The End of Christianity
by Loftus, John W.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-07-26
Publisher(s): Prometheus
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Summary
In this successor volume to his critically acclaimed, The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, Loftus--a former minister and now a leading atheist spokesperson--has assembled a stellar group of respected scholars to continue the critique of Christianity.
Author Biography
John w. Loftus, a former Christian preacher, is the author of Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, the editor of The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, and the founder ofwww.debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | p. 9 |
| Why Two Thousand Years Are Enough | p. 21 |
| Christianity Evolving: On the Origin of Christian Species | p. 23 |
| Christianity's Success Was Not Incredible | p. 53 |
| Christianity is Wildly Improbable | p. 75 |
| Putting An Ancient Myth To Rest | p. 105 |
| Why Biblical Studies Must End | p. 107 |
| Can God Exist if Yahweh Doesn't? | p. 131 |
| Gods Emotions: Why the Biblical God Is Hopelessly Human | p. 155 |
| Living On Borrowed Time | p. 179 |
| The Absurdity of the Atonement | p. 181 |
| The Salem Witch Trials and the Evidence for the Resurrection | p. 195 |
| Explaining the Resurrection without Recourse to Miracle | p. 219 |
| Hell: Christianity's Most Damnable Doctrine | p. 233 |
| Science Puts An End To Christianity | p. 255 |
| Is Religion Compatible with Science? | p. 257 |
| Neither Life nor the Universe Appear Intelligently Designed | p. 279 |
| Life After Death: Examining the Evidence | p. 305 |
| Moral Facts Naturally Exist (and Science Could Find Them) | p. 333 |
| Afterword: Changing Morals and the Fate of Evangelicalism | p. 365 |
| Notes | p. 369 |
| List of Contributors | p. 431 |
| Commitment Page | p. 435 |
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