The Christian Delusion

by LOFTUS, JOHN W.BARKER, DAN

• ISBN13: 9781616141684
• ISBN10: 1616141689
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2010-04-27
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

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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