Download or read book The Wandering Atheist and Other Stories written by Robin Buckallew and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious literature fills the world, but literature around non-belief is sparse. This book is my small effort to help rectify that and add to the small but growing body of literature that begins in the Enlightenment (or earlier; Lucretius comes to mind) and stretches in a very thin line to the present. Find out what happens when the United States votes to become officially a Christian nation. Follow along with Lepidus and Derek as they attempt to bring Enlightenment and humanist values to a world that doesn't want them. Visit Hell and speak with Mephistopheles. Find out what happens when a mother faces a challenge to custody of her child simply because she doesn't believe in God.
Download or read book Imagine There s No Heaven written by Mitchell Stephens and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical achievements of religious belief have been large and well chronicled. But what about the accomplishments of those who have challenged religion? Traveling from classical Greece to twenty-first century America, Imagine There's No Heaven explores the role of disbelief in shaping Western civilization. At each juncture common themes emerge: by questioning the role of gods in the heavens or the role of a God in creating man on earth, nonbelievers help move science forward. By challenging the divine right of monarchs and the strictures of holy books, nonbelievers, including Jean- Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot, help expand human liberties, and influence the early founding of the United States. Revolutions in science, in politics, in philosophy, in art, and in psychology have been led, on multiple occasions, by those who are free of the constraints of religious life. Mitchell Stephens tells the often-courageous tales of history's most important atheists— like Denis Diderot and Salman Rushdie. Stephens makes a strong and original case for their importance not only to today's New Atheist movement but to the way many of us—believers and nonbelievers—now think and live.
Download or read book The Atheist s Mass and Other Stories written by Honoré de Balzac and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Atheist and Other Stories written by Sean MacMathuna and published by Irish Amer Book Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book God s Philosophers written by James Hannam and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth is flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere; the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution; no Pope tried to ban human dissection or the number zero. "God's Philosophers" is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. Decisive progress was also made in technology: spectacles and the mechanical clock, for instance, were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe. Charting an epic journey through six centuries of history, "God's Philosophers" brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Download or read book The Atheist s Mass and Other Stories Classic Reprint written by Honoré de Balzac and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-24 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Atheist's Mass, and Other Stories Lo Colonel Chabert, which would well have deserved a place in those Scones do la Vie so scantily repre sented in the Come'dz'e, has other attractions. It reminds us of Balzac's sojourn in the tents of Themis, and of the knowledge that he brought therefrom; it gives an example of his affection for the {doe fixe, for the man with a mania; and it is also no inconsiderable example of his pathos. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Crime of the Wandering Dog and Other Stories The Brothers Grim Grimy written by Declan Moran and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-12-18 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crime of the Wandering Dog and Other Stories is a collection of illustrated poems by the Brothers Grim and Grimy, the nom the plume of the Irish artist and writer Declan Moran. Tales that stretch from the start to the end of time, and from the top to the very bottom, and from the bottom to the very top again.
Download or read book Short Works From Somewhere Nebraska written by Hastings Writers Forum and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, poems, plays, and essays, written about Nebraska by Nebraskans. Though the works center around Nebraska, the themes are universal in their scope, covering love, life, faith, pain, healing, murder, destruction, and rebirth. A variety of styles means there is something for everyone.
Download or read book Resolved written by Robin Buckallew and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lorelei has always been a good wife. She does what she is supposed to do, and gives Ogden little reason to complain. But when Ogden comes home from his latest dig, something has changed. He is acting strangely, and all the other men on his team are behaving just as odd. The women are puzzled and worried; are their men going crazy? When Lorelei finds the old document, the one she isn't supposed to read, she realizes that things have not always been as she has been told. When Ogden lies to his colleagues about what he found at the dig, she decides to investigate further. What she discovers threatens to destroy their lives as they know them. Will it destroy civilization as well?
Download or read book The Atheist and Other Stories written by Seán Mac Mathúna and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Atheist s Mass and Other Stories written by Balzac Honore De 1799-1850 and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Swallow the Sun A Leafy Tom Adventure written by Robin Buckallew and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-10-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoebe wants to relax after her recent adventure, get to know her family, and learn how to be a witch. She practices at disciplining her powers, but her training is interrupted when a shadow falls over the small group - literally. Now she must move fast to save the universe from an evil entertainer, a black unknown, and myriad other strange and unusual creatures. And she must close her holes before more things come through.
Download or read book Religion for Atheists written by Alain De Botton and published by Signal. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Architecture of Happiness, a deeply moving meditation on how we can still benefit, without believing, from the wisdom, the beauty, and the consolatory power that religion has to offer. Alain de Botton was brought up in a committedly atheistic household, and though he was powerfully swayed by his parents' views, he underwent, in his mid-twenties, a crisis of faithlessness. His feelings of doubt about atheism had their origins in listening to Bach's cantatas, were further developed in the presence of certain Bellini Madonnas, and became overwhelming with an introduction to Zen architecture. However, it was not until his father's death -- buried under a Hebrew headstone in a Jewish cemetery because he had intriguingly omitted to make more secular arrangements -- that Alain began to face the full degree of his ambivalence regarding the views of religion that he had dutifully accepted. Why are we presented with the curious choice between either committing to peculiar concepts about immaterial deities or letting go entirely of a host of consoling, subtle and effective rituals and practices for which there is no equivalent in secular society? Why do we bristle at the mention of the word "morality"? Flee from the idea that art should be uplifting, or have an ethical purpose? Why don't we build temples? What mechanisms do we have for expressing gratitude? The challenge that de Botton addresses in his book: how to separate ideas and practices from the religious institutions that have laid claim to them. In Religion for Atheists is an argument to free our soul-related needs from the particular influence of religions, even if it is, paradoxically, the study of religion that will allow us to rediscover and rearticulate those needs.
Download or read book Atheists Who Kneel and Pray written by Tarryn Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yara Phillips is a wandering muse.She dates men who need her, but always moves on to something new, never staying in one place for very long.David Lisey is in need of a muse.A talented musician lacking lyrical inspiration. When he first sees her, he knows he's found what he's been looking for.Yara believes she can give David exactly what he needs to reach his full potential:A broken heart.David's religion is love. Yara's religion is heartache.Neither is willing to surrender, but religion always requires sacrifice.
Download or read book Why I Am an Atheist and Other Writings written by Bhagat Singh and published by . This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Genesis of Science written by James Hannam and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Not-So-Dark Dark Ages What they forgot to teach you in school: People in the Middle Ages did not think the world was flat The Inquisition never executed anyone because of their scientific ideologies It was medieval scientific discoveries, including various methods, that made possible Western civilization’s “Scientific Revolution” As a physicist and historian of science James Hannam debunks myths of the Middle Ages in his brilliant book The Genesis of Science: How the Christian Middle Ages Launched the Scientific Revolution. Without the medieval scholars, there would be no modern science. Discover the Dark Ages and their inventions, research methods, and what conclusions they actually made about the shape of the world.
Download or read book Christian Atheist written by Brian Mountford and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Atheist examines the growing religious phenomenon of those who are drawn to Christianity without accepting its metaphysical claims or dogma. Throughout the history of the Church there have been many people like this who have sat differently to the central creedal claims, but in the contemporary 'god delusion' culture, more are coming out to claim acceptance for their views. The key to the book is a set of interviews with people who fall broadly into the 'Christian Atheist' category; some are more agnostic and less sceptical than others, but what they have in common is the rejection of traditional belief in God, counterbalanced by an admiration for the aesthetic genius of Christianity (leading to a sense of deeper value), the Christian moral compass, and in some cases the community aspect of Christian life.
