Notes for “Why I am not a Christian” by Bertrand Russell

Jul 16, 2008

In a nutshell

((Richard Dawkins + Christopher Hitchens)/2) - Bluster = Russell

Notes

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Why I am not a Christian by Russell

First causes, J.S. Mill autobigraphy, natural-law argument, 2nd law of thermodynamics, Spaniards in Mexico, argument from design, excuses for pain and suffering, dashing baby brains, psychology of lynching,

John Morely, Shelley, John Knox, Dictionnaire Philosophique, antitheist, Santayana, self-approbation, Medieval People by Eileen Power, The Waning of the Middle Ages, Thomas Paine bio, John Dewey, Naboth’s Vineyard, The Bertrand Russell Case

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  • We are created in god’s image
  • Killing to hasten damnation
  • Hail the free thinkers!
  • Use the current incompleteness in science… modify as needed
  • God thinks about us! (?)
  • “Avoidance of sin better than positive merit”
  • No fear
  • No idea of immortality needed

fetid old ladies causing panic, zero-sum religion, personality as channel — no memory, foretelling the death of philosophy, infant mortality @ 50%, ignorance as safeguard against sin and error

superfluity, obloquy

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