Unbelievers. Alec Ryrie

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      UNBELIEVERS

      An Emotional History of Doubt

      Alec Ryrie

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       Copyright

      William Collins

      An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

      1 London Bridge Street

      London SE1 9GF

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      This eBook first published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2019

      Copyright © Alec Ryrie 2019

      Cover design by Jack Smyth

      Cover images © Shutterstock

      Alec Ryrie asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

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      Source ISBN: 9780008299811

      Ebook Edition © October 2019 ISBN: 9780008299835

      Version: 2019-09-23

       Dedication

      for Victoria, my believer

       Epigraph

      ‘Most of us, I suspect … make an instinctive decision, then build up an infrastructure of reasoning to justify it. And call the result common sense.’

      Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Dedication

      Epigraph

       Impostors, Drunkards and Flat-Earthers

       The Fool’s Heart

       Physicians, ‘Naturians’ and ‘Nulla Fidians’

       From Ancient to Modern

       2. The Reformation and the Battle for Credulity

       Calvin and the Epicures

       Between Superstition and Impiety

       ‘Doubt Wisely’: From Innocence to Experience

       3. The Atheist’s Comedy

       Incest, Thunder and Wishful Thinking

       Shaking Off the Yoke

       The Good Atheist

       4. The Puritan Atheist

       ‘The Monster of the Creation’

       Horrid Temptations

       Fear of Flying

       5. Seeking and Losing Faith

       ‘It’s a Great Matter to Believe there is a God’

       The Spiritualists’ Progress

       Farther Up and Farther In

       Seeking a Rock to Build On

       6. The Abolition of God

       The Three Impostors

       From Then to Now, I: Anger

       From Then to Now, II: Anxiety

       From Jesus to Hitler

       Acknowledgements

       Notes

       Index

       About the Author

       Also by Alec Ryrie

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