• Chapter 1: An Atheist's Progress


• Chapter 2: Atheists aren't all that bad


• Chapter 3: Social Corruption


• Chapter 4: Why be Moral?


• Chapter 5: Can there be Objective Morality Without God?


• Chapter 6: Against Divine Commands


• Chapter 7: How to Know What is Morally Wrong


• Chapter 8: Where Do We Go From Here?

Walter Sinnott-Armstrong is Chauncey Stillman Professor of Practical Ethics in the Department of Philosophy and the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University.

Some argue that atheism must be false, since without God, no values are possible, and thus everything is permitted. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong argues that God is not only not essential to morality, but that our moral behavior should be utterly independent of religion. He attacks several core ideas: that atheists are inherently immoral people; that any society will sink into chaos if it is becomes too secular; that without religion, we have no reason to be moral; that absolute moral standards require the existence of God; and that without religion, we simply couldn't know what is wrong and what is right.