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Why I Am Not a Christian

Bertrand Russell’s 1927 lecture explaining his rejection of Christianity, including the first-cause argument.

Author: Bertrand Russell
Tradition: Philosophy
Accessed: 2026-10-06

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Bertrand Russell, “Why I Am Not a Christian,” lecture to the South London Branch of the National Secular Society, Battersea Town Hall, March 6, 1927, accessed October 6, 2026.

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Who created God?The cosmological arguments do not claim that everything needs a cause. They claim that dependent things do, and ask what could end the chain.