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Excerpt from “Why There Almost Certainly Is No God,” from The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. Copyright © 2006 by Richard Dawkins. Reprinted by permission of Transworld Publishers, a division of the Random House Group, LTD. All rights reserved.

“Gerin Oil” by Richard Dawkins, copyright © 2003 by the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH). This article originally appeared in Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 24, Number 1 (December 2003/January 2004), published by the CSH in Amherst, New York.

“Atheists for Jesus” by Richard Dawkins, copyright © 2004 by the Council for Secular Humanism (CSH). This article originally appeared in Free Inquir magazine, Volume 25, Number 1 (December 2004/January 2005), published by the CSH in Amherst, New York.

From God: The Failed Hypothesis—How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist , by Victor J. Stegner (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), pp. 113–136. Copyright © 2007 by Victor J. Stegner. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

From Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995), pp. 105–171. Copyright © 1995 by Ibn Warraq. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

“Breaking Which Spell?” from Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomena by Daniel C. Dennett, copyright © 2006 by Daniel C. Dennett. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

From Breaking the Spel l by Daniel C. Dennett (Penguin Books, 2006). Copyright © Daniel C. Dennett, 2006. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

“There Is No God” by Penn Jillette. Copyright © 2005 by Penn Jillette. From the Book This I Believe , edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman. Copyright © 2006 by This I Believe, Inc. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

“End of the World Blues” by Ian McEwan. Published by arrangement with Rogers Coleridge & White.

“Imagine There’s No Heaven: A Letter to the Six Billionth World Citizen,” by Salman Rushdie. Copyright © 1997 by Salman Rushdie. Reprinted with permission of the Wylie Agency.

From The End of Faith by Sam Harris. Copyright © 2004 by Sam Harris. Used by Permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

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“How (and Why) I Became and Infidel” copyright © 2007 by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Published by arrangement with the author.

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 witches See 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 Weinberg See 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 separationwish See 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 Stenger See also Creationism; Intelligent design (ID)

Devil, the See also Satan

d’Holbach, Baron