Faith Of An Atheist

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I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist

Author : Norman L. Geisler,Frank Turek
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-05-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433581441

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I Don't Have Enough Faith to Be an Atheist by Norman L. Geisler,Frank Turek Pdf

To some, the concept of having faith in a higher power or a set of religious beliefs is nonsensical. Indeed, many view religion in general, and Christianity in particular, as unfounded and unreasonable. Norman Geisler and Frank Turek argue, however, that Christianity is not only more reasonable than all other belief systems, but is indeed more rational than unbelief itself. With conviction and clear thinking, Geisler and Turek guide readers through some of the traditional, tested arguments for the existence of a creator God. They move into an examination of the source of morality and the reliability of the New Testament accounts concerning Jesus. The final section of the book deals with a detailed investigation of the claims of Christ. This volume will be an interesting read for those skeptical about Christianity, as well as a helpful resource for Christians seeking to articulate a more sophisticated defense of their faith.

Religion for Atheists

Author : Alain De Botton
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780307907103

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What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false—but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world. Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead steal from it—because the world’s religions are packed with good ideas on how we might live and arrange our societies. Blending deep respect with total impiety, de Botton (a non-believer himself) proposes that we look to religion for insights into how to, among other concerns, build a sense of community, make our relationships last, overcome feelings of envy and inadequacy, inspire travel and reconnect with the natural world. For too long non-believers have faced a stark choice between either swallowing some peculiar doctrines or doing away with a range of consoling and beautiful rituals and ideas. At last, in Religion for Atheists, Alain de Botton has fashioned a far more interesting and truly helpful alternative.

In Good Faith

Author : Scott A. Shay
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781682617939

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Prominent atheists claim the Bible is a racist text. Yet Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. read it daily. Then again, so did many ardent segregationists. Some atheists claim religion serves to oppress the masses. Yet the classic text of the French Revolution, What is the Third Estate?, was written by a priest. On the other hand, the revolutionaries ended up banning religion. What do we make of religion’s confusing role in history? And what of religion’s relationship to science? Some scientists claim that we have no free will. Others argue that advances in neurobiology and physics disprove determinism. As for whispering to the universe, an absurd habit say the skeptics. Yet prayer is a transformative practice for millions. This book explores the most common atheist critiques of the Bible and religion, incorporating Jewish, Christian, and Muslim voices. The result is a fresh, modern re-evaluation of religion and of atheism. Scott A. Shay is a Co-Founder and Chairman of Signature Bank and a longstanding Jewish community activist. Shay started a Hebrew school, an adult educational program, and chaired several Jewish educational programs. He is the author of Getting our Groove Back: How to Energize American Jewry and has been thinking about religion, reason, and modernity since wondering why his parents sent him to Hebrew school.

Farewell to God

Author : Charles Templeton
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781551994499

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For more than twenty years, Charles Templeton was a major figure in the church in Canada and the United States. During the 1950s, he and Billy Graham were the two most successful exponents of mass evangelism in North America. Templeton spoke nightly to stadium crowds of up to thirty thousand people. However, increasing doubts about the validity of the Old Testament and the teachings of the Christian church finally brought about a crisis in his faith and in 1957 he resigned from the ministry. In Farewell to God, Templeton speaks out about his reasons for the abandonment of his faith. In straightforward language, Templeton deals with such subjects as the Creation fable, racial prejudice in the Bible, the identity of Jesus of Nazareth, Jesus’ alienation from his family, the second-class status of women in the church, the mystery of evil, the illusion that prayer works, why there is suffering and death, and the loss of faith in God. He concludes with a positive personal statement: “I Believe.”

A Manual for Creating Atheists

Author : Peter Boghossian
Publisher : Pitchstone Publishing (US&CA)
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781939578150

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A Manual for Creating Atheists by Peter Boghossian Pdf

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.

Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God

Author : Frank Schaeffer
Publisher : Regina Orthodox Press,Csi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-07
Category : Belief and doubt
ISBN : 1928653995

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Why I Am an Atheist Who Believes in God by Frank Schaeffer Pdf

Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend's death, Frank Schaeffer finds himself simultaneously believing and not believing in God--an atheist who prays. Schaeffer wrestles with faith and disbelief, sharing his innermost thoughts. He writes as an imperfect son, husband and grandfather whose love for his family, art and life trumps the ugly theologies of an angry God and the atheist vision of a cold, meaningless universe.

An Athiest Defends Religion

Author : Bruce Sheiman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-08-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101082270

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An Athiest Defends Religion by Bruce Sheiman Pdf

A new perspective. Defending religion as a cultural institution in the face of resurgent atheistic thought For centuries, the theism-atheism debate has been dominated by two positions: stringent believers committed to the "yes, there is a God" argument, and atheists vehemently driven to repudiate not only God, but also religion as a cultural institution. To date, this is the first and only mainstream book in which a nonbeliever criticizes atheism and affirms religion. An Atheist Defends Religion persuasively argues that religion is overwhelmingly beneficial for humanity, regardless of whether God exists, based on a new paradigm of 10 affirmative dimensions that make up religious experience. It also puts to rest the theory that religion is behind most of the world's sectarian violence by showing that religion becomes evil when it is politicized. Readers will learn they do not have to be fundamentalists to be believers, and about the value and benefits of religion itself.

Faith Of An Atheist

Author : Floyd C McElveen
Publisher : Big Mac Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780983198338

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Author Floyd C. McElveen heard men crying out for God when a Kamikaze suicide plane hit his ship in WWII. Several different "Religions" tried to convince him that they had the answers. Vocal Atheists claimed Evolution was a "fact" and that God did not exist at all. This created an intense desire in McElveen to find out the truth. With his brilliant mind and deductive reasoning, McElveen began a sincere journey to discover who was right. "Faith of an Atheist" is a powerhouse book with scientific and logical explanations providing a sound foundation for its conclusions. McElveen's skill at communicating resonates with truth that is revealing and soul-searching. With over 1 million books in print, he is clearly a diligent researcher and well-respected author.

The Faith of Christopher Hitchens

Author : Larry Alex Taunton
Publisher : HarperChristian + ORM
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780718022181

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The Faith of Christopher Hitchens by Larry Alex Taunton Pdf

2016 Winner of the Gospel Coalition Book Awards At the time of his death, Christopher Hitchens was the most notorious atheist in the world. And yet, all was not as it seemed. “Nobody is not a divided self, of course,” he once told an interviewer, “but I think it’s rather strong in my case.” Hitchens was a man of many contradictions: a Marxist in youth who longed for acceptance among the social elites; a peacenik who revered the military; a champion of the Left who was nonetheless pro-life, pro-war-on-terror, and after 9/11 something of a neocon; and while he railed against God on stage, he maintained meaningful—though largely hidden from public view—friendships with evangelical Christians like Francis Collins, Douglas Wilson, and the author Larry Alex Taunton. In The Faith of Christopher Hitchens, Taunton offers a very personal perspective of one of our most interesting and most misunderstood public figures. Writing with genuine compassion and without compromise, Taunton traces Hitchens’s spiritual and intellectual development from his decision as a teenager to reject belief in God to his rise to prominence as one of the so-called “Four Horsemen” of the New Atheism. While Hitchens was, in the minds of many Christians, Public Enemy Number One, away from the lights and the cameras a warm friendship flourished between Hitchens and the author; a friendship that culminated in not one, but two lengthy road trips where, after Hitchens’s diagnosis of esophageal cancer, they studied the Bible together. The Faith of Christopher Hitchens gives us a candid glimpse into the inner life of this intriguing, sometimes maddening, and unexpectedly vulnerable man. “If everyone in the United States had the same qualities of loyalty and care and concern for others that Larry Taunton had, we'd be living in a much better society than we do.” ~ Christopher Hitchens

I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist

Author : Norman L. Geisler
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 810 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Apologetics
ISBN : 9781458771186

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I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist by Norman L. Geisler Pdf

I don't have enough faith to be an atheist argues that Christianity requires the least faith of all worldviews because it is the most reasonable. The authors lay out the evidence for truth, God, and the Bible in logical order and in a readable, non-technical, engaging style. A valuable aid to those interested in examining the reasonableness of the Christian faith, Geisler and Turek provide a firm challenge to the the prior beliefs of doubters and skeptics.

Thank God for Atheists

Author : Timothy Morgan
Publisher : Harvest House Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780736966290

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"The greatest authors of atheism did more to push me toward belief in God than any Christian apologist writer." --Timothy Morgan. After a decade of major disappointments, Timothy Morgan was ready to reject God. Atheism offered an escape--an opportunity to dismiss God permanently. But as Morgan delved into the thinking of great atheists past and present, he was stunned. In book after book, he found their reasons for rejecting God to be intellectually unfulfilling. In Thank God for Atheists he candidly shares his journey by letting atheists speak for themselves, examining their logic to see whether it holds up or not. Along the way, deals with these key questions: What are the key elements of the atheist worldview? Who are the leading modern-day atheists, and what are they saying? How can you effectively respond to atheism? You'll find this a personal and thoughtful book on why the evidence for God is much more compelling than the evidence against Him.

Stealing from God

Author : Frank Turek
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612917016

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If you think atheists have reason, evidence, and science on their side, think again! Award-winning author Dr. Frank Turek (I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist) will show you how atheists steal reason, evidence, science, and other arguments from God in trying to make their case for atheism. If that sounds contradictory, it's because it is! Atheists can't make their case without appealing to realities only theism can explain. In an engaging and memorable way,Stealing from God exposes these intellectual crimes atheists are committing and then provides four powerful reasons for why Christianity is true.

The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality

Author : André Comte-Sponville
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0670018473

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Poses an argument for living a spiritual life that is not dependent on religion, explaining that an acceptance of philosophical spiritual traditions and values does not require practitioners to embrace the existence of a higher order.

Letters to an Atheist

Author : Peter Kreeft
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442232723

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In Letters to an Atheist, esteemed philosopher and author Peter Kreeft corresponds with a young atheist who is wrestling with the question of God. Together they work through some of the primary reasons people don’t believe in God, including violence committed in the name of religion, the problem of evil, and more. They also discuss many of the reasons for belief, including love, miracles, and the relationship between religion and science. The debate between atheists and theists today is often strident and angry, and understandably so—the debate encompasses fundamental questions about how we live our lives. As Kreeft writes, “if God does not exist, then religion is the biggest hoax, the biggest myth, the biggest lie in the history of the world.” However, Letters to an Atheist showcases a respectful exploration of some of life’s biggest questions, trying to understand the opposing point of view. With characteristic warmth and clarity, Kreeft’s letters offer believers and non-believers alike much to consider.

Battling the Gods

Author : Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780571279326

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How new is atheism? In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean to recover the stories of those who first refused the divinities. Long before the Enlightenment sowed the seeds of disbelief in a deeply Christian Europe, atheism was a matter of serious public debate in the Greek world. But history is written by those who prevail, and the Age of Faith mostly suppressed the lively free-thinking voices of antiquity. Tim Whitmarsh brings to life the fascinating ideas of Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; and Epicurus and his followers. He shows how the early Christians came to define themselves against atheism, and so suppress the philosophy of disbelief. Battling the Gods is the first book on the origins of the secular values at the heart of the modern state. Authoritative and bold, provocative and humane, it reveals how atheism and doubt, far from being modern phenomena, have intrigued the human imagination for thousands of years.