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Authors: Christopher Hitchens

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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.

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