Titlebook: Atheism Considered; A Survey of the Rati C.M. Lorkowski Textbook 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive lice

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,The Problems of Evil—Logical, Evidential, and Moral,threatens the basic precepts of morality by making all suffering good. Lastly, Lorkowski briefly discusses some attempts to circumvent the Problem without actually solving it and points out difficulties that such positions entail.

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Challenges to Sacred Texts,m such problems are first that the evidence provided by these texts is inadequate to change or impugn the position of nonbelievers and second, that the believer must jettison a literalist position and instead seek a holistic, reasoned interpretation of the text if they are to find value in it.

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Moral Critiques to Religion,rrect religion or one correct path to the ultimate. After doing so, Lorkowski then briefly discusses the kinds of actual, historical harm that religious dogma has caused before isolating the major contributors that must be avoided—intolerance, fanaticism, textual fundamentalism, and a focus on principles other than morality.

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Personal Survival and the Afterlife,fficient evidence for such a system, there are important moral objections regarding justice and fairness that threaten to undercut any notion of personal survival. Given this and other problems, the nonbeliever is perfectly rational in the rejection of such depictions.

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Textbook 2021ar assumptions, sacrifices nothing in terms of ethics or meaning.? Instead, morality ultimately proves more important than religion and does not rely on it. Appropriate for classroom use, this book is meant to cultivate understanding, tolerance, and fruitful dialogue between believers and nonbelievers. .

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Introduction and Overview,ntroduction written from an atheistic perspective. It then summarizes the six major parts of the book while connecting them to the goals of the text (understanding the reasonableness of the rejection of religion) while emphasizing how the book should and should not be read. It is intended as an intr

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Atheism and Atheists,nited States. The author presents numbers and patterns within the population and provides a depiction of the Average American Atheist in profile. Lastly, Lorkowski presents some of the difficulties American atheists face, including their vilification and the Christian leanings of the governments of