My Path to Atheism

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

In Category - Religion, Atheism & Agnosticism

Authors: Annie Besant In Year : 1885

Book Language: English

Audiobook: My Path to Atheism

Preface to First Edition
On the Deity of Jesus of Nazareth
A comparison between the fourth gospel and the three synoptics
On the Atonement
On the Mediation and Salvation of Ecclesiastical Christianity
On Eternal Torture
On Inspiration
On the Religious Education of Children
Natural Religion versus Revealed Religion
On the Nature and Existence of God. Part 1
On the Nature and Existence of God. Part 2
Euthanasia
On Prayer
Constructive Rationalism
The Beauties of the Prayer-Book
The Communion Service
The Baptismal Offices
The Order of Confirmation
The Form of the Solemnization of Matrimony
The Order for the Visitation of the Sick
The Order for the Burial of the Dead
A Commination or Denouncing of God's Anger and Judgements against Sinners
Forms of Prayer to be used at Sea
The Form and Manner of Making, Ordaining, and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests and Deacons, according to the Order of the United Church of England and Ireland
The Articles
The Church of England Catechism

My Path to Atheism is a remarkable document in many ways, not least that it was written by a woman in Victorian England, not the most open free-thinking of societies, especially for women at that time. It needed a remarkable woman to write such a revolutionary and to 19th century minds, heretical document in a society where the Church had such a stronghold. Besant herself was originally married to a clergyman, but her increasingly anti-religious views and writings led to a legal separation. She went on to become a member of the National Secular Society and thence to co-edit the National Reformer, which put forth ideas on revolutionary ideas at the time such as trades unions, national education, birth control and so on. In 1877 Besant published this book 'My Path to Atheism' which was compiled from a series of lectures in which she surgically dissects the basic tenets of Christianity. As one reads the chapters, one can follow the evolution of her ideas from Theism to Atheism, ending up with a stunning refutation of the Church of England Catechism. (Summary by Kevin Green)