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100			_aRussell, Bertrand _99897
245			_aWhy I am not a Christian : _band other essays on religion and related subjects
260			_aNew York _bSimon & Schuster _c1957
300			_axvii, 266p.
500			_ahttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Why-I-Am-Not-a-Christian/Bertrand-Russell/9780671203238
520			_a"“I am as firmly convinced that religions do harm as I am that they are untrue,” Russell declares in his Preface, and his reasoned opposition to any system or dogma which he feels may shackle man’s mind runs through all the essays in this book, whether they were written as early as 1899 or as late as 1954. The book has been edited, with Lord Russell’s full approval and cooperation, by Professor Paul Edwards of the Philosophy Department of New York University. In an Appendix, Professor Edwards contributes a full account of the highly controversial “Bertrand Russell Case” of 1940, in which Russell was judicially declared “unfit” to teach philosophy at the College of the City of New York. Whether the reader shares or rejects Bertrand Russell’s views, he will find this book an invigorating challenge to set notions, a masterly statement of a philosophical position, and a pure joy to read."
650			_aFree thought _99962
650			_aReligion--Philosophy _98480
650			_aReligion _91011
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