50 Voices of Disbelief (PDF)

Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Unbelievable! 2. My "Bye Bull" Story. 3. How Benevolent Is God? - An Argument from Suffering to Atheism. 4. A Deal-Breaker. 5. Why Am I a Nonbeliever? - I Wonder ... . 6. Wicked or Dead? Reflections on the Moral Character and Existential Status of God. 7. Religious Belief and Self-Deception. 8. The Coming of Disbelief. 9. What I Believe. 10. Too Good to Be True, Too Obscure to Explain: The Cognitive Shortcomings of Belief in God. 11. How to Think About God: Theism, Atheism, and Science. 12. A Magician Looks at Religion. 13. Confessions of a Kindergarten Leper. 14. Beyond Disbelief. 15. An Ambivalent Nonbelief. 16. Why Not? 17. Godless Cosmology. 18. Unanswered Prayers. 19. Beyond Faith and Opinion. 20. Could It Be Pretty Obvious There's No God? 21. Atheist, Obviously. 22. Why I am Not a Believer. 23. Evil and Me. 24. Who's Unhappy? 25. Reasons to be Faithless. 26. Three Stages of Disbelief. 27. Born Again, Briefly. 28. Cold Comfort. 29. The Accidental Exorcist. 30. Atheist Out of the Foxhole. 31. The Unconditional Love of Reality. 32. Antinomies. 33. Giving Up Ghosts and Gods. 34. Some Thoughts on Why I Am an Atheist. 35. No Gods, Please! 36. Welcome Me Back to the World of the Thinking. 37. Kicking Religion Goodbye.... 38. On Credenda. 39. "Not Even Start to Ignore Those Questions!" A Voice of Disbelief in a Different Key. 40. Imagine No Religion. 41. Humanism as Religion: An Indian Alternative. 42. Why I Am NOT a Theist. 43. When the Hezbollah Came to My School. 44. Evolutionary Noise, not Signal from Above. 45. Gods Inside. 46. Why Morality Doesn't Need Religion. 47. Doctor Who and the Legacy of Rationalism. 48. My Nonreligious Life: A Journey From Superstition to Rationalism. 49. Helping People to Think Critically About Their Religious Beliefs. 50. Human Self-Determination, Biomedical Progress, and God. About the Contributors. Index.

Russell Blackford is a freelance writer, critic, and editor,
based in Melbourne, Australia. He teaches part-time in the School
of Philosophy and Bioethics at Monash University, where he
specialises mainly in philosophical bioethics and legal/political
philosophy. He is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Evolution
and Technology, an on-line peer reviewed journal devoted to
rigorous consideration of future prospects for the human species or
its possible descendants.

Udo Schüklenk is a German-Australian philosopher. He
has written or edited five books and published over one hundred
articles in peer reviewed journals and books. His latest books are
the co-edited volumes The Power of Pills (2006) and The
Bioethics Reader (Blackwell, 2007). He is the Joint
Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Bioethics and
currently the Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics at Queen's
University in Canada. His current research focuses on ethical and
policy issues in drug research and development.

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