Cupcakes, Sprinkles, and Other Happy Things. On earth as it is in heaven. Why I Am Not a Christian. [A somewhat different version of this paper is forthcoming in Theism and Naturalism: New Philosophical Perspectives, edited by Paul Pistone and Quentin Smith, Oxford University Press.]
In 1927, Bertrand Russell gave a public lecture with the title "Why I Am Not a Christian. " I regularly use the transcript of this lecture as the first reading in a second-year undergraduate course on philosophy of religion that I teach at Monash University.