The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

What these dynamic writers are railing against often enough, however, is a strawman: an immature, fundamentalist, outdated, and even embarrassing style of religion that many intelligent believers have long since cast off. From Publishers Weekly Hitchens, an avowed atheist and author of the bestseller God Is Not Great, is a formidable intellectual who finds the notion of belief in God to be utter nonsense. Hobbes, Spinoza, Mill and Marx are some of the heavyweights representing a philosophical viewpoint. The author is clear in his introduction that religion has caused more than its fair share of world problems. From the world of literature the author assemb

A Great Intro and a Mixture of Great to Below Avg Essays Book Shark The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever edited by Christopher Hitchens"The Portable Atheist" is the philosophical journey of atheist thought through time. The late great Christopher Hitchens selects forty seven essays by some of the most influential atheist/agnostic minds. This 528-page book is composed of forty seven essays by some of the most influential . Donald Sass said Absolute Must-Have Book for Rational Thinkers. Atheism is a relatively new state of mind for me, and so far it's all good! On nearly a weekly basis fears, superstitions, anger, hopelessness, confusion, absurdity, senselessness and more fall away from me like ice sheets from a glacier. "The Portable Atheist" is helping to hasten that process and repair the cruel and vile scars of lifelong fundamentalist christianity with a n. "Looks Like A Commercial Follow-Up" according to Douglas Doepke. Come to think of it, I've never seen anyone passing out atheist tracts on a street corner or in a parking lot or anywhere else, for that matter. Nor, when the doorbell rings, do I have to worry about being hammered with some unbeliver's version of the atheist's bible. No, a person pretty much has to seek out ammunition for unbelief on his own. For darn sure, no big name foundat

Mencken, Albert Einstein, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, and many others well-known and lesser known. And they're all set in context and commented upon as only Christopher Hitchens--political and literary journalist extraordinaire” (Los Angeles Times)--can. L. Atheist? Believer? Uncertain? No matter: The Portable Atheist will speak to you and engage you every step of the way.. From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provo

Christopher Hitchens is a contributing editor to Vanity Fair. His numerous books include Letters to a Young Contrarian and Why Orwell Matters.