Edited by Christopher Hitchens.
An interesting collection of excerpts and works regarding atheism, philosophy and science.
Chapters[]
- Lucretius: De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things) - Books I, III, V, translation by W. Hannaford Brown
- Omar Khayyám: 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.
- 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 Eliot: Evangelical Teaching
- Charles Darwin: Autobiography
- Leslie Stephen: An Agnostic's Apology
- Anatole 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: Authors's Note to The Shadow Line
- Thomas Hardy: God's Funeral
- Emma Goldman: The Philosophy of Atheism
- H.P. Lovecraft: A Letter on Religion
- Carl Van Doren: Why I am An Unbeliever
- H.L. Mencken: Memorial Service
- Sigmund Freud: From The Future of an Illusion, translated and edited by James Strachey
- Albert Einstein: Selected Writings on Religion
- George Orwell: From A Clergyman's Daughter
- John Betjeman: In Westminster Abbey
- Chapman Cohen: Monism and Religion An Old Story
- Bertrand Russell: An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
- Philip Larkin: Aubade Church Going
- Martin Gardner: The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming
- Carl Sagan: The Demon-Haunted World, The God Hypothesis
- John Updike: From Roger's Version
- J.L. Mackie: Conclusions and Implications, From The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and against the Existence of God
- Michael Shermer: Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story
- A.J. Ayer: That Undiscovered Country
- Daniel C. Dennett: Thank Goodness!
- Charles Templeton: From A Farewell to God, A Personal Word, and Questions to Ask Yourself
- Richard Dawkins: Why There Almost Certainly is No God, Gerin oil, and Atheists for Jesus
- Victor Stenger: From God: The Failed Hypothesis, Cosmic Evidence
- Daniel C. Dennett: A Working Definition of Religion from "Breaking Which Spell?"
- Elizabeth Anderson: If God is Dead, Is Everything Permitted?
- Penn Jillette: There is No God
- Ian McEwan: End of the World Blues
- Steven Weinberg: What About God? From Dreams of a Final Theory
- Salman Rushdie: "Imagine There's no Heaven": A Letter to the Six Billionth World Citizen
- Ibn Warraq: The Koran, The Totalitarian Nature of Islam
- Sam Harris: In the Shadow of God, From The End of Faith
- A.C. Grayling: Can an Atheist Be a Fundamentalist? From Against All Gods
- Ayaan Hirsi Ali: How (and Why) I Became an Infidel