Unitarian Atheist

Are you putting your whole faith in God but still living as if everything is up to you? You may believe in God, attend church, and generally treat people with kindness…but are you living as if God doesn't exist? Have you surrendered to God completely, living every day depending upon the Holy...

We can’t avoid the persistent questions about the meaning of life—and the nature of reality. But science is the only means of answering them. So declares philosopher Alex Rosenberg in this bracing, surprisingly sanguine take on a world without god. The science that makes us nonbelievers, he demonstrates, tells us the nature of reality, the purpose of everything, the difference between right and wrong, how the mind works, even the direction of human history.

Dennis McCarty’s Reflections: On Time, Culture, and Spirits in America weaves American history, culture, and science into a tour de force of what might be called, “atheist spirituality.” He ponders rain, wind, continental drift, nuclear power, Manifest Destiny, and the Native American genocide, to ask a crucial question for our time: How will we respond when the Native American past becomes the Euro-American future? McCarty’s writing is rapturously poetic in some places, discomfortingly frank in others. His conclusions may challenge some readers. But few will be able to forget this ...

Rev. Dennis McCarty, a retired Unitarian Universalist minister, has long posted on his "Thoughts from a Gentle Atheist" social media page. This gradually attracted a wide following, and requests that he issue his "thoughts" in book form. He has now revised, expanded, and cross-referenced that original Thoughts from a General Atheist collection, for use in putting together non-theistic Unitarian Universalist religious services. "Gentle atheist" though he is, Rev. McCarty produces Opening Words, Chalice Lightings, Offertory introductions, Closing Words--and more general readings--which even a...

Metaphorically True Sometimes the only truth is a figure of speech. My college major was mathematics, a realm where theorems can be proved with clear deductive logic. But I also enjoyed studying the humanities, particularly religion…a totally different philosophical ecosystem than math. Now that I’m in my seventies I enjoy deductive and inductive reasoning, as well as sensing spirit within and without. Epistemology is as important as ever, but my personal sense of knowing-how-I-know has enlarged with life’s experiences. What an amazing thing this world is with its overwhelming beauty ...

This audiobook is for anyone who knows a nonbeliever, whether they're open about their beliefs or not. In it, Kevin takes you through his own experiences, raised Catholic, once devout Christian, then closeted atheist, now openly a nonbeliever and active in the atheist community. Through this journey, listeners will gain an understanding of what it's like for someone to abandon faith in the supernatural and gravitate toward evidence-based reasoning, ultimately facing the taboo of being a nonbeliever.