The Christian Delusion
by LOFTUS, JOHN W.BARKER, DANFormat: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2010-04-27
Publisher(s): Prometheus Books
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Summary
In this anthology of recent criticisms aimed at the reasonableness of Christian belief, Loftus has assembled fifteen outstanding articles by leading skeptics, expanding on themes introduced in his first critically acclaimed book, Why I Became an Atheist.
Author Biography
John W. Loftus, a former Christian preacher, is the author of Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity and founder of www.debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | p. 9 |
| Introduction | p. 15 |
| Why Faith Fails | |
| The Cultures of Christianities | p. 25 |
| Christian Belief through the Lens of Cognitive Science | p. 47 |
| The Malleability of the Human Mind | p. 65 |
| The Outsider Test for Faith Revisited | p. 81 |
| Why the Bible Is Not God's Word | |
| The Cosmology of the Bible | p. 109 |
| The Bible and Modern Scholarship | p. 148 |
| What We've Got Here Is a Failure to Communicate | p. 181 |
| Why the Christian God Is Not Perfectly Good | |
| Yahweh Is a Moral Monster | p. 273 |
| The Darwinian Problem of Evil | p. 237 |
| Why Jesus Is Not the Risen Son of God | |
| Jesus: Myth and Method | p. 27 |
| Why the Resurrection Is Unbelievable | p. 291 |
| At Best Jesus Was a Failed Apocalyptic Prophet | p. 316 |
| Why Society Does Not Depend on Christian Faith | |
| Christianity Does Not Provide the Basis for Morality | p. 347 |
| Atheism Was Not the Cause of the Holocaust | p. 368 |
| Christianity Was Not Responsible for Modern Science | p. 396 |
| Contributors | p. 421 |
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