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  Jainism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Confucianism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Hebrewism, Mohammedanism, Christianity


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id: 14120
title: Answer to Dr. Priestley''s Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever
author: Hammon, William
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  Natural or Moral proof of his existence and of those attributes. That religion or belief of a Deity cannot bear the force of argument is is meant a belief in the existence of a Deity from natural and exist without a Deity, you, Dr. Priestley, allow to be no impossibility. "By reason we can discover the necessary existence of a Deity, the idea of a Deity, if we do not exclude an existent universe. for the good of man to be made happy now, and that the Deity can be do so, the argument of the Deity''s existence is independent of such than a belief in God; for the moral purpose in believing a Deity (an on the subject; that is, how God could exist without a prior cause. He must however allow, if reason proves a Deity respecting Natural religion and the proof of the existence of a God


id: 15696
title: Superstition Unveiled
author: Southwell, Charles
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  for opposing the existence of God,'' in which he is told ''a world of declare the aim of Universalists is ''to dethrone God and destroy man,'' to be considered God''s right-hand men, and of course duly qualified Universalists believe the God of Bishop Watson a supernatural chimera, have existed from all eternity; if a great God sufficiently mighty to believing that there is a God, an intelligent cause of things, infinite Universe, or God, or Substance, or Spirit, or Matter, or the letter X, Could God be known, could his existence be made ''palpable to feeling as The universe is an uncaused existence, or it was caused by something The notion of necessarily existing matter seems fatal to belief in God; idea of matter''s self-existence or eternity, that they took to imagining as incontestible truth, that God exists necessarily--that the same The cause of Nature must have been one God,


id: 16512
author: Southwell, Charles
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  religions faith and political practice is, in truth, far closer than is for opposing the existence of God;'' in which he is told ''a world of to be considered God''s right-hand men, and of course duly qualified Atheists believe the God of Bishop Watson a supernatural chimera, and to nature''s God, and the like, but very difficult to have any idea whatever No such God can be believed to exist by reasoners who rigidly abide by existed from all eternity; if a great God sufficiently mighty to make a believing that there is a God, an intelligent cause of things, infinite Saint John was right; ''No man hath seen God at any time,'' to which ''open reasonings on the existence of God, well remarked that ''Theists are ''Reason forms the idea of God or of Supreme Intelligence out of Nature, The cause of Nature must have been one God;

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  An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles


id: 20248
title: The Necessity of Atheism
author: Brooks, David Marshall
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  In each age man creates his god, in his own image, and within the The Christians, accepting the Old Testament as a book dictated by God, informed that Christianity is _the_ religion of God, that Allah made the ages primitive man ascribed all diseases either to the wrath of God, or The religionist replies that man''s mind cannot fathom the will of God. Which is an irrational statement for it is a well established fact, and more to wean religious and God-fearing men and women from the old little time on the question of the existence and nature of God and the on God and more on the world, man, morals, and the conditions of social that as the mind of man expands, it does not discover new gods, but that A Christian will admit that the gods of others are man-made, and that The creeds of the churches contain conceptions of God''s nature and of


id: 20233
title: Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
author: Buchanan, James
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  living, intelligent, personal God. As Atheism has appeared in several distinct forms, it is necessary to which Nature affords of the being, perfections, and providence of God. Our Lord explained in a single sentence the whole Philosophy of life by natural causes, in so far as it is founded on the present law development by established natural laws, Divine agency is still equally necessary, as the natural result of the great law of human progress, it is the God of Pantheism,--Nature, including matter and mind, but philosophy respecting God, Nature, and Man. Here, if anywhere, is a respecting the existence of a living, personal God, distinct from Nature the existence of mind, or of any spiritual Power distinct from Nature The existence of "natural laws," and the operation of "second causes," peculiar properties and powers, and also of natural laws, as God''s believe they are, really subject both to natural laws and to God''s


id: 19566
title: Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
author: Patterson, Robert
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  befogs the serene light of God''s holy law, and gives the directing power belongeth unto God. In world-building we need not only a quarry of materials, and power for 1. The divine development of the world is a great fact; the theory of class who do not like to accept the Bible doctrine that God created man, 5. _The World''s History is the record of man''s crimes, and God''s God, adored the sun, and moon, and stars of heaven, and in process of The Bible is a great fact in the world''s history, known alike to the world was in as great need of God''s teaching before the coming of Christ God created the earth only six thousand years ago, but in many places the Bible can not be the Word of God, because it asserts facts contrary If the Bible had said that God created the heavens and the earth in six


id: 17607
title: Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d''
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  morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of Gods; they world; its monarch is God; His ministers are the priests; their subjects Religion unites man with God or puts them in communication; but do you the human mind is to render God unfit for men. Men believe in God only upon the word of those who have no more idea of But according to theology, man in his relation to God is far It appears that God, in creating more perfect beings than men, did not world who have or can have the same ideas of their God. CXXIII.--SKEPTICISM IN THE MATTER OF RELIGION, CAN BE THE EFFECT OF BUT A honor to God, far from proving the Divinity of religion, destroy worshiping the true God. To establish morality, or the duties of man, upon the Divine will, is attribute Divinity to mortal men, and worship them as Gods after their


id: 18168
title: The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism
author: Naville, Ernest
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  to extinguish in men''s souls their faith in the living God. This fear, Gentlemen, I should wish to communicate to you, but I should establish facts) that the thought of God operates, so to speak, in the We know now whence comes our idea of God: it is Christian in its origin. human mind, of an infinite reason, with the full idea of the Creator; so knowledge of God and faith in his goodness, man remains plunged in natural certainty, which does not suppose a clear view of God; we reason The pure idea of God is the true cause of the great progress of the which the express object is to realize life without God. These doctrines formed the subject of public discussions, in London in nature, or with its general object; they leave the question of God on Truth, beauty, goodness conduct the mind to God,


id: 30206
title: Humanity''s Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889
author: Bradlaugh, Charles
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  Christianity--like the rejection of the faiths which preceded it--has in directed by the Established Christian Church against Papists and Church of England Christians in New England, escaping from the persecution of Old World Christians, accepted as God''s revelation to man, Christianity has no higher claim Old and New Testaments are forced on the people as part of Christianity; progress and civilisation of the world are due to Christianity; and of slavery, and this because men professing Christianity were What of the effect of Christianity on these powers in the centuries ninth century week Christians sold slaves to the Saracens. In this the Church of England Christians in Demerara were and seventeenth centuries to persecutions by Christians of innocent men, any to which the Christians of the first three centuries were subjected Christian churches, which Acts have only been repealed in consequence of Why, one who does not believe in the Christian religion.


id: 30900
title: The Tyranny of God
author: Lewis, Joseph
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  present human species after the life and death of an illimitable number child the parents would not harm, Nature tortures and God kills! making him a Man. Disease is one of Nature''s cardinal forces. powerful than our minds, used to numb the pains of life, are so much in Human life is the cheapest thing that God makes! The mind, through fear of death, is capable of suffering, within a few feel pain as long as we possess "life." In a sense, therefore, death is After all, the severest pains of death lie in the brains of the living. We live our life by material means. that Nature forces him to live. living life in our former condition, after our efforts have brought us Death is always preferable to the living of a "dog''s life!" And yet, and chaotic forces of Nature, so as to make life and living a little


id: 7319
title: Good Sense
author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d''
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  Impossible to believe God is of infinite goodness and power Impossible to believe God is of infinite goodness and power Man''s life, deposes against goodness of a pretended God The principles of every religion are founded upon the idea of a GOD. Religion unites man with God, or forms a communication between them; yet form a visible world, nor create men or gods. Men believe in God only upon the word of those, who have no more idea of rendered mortals very unhappy in this world, religion tells them, that God If man, when just out of the hands of his God, could sin, his nature was an effect of the omnipotence of God. These are the ideas that men form of this religion were the most important concern of men, the goodness of God the divinity of a religion, evidently annihilate the God idea. Religion, by associating God with Man,


id: 36568
title: God and the State
author: Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
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  individual, in history: (1) _human animality_; (2) _thought_; and (3) thought in men, the people generally accept religious traditions without existence of a God, or of the divine origin of the world and of man, God being everything, the real world and man are nothing. Slaves of God, men must also be slaves of Church and State, _in so far speaking of God and human liberty at once. the abstraction of judicial law, and the natural development of human and really idealized the life of men; it transformed human herds into humanity; idealism starts from divinity to establish slavery and condemn with God come the different degrees of divine inspiration; humanity is human thought and, in consequence of this, science can grasp and name human beings in honor of some pitiless abstraction--God, country, power As fast as human ideas develop, the gods, who, and convenient faith in many good gods, more material, more human, and


id: 36799
author: Holyoake, George Jacob
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  generally for a considerable time, he said he was open to any question said the lecturer had been talking a good deal about our duty to man, the House of Commons, on this subject, stated ''That notwithstanding Mr. Holyoake offered no resistance to any officer or procedure, and was at words against God, and of and concerning the Christian religion, to wit, religion, these words following, that is to say, ''I (meaning the said question to Mr. Holyoake; he said,'' The lecturer has been speaking of Commons, said, ''I wish to ask the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary for that I said I did not believe there was such a _thing_ as a God, and an 2. _Senses_.--''No man hath seen God at any time,'' is a sufficient reply Christian will be sure to leave the issue in God''s hands.'' In my case speak as though they believed Christianity to be true; the common law

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  The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty''s Attorney-General and the British Clergy


id: 36798
title: The Limits of Atheism; Or, Why Should Sceptics Be Outlaws?
author: Holyoake, George Jacob
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  of Freethought, and I use the term Atheism, as the subject of a Lecture, working men, so far as it prevails, is no longer the old Atheism of Atheism questions--Cosmism affirms. must keep within the limits naturally prescribed to Affirmative Atheism, Modern Atheism is falsely regarded as a mere negation, as a species of Old Atheism shows that the alleged proofs of the existence of a Deity Atheism must teach that nature is the Bible of truth, work is worship, Cosmism, a thoughtful name, which ought to supersede Atheism in the If we say God is Light, Love, Truth, Power, Goodness, Law, Principle, improvements in thought and spirit, which the mere term Atheism 3. Dispassionateness is a law of Affirmative Atheism. is a law and limit of Affirmative Atheism. the views of Affirmative Atheism under these ''Limits'' be treated in the reverent conjecture, of which even mere negative Atheism is a reserved


id: 40770
title: Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion
author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d''
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  If the manners of nations have gained nothing by the Christian religion, OR THE IDEAS OF GOD, AND HIS CONDUCT, GIVEN US BY THE CHRISTIAN inspired by the same God. Thus, all religions pretend to a divine Thus, we are commanded by Christianity to believe that a God having his destructive temptations, rather than the absolute commands of God. This Satan, the cause of so much terror to Christians, was evidently Christians endeavour to prove the divine origin of their religion by the sanction of God. In my opinion, however, the Christian religion, which tramples on every moral duty in obedience to its God. In a word, the religion, which boasts of having brought peace on earth, divines who pretend that, without the Christian religion there could The love, therefore, of a Christian to his God can Christian love beings who continually offend his God?


id: 33825
title: An Atheist Manifesto
author: Lewis, Joseph
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  Many ask what difference does it make whether man believes in a God or This diabolical scheme could only come from a "merciful" God. As an illustration of this concept of primitive man in this respect is To nature the germs of disease, as a form of life, are equally as life--the germs of disease or man--which one is preferred by nature; If all man needed upon earth was a "knowledge of God," then why the our "duty" to God. It has made man prostitute the most precious things of life--it has made destiny once he frees himself from the myth of a tyrant God. Ingersoll best expressed man''s inventions and their uses when he said And does not the Bible God place a curse upon man for the knowledge that You are to make up your mind whether it is to be God or man. Is it to be God or Man?


id: 32006
title: Modern Substitutes for Christianity
author: Muir, Pearson M''Adam
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  instil in its place a life of duty, and of faith in God and man, and I expected of Christians is the highest and the best that human nature Christianity of Christ, prevails, will mankind be morally and maintain that Christianity in attributing Personality to God makes Him The imagination that the Christian God is a Personality like ourselves, God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ?[15] Can it be doubted that idolatry, the Man Christ Jesus''?[18] The Religion of Humanity, so faith in a Righteous and Loving God, and in a Life of man beyond the No doubt, belief in God is not confined to Christian countries: worship It is Christ Who gives life to the thought of God. It is the Word made Flesh that makes the Eternal Word more real. Christian Christ seems not so much a humanised God as an If Jesus Christ is a God,


