Percy Bysshe Shelley, A refutation of deism - John Stuart Mill, Moral influences in my early youth, from Autobiography - Karl Marx, Contribution to the critique of Hegel's Philosophy of right - George Elliot, Evangelical teaching - Charles Darwin, Autobiography - Leslie Stephen, An agnostic's apology - Analote France, Miracle - Mark Twain, Thoughts of God, from Fables of man Bible teaching and religious practice, from Europe and elsewhere and A pen warmed up in Hell - Joseph Conrad, Author's note to The shadow line - Thomas Hardy, God's funeral - Emma Goldman, The philosophy of atheism - H.P. Hannaford Brown - Omar Khayyám, from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám : a paraphrase from several literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne - Thomas Hobbes, Of religion, from Leviathan - Benedict de Spinoza, Theological-political treatise - David Hume, The natural history of religion Of miracles - James Boswell, An account of my last interview with David Hume, Esq. Introduction / Christopher Hitchens - Lucretius, from De Rerum Natura (On the nature of things), Book I, translated by W.
Includes bibliographical references and index Do we really need yet another book of essays, isolated chapters, and other selections from atheists, agnostics, freethinkers and skeptics of the past? What could we get out of this latest offering that we didn't get from the past half dozen that we bought - or the others that we simply skipped? Those are good questions, and reasons why I was skeptical of Hitchens' book, but in the end I think he succeeds in making his book more than "just one more" collection of atheist essays Well known for his own atheist book God Is Not Great, Hitchens treads some very heavily-traveled ground here in editing a compendium of atheist writings. This evolution of atheist critiques of supernatural religion is one of the virtues of Christopher Hitchens' book The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever.
Not every argument is identical, and even when the same basic argument is being offered there can be variety in how it is presented. Despite the mistaken use of the label "New Atheists," there is a lot of continuity over the past couple of centuries among atheist authors in their critiques of religion, theism, and superstition.
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