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Why I am not a Christian
and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
- 256 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.
Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave? Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us instead with other, more troublesome alternatives: responsibility, autonomy, self-awareness. He tells us that the time to live is now, the place to live is here, and the way to be happy is to ensure others are happy.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition
- Editor’s Introduction
- Preface by Bertrand Russell
- 1 Why I am not a Christian
- 2 Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilisation?
- 3 Do We Survive Death?
- 4 Seems, Madam? Nay, it is
- 5 On Catholic and Protestant Sceptics
- 6 Life in the Middle Ages
- 7 The Fate of Thomas Paine
- 8 Nice People
- 9 The New Generation
- 10 Our Sexual Ethics
- 11 Freedom and the Colleges
- 12 The Existence of God—a Debate Between Bertrand Russell and Father F. C. Copleston, SJ
- 13 Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?
- 14 Religion and Morals
- Appendix: How Bertrand Russell was Prevented From Teaching at the College of the City of New York
- Index