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Why I Became an Atheist A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity

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ISBN-10: 1591025923

ISBN-13: 9781591025924

Edition: 2008

Authors: John W. Loftus

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In this honest appraisal of his journey from believer to atheist, Loftus carefully explains the experiences and the reasoning process that led him to reject religious belief.
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Book details

List price: $19.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Publishers
Publication date: 10/30/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 428
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.254

John W. Loftus is a former Christian minister and apologist with degrees in philosophy, theology, and the philosophy of religion from Lincoln Christian University and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He also did PhD studies at Marquette University in theology and ethics. John is the founder of an influential blog called Debunking Christianity (http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/). He is the author of Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity and the editor of The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, and The End of Christianity. He lives in Indiana.

Foreword
Introduction
The Basis for My Control Beliefs
My Christian Conversion and Deconversion
The Christian Illusion of Rational and Moral Superiority
Faith, Reason, and the Cumulative Case Method
The Outsider Test for Faith...
Does God Exist?
The Lessons of Galileo, Science, and Religion
The Strange and Superstitious World of the Bible
Pseudonymity in the Bible
Archaeology, Exodus, and the Canaanite Conquest
The Poor Evidence of Historical Evidence
Do Miracles Take Place?
The Self-Authenticating Witness of the Holy Spirit
The Problem of Unanswered Prayer
The Problem of Evil-Part 1: My Specific Case
The Problem of Evil-Part 2: Objections Answered
The Biblical Evidence Examined
Science and the Genesis Creation Accounts
Science and Genesis 1-11
Prophecy and Biblical Authority
Was Jesus Born of a Virgin in Bethlehem?
Was Jesus God Incarnate?
"The Passion of the Christ": Why Did Jesus Suffer?
Did Jesus Bodily Rise from the Dead?
The Devil Made Me Do It!
Hell? No!
What I Believe Today
Why I Became an Atheist
What Is Life without God?
Bibliography of Selected Works