The Portable Atheist

Index

Abbas, Malik ibn

Abortion

Adam and Eve

Adams, Charles

Adams, Douglas

Adams, John

Ady, Thomas

Against All Gods,

Agnosticismand Darwinand Einsteinand Kngand Lovecraftand Russelland Stephen

“An Agnostic’s Apology”

Ahmadinejad, President

Al-Tha’alibi

Albert, Hans

Alfaric, Prosper

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi

Ali, Yusuf

Allah

Allen, Woody

American Great Awakening

Amr, Abu

Anderson, Elizabeth

Annan, Kofi

Anselm, St.

Anti-Christ

Anti-Semitism

Apocalypse

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Aristotle

Armageddon

Arnold, Matthew

Asim of Kufa

Athanasius

Atheismand Aliand Andersonand Ayerand Catholicismand Cohenand Dawkinsand deathbed conversionsand Dennettand Einsteinand Goldmanand Graylingand Hardyand Hobbesand Jilletteand Lovecraftand Mackieand McEwanand Milland monotheismand Newmanand philosophersand Saganand helleyand Spinozaand Stengerand Stephenand Updikeand Voltaireand Warragand Weinberg

“Atheists for Jesus”

Atkins, Peter

Atomism

Attenborough, David

“Aubade”

Augustine, St.

Aurelius, Marcus

Autobiography (Darwin)

Autobiography (Mill)

Ayer, A. J.

Baal

Bakunin, Michael

Bar, Shmuel

Bauer, Bruno

Baxter, Richard

Bayle, Pierre

Baz, Bin

Becker

Bede, the Venerable

Beethoven

Behe, Michael

Bell

Ben-Gurion

Bentham, Jeremy

Betjeman, John

Bible, theand apocalypseBook of RevelationCatholic study ofand creationismand Darwinand Einsteinand heresyas historical documentand Koranand Kngand moralityNew TestamentOld Testamentand Pentateuchand pollsand Russelland scienceand Second Comingand Twainand witchcraft

Big Bangand Koranand Stengerand Weinberg

Bin Laden, Osama

Birth control

Blachere, Regis

Blackstone, William

Blake, William

Blakemore, Colin

Bohm, David

Bonaventura, St.

Bondi, Herman

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich

Boone, Pat

Bormann, Martin

Boswell, James

Bousquet

Bowles, Paul

Bradlaugh, Charles

Braithwaite

Branch Davidians

Brawer, Roberta

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Broad, C. D.

Brooks, Charles Timothy

Brown, Rebecca

Brown, W. Hannaford

Buddha

Buddhism

Bultmann, Rudolf

Burr, William Henry

Butler, Samuel

Caesar, Julius

Cairns-Smith, A. G.

Camus, Albert

Cantor, Georg

Catharism

Catholicismand anti-Christand anti-Semitismand Aquinasand atheismand Cohenand contraceptionand demons and witchesand insteinand Eliotand heresyand Humeand Mackieand medical researchand Newmanand Russelland Second Comingand sexand slavesand Spinozaand Stephenand Sueand visions

Celibacy

Chesterton, G. K.

Christian Science

Christianityand afterlife (See also Death (life after))and Andersonand anti-Semitismapocalypticand apostatesand Butlerand Cohenand Darwinand Dawkinsand Dennettand Eliotand epidemicsand Graylingand Hobbesand Humeand Islamand Lovecraftand Marxand Milland monismand morality (See also Religion [and morality])and Neo-Platonistsorigins ofand Pentateuc and Russelland Saganand salvationand Schopenhauerand Second Comingand slaveryand Spinozaand Stengerand Stephenand Templetonand Twainand Virgin Birthand witchesSee also Bible, the; Catholicism; God; Jesus Christ; Religion

Church and state

“Church Going”

A Clergyman’s Daughter

Cohen, Chapman

Cohn, Norman

Collingwood, R. G.

Columbus, Christopher

Communism

Comte, Auguste

Confucius

Conrad, Joseph

Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right

Cook

Copernicus

Cormack, Allan

Coyne, Jerry

Craig, William Lane

Creationismand Andersonand apocalypseand atomsand Darwinand Dawkinsand Koranand pollsand Rushdieand Shelleyand Shermerand Stengerand Templetonand WeinbergSee also Design

Cremation

Croly, George

Crone, Patricia

Crusades, the

Cuban missile crisis

Darwin, Charlesautobiography ofand evolution and natural selection

Darwin, Emma

Das Leben Jesu,

Dashti, Ali

Dawkins, Richard

Dawood

De Rerum Natura,

Deathand apocalypseand Ayerand Cohenand Dennettand fearlife afterin next worldpunishment and reward afterand realismand religious beliefsand separationwishSee also Immortality

Deism andand Andersonand Eliotand Milland Shelleyand Stephen

Democritus

The Demon-Haunted World

Demons

Dennett, Daniel C.

Descartes, Rene

The Descent of Man,

Designand Andersonand Darwinand Dawkinsand Koranand Mackieand Milland Paleyand Saganand StengerSee also Creationism; Intelligent design (ID)

Devil, theSee also Satan

d’Holbach, Baron

Diderot

Does God Exist?

Donne, John

Dore, Gustave

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor

Dreams of a Final Theory: What About God?,

Drews, Arthur

Dupont, Pierre

Durant, Will

Eddy, Mary Baker

Edson, Hiram

Edwards, Jonathan

Eichmann, Adolf

Einstein, Albertand Stengerand Weinbergwritings on religion of

Eldridge, Paul

Eliot, George

The End of Faith

“End of the World Blues”

“An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding”

Epicurus

Erasmus, Desiderius

Ethics. See Religion (and ethics)

“Evangelic Teaching”

EvangelismSee also Graham, Billy

Evans, Mary Ann

Evolutionand Andersonand Cohenand Darwinand Dawkinsand Dennettand Johnsonand Koran

and Menckenand moralityand Russelland Twainand WeinbergSee also Natural selection

Ewing, Alfred

Fables of Man,

Falwell, Jerry

Faraday, Michael

A Farewell to God: A Personal Word,

Farrakhan, Louis

FascismSee also Nazi Germany

Fau, Guy

Fauga, Raymond du

Fawell, Harris W.

Feuerbach

Fichte, Johann

First cause. See Religion (and first cause)

Fisher, Geoffrey

Fitzgerald, Edward

Flaubert

Flew, Antony

Flieg, Hellmuth

Frady, Marshall

France, Anatole

Franklin, Benjamin

French Revolution

Freud, Sigmund

Fundamentalists

The Future of an Illusion,

Galileo

Gandhi, Mahatma

The Garden of Epicurus,

Gardner, Martin

Geller, Margaret

“Gerin Oil”

Gibb, Hamilton

Gibbon, Edward

Gilbert, Nancy

Gnosticsand Russelland Stephen

Godand Alialleged evidence of existence ofand Andersonand apocalypseand Augustineand Ayerand Butlerand Cohenand Darwinand Dawkinsand Dennettand Einsteinand Eliotand eviland Franceand Freudand Goldmanand Graylingand Hardyand Harrisand Hobbesand Humeand Jilletteand Khayymand Koranand Mackieand the Millsand moralityand Newmanand pollsand Rushdieand Russelland Saganand Shelleyand Shermerand Spinozaand Stengerand Stephenand Templetonand Twainand Updikeand Van Dorenand Weinberg

God: The Failed Hypothesis,

The God Delusion,

“The God Hypothesis”

Godsand Andersonand Cohendeadand Dennettand Einsteinand Epicurusand Goldmanand Hobbesand Humeand McEwanand Menckenand Russelland Saganand Shelleyand Van Doren

“God’s Funeral”

Godwin, William

Goethe

Goldhagen, Daniel

Goldman, Emma

Goldstein, Baruch

Goldziher

Gould, Stephen

Graf

Graham, Billy

Graham, Ruth

Grayling, A. C.

Great Pyramid

Guignebert, Charles

Guillaume

Haldane, J. B. S.

Halley, Edmund

Hamack, Adolf

Hamas

Hamilton

Hanbal, Ahmad ibn

Hanifa, Abu

Hardy, Thomas

Harris, Sam

Hartland, E. S.

Hartle, James

Hawking, Stephen

Hawkins, John

Hazm, Ibn

Heavenand Bakuninand Goldmanand Graylingand moralityand Robinsonand Rushdieand Russelland Weinberg

Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich

Heidegger, Martin

Helland Andersonand Goldmanand Graylingand Judaismand Koranand Milland moralityand Russelland Weinberg

Herbert, George

Hereford, Oliver

Heresy

Hess, Rudolf

Heym, Stefan

Himmler, Heinrich

Hindus

Hitchens, Christopher

Hitler, Adolf

Hobbes, Thomas

Hoffmann, Joseph

Holloway, Richard

Hospers

Houdini, Harry

“How (and Why) I Became an Infidel”

Howe, Julia Ward

Hoyle, Fred

Hubbard, L. Ron

Hubble, Edwin

Hudal, Alois

Human natureand Russell

Hume, Davidand Boswelland deathand designand miraclesand monotheism and polytheism“The Natural History of Religion” by

Huntington, Samuel

Hurgronje, Snouck

Huxley, Thomas

“If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?”

“Imagine There’s No Heaven”

Immortalityand Ay rand Darwinand Einsteinand Islamand Orwelland Russelland Van DorenSee also Death (life after)

“In Westminster Abbey”

Ingersoll, Robert

Inquisition, the

Intelligent design (ID)

Irreducible complexity

Isaacson, Walter

Islamand Aliand anti-Semitismand apocalypseand apostatesand creationismand Crusadesand fundamentalismand Judgment Dayand KoranNation ofand Paradiseand punishmentand religious warsrevivalist movement ofrise ofas totalitarianSee also Muslims

James, William

Jefferson, Thomas

Jeffery, Arthur

Jehovah’s Witnesses

Jesus ChristAtheists forbirth ofcentral prophecy ofand church and stateand communionand different religionsdivinity ofand Einsteinand hereticsand Koranquestion of existence ofand resurrectionSecond Coming ofand sin and morality

Jewsand accusations of ritual murderand anti-Semitismand apocalyptic movementsand Babyloniaand Crusadesand Godand helland intelligenceand Islamfor Jesusand Jesus Christand Nazisand Palestineand Pentateuchand prophecywandering, and Second Comingand witchesSee also Judaism

Jihad

Jillette, Penn

Joachim of Fiore

Joan of Arc

Johnson, Phillip

Johnson, Samuel

Jones, John E.

Joyce, James

Judaismand apocalypseand chosen peopleand Godand helland MarxSee also Jews

Kab, Ubayy ibn

Kalthoff, Albert

Kant, Immanuel

Kasemann, Ernst

Kaufmann

Kennedy, John F.

Kermode, Frank

Khayym, Omar

Khomeini, Ayatollah

Khrushchev, Nikita

Kierkegaard

Koran

Koresh, David

Kramer, Henry

Kueng, Hans

Kng, Hans

La Peyrere

Lahab, Abu

Lamarck

de Lamettrie

Lancre, Pierre de

Lane, Edward

Lane Fox, Robin

Lao-tse

Laplace

Larkin, Philip

Le Gallienne, Richard

Leibniz

Lemaitre, Georges-Henri

Lenin

“A Letter on Religion”

Leucippus

Leviathan,

Lewes, George Henry

Lewy, Guenther

Lieberman, Joe

Lightman, Alan

Lindsey, Hal

Linnaeus

Locke, John

Lodge, Sir Oliver

Lovecraft, Howard Phillips

Lucretius

Luther, Martin

Lyell, Charles

Macdonald, George

Machiavelli

Mackay, Charles

Mackie, J. L.

Macrobius

Magic

Maimonides

Malcolm, Norman

Malleus Maleficarum

Malthus

Mansel, Dean

Margoliouth

Martyrs

Marx, Karl

Marxism

Masud, Ibn

Materialism

Maxwell, James Clerk

Mayr, Ernst

McCabe, Joseph

McEwan, Ian

McTaggart, J. E.

McVeigh, Timothy

Memmius

Mencken, Henry Louis

Miles, Austin

Mill, James

Mill, John Stuart

Miller, Jonathan

Miller, Kenneth

Miller, Walter

Miller, William

Milton

The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God

Miraclesand Andersonand Darwinand Dawkinsand Einsteinand Eliotand Franceand Harrisand Hobbesand Humeand Jilletteand Koranand Mackieand Russelland Stengerand Stephen

Misner, Charles

Modernism

Moe, Maurice W.

Moloch

Monism

Monotheism

Montaigne

Montgomery, William

Moon, Sun Myung

Morality. See Religion (and morality)

More, Thomas

Mormons

Mother Teresa

Mueller, Heinrich

Muhammad (Mohammed)

Mujahid, Ibn

Musa, Abu

Muslims

See also Islam

Myers, F. W. H.

Nafi of Medina

Nagel, Ernest

National Secular Society

“The Natural History of Religion”

Natural selectionand Darwinand Dawkinsand Johnsonand pollsand Weinberg

Nazi Germany

The Necessity of Atheism

Nefzawi, Shaykh

Nelson, J. W.

New Age

Newman

Newport, Kenneth

Newton, Sir Isaac

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nihilism

Nineham

Noether, Emmy

Noldeke

Norton, Caroline Elizabeth Sarah

Numeiri, General

Ontology

Oparin

Origin of Species,

Orwell, George

“An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish”

Paganism

Paine, Thomas

Paley, William

Pantheismand Spinozaand Stephen

Parsons, Keith

Pascal, Blaise

Pauli, Wolfgang

Peebles, Jim

Penn and Teller

Penrose, Roger

Perutz, Max

Philipse, Herman

Phillips, D. Z.

Philosophyand dogmasera ofand Marxand mindsreligion as first attempt atand something rather than nothing

“The Philosophy of Atheism”

Pickthall

Pinker, Stephen

Plato

Poemen, Abba

Polkinghorne, John

Polytheism

Pope Innocent III

Pope Innocent VIII

Pope John Paul II

Pope Leo XIII

Pope Lucius III

Pope Pius VII

Pope Pius X

Pope Pius XII

Popper, Karl

Postmodernism

Prayerand Aliand Benson studyand BetjemanBook of Common Prayerand Dennettand Einsteinand Godand Graylingand Orwell

Preachers

Predestination

Presley, Elvis

Priestley, Joseph

Principia,

Protagoras

Psellus, Michael

Purcell, Henry

Purgatory

Quine

Rafsanjani, xv

Randi, James

Rapp, George

Reagan, Ronald

Red Cross

Reformation

A Refutation of Deism

Religionas an illusionand awe and wonder at universeand brainwashingand charitycontra ictions and variations between types ofand conversionand cultureand damnation: Andersonand damnation: Russelland damnation: Stephendefinition ofas escapeand ethicsexperiencesand fearand first cause: Andersonand first cause: Darwinand first cause: Goldmanand first cause: Johnsonand first cause: Saganas immoralas irrationaland liberals and conservativesand making sense of realityand marvelsand monismand moralityand morality: Aliand morality: Andersonand morality: Cohenand morality: Dennettand morality: Einsteinand morality: Eliotand morality: Freudand morality: Goldmanand morality: Humeand morality: Koran, (passim)and morality: Lovecraftand morality: Mackieand morality: Milland morality: Orwelland morality: Rushdieand morality: Russell

and morality: Saganand morality: Van Dorenand morality: Weinbergnatural histories ofas opiateand persecution (See also Anti-Semitism; Witches)and physicistsand powerprivatepsychical origin ofand rationalityand repression of women (See also Witches)as response to mysteryand right wingand salvationand self-importanceand servility and subjectionand sin: Andersonand sin: Butlerand sin: Eliotand sin: Freudand sin: Graylingand sin: Harrisand sin: Mackieand sin: pollsand sin: Russelland sin: Twainand sin: Weinbergand visionsand warsSee also specific critics of religion; other specific topics

Resurrection

Revelationand agnosticismand Andersoncontradictionsand Koranand Van Dorenand WeinbergSee also Bible, the (Book of Revelation)

Ricardo, David

Richalmus

Ridley, Matt

Ritter, Don

Robertson, J. M.

Robertson, Pat

Robinson, Edwin Arlington

Robinson, Richard

Rodinson, Maxime

Roger’s Version

Rothschild, Eric

Rousseau

Rubiyt

Rundle, Bede

Runyon, Damon

Rushdie, Salman

Ruskin, John

Russell, Bertrand

Russell

Russia, Soviet

Sachsse, H.

Sagan, Carl

Saggiatore

Sale

Satanand Catharsand cultsand Eliotin Haitiand Second Comingand witches

Saxe, John

Schacht

Schopenhauer

Schrodinger, Erwin

“A Scientific Creation Story”

Scientology

Scopes “monkey trial”

Seventh-Day Adventists

The Shadow Line

Al-Shafi’i

Shakespeare

Sharon, Ariel

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Shermer, Michael

Sin. See Religion (and sin)

Sinistrari, Ludovico

Smith, Joseph

Smith, Morton

Smith, W. B.

Socialism

Socrates

Sontag, Susan

Sorcery

Souland Aristotleand Ayerand Cohenand Einsteinand Islamand Russell

Spee, Frederick

Spencer, Herbert

Spinoza, Benedict deand god

“Theological-Political Treatise” of

Sprenger, James

Stangi, Franz

Stenger, Victor

Stephen, Leslie

Stevens, Wallace

Stone, Bob

Strachey, James

Straus, Ernst

Strauss, David Friedrich

Sue, Eugene

Supernaturaland Andersonand Cohenand Conradand Dawkinsand Dennettand Einsteinand Goldmanand Graylingand Jilletteand Mackieand McEwanand Saganand Stengerand Van Dorenand Weinberg

Superstitionand Cohenand Conradand Dennettand Harrisand Humeand Larkinand monotheismand Russelland Saganand Spinozaand Van Doren

Susskind, Leonard

Suyuti

Swinburne, Richard

Tappenden, Jamie

Taylor, Brook

Templeton, Charles

Ten Commandments

“Thank Goodness!”

“That Undiscovered Country”

“Theological-Political Treatise”

Theology

“There Is No God”

Thompson

“Thoughts of God”

Tillich, Paul

Tolstoy

Trevor-Roper, Hugh

Tucker, Wilson

Turner, Edwin

Twain, Mark

Tyndale, William

Udayana

Unification Church (Moonies)

Updike, John

Ussher, James

Uthman

Van Doren, Carl

Van Gogh, Theo

Vaucouleurs, Gerard de

Vidal, Gore

Viereck, George Sylvester

Vinci, Leonardo da

Voltaire

Von Liebig, Justus

Waco, Texas

Wallace, Alfred Russel

Wallace, Lew

“The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming”

Wansbrough

Warrag, Ibn

Watson, Charles

Watt, Montgomery

Weart, Spencer

Weinberg, Steven

Wellhausen

Wells, G. A.

Wensinck

Werblowsky, Zwi

Wesley, John

Wheeler, John

White, Ellen

Whitman, Walt

“Why I Am an Unbeliever”

Why I Am Not a Christian

Why I Am Not a Muslim

Wicca

Wickramasinghe, Chandra

Wilberforce, Bishop

Wilczek, Frank

Wilson, E. O.

Witches

Wittgenstein

Wocjik, Daniel

Wollheim, Richard

Woolf, Virginia

Wrede, Wilhelm

Young, J. Z.