Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

By: Bertrand Russell

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Paperback | 1 April 2004 | Edition Number 2

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Why I am not a Christian is considered one of the most blasphemous philosophical documents ever written, and at a time when we have faith schools and wars over religious beliefs, its message today couldn't be more relevant. If religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave - then Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us instead with other, more troublesome alternatives: responsibility, autonomy, self-awareness. If it were possible to sum up this book in a sentence, then it would be that the time to live is now, the place to live is here, and the way to be happy is to ensure others are happy.

And what it all boils down to, is that disbelief is but a matter of believing. Ranked alongside Voltaire's Candide , Tom Paine's Age of Reason , Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ , and Monty Python's The Life of Brian , Bertrand Russell's Why I am not a Christian has made some odd bedfellows over the years. While its tone is playful and frivolous, it poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.

Industry Reviews

'Devastating in its use of cold logic.' - The Independent

'The most robust as well as the most witty infidel since Voltaire and he can not fail to sharpen men's sense of what is entailed both in belief and unbelief.' - The Spectator

'What makes the book valuable is life-long uncompromising intellectual honesty.' - Times Literary Supplement

'Devastating in its use of cold logic.' - The Independent

'Bertrand Russell was a mixture of convention and irregularity.' - The Daily Mail

'What makes the book valuable is its life-long uncompromising intellectual honesty.' - Times Literary Supplement

'There is no one who uses the English language more beguilingly than Russell, no one smoothes the kinks and creases more artfully out of the most crumpled weaves of thought.' - The Times

'The most robust as well as the most witty infidel since Voltaire and he can not fail to sharpen men's sense of what is entailed both in belief and unbelief.' - The Spectator

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Preface to the Routledge Classics Edition	p. vii
Editor's Introduction	p. xvi
Preface	p. xxii
Why I Am Not a Christian	p. 1
Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilisation?	p. 20
Do We Survive Death?	p. 42
Seems, Madam? Nay, It Is	p. 48
On Catholic and Protestant Sceptics	p. 57
Life in the Middle Ages	p. 65
The Fate of Thomas Paine	p. 70
Nice People	p. 84
The New Generation	p. 92
Our Sexual Ethics	p. 102
Freedom and the Colleges	p. 112
The Existence of God: a Debate Between Bertrand Russell and Father F. C. Copleston, Sj	p. 125
Can Religion Cure Our Troubles?	p. 153
Religion and Morals	p. 164
Appendix	p. 166
Index	p. 213
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Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

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