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2006 by See Sharp Press.This pamphlet is not copyrighted.For more information contact  \nSee Sharp PressP.O.Box 1731Tucson,AZ 85702-1731  \nwww.seesharppress.com  \nCONTENTS  \nPUBLISHER’S NOTE………………………………………………………4  \nCHAPTER1—What Atheism Is…………………………………………5  \nClerical Travesties  \nAtheism & Agnosticism  \nThe Gods We Reject  \nCHAPTER 2— The Logic of Disbelief…………………………12  \nThe God of Demos and the“Smystics”  \nThe God of the Philosophers  \nCHAPTER3—The Logic of Denial………………………………17  \nTwo Millennia of Futile Search  \nThe Godless Universe  \nCHAPTER4—History of the God Idea………………………23  \nThe Growth of Superstition  \nGod and the Gods of Savagery  \nCHAPTER5—Atheism of the Heart……………………………29  \nThe Wrath of the Smiter  \nAtheism—Not a Religion  \nCHAPTER6—The Morbidness of Mysticism……………34  \nThe Social Evil of Sophistry  \nEffects of Mental Constipation  \n10000  \n# PUBLISHER's NoTE\n\nDuring its day,the original publisher of this pamphlet,the Haldeman-Julius Company of Girard,Kansas,was the most important publisher ofradical materials in the United States.From the founding of his companyin 1919 until his early death in 1951,E.Haldeman-Julius published morethan 4200 books and pamphlets,with a total press run perhaps exceeding100 million copies.  \nOne of Haldeman-Julius's most important and most prolific writerswas Joseph McCabe,the author of this pamphlet.In regard toChristianity,McCabe was perhaps the most learned atheist writer whoever lived.This was a result of his native gifts and his background—hewas a former Catholic priest,fluent in Latin and several other languages,who had taught philosophy and ecclesiastical history in a Catholic col-lege.During his lifetime(1867-1956)McCabe translated dozens ofbooks and wrote hundreds of his own books and pamphlets,all on vari-ous aspects of history,and a great many on religious topics.Perhaps hismost important work was A Rationalist Encyclopedia,published in 1950,and of which he was editor.  \nAtheism:The Logic of Disbelief first appeared in 1936 as aHaldeman-Julius \"Big Blue Book”(a 5-1/2”X8-1/2\"pamphlet)underthe title,Does Atheism Rest Its Case on Logic?This version of the pam-phlet is similar to the original;we have,however,reset the type to makeit more readable.  \nWe're happy to make this enlightening work available again after adecades-long hiatus.  \n—Chaz Bufe,July 20,2006  \n# What Atheism Is\n\nTwo or three years ago I was invited to write a memoir of the lateEdward Clodd,who was for many years the leader of the British Rationalists.I admired Clodd,and I was aware that if he had any admiration of me it wasvery temperate.I was therefore rather amused than surprised to find,as I readthe bundles of letters he had written to friends,that he positively disliked mypolemical work.It was dogmatic and violent.It was \"like a pistol in his ears.\"Far better the urbane work of William Archer who,unfortunately,ended afew years of slender and elementary service to Rationalism by passing intothe crass superstition of Spiritualism,upon which Clodd had expended asmuch violent language as I had ever used about any religion.And Clodd wasfar from being the only Rationalist colleague of mine to deplore my methods.The late GH.Putnam Lankester wrote sour protests to my Rationalist pub-lisher.Others who are actual colleagues of mine as Honorary Associates ofthe Rationalist Press Association have censured my writings on the history ofChristianity as color-blind to every virtue and too exaggerated to be reliable.As to my Christian critics,you can guess the violence of the language inwhich they scold me for my violent language.So let me preface this defenseof the logic of Atheism with,not an apology for,but an explanation of,mymethod.  \nStrong language is the recognized auxiliary of a logically weak case.ARoman Catholic or a Baptist apologist,a champion of r","cbCaimJCWwjxMo4o","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaimJCWwjxMo4o","pdf",18504616,42,"English","# Publisher’s Note\n# What Atheism 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