ERAS	CHARACTERS	ISSUES	ARGUMENTS FOR GODS	AGAINST RELIGION
intro
Anthro [unbelief in preliterate societies?]		BOOK title epigram chap title character definition [of atheism] history of [atheism]	CONSENSUS ubiquitous long lasting irrepressible	CAUSES [explanations for prevalence of belief] agents [human search for conscious agents as explanations]
INDIA Carvaka Buddha		IDEA OF negative [atheism as anti-religion] positive [idea of atheism]	consolation	hypocrisy
GREEK Academy stoics Pyrrhonian	Aristotle Epicurius Carneades	skepticism doubt	COSMOLOGICAL first cause	dogmatism flaws [that strengths not possible without flaws; God too perfect]
ROME	Cicero Lucian Lucretius Sextus	ANTI attacks [on atheists] punish [for atheists] word atheist [over-used; as dis] denial [of existence of atheists] infidel's death [did they repent?] fear [of atheists] paranoia [about atheists] condescension [poor atheists] oaths [difficulty of testifying without belief in God]	moral [needed for] conscience	free thought
JEWISH Bible		BELIEFS god afterlife ghosts fate fall	meaning	contradictions
Christian	Augustine		TELEOLOGICAL design sublime [how great all is]	evil [opposite: improvement]
Islam		existence [of Atheists] peasants [as atheists] women [as atheists]	miracles	counterfactual superstition
DARK		importance [of atheists or atheism] concealed [atheists] commitment [to atheism or a belief]	ONTOLOGICAL [necessary for idea of perfection to exist]	dumb
Renaissance	Rabelais Shakespeare	KINDS practical atheists [actually live immorally; maybe without thinking] speculative atheists [have thought it out, but maybe just an intellectual adventure]	LOST SOULS lead [gullible to damnation]	philosophy [encouraging or encouraged by atheism; or relationship to religion] wishful [thinking] HUMANISIM
Sci revo Reformation	Descartes galileo Hobbes Spinoza Montaigne Newton locke	tolerance [of beliefs or disbeliefs]	FAITH crise p[pyrrhonienne] fideism	REASON science intellectual [as kind of history vs. social; atheism as product of reason] alt explain [growth of other ways of explaining complex universe] travel [as upsetting biblical history] biblical study [contradictions found]
Enlighten France	Diderot Voltaire Hume d'Holbach	OTHER theism deism agnostic	sacrifice [as evidence of sincerity]	costs [to society of belief]
England	Shelley Mill Bradlaugh Huxley Darwin Stephen	POLITICS left radical debates [Bradlaugh-like] Romantics	order tradition	power [strengthens those in] workers [& atheism] social [belief in god as stemming from social factors in societies]
America	Wright Rose Ingersoll Darrow	epiphany [moments of conversion to disbelief]	improvement [things getting better cause of belief – opposite of Evil]	fading [of belief] secular [increasing]
Pre-20th	Marx Engels Dostoevsky Nietzsche Freud Russell			sickness [neuroses of belief]
20^th Soviet	Woolf	pragmatism positism		uncertainty relativism
Now		squabbles [among atheists]		wars sectarianism