Humanity's Gain from Unbelief, Charles Bradlaugh
12 Miracle, Anatole France
13 Autobiography, Charles Darwin
14 The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche
15 God and the Constitution, Robert G. Ingersoll
16 The Essence of Religion in General, Ludwig Feuerbach
17 God and the State, Michael Bakunin
18 Contribution to the Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of Right, Karl Marx
FROM THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY CLASSICS
19 The Philosophy of Atheism, Emma Goldman
20 On the Scopes Trial, H.L. Mencken
21 The Lord's Day Alliance, Clarence Darrow
22 Why I Am an Unbeliever, Carl Van Doren
23 Is There a God?, Bertrand Russell
24 The Claims of Theology, A.J. Ayer
25 The Unbelievers and Christians, Albert Camus
26 Science and Religion, Albert Einstein
FROM THE LATER 20th CENTURY and 21st CENTURY
27 Monotheism and Its Discontents, Gore Vidal
28 How Is Atheism to Be Characterized?, Kai Nielsen
29 Atheism, Christine Overall
30 The Atheist Manifesto, Sam Harris
31 Why There Almost Certainly Is No God, Richard Dawkins
32 Religion as an Original Sin, Christopher Hitchens
33 In the Service of the Death Fixation, Michel Onfray
34 Thank Goodness!, Daniel C. Dennett
35 For the Love of Reason, Louise M. Anthony
6 If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?, Elizabeth Second Anderson
37 An Atheist Childhood, Tariq Ali
A Rapper's Song, Greydon Square
38 Humanism and the Territory of Novelists, Salman Rushdie
39 Why My Dog Is Not a Humanist, Kurt Vonnegut
Epilogue: A New Enlightenment: The Second Wave, Dimitrios Roussopoulos
Notes On The Contributors
Resource Guide from the Website of Richard Dawkins
Credits and Permissions
Celebrity Quotes Throughout, Including from George Bernard Shaw, Voltaire, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Aldous Huxley, Tennessee Williams, Charles Bukowski, Jean-Paul Sartre, Noam Chomsky, Sigmund Freud, Ingmar Bergman, Katharine Hepburn, John Malkovich, Robert Altman, Jodie Foster, Bill Gates, Angelina Jolie, Jack Nicholson, Howard Stern, Isaac Asimov, Woody Allen, Richard Leakey, James Watson, Gene Roddenberry, Gloria Steinem