The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

2004/January 2005), published by the CSH in Amherst, New York.

From God: The Failed Hypothesis—How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist, by Victor J. Stegner (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2007), pp. 113–136. Copyright © 2007 by Victor J. Stegner. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

From Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995), pp. 105–171. Copyright © 1995 by Ibn Warraq. All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission of the publisher.

“Breaking Which Spell?” from Breaking the Spell: Religion as Natural Phenomena by Daniel C. Dennett, copyright © 2006 by Daniel C. Dennett. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA) Inc.

From Breaking the Spell by Daniel C. Dennett (Penguin Books, 2006). Copyright © Daniel C. Dennett, 2006. Reproduced by permission of Penguin Books Ltd.

“There Is No God” by Penn Jillette. Copyright © 2005 by Penn Jillette. From the Book This I Believe, edited by Jay Allison and Dan Gediman. Copyright © 2006 by This I Believe, Inc. Reprinted by arrangement with Henry Holt and Company, LLC.

“End of the World Blues” by Ian McEwan. Published by arrangement with Rogers Coleridge & White.

“Imagine There’s No Heaven: A Letter to the Six Billionth World Citizen,” by Salman Rushdie. Copyright © 1997 by Salman Rushdie. Reprinted with permission of the Wylie Agency.

From The End of Faith by Sam Harris. Copyright © 2004 by Sam Harris. Used by Permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

The Publisher is grateful to the following for their permission to reproduce copyright material: Oberon Books Ltd., for permission to use an extract from Against all Gods, © 2007, by A. C. Grayling. ISBN: 9781840027280 (www.oberonbooks.com).

“How (and Why) I Became and Infidel” copyright © 2007 by Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Published by arrangement with the author.

Index

Abbas, Malik ibn

Abortion

Adam and Eve

Adams, Charles

Adams, Douglas

Adams, John

Ady, Thomas

Against All Gods,

Agnosticismand Darwinand Einsteinand Kngand Lovecraftand Russelland Stephen

“An Agnostic’s Apology”

Ahmadinejad, President

Al-Tha’alibi

Albert, Hans

Alfaric, Prosper

Ali, Ayaan Hirsi

Ali, Yusuf

Allah

Allen, Woody

American Great Awakening

Amr, Abu

Anderson, Elizabeth

Annan, Kofi

Anselm, St.

Anti-Christ

Anti-Semitism

Apocalypse

Aquinas, St. Thomas

Aristotle

Armageddon

Arnold, Matthew

Asim of Kufa

Athanasius

Atheismand Aliand Andersonand Ayerand Catholicismand Cohenand Dawkinsand deathbed conversionsand Dennettand Einsteinand Goldmanand Graylingand Hardyand Hobbesand Jilletteand Lovecraftand Mackieand McEwanand Milland monotheismand Newmanand philosophersand Saganand helleyand Spinozaand Stengerand Stephenand Updikeand Voltaireand Warragand Weinberg

“Atheists for Jesus”

Atkins, Peter

Atomism

Attenborough, David

“Aubade”

Augustine, St.

Aurelius, Marcus

Autobiography (Darwin)

Autobiography (Mill)

Ayer, A. J.

Baal

Bakunin, Michael

Bar, Shmuel

Bauer, Bruno

Baxter, Richard

Bayle, Pierre

Baz, Bin

Becker

Bede, the Venerable

Beethoven

Behe, Michael

Bell

Ben-Gurion

Bentham, Jeremy

Betjeman, John

Bible, theand apocalypseBook of RevelationCatholic study ofand creationismand Darwinand Einsteinand heresyas historical documentand Koranand Kngand moralityNew TestamentOld Testamentand Pentateuchand pollsand Russelland scienceand Second Comingand Twainand witchcraft

Big Bangand Koranand Stengerand Weinberg

Bin Laden, Osama

Birth control