item: #1 of 17
          id: 14120
      author: Hammon, William
       title: Answer to Dr. Priestley's Letters to a Philosophical Unbeliever
        date: None
       words: 18398
      flesch: 67
     summary: To question with boldness and indifference, whether an individual, all-forming, all-seeing and all-governing Being exists, to whom, if he exists, we may possibly be responsible for our actions, whose intelligence and power must be infinitely superior to our own, requires a great conquest of former habitude, a firmness of nerves, as well as of understanding; it will therefore be no great wonder, if such men as Locke and Newton can be named among the believers in a Deity. In mathematics, mechanics, natural philosophy, in literature, taste, and politics the sentiments of great men of great genius are certainly of weight.
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        item: #2 of 17
          id: 15696
      author: Southwell, Charles
       title: Superstition Unveiled
        date: None
       words: 21887
      flesch: 58
     summary: Pietists may be shocked by such _nonchalance_ in the face of their 'grim monster;' but philosophers will admire an indifference to inevitable consequences resulting from profoundest love of truth and contempt of superstition. There cannot be slavery where there is no tyranny, and to say, as Newton did, that we stand in the name relation to a universal God, as a slave does to his earthly master, is practically to accuse such God, at reason's bar of _tyranny_.
    keywords: body; cause; christian; church; deity; existence; faith; god; human; man; matter; men; mind; nature; people; priests; reason; religion; superstition; things; truth; universalists; universe; world
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        item: #3 of 17
          id: 16512
      author: Southwell, Charles
       title: An Apology for Atheism Addressed to Religious Investigators of Every Denomination by One of Its Apostles
        date: None
       words: 39831
      flesch: 57
     summary: There cannot be slavery where there is no tyranny, and to say as Newton did, that we stand in the same relation to a universal God, as a slave does to his earthly master, is practically to accuse such God, at reason's bar, of _tyranny_. Measuring the _chaff_ of other men by their own bushel, they arrive at the pious but false conclusion that without fear of God there can be no genuine love of man, and that without faith in some one of our five hundred and odd true religions, all the thoughts of our hearts would be evil continually.
    keywords: apology; atheism; atheists; author; belief; body; cause; christian; church; deity; existence; fact; faith; god; good; human; knowledge; man; matter; men; mind; nature; people; philosophy; priests; question; reason; religion; right; sense; spirit; supernatural; superstition; system; things; time; truth; universe; world
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        item: #4 of 17
          id: 17607
      author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
       title: Superstition In All Ages (1732) Common Sense
        date: None
       words: 83220
      flesch: 63
     summary: Divinity has revealed itself in the different parts of our globe in a manner of such little uniformity, that in matters of religion men look upon each other with hatred and disdain. Although nothing is more rare than to see man use this intelligence, of which he appears so proud, I will admit that he is intelligent, that his necessities develop in him this faculty, that the society of other men contributes especially to cultivate it.
    keywords: beings; causes; christ; christian; conduct; death; divine; divinity; earth; effects; evil; existence; faith; fear; god; gods; good; heaven; human; idea; life; love; man; men; mind; miracles; morality; nations; nature; opinions; order; people; place; power; priests; principles; reason; religion; right; theology; things; time; truth; way; world
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        item: #5 of 17
          id: 18168
      author: Naville, Ernest
       title: The Heavenly Father: Lectures on Modern Atheism
        date: None
       words: 81248
      flesch: 69
     summary: And it is not the heart only which is concerned here; without God man remains inexplicable to his own reason. Good God!
    keywords: atheism; author; cause; conscience; creator; day; divine; doctrine; doubt; earth; eternal; evil; existence; experience; fact; faith; god; good; goodness; heart; history; human; humanity; idea; infinite; intelligence; law; liberty; life; light; living; love; man; matter; men; mind; nature; object; order; page; people; philosophy; place; power; question; reason; religion; science; society; soul; study; system; things; thought; time; truth; universal; universe; view; way; words; work; world
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        item: #6 of 17
          id: 19566
      author: Patterson, Robert
       title: Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
        date: None
       words: 176449
      flesch: 64
     summary: God _created_ man in his own image. What an outrage of decency for such men to call themselves philosophers and Christians!
    keywords: account; animals; apostles; authority; beginning; bible; book; cause; chap; chapter; character; christ; christian; church; city; common; contrary; creation; darkness; darwin; day; days; death; discovery; distinct; divine; earth; egypt; evolution; existence; eye; eyes; fact; faith; fire; form; forth; god; good; gospel; heathen; heaven; history; human; idea; infidel; infinite; instance; jesus; knowledge; land; language; law; laws; life; light; lord; man; matter; men; miles; millions; mind; modern; moses; motion; nations; nature; new; number; origin; people; period; place; planets; power; present; process; progress; prophets; question; reason; religion; revelation; science; scripture; second; soul; space; species; stars; state; sun; system; testament; testimony; theory; things; thou; time; truth; universe; water; way; words; work; world; years
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        item: #7 of 17
          id: 20233
      author: Buchanan, James
       title: Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws
        date: None
       words: 141569
      flesch: 48
     summary: My reverend friend is wrong in supposing that I admit DESIGN, and yet refuse to admit the force of the _design argument_, On the supposition, then, that _law and order_ are manifestations of _design_, the design argument might be valid and conclusive: but _no conceivable order_ could prove the existence of God; why? But there is an extreme also on the other side, which is exemplified in the singularly eloquent, but equally unsatisfactory, treatise of the Abbé Lamennais,[230] in which, as _then_ an ardent and somewhat arrogant advocate of the Romish Church, he attempts to fasten the charge of _Indifference_ or _Liberalism_ on the Protestant system, and to prove that there can be no true faith, and of course no salvation, beyond the Catholic pale.
    keywords: account; analogy; argument; atheism; belief; body; case; causes; christian; comte; creation; development; divine; doctrine; evidence; existence; experience; fact; faith; form; general; god; government; ground; history; holyoake; human; idea; knowledge; laws; life; man; material; matter; means; mere; mind; moral; natural; nature; new; object; pantheism; phenomena; philosophy; power; prayer; present; principle; properties; providence; question; reason; regard; religion; science; second; self; sense; soul; spirit; state; subject; substance; system; theory; things; thought; time; truth; work; world
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        item: #8 of 17
          id: 20248
      author: Brooks, David Marshall
       title: The Necessity of Atheism
        date: None
       words: 92595
      flesch: 61
     summary: In so doing, however, they show themselves abysmally ignorant of all that anthropology and psychology have done to study religion and religious man scientifically. Astronomy brings forth a noble array of men who have, by their intense desire for the truth, persevered against the Church, and in spite of the vilest opposition of that Church, brought to the attention of man laws that have given a meaning and order to our universe.
    keywords: age; ages; belief; bible; cause; centuries; century; children; christian; christianity; church; civilization; clergy; conception; creed; death; deity; devil; disease; divine; earth; existence; fact; faith; father; fear; form; god; gods; heaven; hebrew; history; human; idea; jesus; knowledge; labor; law; life; man; mankind; manner; martian; matter; medicine; men; mind; modern; mohammed; moses; nature; new; people; period; philosophy; place; power; present; progress; reason; religion; science; slavery; social; spirit; state; testament; things; thought; time; today; truth; universe; war; witchcraft; woman; work; world; years
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        item: #9 of 17
          id: 30206
      author: Bradlaugh, Charles
       title: Humanity's Gain from Unbelief Reprinted from the "North American Review" of March, 1889
        date: None
       words: 5238
      flesch: 54
     summary: Lloyd Garrison told me himself how honored deacons of a Christian Church joined in an actual attempt to hang him. When Christian missionaries some sixty-two years ago preached to Demerara negroes under the rule of Christian England, they were treated by Christian judges, holding commission from Christian England, as criminals for so preaching.
    keywords: abolition; century; christian; christianity; church; england; gain; humanity; slavery; slaves; unbelief
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        item: #10 of 17
          id: 30900
      author: Lewis, Joseph
       title: The Tyranny of God
        date: None
       words: 16417
      flesch: 67
     summary: How often do we prefer _death_ to living life in our former condition, after our efforts have brought us to a point of vantage and comfort! In other words, Nature has taken millions of years to produce the earth as it is now formed; and if it were made particularly for human beings it is not yet completed, for we still find spots, aye, vast areas, where human life is incapable of subsisting.
    keywords: body; brain; child; conditions; day; death; fear; forces; god; human; life; live; living; man; nature; pain; suffering; tyranny; world
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        item: #11 of 17
          id: 32006
      author: Muir, Pearson M'Adam
       title: Modern Substitutes for Christianity
        date: None
       words: 41392
      flesch: 67
     summary: 'In Theism,' so Haeckel draws out the comparison, 'God is opposed to Nature as an extra-mundane being, as creating and sustaining the world, and acting upon it from without, while in Pantheism God, as an intra-mundane being, is everywhere identical with Nature itself, and is operative within the world as force or {73} energy.'[5] Guesses at the Riddle of Existence; Lectures on the Study of History; The founder of Christianity_.
    keywords: appendix; belief; christianity; christians; church; creed; day; divine; earth; faith; father; god; good; humanity; jesus; life; light; living; lord; love; man; mankind; men; morality; nature; pantheism; power; religion; son; soul; spirit; things; thought; truth; universe; way; words; world; worship
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        item: #12 of 17
          id: 33825
      author: Lewis, Joseph
       title: An Atheist Manifesto
        date: None
       words: 8203
      flesch: 70
     summary: If man is a fallen angel, by the commission of a sin, then disease and sorrow are part of God's inscrutable plan as a penalty imposed upon him for his disobedience, and man's entire life is devoted to the expiation of that sin so as to soften the indictment before the Throne of God. When man comes to the realization that he is not the favorite of God; that he was not specially created, that the universe was not made for his benefit, and that he is subject to the same laws of nature as all other forms of life, then, and not until then, will he understand that he must rely upon himself, and himself alone, for whatever benefits he is to enjoy; and devote his time and energies to helping himself and his fellow men to meet the exigencies of life and to set about to solve the difficult and intricate problems of living.
    keywords: bible; death; disease; forms; god; knowledge; life; living; man; nature; progress; time
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        item: #13 of 17
          id: 36568
      author: Bakunin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich
       title: God and the State
        date: None
       words: 30572
      flesch: 51
     summary: In Christianity also there have been great men, holy men, who have really practised, or who, at least, have passionately tried to practice all that they preached, and whose hearts, overflowing with love, were full of contempt for the pleasures and goods of this world. They are so jealous of the glory of their God and of the triumph of their idea that they have no heart left for the liberty or the dignity or even the sufferings of living men, of real men.
    keywords: authority; church; day; development; divine; earth; existence; general; god; history; human; humanity; idea; liberty; life; material; matter; men; mind; new; people; power; real; reason; science; society; state; world
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        item: #14 of 17
          id: 36798
      author: Holyoake, George Jacob
       title: The Limits of Atheism; Or, Why Should Sceptics Be Outlaws?
        date: None
       words: 7043
      flesch: 64
     summary: These are the chasms that lie in the path of mere Atheism. But with respect to Affirmative Atheism, the necessity for newness of view is chiefly felt by those who do not understand it.
    keywords: atheism; cosmism; error; existence; god; mind; nature; opinion; self; superstition; term; truth
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        item: #15 of 17
          id: 36799
      author: Holyoake, George Jacob
       title: The History of the Last Trial by Jury for Atheism in England A Fragment of Autobiography Submitted for the Perusal of Her Majesty's Attorney-General and the British Clergy
        date: None
       words: 49848
      flesch: 70
     summary: Some ladies who represented themselves as wives of clergymen, came round the dock offering Mr. Holyoake confections and refreshment, and expressing their regret at the treatment he had received, and the position in which he was placed.] Mr. Holyoake, on resuming, said--According to a calculation that has never been disputed, the 'Pay to their Clergy. Catholics, numbering... 124,672,000... £6,106,000 Protestants � ... 54,046,000... 11,906,000 Greek Church � ... 41,000,000... 760,000 Total of Christians 219,718,000 £18,762,000 'Of which England, for twenty-one millions of people, pays more than one-half.'* It was thus expressed:-- We cannot refrain from saying, that under the peculiar circumstances, Mr. Holyoake (presuming his disbelief in a God to be sincere) could not have said other than he did say, and at the same time have continued honest.
    keywords: blasphemy; case; cheltenham; christian; christianity; common; court; day; defence; duty; erskine; evidence; friends; gaol; gentlemen; gloucester; god; good; holyoake; house; imprisonment; judge; jury; justice; law; life; magistrates; man; men; opinions; people; place; public; question; religion; right; sir; state; time; truth; words
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        item: #16 of 17
          id: 40770
      author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
       title: Christianity Unveiled Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion
        date: None
       words: 39286
      flesch: 61
     summary: Such men have always began by falsely pretending to have an intimate commerce with God, in order to prove which, they have performed wonders that they attribute to the Being by whom they say they were commissioned. Slave to no Sect, who takes no private read, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God; And knows where faith, law, morals, all began, All end in love of God, and love of Man.
    keywords: christian; church; conduct; death; earth; god; good; heaven; jews; love; mankind; means; men; miracles; morality; nations; nature; opinions; people; power; priests; reason; religion; society; things; time; truth; virtue; world
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        item: #17 of 17
          id: 7319
      author: Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'
       title: Good Sense
        date: None
       words: 59446
      flesch: 67
     summary: his justice is not the justice of man_. The idea of God is impossible 9.
    keywords: beings; believe; causes; conduct; divine; effects; evil; existence; fear; god; good; goodness; happiness; human; idea; life; man; men; morality; nations; nature; order; people; power; priests; reason; religion; right; theology; thing; world
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