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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Christopher Hitchens
LUCRETIUS
From De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)
Translated by W. Hannaford Brown
OMAR KHAYYÁM
From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
A Paraphrase from Several Literal Translations by Richard Le Gallienne
THOMAS HOBBES
Of Religion
From Leviathan
BENEDICT DE SPINOZA
Theological-Political Treatise
DAVID HUME
The Natural History of Religion
Impious Conceptions of the Divine Nature in Popular Religions of Both Kinds
Bad Influence of Popular Religions on Morality
DAVID HUME
Of Miracles
From An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding
Part One
Part Two
JAMES BOSWELL
An Account of My Last Interview with David Hume, Esq.
[Partly recited in my Journal, partly enlarged from my memory, 3 March 1777.]
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
A Refutation of Deism
JOHN STUART MILL
Moral Influences in Early Youth: My Father’s Character and Opinions
From Autobiography
KARL MARX
Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right
Introduction
GEORGE ELIOT
Evangelical Teaching
CHARLES DARWIN
Autobiography
LESLIE STEPHEN
An Agnostic’s Apology
ANATOLE FRANCE
Miracle
MARK TWAIN
Thoughts of God
From Fables of Man
MARK TWAIN
Bible Teaching and Religious Practice
From Europe and Elsewhere and A Pen Warmed Up In Hell
JOSEPH CONRAD
Author’s Note to The Shadow Line
THOMAS HARDY
God’s Funeral
EMMA GOLDMAN
The Philosophy of Atheism
H. P. LOVECRAFT
A Letter on Religion
CARL VAN DOREN
Why I Am an Unbeliever
H. L. MENCKEN
Memorial Service
SIGMUND FREUD
From The Future of an Illusion
Translated and edited by James Strachey
VI
VII
ALBERT EINSTEIN
Selected Writings on Religion
GEORGE ORWELL
From A Clergyman’s Daughter
JOHN BETJEMAN
In Westminster Abbey
CHAPMAN COHEN
Monism and Religion
CHAPMAN COHEN
An Old Story
BERTRAND RUSSELL
An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
The Sun
PHILIP LARKIN
Aubade
PHILIP LARKIN
Church Going
MARTIN GARDNER
The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming
CARL SAGAN
The Demon-Haunted World
CARL SAGAN
The God Hypothesis
JOHN UPDIKE
From Roger’s Version
J. L. MACKIE
Conclusions and Implications
From The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and Against the Existence of God
(a) The Challenge of Nihilism
(b) The Balance of Probabilities
(c) The Moral Consequences of Atheism
MICHAEL SHERMER
Genesis Revisted
A Scientific Creation Story
A. J. AYER
That Undiscovered Country
DANIEL C. DENNETT
Thank Goodness!
CHARLES TEMPLETON
A Personal Word
From A Farewell to God
CHARLES TEMPLETON
Questions to Ask Yourself
RICHARD DAWKINS
Why There Almost Certainly Is No God
From The God Delusion
The Ultimate Boeing 747
Natural Selection as a Consciousness-Raiser
Irreducible Complexity
The Worship of Gaps
RICHARD DAWKINS
Gerin Oil
RICHARD DAWKINS
Atheists for Jesus
VICTOR STENGER
Cosmic Evidence
From God: The Failed Hypothesis
Miracles
Creating Matter
Creating Order
The Origin
Intervening in the Cosmos
Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From?
DANIEL C. DENNETT
A Working Definition of Religion
From “Breaking Which Spell?”
ELIZABETH ANDERSON
If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?
PENN JILLETTE
There Is No God
IAN MCEWAN
End of the World Blues
STEVEN WEINBERG
What About God?
From Dreams of a Final Theory
SALMAN RUSHDIE
“Imagine There’s No Heaven”
A Letter to the Six Billionth World Citizen
IBN WARRAQ
The Koran
From Why I Am Not a Muslim
IBN WARRAQ
The Totalitarian Nature of Islam
SAM HARRIS
In the Shadow of God
From The End of Faith
A. C. GRAYLING
Can an Atheist Be a Fundamentalist?
From Against All Gods
AYAAN HIRSI ALI
How (and Why) I Became an Infidel
Credits and Permissions
Index
ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS
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