The Atheist who didn't exist : or: the dreadful consequences of bad arguments

Author

• Bannister, Andy

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Oxford: Monarch books, 2015

Language

English

ISBN

9780857216106

Series

Subject(s)

• APOLOGETICS
• CHRISTIANITY AND ATHEISM
• PHILOSOPHY
• ATHEISM

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Abstract

In the last decade, atheism has leaped from obscurity to the front pages: producing best-selling books, making movies, and plastering adverts on the side of buses. There's an energy and a confidence to contemporary atheism: many people now assume that a godless skepticism is the default position, indeed the only position for anybody wishing to appear educated, contemporary, and urbane. Atheism is hip, religion is boring. Yet when one pokes at popular atheism, many of the arguments used to prop it up quickly unravel. The Atheist Who Didn't Exist is designed to expose some of the loose threads on the cardigan of atheism, tug a little, and see what happens. Blending humor with serious thought, Andy Bannister helps the reader question everything, assume nothing and, above all, recognize lazy skepticism and bad arguments. Be an atheist by all means: but do be a thought-through one.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

238 p.

Dimension

20 cm.

Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

Foreword / Ravi Zacharias --
The Loch Ness Monster's Moustache (or: The Terrible Consequences of Bad Arguments) --
The Scandinavian Sceptic (or: Why Atheism Really is a Belief System) --
The Aardvark in the Artichokes (or: Why Not All Gods are the Same) --
The Santa Delusion (or: Why Faith in God Does Not Mean You're Insane) --
Aim for That Haystack! (or: Why Psychological Arguments Against Religion Fail) --
Sven and the Art of Refrigerator Maintenance (or: Why Religion Doesn't Poison Everything) --
The Lunatic in the Louvre (or: Why Science Cannot Explain the Entirety of Reality) --
Humpty Dumpty and the Vegan (or: Why We Really Do Need God to Be Good) --
The Peculiar Case of the Postmodern Penguin (or: Why Life Without God is Meaningless) --
The Panini Poisoner of Pimlico (or: Why Everybody Has Faith) --
The Reluctant Eunuch (or: Why We Really Can Know a Lot About Jesus)

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