From Atheist To Ambassador
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From Atheist To Ambassador
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Author : James R Hall II
language : en
Publisher: WestBow Press
Release Date : 2014-06-30
From Atheist To Ambassador written by James R Hall II and has been published by WestBow Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-30 with Religion categories.
We've heard it said many times, "When life hands you a bunch of lemons, just make lemonade." My question would be, What if you don't have any sugar? On the outside he looked like just another little scrawny kid in the neighborhood who couldn't run as fast or keep up with the rest of the boys in their games. On the inside he had a dreadful disease that neither he nor his family fully understood, which one day would put him on a deathbed. On the outside, he looked like any other child playing in Sunday school and not giving his full attention when the preacher was preaching. On the inside of his mind were questions prompted by a picture being painted in front of him on a life-size canvas over the years-questions that would put his life on a journey from which few have safely returned. Little did he know, he had a Travel Agent, and his travel plans had already been booked from birth. They would take him places and let him experience things that he would later write about in a book called From Atheist to Ambassador. Come and travel with the author as he shows you how God took one who was hopeless and turned him into one who now preaches hope. From one who spent countless days racked in pain from a disease the doctors said could not be cured, to one who is healed from the disease and now lays hands on the sick and watches God heal them. What do you do when life gives you a bunch of lemons? You wait until God gives you honey from the Rock, and then you make a refreshing drink for all to enjoy.
A Manual For Creating Atheists
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Author : Peter Boghossian
language : en
Publisher: Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Release Date : 2014-07-01
A Manual For Creating Atheists written by Peter Boghossian and has been published by Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith—and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, A Manual for Creating Atheists offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith—but for talking them out of it. Peter Boghossian draws on the tools he has developed and used for more than 20 years as a philosopher and educator to teach how to engage the faithful in conversations that will help them value reason and rationality, cast doubt on their religious beliefs, mistrust their faith, abandon superstition and irrationality, and ultimately embrace reason.
Workbook For Interfaith Ambassadors
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Author : Rev. John-Brian Paprock
language : en
Publisher: Lulu.com
Release Date : 2005
Workbook For Interfaith Ambassadors written by Rev. John-Brian Paprock and has been published by Lulu.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Religions categories.
The Homemade Atheist
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Author : Betty Brogaard
language : en
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Release Date : 2010-03-23
The Homemade Atheist written by Betty Brogaard and has been published by Ulysses Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-23 with Religion categories.
This book shares the author's step-by-step search for the honest answers that freed her from the mental slavery of extreme religion and allowed her to find a true happiness.
The New Atheism
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Author : Victor J. Stenger
language : en
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Release Date : 2009-12-04
The New Atheism written by Victor J. Stenger and has been published by Prometheus Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-04 with Religion categories.
In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered obsolete the traditional beliefs held by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The authors of these books—Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, and Victor J. Stenger—have come to be known as the "New Atheists." Predictably, their works have been controversial and attracted a good deal of critical reaction. In this new book, Victor J. Stenger, whose God: The Failed Hypothesis was on the New York Times bestseller list in 2007, reviews and expands upon the principles of New Atheism and answers many of its critics. He demonstrates in detail that naturalism—the view that all of reality is reducible to matter and nothing else—is sufficient to explain everything we observe in the universe, from the most distant galaxies to the inner workings of the brain that result in the phenomenon of mind. Stenger disputes the claim of many critics that the question of whether God exists is beyond the ken of science. On the contrary, he argues that absence of evidence for God is, indeed, evidence of absence when the evidence should be there and is not. Turning from scientific to historical evidence, Stenger then points out the many examples of evil perpetrated in the name of religion. He also notes that the Bible, which is still taken to be divine revelation by millions, fails as a basis for morality and is unable to account for the problem of unnecessary suffering throughout the world. Finally, he discusses the teachings of ancient nontheist sages such as Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Confucius, whose guidelines for coping with the problems of life and death did not depend upon a supernatural metaphysics. Stenger argues that this "way of nature" is far superior to the traditional supernatural monotheisms, which history shows can lead to a host of evils. The New Atheism is a well-argued defense of the atheist position and a strong rebuttal of its critics.
Atheism At The Agora
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Author : James C Ford
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-11
Atheism At The Agora written by James C Ford and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-11 with History categories.
This fresh, comprehensive study of ancient Greek atheism aims to dismantle the current consensus that atheism was ‘unthinkable’ in ancient Greece, demonstrating instead that atheism was not only thinkable but inextricably embedded in the Greek religious environment. Through careful analysis of a wide range of source material provided in modern English translation, and drawing on philosophy, theology, sociology, and other disciplines, Ford unpicks a two and a half thousand-year history of marginalisation, clearing the way for a new analysis. He lays out in clear terms the nature and form of ancient Greek atheism as the ancient Greeks conceived of it, through a series of themes and lenses. Topics such as religious socialisation, the interaction of atheist philosophy and theology, identity formation through alterity, and the use of atheism in scapegoating are considered not only in broad terms, using a synthesis of modern scholarship to mark out an overview in line with modern consensus, but also by drawing on the unique perspective of ancient atheism Ford is able to provide innovative theories about a range of subjects. Atheism at the Agora is of interest to students and scholars in Classics, particularly Greek religion and culture, as well as those studying atheism in other historical and contemporary areas, religious studies, philosophy, and theology.
Living Without God A Multicultural Spectrum Of Atheism
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Author : Sanjit Chakraborty
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2022-12-18
Living Without God A Multicultural Spectrum Of Atheism written by Sanjit Chakraborty and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-12-18 with Philosophy categories.
This book deals with the intricate issue of approaching atheism—methodologically as well as conceptually—from the perspective of cultural pluralism. What does ‘atheism’ mean in different cultural contexts? Can this term be applied appropriately to different religious discourses which conceptualize God/gods/Goddess/goddesses (and also godlessness) in hugely divergent ways? Is my ‘God’ the same as yours? If not, then how can your atheism be the same as mine? In other words, this volume raises the question: Is it not high time that we proposed a comparative study of atheism(s) alongside that of religions, rather than believing that atheism is centered in the ‘Western’ experience? Apart from answering these questions, the book highlights the much-needed focus on the philosophical negotiations between atheism, theism and agnosticism. The fine chapters collected here present pluralist negotiations with the notion of atheism and its ethical, theological, literary and scientific corollaries. Previously published in Sophia Volume 60, issue 3, September 2021 Chapters “Religious Conversion and Loss of Faith: Cases of Personal Paradigm Shift?” and “On Being an Infidel” are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
After Atheism
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Author : Mark Vernon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-04-30
After Atheism written by Mark Vernon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
If science has replaced God, is life necessarily meaningless? This book argues that the advances of science and the retreat of religion in secular society does not have to mean a life without spirituality.
Village Atheists
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Author : Leigh Eric Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-26
Village Atheists written by Leigh Eric Schmidt and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-26 with Religion categories.
A compelling history of atheism in American public life A much-maligned minority throughout American history, atheists have been cast as a threat to the nation's moral fabric, barred from holding public office, and branded as irreligious misfits in a nation chosen by God. Yet, village atheists—as these godless freethinkers came to be known by the close of the nineteenth century—were also hailed for their gutsy dissent from stultifying pieties and for posing a necessary secularist challenge to majoritarian entanglements of church and state. Village Atheists explores the complex cultural terrain that unbelievers have long had to navigate in their fight to secure equal rights and liberties in American public life. Leigh Eric Schmidt rebuilds the history of American secularism from the ground up, giving flesh and blood to these outspoken infidels, including itinerant lecturer Samuel Porter Putnam; rough-edged cartoonist Watson Heston; convicted blasphemer Charles B. Reynolds; and atheist sex reformer Elmina D. Slenker. He describes their everyday confrontations with devout neighbors and evangelical ministers, their strained efforts at civility alongside their urge to ridicule and offend their Christian compatriots. Schmidt examines the multilayered world of social exclusion, legal jeopardy, yet also civic acceptance in which American atheists and secularists lived. He shows how it was only in the middle decades of the twentieth century that nonbelievers attained a measure of legal vindication, yet even then they often found themselves marginalized on the edges of a God-trusting, Bible-believing nation. Village Atheists reveals how the secularist vision for the United States proved to be anything but triumphant and age-defining for a country where faith and citizenship were—and still are—routinely interwoven.
Descartes A Biography
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Author : Desmond M. Clarke
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-03-06
Descartes A Biography written by Desmond M. Clarke and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
René Descartes is best remembered today for writing 'I think, therefore I am', but his main contribution to the history of ideas was his effort to construct a philosophy that would be sympathetic to the new sciences that emerged in the seventeenth century. To a great extent he was the midwife to the Scientific Revolution and a significant contributor to its key concepts. In four major publications, he fashioned a philosophical system that accommodated the needs of these new sciences and thereby earned the unrelenting hostility of both Catholic and Calvinist theologians, who relied on the scholastic philosophy that Descartes hoped to replace. His contemporaries claimed that his proofs of God's existence in the Meditations were so unsuccessful that he must have been a cryptic atheist and that his discussion of skepticism served merely to fan the flames of libertinism. This is the first biography in English that addresses the full range of Descartes' interest in theology, philosophy and the sciences and that traces his intellectual development through his entire career.