Read The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever Online
Authors: Christopher Hitchens
Tags: #Agnosticism & atheism, #Anthologies (non-poetry), #Religion: general, #Social Science, #Philosophy, #Religion: Comparative; General & Reference, #General, #Atheism, #Religion, #Sociology, #Religion - World Religions, #Literary essays
and morality: Koran, (passim)
and morality: Lovecraft
and morality: Mackie
and morality: Mill
and morality: Orwell
and morality: Rushdie
and morality: Russell
and morality: Sagan
and morality: Van Doren
and morality: Weinberg
natural histories of
as opiate
and persecution (
See also
Anti-Semitism; Witches)
and physicists
and power
private
psychical origin of
and rationality
and repression of women (
See also
Witches)
as response to mystery
and right wing
and salvation
and self-importance
and servility and subjection
and sin: Anderson
and sin: Butler
and sin: Eliot
and sin: Freud
and sin: Grayling
and sin: Harris
and sin: Mackie
and sin: polls
and sin: Russell
and sin: Twain
and sin: Weinberg
and visions
and wars
See also
specific critics of religion; other specific topics
Resurrection
Revelation
and agnosticism
and Anderson
contradictions
and Koran
and Van Doren
and Weinberg
See also
Bible, the (Book of Revelation)
Ricardo, David
Richalmus
Ridley, Matt
Ritter, Don
Robertson, J. M.
Robertson, Pat
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, Richard
Rodinson, Maxime
Roger's Version
Rothschild, Eric
Rousseau
Rubiyt
Rundle, Bede
Runyon, Damon
Rushdie, Salman
Ruskin, John
Russell, Bertrand
Russell
Russia, Soviet
Sachsse, H.
Sagan, Carl
Saggiatore
Sale
Satan
and Cathars
and cults
and Eliot
in Haiti
and Second Coming
and witches
Saxe, John
Schacht
Schopenhauer
Schrodinger, Erwin
"A Scientific Creation Story"
Scientology
Scopes "monkey trial"
Seventh-Day Adventists
The Shadow Line
Al-Shafi'i
Shakespeare
Sharon, Ariel
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Shermer, Michael
Sin.
See
Religion (and sin)
Sinistrari, Ludovico
Smith, Joseph
Smith, Morton
Smith, W. B.
Socialism
Socrates
Sontag, Susan
Sorcery
Soul
and Aristotle
and Ayer
and Cohen
and Einstein
and Islam
and Russell
Spee, Frederick
Spencer, Herbert
Spinoza, Benedict de
and god
"Theological-Political Treatise" of
Sprenger, James
Stangi, Franz
Stenger, Victor
Stephen, Leslie
Stevens, Wallace
Stone, Bob
Strachey, James
Straus, Ernst
Strauss, David Friedrich
Sue, Eugene
Supernatural
and Anderson
and Cohen
and Conrad
and Dawkins
and Dennett
and Einstein
and Goldman
and Grayling
and Jillette
and Mackie
and McEwan
and Sagan
and Stenger
and Van Doren
and Weinberg
Superstition
and Cohen
and Conrad
and Dennett
and Harris
and Hume
and Larkin
and monotheism
and Russell
and Sagan
and Spinoza
and Van Doren
Susskind, Leonard
Suyuti
Swinburne, Richard
Tappenden, Jamie
Taylor, Brook
Templeton, Charles
Ten Commandments
"Thank Goodness!"
"That Undiscovered Country"
"Theological-Political Treatise"
Theology
"There Is No God"
Thompson
"Thoughts of God"
Tillich, Paul
Tolstoy
Trevor-Roper, Hugh
Tucker, Wilson
Turner, Edwin
Twain, Mark
Tyndale, William
Udayana
Unification Church (Moonies)
Updike, John
Ussher, James
Uthman
Van Doren, Carl
Van Gogh, Theo
Vaucouleurs, Gerard de
Vidal, Gore
Viereck, George Sylvester
Vinci, Leonardo da
Voltaire
Von Liebig, Justus
Waco, Texas
Wallace, Alfred Russel
Wallace, Lew
"The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming"
Wansbrough
Warrag, Ibn
Watson, Charles
Watt, Montgomery
Weart, Spencer
Weinberg, Steven
Wellhausen
Wells, G. A.
Wensinck
Werblowsky, Zwi
Wesley, John
Wheeler, John
White, Ellen
Whitman, Walt
"Why I Am an Unbeliever"
Why I Am Not a Christian
Why I Am Not a Muslim
Wicca
Wickramasinghe, Chandra
Wilberforce, Bishop
Wilczek, Frank
Wilson, E. O.
Witches
Wittgenstein
Wocjik, Daniel
Wollheim, Richard
Woolf, Virginia
Wrede, Wilhelm
Young, J. Z.
1.
Necyomantia
, 3. Lucian of Samosata (120?–180?), Syrian-born Greek satirist. The work referred to by Hume is more commonly known as
Menippus
or
The Descent into Hades
.
2. “The gods have their own laws.” Ovid,
Metamorphoses
9.499.
3.
Sadder
refers to the
Seder Eliyyahu
, a Jewish book of homilies written between the third and thenth centuries C.E. The Pentateuch is the first five books of the Old Testament.