50 voices of disbelief: why we are atheists

50 Voices of Disbelief......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 12
Introduction: Now More Important than Ever – Voices of Reason......Page 14
Unbelievable!......Page 18
My \"Bye Bull\" Story......Page 23
How Benevolent Is God? An Argumentfrom Suffering to Atheism......Page 29
A Deal-Breaker......Page 36
Why Am I a Nonbeliever? – I Wonder . . .......Page 41
Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the Moral Character and Existential Status of God......Page 46
Religious Belief and Self-Deception......Page 54
The Coming of Disbelief......Page 61
What I Believe......Page 63
Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to Explain: The Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God......Page 70
How to Think About God: Theism, Atheism, and Science......Page 78
A Magician Looks at Religion......Page 91
Confessions of a Kindergarten Leper......Page 95
Beyond Disbelief......Page 99
An Ambivalent Nonbelief......Page 110
Why Not?......Page 118
Godless Cosmology......Page 125
Unanswered Prayers......Page 131
Beyond Faith and Opinion......Page 136
Could It Be Pretty Obvious There\'s No God?......Page 142
Atheist, Obviously......Page 152
Why I am Not a Believer......Page 158
Evil and Me......Page 170
Who\'s Unhappy?......Page 174
Reasons to be Faithless......Page 178
Three Stages of Disbelief......Page 181
Born Again, Briefly......Page 185
Cold Comfort......Page 190
The Accidental Exorcist......Page 195
Atheist Out of the Foxhole......Page 200
The Unconditional Love of Reality......Page 204
Antinomies......Page 210
Giving Up Ghosts and Gods......Page 213
Some Thoughts on Why I Am an Atheist......Page 217
No Gods, Please!......Page 224
Welcome Me Back to the World of the Thinking......Page 233
Kicking Religion Goodbye . . .......Page 239
On Credenda......Page 243
\"Not Even Start to Ignore Those Questions!\" A Voice of Disbelief in a Different Key......Page 249
Imagine No Religion......Page 265
Humanism as Religion: An Indian Alternative......Page 272
Why I Am NOT a Theist......Page 276
When the Hezbollah Came to My School......Page 283
Evolutionary Noise, not Signal from Above......Page 287
Gods Inside......Page 292
Why Morality Doesn\'t Need Religion......Page 301
Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism......Page 307
My Nonreligious Life: A Journey From Superstition to Rationalism......Page 313
Helping People to Think Critically About Their Religious Beliefs......Page 323
Human Self-Determination, Biomedical Progress, and God......Page 336
About the Contributors......Page 345
Index......Page 351