The Portable Atheist by Hitchens, Christopher -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

ALSO BY CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Title Page Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction 1 - From De Rerum Natura (On the Nature of Things)

From Book I From Book II From Book III From Book V

2 - From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 3 - Of Religion 4 - Theological-Political Treatise 5 - The Natural History of Religion

6 - An Account of My Last Interview With David Hume, Esq. 7 - A Refutation of Deism 8 - Moral Influences in Early Youth: My Father’s Character and Opinions 9 - Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right 10 - Evangelical Teaching 11 - Autobiography 12 - An Agnostic’s Apology 13 - Miracle 14 - Thoughts of God

Bible Teaching and Religious Practice

15 - Author’s Note to The Shadow Line 16 - God’s Funeral 17 - The Philosophy of Atheism 18 - A Letter on Religion 19 - Why I Am an Unbeliever 20 - Memorial Service 21 - From The Future of an Illusion

VI VII

22 - Selected Writings on Religion 23 - From A Clergyman’s Daughter 24 - In Westminster Abbey 25 - Monism and Religion

Spiritual Vision

26 - An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish 27 - Aubade

Church Going

28 - The Wandering Jew and the Second Coming 29 - The Demon-Haunted World

The God Hypothesis

30 - From Roger’s Version 31 - Conclusions and Implications

(a) The Challenge of Nihilism (b) The Balance of Probabilities (c) The Moral Consequences of Atheism

32 - Genesis Revisted 33 - That Undiscovered Country

Later Developments

34 - Thank Goodness! 35 - A Personal Word

Questions to Ask Yourself

36 - Why There Almost Certainly Is No God

The Ultimate Boeing 747 Natural Selection as a Consciousness-Raiser Irreducible Complexity The Worship of Gaps

37 - Cosmic Evidence

Miracles Creating Matter Creating Order The Origin Intervening in the Cosmos Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From? Why Is There Something Rather Than Nothing?

38 - A Working Definition of Religion 39 - If God Is Dead, Is Everything Permitted? 40 - There Is No God 41 - End of the World Blues 42 - What About God? 43 - “Imagine There’s No Heaven” 44 - The Koran

The Word of God? The Doctrines of the Koran Adam and Evolution, Creation, and Modern Cosmology The Origins of Life and the Theory of Evolution God the Creator Food, Famine, and Drought Miracles Jesus in the Koran Did Jesus Exist? The Rise of Islam and the Origins of Christianity The Ethics of Fear Historical Errors in the Koran Regulations for the Muslim Community Of Religion in General, and Islam in Particular No Separation of State and Church Islamic Law

45 - In the Shadow of God

Witch and Jew The Holocaust

46 - Can an Atheist Be a Fundamentalist? 47 - How (and Why) I Became an Infidel Credits and Permissions Index Copyright Page