Through Atheist Eyes: Scenes from a World That Won't Reason: Omnium - Gatherum

Through Atheist Eyes: Scenes from a World That Won't Reason: Omnium - Gatherum
Author: Frank R. Zindler
Publisher: Through Atheist Eyes: Scenes f
Total Pages: 654
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781578840144

What is atheism, and what are its logical and philosophical foundations? How does it relate to humanism? Is religiosity a mental disorder, and why is it so hard to cure? Is there such a thing as free will? Do atheists have funerals? Was "The Amityville Horror" a true story? Who was Madalyn Murray O'Hair? Are we being inundated with a flood of religious disinformation? In addition to the answers of these questions, readers of this fourth volume of a five-volume series will find a lot of humor as well, including the Fun-With-Dial-an-Atheist pieces, recalled from the brink of oblivion for one last performance. Also in this volume are the words and music scores to the outrageous Dial-an-Atheist songs "Rutabaga Baby" and "Theophagy Tango." To balance all that levity, the book ends with "Poems I Have Spared," a swan song of sorts to prepare readers for the autobiographical "Volume V: Atheist at Large." A helpful index is included.

Through Atheist Eyes

Through Atheist Eyes
Author: Frank R. Zindler
Publisher: American Atheist Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 2011-03
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781578840120

What is death, and is it inevitable? How did life begin, and can it be extended indefinitely? Why is cloning a threat to theology? What does it mean to be scientific? How do we know the earth is older than is presupposed in Genesis? Who was Mitochondrial Eve, and how do we know evolution has occurred? How could wings and eyes have evolved without an Intelligent Designer? Is creationism a form of treason? How do creationists deceive the public? What's so funny about Noah's Ark? How did the kiwi get to New Zealand and why would we want to know? Is there such a thing as life after death, and do the dead have ways of communicating with the living? Answers to these questions-often humorous and sur-prising ones - are given in this second volume of THROUGH ATHEIST EYES. A copious index will make it easy for readers to find their way back to particular materials when they need 'ammunition' to defend themselves from missionaries and other religious aggressors. Book jacket.

The Debaters of This Age

The Debaters of This Age
Author: Steven H Propp
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 618
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1532066236

It is June 2018 as an unusual group of scholars, professors, lecturers, and students gather in a California hotel. They are all attendees of an Apologetics conference intended to join qualified representatives of Christian, Deist, and Atheist thought for a two-week, no-holds-barred debate and discussion of their respective positions that will ultimately be included in a book published after the conference. Evangelical Christianity is represented by advocates of Evidentialist and Presuppositionalist approaches to Apologetics. Catholicism, liberal Christianity, and Deism are also well-supported. The Atheist perspective is advocated by a polemical author and a college professor notorious for attacking the views of his Christian students. As the participants argue over controversial issues such as cosmology, evolution, The Bible, historical evidence for Jesus, the resurrection, biblical prophecies, and the problem of evil, intellectual fireworks result. But what will result when such a volatile and eclectic group is placed face-to-face for more than two weeks? The Debaters of this Age is the tale of what happens inside a California hotel in 2018 when a group of intellectuals gather to vigorously discuss the religious issues of our time.

The Atheist Bus Campaign

The Atheist Bus Campaign
Author: Steven Tomlins
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 421
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 900432853X

The international "Atheist Bus Campaign" generated news coverage and controversy, and this volume is the first to systematically and thoroughly explore and analyze each manifestation of that campaign. It includes a chapter for each of the countries which enacted – or attempted to enact – localized versions of the original United Kingdom campaign which ran the slogan, "There’s Probably No God. Now Stop Worrying and Enjoy Your Life," prominently on public buses. Its novel focus, using a singular micro-level event as a prism for analysis, allows for cross-country comparison of legal and social reactions to each campaign, as well as an understanding of issues pertaining to the historical and contemporary status of religion and the regulation of nonreligion in various national settings. Contributors are Katie Aston, Nikolina Hazdovac Bajić, Lori G. Beaman, Spencer Culham Bullivant, Ryan T. Cragun, Leon Dempsey, Eduardo Dullo, Vanni Gasbarri, Magnus Hedelind, Casey P. Homan, William James Hoverd, Dinka Marinovic Jerolimov, Teuvo Laitila, Hanna Lehtinen, Marcus Mann, Javier Martinez-Torron, Björn Mastiaux, Paula Montero, Alan Nixon, Katja Strehle, Teemu Taira, Steven Tomlins, and Silvia Meseguer Velasco.

The Jesus the Jews Never Knew

The Jesus the Jews Never Knew
Author: Frank R. Zindler
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 9781578849161

The ancient Jews never heard of Jesus of Nazareth. That is the startling conclusion of a comprehensive investigation of Jewish records surviving from antiquity. Every literary source ever advanced by serious scholars as being a reference to the historical Jesus is examined and found to be nothing of the sort, except for the latest layers of the Babylonian Talmud. Clearly, those references were reactions to Christianity, not to Christ. The Jesus the Jews never knew provides a fascinating look into the world in which the gospels were invented. Every literary source ever advanced by serious scholars as being a reference to a historical Jesus is examined and found to be nothing of the sort.

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion

The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion
Author: John Hinnells
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2005-06-21
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1134318464

Providing a genuinely full guide to the theory and methods related to religious studies, this text - written entirely by world-renowned specialists - is the ideal resource for those studying the discipline.

The "Characters" of Jean de La Bruyère

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Author: Jean de La Bruyère
Publisher:
Total Pages: 564
Release: 1885
Genre: Characters and characteristics
ISBN:

These writings provide a unique view of the height of 17th-century French culture.