The Homemade Atheist by Betty Brogaard -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication Foreword Introduction Part 1 - The Path to Unbelief

1 - The Unbeliever’s Happiness

An Unexpected Conversion Do Atheists Have a Belief System? Real Goals or Calculating “Faith”? You’re on Your Own My Joy Comes from Doing, Not Believing Before and After Materialism Happiness: A Reward for Belief?

2 - Can Adherence to the Bible Bring Real Happiness?

So What about “Tradition”? Is Public Prayer Productive? Humility, a Lost Christian Attribute? Are Christians Slaves? The Immortal Soul and Everlasting Hellfire What Is Heaven Really Like? The Matter of Forgiveness Women, Salvation, and Faith Thankfulness Don’t Worry—Be Happy! But Is It Possible for Religious Believers and Nonbelievers to Get Along? Other Examples of Diverse Beliefs in Marriage Back to the Original Question

3 - The Omni-God

Why Does God Do Nothing? Does God Cause Evil? Does God Get Angry? The Book of Job

4 - This, Too, Shall Pass

Learning Must Never Cease What Does God Really Want? “Feel-Good” Religion The Legacy of All Religion Science and Its Warnings

5 - Schizophrenic Religion

Schizophrenic Delusions “Spiritual” versus Merely “Religious” “Spiritual” Experiences Definitions Are Important

Part 2 - A House Divided

6 - The Religious War of Words

Formative, Normative, and Cultural Doctrines Conduct in the Church versus Conduct in Society Feminism Faith, Grace, and Works Whose “Proof” Should You Accept?

7 - The Ten Commandments and the Sabbath Day

Which Ten Commandments? Which Sabbath Day? Illegal Displays

8 - Freewill, Open Theism, and Open View of God

A Tug of War Doctrinal “Proof” Miscellaneous Other Doctrines

Part 3 - Religious Experience in Perspective

9 - Who Can Know God?

What Team Does God Favor? Can Faith Bestow Knowledge and Wisdom? The Experience of Others Brings Knowledge

10 - Morality, Ethics, and Atheism

What Is the Source of Morality? The Morality of “Live and Let Live” Is Forced Agreement Moral? Know What You Believe and Why You Believe It

11 - The Importance of Evidence

Speculation Does Not Equal Evidence The Arrogance of Dogma Can There Be God without Religion?

12 - The Logic of Unbelief

The Process of Reason New “Truth”? Limbus Patrum and Limbus Infantium A Tired Old Argument Life Experience, a Process of Evolution

13 - How Tolerant Should We Be?

Religious Tolerance and Science Straw Men When Tolerance Leads to Chaos

14 - What’s It Going to Take?

Only a Thousand Years of Peace? I, Too, Have a Dream My Benefactor

Epilogue Bibliography Index Other Books from Ulysses Press About the Author Copyright Page