title: Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
author:  Richard Carrier 
description: Richard Carrier is the renowned author of Sense and Goodness without God and Not the Impossible Faith, as well as numerous articles online and in print. He received his Ph.D. in ancient history from Columbia University in 2008, and now specializes in the modern philosophy of naturalism, the origins of Christianity, and the intellectual history of Greece and Rome. For more about him and his work visit www.richardcarrier.info.
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  Why I Am
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Not a Christian
  
  
  
  
  
  Four Conclusive Reasons
  
  
  
  
  
  to Reject the Faith
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  by
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Richard Carrier, Ph.D.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  To truth, reason,
  
  
  
  
  
  and common sense.
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Why I Am Not a Christian:
  
  
  
  
  
  Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2011 by Richard Carrier, Ph.D.
  
  
  
  
  
  All Rights Reserved
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Published by Philosophy Press
  
  
  
  
  
  (Richmond, California)
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  www.richardcarrier.info
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  ISBN (of softcover edition):
  
  
  
  
  
  978-1456588854
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  
    
    
  
  
  Why This Book
  
  
  God is Silent
  
  
  God is Inert
  
  
  Wrong Evidence
  
  
  Wrong Universe
  
  
  Conclusion
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
    
  
  
    
    
  
  
    
    
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Why This Book
  
  
    
  
  
  I’m cognitively defective. Or that’s what Christians tell me. It’s not true,
  of course. But the curious thing is how desperately they need to believe there
  is something wrong with me. For otherwise, they cannot explain how someone 