Theism or Atheism
The Great Alternative

For the 156 pages, I would not consider this a quick read. This author deserves the reader's time. Nicely handled topic, clear and concise writing. "To explain the unknown by the known is an intelligible procedure. To explain the known by the unknown is to forsake all intellectual sanity."......more

I have read quite a lot on this subject and was surprised that I’d never come across this book. I learned of it in Harry Harrison’s autobiography. He’d read it at age 13, 17 years after its publication, and left religion and deist belief behind for the rest of his long life (Harry thought the author......more

An atheist for quite some time, I originally felt early on that not believing in god(s) was basically similar to not believing in Santa Claus and the Easter bunny. Most people believe those two do not exist and that is that. Those people are not seen as forming a group of non-believers and are not l......more

A very wonderful book.......more

This public domain book, which I downloaded for free from Project Gutenberg, is a delightful precis of atheist thought that hasn't aged badly at all. Of course, that's largely because the arguments of theists haven't changed that much in the last century or more. They're still pushing the cosmologic......more