The Necessity of Atheism

This essay provides an important statement of the poet and freethinker's enlightened views on skepticism, faith, and the corruption of organized Christianity.
"The Necessity of Atheism" is an essay on atheism by the English poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, printed in 1811 by C. and W. Phillips in Worthing while Shelley was a student at University College, Oxford. At that time the content was so shocking to the authorities that he was rusticated for contumacy in his refusing to deny authorship.

Like Shalley's great poems, this work extols the spirit of mankind and argue that Christianity, with its repressive belief system, is wholly out of keeping with human ideals and aspirations.
A philosopher as well as a poet, Shelley argues that the divine attributes of God are merely projections of human powers; life everlasting cannot be empirically demonstrated, for it runs counter to all the evidence for mortality given by the natural world, which is the only world we know. Книга «The Necessity of Atheism» автора Перси Биши Шелли оценена посетителями КнигоГид, и её читательский рейтинг составил 8.00 из 10.
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