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Author: James P. Carse Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9781594201691 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 244
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Argues that inappropriate beliefs, rather than organized religion, are responsible for conflicts in today's world, explaining that belief systems that perpetuate discrimination and thought restriction are not supported by core religions.
Author: James P. Carse Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 9781594201691 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 244
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Argues that inappropriate beliefs, rather than organized religion, are responsible for conflicts in today's world, explaining that belief systems that perpetuate discrimination and thought restriction are not supported by core religions.
Author: George H. Smith Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1615929959 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 368
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"Does a god exist? This question has undoubtedly been asked, in one form or another, since man has had the ability to communicate. . . Thousands of volumes have been written on the subject of a god, and the vast majority have answered the questions with a resounding 'Yes!' " "You are about to read a minority viewpoint." With this intriguing introduction, George H. Smith sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all the myths devised by man - the concept of a supreme being. With painstaking scholarship and rigorous arguments, Mr. Smith examines, dissects, and refutes the myriad "proofs" offered by theists - the defenses of sophisticated, professional theologians, as well as the average religious layman. He explores the historical and psychological havoc wrought by religion in general - and concludes that religious belief cannot have any place in the life of modern, rational man. "It is not my purpose to convert people to atheism . . . (but to) demonstrate that the belief in God is irrational to the point of absurdity. If a person wishes to continue believing in a god, that is his prerogative, but he can no longer excuse his belief in the name of reason and moral necessity."
Author: Keith Ward Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1780746709 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 272
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A brilliant and accessible rebuttal of The God Delusion from one of Christianity's most incisive thinkers In this, his first new book since the best-selling God: A Guide for the Perplexed (Oneworld, 2002), Keith Ward turns his attention to the role - and the validity of religion over the centuries and in the world today. His erudite yet informative and factual narrative outlines the various attempts that have been made throughout history to explain religion, including the anthropological, psychological, sociological and philosophical theories of key thinkers from Immanuel Kant to Sigmund Freud. Adopting a comparative approach, the book covers all the religious traditions from West and East alike, concluding in a compelling manner that not only are the world faiths much more than a series of theoretical perspectives, but that, in the face of discord and violence, religious understanding retains more resonance than ever before within our global community.
Author: James Kellenberger Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 3030741702 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 103
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This book addresses the different forms that religious belief can take. Two primary forms are discussed: propositional or doctrinal belief, and belief in God. Religious belief in God, whose affective content is trust in God, it is seen, opens for believers a relationship to God defined by trust in God. The book addresses the issue of the relation between belief and faith, the issue of what Søren Kierkegaard called the subjectivity of faith, and the issue of the relation between religious belief and religious experience. After the introductory chapter the book continues with a chapter in which features and forms of belief allowed by the general concept of belief are presented. Several of these forms and features are related to the features of religious belief examined in succeeding chapters. The book's final chapter examines God-relationships in the Christian tradition that de-emphasize belief and are not defined by belief.
Author: R. A. Sharpe Publisher: ISBN: Category : Agnosticism Languages : en Pages : 116
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This short book is intended to be read in an evening or even a sitting, though it provokes reflections that will go on for far longer. Professor Sharpe is a philosopher and writes as a post-Christian. He does not believe in God for moral reasons and argues that in some ways morality is corrupted by religion.
Author: Burton Brunson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 330
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This book uses the word religion to name any system involving a human (or group of humans) alleging to be necessary liaison between humanity and deity. This book uses the term religionist to name any person who advocates religion. This book uses the terms god and deity to refer to real or imaginary powers to which humans are subject. This book doesn't try to affirm or deny the existence or the accessibility of deity. This book questions the validity of religion. This book calls attention to the horrible deeds and methods of religion. The bible has been doing the same thing for over twenty centuries. But people have refused to acknowledge facts. Unable to refute the prophets' accusations, religion embraced the accusations; and proceeded to convince its victims that yes is no, and up is down. The accusations were included in the sacred writings, where they are now hidden in plain sight. Religion uses lies to cover prior and subsequent lies, until an individual is trained to accept outrageous claims as true. Religion saturates individuals with imaginary guilt and unfounded fear. This is followed by an offer to resolve the artificial problem; provided the individual will turn over control of his life to religion. Is that really true? See what you think after reading this book.
Author: Peter Adam Angeles Publisher: ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 404
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Essays on atheism by Kurt Baier, John Dewey, Paul Edwards, Antony Flew, Sigmund Freud, Erich Fromm, Sidney Hook, Walter Kaufmann, Corliss Lamont, Wallace I. Matson, H.J. McCloskey, Ernest Nagel, Kai Nielsen, Richard Robinson, Bertrand Russell, and Michael Scriven.
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