Atheist Persona

PrefaceIntroductionChapter One: The Psychological and Sociological Causes for AtheismThe Dysfunctional or Absent Father FigureThe Dysfunctional or Absent Mother FigureThe Defective-Dysfunctional FamilyAborting GodAtheist Father and/or Mother HeroThe Dysfunctional ClericAtheism-A Pathological Response to Social DisintegrationThe Sophisticated-Recognition-Nonconformist-NeedPersonal Convenience, Self-Centeredness and HedonismComfort in Health and LifeIncomprehensible SufferingThe Atheist Persona-A Hopeless LifeChapter Two: God Belief: Good or Bad for You?Good or Bad?Predisposed to Healing?Chapter Three: Big Fancy Robots?God-gene?God Module or Switch?The God HelmetNeuroplasticity of the BrainChapter Four: Biology and Atheism Continued Superman or Deficient Being?Further Neurological InsightsThe Media and Brain DevelopmentMen vs. WomenFurther Neurological StudiesIn ConclusionChapter Five: The Spiritual Pivot: Humanness Explicated Spiritual TriggersAwakeningDark NightIllumination and EnlightenmentPurification of the Soul and the MysticalNeuroscience and the MysticalFully Human?Chapter Six: Intolerance and ViolenceHolding Back the Barbarian in UsCatholic Inquisitions, Crusades, and Religious WarsChapter Seven: Slaughtering the Scriptures in the Name of AtheismIgnorance or Dishonesty?Bible 101Chapter Eight: Encyclopedia of Prehistoric Cults?God of Myth or Philosophy?Christianizing Pagan PracticesPagan Roots for AtheismIn ConclusionChapter Nine: The Media: Atheism's Evangelizing PulpitThe Media-Expressing and Fostering the Atheist LifestyleViolenceThe Cult of the BodyCult of Self-AbuseA Medicated SocietyA Sex-Obsessed WorldDin of Vulgarity (continued)Dummying-down of SocietySubliminal SeductionLoss of EmpathyThe "god" of MaterialismThe Fostering of PassivitySuppressing the TruthMedia (in general)Chapter Ten: Science and/or Man as "god"Science as godMan as godChapter Eleven: What Science and Man Can't ExplainIntelligent Design?Biological Design?Cosmological Design?Neurological Design?Chapter Twelve: The Spiritual: Essential for the Sciences and the ArtsPriests and Religious OrdersMonksThe Church in GeneralChapter Thirteen: Atheism's BequestAbortionPost Abortion Trauma-Damaging WomenPost Abortion Trauma-Damaging FamiliesContraceptionModern Comprehensive Sex EducationPornographic SocietyPremarital Sex Same-sex Marriage Divorce-impacting the future Child Abuse-the result of the denigration of personhood and the familyNo Place for the Poor in SecularismOverpopulation-a myth promoted by hedonistic atheistsAssisted Reproduction, Genetic Engineering, Scientific ResearchEuthanasia vs. Palliative CareViolence in Society-the beginnings of the endIn ConclusionConclusion: Brain in a VatA Final Remark Appendix I: What was lost? Metaphysics and the Natural LawAppendix II: A Science-based Moral System for AtheistsBibliography