num_pages: 223
description: While its tone is playful and frivolous, this book poses tough questions over the nature of religion and belief.Religion provides comfortable responses to the questions that have always beset humankind - why are we here, what is the point of being alive, how ought we to behave? Russell snatches that comfort away, leaving us instead with other, more troublesome alternatives: responsibility, autonomy, self-awareness. He tells us that the time to live is now, the place to live is here, and the way to be happy is to ensure others are happy.
language: English
title: Why I Am Not a Christian
titlecomplete: Why I Am Not a Christian
genres: Essays, Religion, Theology, Philosophy, Spirituality, Science, Atheism, Classics, Nonfiction, Christianity
ratings_count: 20595
publisher: Routledge