The Necessity of Atheism
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Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer assumes that it is with regret that the freethinker would remove the crutch that supports the orthodox. And all religious beliefs are "crutches" hindering the free locomotive efforts of an advancing humanity. There are no problems related to human progress and happiness in this age which any theology can solve, and which the teachings of freethought cannot do better and without the aid of encumbrances.
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- THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM
- DR. D. M. BROOKS
- Dedicated to JOSEPH LEWIS IN AMERICA AND CHAPMAN COHEN IN ENGLAND OF WHOM IT MAY BE SAID:
- PREFACE
- THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM
- CHAPTER I
- THE EVOLUTION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEFS
- CHAPTER II
- THE KORAN AND THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS
- CHAPTER III
- THE PROPHETS MOHAMMED, JESUS, AND MOSES CHARLATANS OR VICTIMS OF MENTAL AND PHYSICAL DISEASE
- Mohammed
- Jesus
- Moses
- CHAPTER IV
- SOUNDNESS OF A FOUNDATION FOR A BELIEF IN A DEITY
- CHAPTER V
- THE PERSISTENCE OF RELIGION
- CHAPTER VI
- RELIGION AND SCIENCE
- CHAPTER VII
- RELIGION AND MEDICINE
- CHAPTER VIII
- RELIGION AND ASTRONOMY
- CHAPTER IX
- RELIGION AND GEOGRAPHY
- CHAPTER X
- RELIGION AND CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
- CHAPTER XI
- RELIGION AND GEOLOGY, PHILOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
- Religion and Evolution
- CHAPTER XII
- RELIGION AND WITCHCRAFT
- CHAPTER XIII
- RELIGION AND MORALITY
- CHAPTER XIV
- CHRISTIANITY AND WAR
- CHAPTER XV
- CHRISTIANITY AND SLAVERY
- CHAPTER XVI
- CHRISTIANITY AND LABOR
- CHAPTER XVII
- RELIGION AND WOMAN
- CHAPTER XVIII
- THE PHILOSOPHERS AND THE GREAT ILLUSION
- CHAPTER XIX
- THE DOOM OF RELIGION; THE NECESSITY OF ATHEISM
- CHAPTER XX
- CONTEMPORARY OPINION
- The Vanguard
- Bertrand Russell
- Max Carl Otto
- John Dewey
- C. E. M. Joad
- William Pepperell Montague
- Irwin Edman
- Walter Lippmann
- H. L. Mencken
- Horace M. Kallen
- Albert Einstein
- Luther Burbank
- Sir Arthur Keith
- H. Levy
- J. B. S. Haldane
- Howard W. Haggard, M. D.
- Harry Elmer Barnes
- George Jean Nathan
- Rupert Hughes
- Hu Shih
- Dr. Frankwood E. Williams
- William Floyd
- Llewelyn Powys
- Theodore Dreiser
- Upton Sinclair
- The Middle Guard
- Alfred North Whitehead
- Robert Andrews Millikan
- Albert C. Dieffenbach
- Dr. Charles W. Eliot
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