When was the author of "The Irrational Atheist" born?
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The Irrational Atheist The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens is a 2008 non-fiction book by Vox Day.
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Vox Day Theodore Robert Beale (born August 21, 1968), professionally known as Vox Day, is an American writer, editor, video game designer, blogger and alt-right activist.
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Paul Gardner (priest) Paul (Douglas) Gardner (born 28 May 1950) is a Christian priest and author.
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Charles Lee Smith Charles Lee Smith (1887 – 1964) was an atheist, a free-thought activist, a white supremacist and anti-Semite in the United States.
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Dave Thomas (skeptic) Dave Thomas (born 1953) is a physicist and mathematician best known for his scientific skepticism research and writings. He is a graduate of the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, and his work covers the Roswell and Aztec UFO sightings, the Bible code, global warming, the 9/11 Truth movement and chemtrails. Many of Thomas' articles have been published in Skeptical Inquirer magazine.
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Floris van den Berg Floris van den Berg (born 4 February 1973) is a Dutch philosopher, mostly known for his atheism campaign in the Netherlands.
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Argument from reason The argument from reason is an argument against naturalism and for the existence of God (or at least a supernatural being that is the source of human reason). The best-known defender of the argument is C. S. Lewis. Lewis first defended the argument at length in his 1947 book, "Miracles: A Preliminary Study". In the second edition of "Miracles" (1960), Lewis substantially revised and expanded the argument.
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Hal Lindsey Harold Lee Lindsey (born November 23, 1929) is an American evangelist and Christian writer. He is a Christian Zionist and dispensationalist author.
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Raphael Lataster Raphael Lataster (born 1984) is an Australian author, doctoral student and proponent of the Christ myth theory. He has written and self-published two books on the subject: "There Was No Jesus, There Is No God" (2013), and "Jesus Did Not Exist: A Debate Among Atheists" (2015), with Richard Carrier.
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Buckminster Fuller Richard Buckminster "Bucky" Fuller ( ; July 12, 1895 – July 1, 1983) was an American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor.
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Richard Joyce (philosopher) Richard Joyce (born 1966) is a British-New Zealand moral philosopher, known for his contributions to the field of meta-ethics. Joyce is a prominent anti-realist moral skeptic and is known in particular for his defence of both moral fictionalism and moral error theory.
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Richard S. Kirby Richard Stephen Kirby (July 16, 1949—September 24, 2009) was a theologian and chaplain with interests in astronomy, cosmology, and futurology. His thought was considered to be in a direct line of descent from the futurist author H.G. Wells, through the philosopher Olaf Stapledon and the astronomer and science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke.
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Theodorus the Atheist Theodorus the Atheist (Greek: Θεόδωρος ὁ ἄθεος ; c. 340 – c. 250 BC ), of Cyrene, was a philosopher of the Cyrenaic school. He lived in both Greece and Alexandria, before ending his days in his native city of Cyrene. As a Cyrenaic philosopher, he taught that the goal of life was to obtain joy and avoid grief, and that the former resulted from knowledge, and the latter from ignorance. But his principal claim to fame was his alleged atheism. He was usually designated by ancient writers "Atheus" (ὁ ἄθεος ), "the Atheist."
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Robert Fulghum Robert Lee Fulghum ( ; born June 4, 1937) is an American author and Unitarian Universalist minister.
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Atheist Delusions Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies is a 2009 book by theologian, philosopher, and cultural commentator David Bentley Hart. The book explores what Hart sees as historical and popular misconceptions of Christianity's detractors.
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Margaret Downey Margaret Downey (born August 16, 1950) is a non-theist activist who is the former President of Atheist Alliance International and founder and president of the Freethought Society (formerly Freethought Society of Greater Philadelphia). She also founded the Anti-Discrimination Support Network, which reports and helps deal with discrimination against atheists.
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Three Critics of the Enlightenment Three Critics of the Enlightenment: Vico, Hamann, Herder is a collection of essays in the history of philosophy by 20th century philosopher and historian of ideas Isaiah Berlin. Edited by Henry Hardy and released posthumously in 2000, the collection comprises the previously published works "Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas" (1976) – an essay on Counter-Enlightenment thinkers Giambattista Vico and Johann Gottfried Herder – and "The Magus of the North: J. G. Hamann and the Origins of Modern Irrationalism" (1993), concerning irrationalist Johann Georg Hamann.
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The Upside of Irrationality The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic is a book published in 2010 by behavioral economist Dan Ariely. This is Ariely's second published book, after he authored "Predictably Irrational": The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions".
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David Hume David Hume ( ; born David Home; 7 May 1711 NS – 25 August 1776) was a Scottish philosopher, historian, economist, and essayist, who is best known today for his highly influential system of philosophical empiricism, skepticism, and naturalism.
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Joseph McCabe Joseph Martin McCabe (12 November 1867 – 10 January 1955) was an English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a Roman Catholic priest earlier in his life. A staunch critic of the Catholic Church, McCabe joined groups such as the Rationalist Association and the National Secular Society. Although he criticised Christianity from a rationalist perspective, he was involved in the South Place Ethical Society which grew out of dissenting Protestantism and was a precursor of modern secular humanism.
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Erkki Hartikainen Erkki Juhani Hartikainen (born 24 June 1942, in Finland) is the chairman of "Atheist association of Finland" ("Suomen Ateistiyhdistys" in Finnish, an atheistic association in Finland). He qualified as a Master of Science in the University of Helsinki in 1967. His subjects were mathematics, a theoretical philosophy and computer science. Hartikainen has been the chairman of Atheist association of Finland since the year 1985.
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A. W. Benn Alfred William Benn (1843–1915) was an agnostic and an honorary associate of the Rationalist Press Association. His book "A History of Modern Philosophy" (first published in 1912) was republished in the Thinker's Library series in 1930.