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Preface to Atheist Thought
A new issue of ATHEIST THOUGHT is uploaded on, or soon after,
the 15th of each calendar month.
AT No.105 RADICAL IMMATERIALISM
AT No.104 ON DOUBTING THE DOUBTER
AT No.103 ATHEIST THOUGHTS - A DISCUSSION
AT No.102 BOGUS EXPERIMENTS ??
AT No.101 SHIOULD PHILOSOPHY BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS ?
AT No.100 PERCHANCE TO PURR
AT No.99 POSTMODERNISM - A VIRUS ?
AT No.98 ON DOING PHILOSOPHY
AT No.97 ON CHOICE
AT No.96 ON SECULARISM SHOOTING ITSELF IN THE FOOT
AT No.95 ON CHRISTIANITY SHOOTING ITSELF IN THE FOOT
AT No.94 ON GODLESS MORALITY
AT No.93 ON MARRIAGE
AT No. 92 HUMAN BODIES AND BODY PARTS
AT No. 91 THE GOD OF THE GAPS
AT No. 90 ATHEISM/AGNOSTICISM
AT No. 89 WHAT IS RELIGION FOR ?
AT No. 88 ON SUICIDE WHILE OF SOUND MIND
AT No. 87 ON CHURCH AND STATE
AT No. 86 ON INCOHERENCE
AT No. 85 RELIGIOUS HUMANISM ?
AT No. 84 TOWARDS OLD AGE
AT No. 83 MORE ON HUMAN CLONING
AT No. 82 ON HUMANISM ADDRESSED TO SCHOOL PUPILS
AT No. 81 ON THE MORAL CASE FOR ......
AT No. 80 ON RiGHTS
AT No. 79 ON OCCAM'S RAZOR
AT No. 78 WHY POPULARISE SCIENCE ?
AT No.77 A SECULAR SERMON
AT No. 76 JUST WAR
AT No. 75 THE PLAIN VIEW
AT No. 74 AN OLD ATHEIST FEELS GOOD
AT No. 73 IS THERE REALLY LIBERAL RELIGION ?
AT No. 72 ROCKS OF AGES : Book Review
AT No. 71 ESCHATOLOGY - RAKE'S PROGRESS
AT No. 70 SOME REFLECTIONS ON POPULIST PIETY
AT No. 69 SPIRITUALITY AND WONDER
AT No. 68 CREATIONISM - CRAZY AND NOT SO CRAZY
AT No. 67 SCIENCE AS A MODEL FOR MORALITY
AT No. 66 ON GODLESS MORALITY
AT No.65 SCIENCE IS NOT JUST ANOTHER 'STORY'
AT No.64 PIETY AND TERRORISM
AT No.63 MORALS UP - FAITH DOWN
AT No.62 ON GREEN CHRISTIANITY
AT No.61 HOLY SCRIPTURE - A CATEGORY ERROR
AT No.60 ON THE CONVENIENCE OF THEISM
AT No.59 THE 'RIGHTS' MUDDLE
AT No.58 ALL INSPIRATIONS ARE EQUAL - BUT SOME ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
AT No.57 THE SUFFICIENCY OF IMPERFCTION
AT No.56 ON THE ABSOLUTE PROHIBITION OF TORTURE
AT No.55 ON THE QUALITY OF THOUGHT ATTRIBUTED TO JESUS
AT No.54 DESIGN - WISHFUL THINKING and ATHEISM
AT No.53 THE SELF-CENTREDNESS OF CERTAINTY
AT No.52 THE SIAMESE TWINS AND THE 'SANCTITY OF LIFE' DOGMA
AT No.51 PANTHEISM and THE BIG BANG
AT No.50 ON SEX LATE IN LIFE
AT No.49 ON SITUATION ETHICS
AT No.48 ABSOLUTE MORALITY : MORAL RELATIVISM
AT No.47 SOME FEEDBACK- FROM AN EVANGELICAL CHRISTIAN READER
AT No.46 EUTHANASIA - THE WAY AHEAD ?
AT No.45 BODY and SOUL
AT No.44 A READER'S QUESTIONS ON FAITH AND REASON
AT No.43 ON DYING WITH DIGNITY
AT No.42 ON BEING A PERSON
AT No.41 SOME FEEDBACK
AT No.40 CREATIONISM AGAIN
AT No.39 PRAGMATISM AND 'PRAGMATISM'
AT No..38 IS RELIGION DIVISIVE ??
AT No.37 THE END OF FEMINISM ?
AT No.36 FAITH AND SCEPTICAL INQUIRY
AT No.35 ULTIMATE QUESTIONS - ULTIMATE VACUITY
AT No.34 THE INADEQUACY OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS
AT No.33 BENIGN FAILURE
AT No.32 SECULARISM AND PARTY POLITICS
AT No.31 PERFECTION DESIGN AND CHANCE
AT No.30 THE THIRD WAY
AT No29 SCIENCE AND RELIGION
AT No. 28 GOD AND THE BIG BANG
AT No.27 ON BELIEF AND PROGRESS
AT No.26 ON ANGLICANS AND HOMOSEXUALITY
AT No.25 ON DEFINING HUMANISM
AT No.24 FREE THOUGHT
AT No.23 ACTS AND OMISSIONS
AT No.22 CREATION - WHAT IT ENTAILS AND WHAT IT DOES NOT
AT No.21 USES AND ABUSES OF 'GOD'
AT No.20 GREEN MINIMALISM 2
AT No.19 GREEN MINIMALISM 1
AT No.18 THE EMOTIONAL ATHEIST
AT No.17 CHRISTIAN BLASPHEMY
AT No.16 A TIME TO KILL
AT No.15 ON LOCATING JUSTICE
AT No.14 ACTS AND OMISSIONS
AT No.13 ON SUPERSTITION
AT No.12 ON BEING A VICTIM
AT No.11 THE ETHICS ATTRIBUTED TO JESUS
AT No.10 ON HUMAN CLONIING
AT No.9 THE POPE and EVOLUTION
AT No.8 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
AT No.7 ON "CONSENTING ADULTS IN PRIVATE"
AT No.6 QUESTIONING THE SANCTITY OF LIFE
AT No.5 "I PLACE ABSOLUTE TRUST IN ...... "
AT No.4 ENDS and MEANS
AT No.3 AN ATHEIST VIEW OF PRAYER
AT No.2 MERCY KILLING
AT No.1 FALL/SALVATION : A FALSE VIEW ?
Relevant magazines and Websites include:
SUE LORD'S SECULARISM SITE
A valuable philosophical website by JON SQUIRE
HUMANIST SOCIETY of SCOTLAND
The NATIONAL SECULAR SOCIETY
The FREETHINKER,
The ETHICAL RECORD
NEW HUMANIST WEBSITE
GAY AND LESBIAN HUMANISTS' WEBSITE
Carl Coon's PROGRESSIVE HUMANISM
The FRUITCAKE ZONE is an excellent website devoted to listing, describing and providing links to a rich variety of nutty websites run, mostly, by pious basket cases in God's Own Country. To read these makes one feel reassuringly sane.
FRUITCAKE ZONE
Correspondence should be addressed to:
Eric Stockton, West Cott, Sanday, ORKNEY. KW17 2BW UK
or e-mail to
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