The contention that there is no God and that religious faith in such an entity is a consequence of man’s imagination or gullibility.
It has been argued that virtually everyone is an atheist as few people profess to believe in all the gods or other divine personalities devised by man. More conventionally, the atheist denies the existence of God as perceived by Christians and adherents of other major world religions, pointing out the lack of material evidence for such a being and the dilemma posed by the idea of a loving God permitting suffering and other evils to continue in the world.
Atheists frequently point to the apparently ever-widening gulf between modern science and religious faith, and sometimes claim that God has become ‘the god of the spaces in between’ known scientific facts.
As science advances, so many atheists argue that God’s natural territory is decreasing and that ‘blind’ faith is increasingly untenable and even immoral when the acceptance of such ideas depends increasingly upon the denial of reason.
Also see: agnosticism, HUMANISM, theism
Source:
J Monod, Chance and Necessity (Oxford, 1982)
Table of Contents
- 1 Videos
- 2 Related Products
- 2.1 Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
- 2.2 The God Delusion
- 2.3 Moral Implications of Atheism
- 2.4 Atheism: The Case Against God (The Skeptic's Bookshelf)
- 2.5 Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
- 2.6 The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
- 2.7 George Carlin: It's Bad For Ya!
- 2.8 For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
- 2.9 Atheism For Dummies
- 2.10 God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Videos
Outgrowing God: A Beginner's Guide
- Hardcover Book
- Dawkins, Richard (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 304 Pages - 10/08/2019 (Publication Date) - Random House (Publisher)
The God Delusion
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Dawkins, Richard (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 465 Pages - 01/16/2008 (Publication Date) - Mariner Books (Publisher)
Moral Implications of Atheism
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- Kyle Butt (Writer) - Apologetics Press (Producer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
Atheism: The Case Against God (The Skeptic's Bookshelf)
- Smith, George H. (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 336 Pages - 07/12/2016 (Publication Date) - Prometheus (Publisher)
Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
- Navabi, Armin (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 128 Pages - 10/06/2014 (Publication Date) - CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Publisher)
The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Seidel, Andrew L (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 354 Pages - 05/14/2019 (Publication Date) - Sterling (Publisher)
George Carlin: It's Bad For Ya!
- Amazon Prime Video (Video on Demand)
- George Carlin (Actor)
- Rocco Urbisci (Director) - George Carlin (Writer)
- English (Playback Language)
- English (Subtitle)
For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World
- Hardcover Book
- Sagan, Sasha (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 288 Pages - 10/22/2019 (Publication Date) - G.P. Putnam's Sons (Publisher)
Atheism For Dummies
- McGowan, Dale (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 384 Pages - 03/18/2013 (Publication Date) - For Dummies (Publisher)
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- Amazon Kindle Edition
- Hitchens, Christopher (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 548 Pages - 05/01/2007 (Publication Date) - Twelve (Publisher)
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