Reviewed by: Positive Atheism: Bayle, Meslier, d'Holbach, Diderot by Charles Devellennes Lloyd Strickland Devellennes, (Edinburgh: Edinburgh Univ. Press, 2021). Pp. 240. $105 cloth. How best to study the development of modern atheism? In Atheism, argues that while others have sought do so from perspective those who accused atheism, there is instead "an obvious alternative has at least equal val...

This paper is an enquiry into some commonalities between fiction and atheism. It suggests that ‘disbelief’ may be a state of mind shared by both asks how meaningful semantics might derived from the mental stance disbelief. Albert Camus’ The Plague, published in 1947 post trauma two successive world wars, key ‘existentialist’ text focuses on this dilemma. Not only work especially relevant to our...

In their systematic presentations of religious philosophy, the Indian Buddhists consistently defended the position that belief in an eternal creator god who superintends his creation and looks after the concerns of his creatures is a distraction from the central task of the religious life. This was clearly the position taken in the early Pāl.i literature and in the Theravāda philosophy based on...

"Freethinkers," including both atheists and secular humanists, have always been a minority in American society--and not a very popular one. There are still laws in several states preventing non-theists from holding office. Just as evangelical Protestants up until one hundred years ago held a largely optimistic view of the future and the end times (known as postmillennialism), secular humanists ...

at the basis of worshiping by humans and all other being a deity is revealed. that means there is a god who is also the creator and the only one .he is beyond time and cannot be imagined in particular space. only the relationship of man with his god satisfies his need to worship, for this relationship is the way to reach to the presence of one god. reaching god does not come from man’s need to ...