| Preface | | 1 | |
| 1 A DEEPLY RELIGIOUS NON-BELIEVER |
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| Secularism, the Founding Fathers and the religion of America |
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| The poverty of agnosticism |
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| The Great Prayer Experiment |
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| The Neville Chamberlain school of evolutionists |
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| 3 ARGUMENTS FOR GOD'S EXISTENCE |
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| The ontological argument and other a priori arguments |
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| The argument from personal 'experience' |
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| The argument from scripture |
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| The argument from admired religious scientists |
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| 4 WHY THERE ALMOST CERTAINLY IS NO GOD |
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| Natural selection as a consciousness-raiser |
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| The anthropic principle: planetary version |
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| The anthropic principle: cosmological version |
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| An interlude at Cambridge |
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| Direct advantages of religion |
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| Religion as a by-product of something else |
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| Psychologically primed for religion |
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| Tread softly, because you tread on my memes |
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| 6 THE ROOTS OF MORALITY: WHY ARE WE GOOD? |
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| Does our moral sense have a Darwinian origin? |
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| A case study in the roots of morality |
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| If there is no God, why be good? |
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| 7 THE 'GOOD' BOOK AND THE CHANGING MORAL ZEITGEIST |
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| Is the New Testament any better? |
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| What about Hitler and Stalin? Weren't they atheists? |
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| 8 WHAT'S WRONG WITH RELIGION? WHY BE SO HOSTILE? |
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| Fundamentalism and the subversion of science |
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| The dark side of absolutism |
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| Faith and the sanctity of human life |
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| The Great Beethoven Fallacy |
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| How 'moderation' in faith fosters fanaticism |
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| 9 CHILDHOOD, ABUSE AND THE ESCAPE FROM RELIGION |
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| Physical and mental abuse |
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| Consciousness-raising again |
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| Religious education as a part of literary culture |
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| 10 A MUCH NEEDED GAP? | | 345 | |
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| Appendix: A partial list of friendly addresses, for individuals needing support in escaping from religion | | 375 | |
| Books cited or recommended | | 380 | |
| Notes | | 388 | |
| Index | | 400 | |
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