The Atheist Who Didn't Exist

Does atheism really explain everything?

Can reasonable people take Christianity seriously?

During the early twenty-first century, New Atheism was busy producing best-selling books and plastering adverts on the sides of buses. Its loud scepticism is not as popular these days, but many of its arguments live on.

Yet, what if some of its common claims like, "science has buried God" and "religion is the cause of most wars" are not just incorrect, but demonstrably wrong? What if Richard Dawkins and the other New Atheists were not merely barking up the wrong tree, but were in the wrong forest entirely?

Andy Bannister brings you this fully updated and revised book, with new chapters, new resources and new comedy. The Atheist Who Didn't Exist is designed for curious people to tug at the loose threads of atheism and see if it unravels.

1. Opening Credits
2. Dedication
3. Epigraph
4. Foreword by Andy Kind
5. Preface to the Tenth Anniversary Edition
6. Chapter 1: The Loch Ness Monster’s Moustache
7. Chapter 2: The Scandinavian Sceptic
8. Chapter 3: The Aardvark in the Artichokes
9. Chapter 4: The Santa Delusion
10. Chapter 5: Aim for that Haystack!
11. Chapter 6: Sven and the Art of Refrigerator Maintenance
12. Chapter 7: The Lunatic in the Louvre
13. Chapter 8: Humpty Dumpty and the Vegan
14. Chapter 9: The Peculiar Case of the Postmodern Penguin
15. Chapter 10: The Panini Poisoner of Pimlico
16. Chapter 11: The Reluctant Eunuch
17. Chapter 12: The Voyage off the Edge of the World
18. Acknowledgements
19. Closing Credits