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My Path to Atheism

Annie Besant

It gathers her earliest critical writings: on the deity of Jesus, the atonement, the inspiration of the Bible, the nature and existence of God and the basis of morality. It documents the passage from Christian doubt to theism and from theism to atheism, defended as an honest abstention from asserting what cannot be proved. It was one of the most widely read texts of the English secularist movement.

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English

· 30 chapters · 8 h reading

  1. 1London: Freethought Publishing Company, 63, Fleet Street, E.C. 1885.1′
  2. 2PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION.6′
  3. 3ON THE DEITY OF JESUS OF NAZARETH22′
  4. 4APPENDIX: "Josephus mentions a Zacharias, a son of Baruch ('Wars of1′
  5. 5A COMPARISON BETWEEN THE FOURTH GOSPEL AND THE THREE SYNOPTICS30′
  6. 6ON THE ATONEMENT.35′
  7. 7ON THE MEDIATION AND SALVATION OF ECCLESIASTICAL CHRISTIANITY.21′
  8. 8ON ETERNAL TORTURE.32′
  9. 9ON INSPIRATION28′
  10. 10ON THE RELIGIOUS EDUCATION OF CHILDREN.18′
  11. 11NATURAL RELIGION VERSUS REVEALED RELIGION.27′
  12. 12ON THE NATURE AND THE EXISTENCE OF GOD.49′
  13. 13EUTHANASIA.26′
  14. 14ON PRAYER.22′
  15. 15CONSTRUCTIVE RATIONALISM.17′
  16. 16MORNING PRAYER.11′
  17. 17EVENING PRAYER.11′
  18. 18THE LITANY.5′
  19. 19PRAYERS AND THANKSGIVINGS UPON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.3′
  20. 20THE COMMUNION SERVICE.15′
  21. 21THE BAPTISMAL OFFICES.9′
  22. 22THE ORDER OF CONFIRMATION.3′
  23. 23THE FORM OF THE SOLEMNIZATION OF MATRIMONY.6′
  24. 24THE ORDER FOR THE VISITATION OF THE SICK.7′
  25. 25THE ORDER FOR THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD.5′
  26. 26A COMMINATION OR DENOUNCING OF GOD'S ANGER AND JUDGMENTS AGAINST4′
  27. 27FORMS OF PRAYER TO BE USED AT SEA.4′
  28. 28THE FORM AND MANNER OF MAKING, ORDAINING, AND CONSECRATING OF BISHOPS,7′
  29. 29THE ARTICLES.16′
  30. 30THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND CATECHISM38′
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