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Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell (1927)

posted on January 19, 2013 04:23PM GMT
Thanks to MilkyWay for the link!

Bertrand Russell first delivered this lecture on March 6, 1927 to the National Secular Society, South London Branch, at Battersea Town Hall. See below for a section breakdown: What Is a Christian? :05The Existence of God 2:58The First-cause Argument 4:05The Natural-law Argument 6:16The Argument from Design 10:30The Moral Arguments for Deity 13:32The Argument for the Remedying of Injustice 16:13The Character of Christ 18:23Defects in Christ's Teaching 21:10The Moral Problem 23:24The Emotional Factor 28:15How the Churches Have Retarded Progress 31:10Fear, the Foundation of Religion 32:59What We Must Do 34:24Full text: http://www.users.drew.edu/~jlenz/whynot.htmlHis longer book on the same subect, "Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays": http://www.amazon.com/Christian-Essays-Religion-Related-Subjects/dp/067120323...Bertrand Russel Wikipedia page:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_Russell

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