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George H. Smith sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all the myths devised by human beings-the concept of a supreme being. With painstaking scholarship and rigorous arguments, Mr. Smith examines, dissects, and refutes the myriad "proofs" offered by theists-sophisticated, professional theologians-as well as the average religious layman. He explores the historical and psychological havoc wrought by religion in...
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"In a literary showdown with the Four Horsemen of the New Atheism--Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris--Metaxas neatly skewers them with their own swords. Along the way he presents breathtaking evidence from the fields ofarchaeology, nanoscience, and quantum physics that overwhelmingly confirms the accounts of creation in the ancient Hebrew scriptures. He also spotlights the stories of some of the best scientists...
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Allah, Jesus, and Yahweh: The Gods That Failed deals with the moral and intellectual damage caused by religion the subject of many of today's headlines. There have, been at least five major religious invasions from Asia into Europe. In particular, the Middle East seems a virtual hatchery for faith and fanaticism. It's the birthplace of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam not to mention the earlier Zoroastrianism and the much later Bahaism plus a plethora...
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You're a what?
A complete, unflinching, honest explanation of atheism, Like Rolling Uphill answers the crazy questions nonbelievers get from Christians...
Why don't you believe in God?
Why aren't you murdering people?
Why are you always making fun of religion?
What the heck is wrong with you, anyway?
Like Rolling Uphill
ten years later...
Dianna Narciso has taken a snark brush to her original work adding comments throughout criticizing, clarifying,...
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The Christian Bible, in all its versions, is the most widely read book in the world. Billions of people have read at least parts of it, and over its history of nearly two millennia, thousands of groups and individuals, if not hundreds of thousands, have interpreted it in myriads of ways. Consequently, today's big tent of Christianity encompasses a bewildering variety of often conflicting belief systems. But which of these systems most accurately reflect...
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Filled with wit, humor, and clear metaphor, this exploration into atheism is written specifically for young adults, though any adult interested in learning more about atheism will find value within. Not just focused on atheism, this crash course in logical thinking addresses the issues of indoctrination, whether it be religious, political, or commercial, and makes the case that morality is created through reasoning and logic, not through divine communication....
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Every religion considers itself to be the one "true" religion. But how can this be, when so many different religions exist? Deception strives to debunk and delegitimize the ubiquitous belief in concepts like God and Heaven by focusing on the superficiality of religion and supernaturalism. It examines the concept of religion, including where it originated and how it managed to spread across the world. It explores morality, life after death, the Christian...
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Are you an atheist that is curious about Christianity? Do you know an atheist that you'd like to share your Christian faith with?
Dean Holbrook is a former atheist and provides a unique, more palatable perspective on Christianity. He gives a respectful, fresh take on it, having been an atheist himself.
The book is not fire-and-brimstone. It's not fear based; it is based on the author's own personal experience with Christianity.
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Sam Whitehead was raised in a strict religious family and was a teenage preacher. At age twenty-two he began a forty-year quest of research and reflection to prove that his faith was the one "true" religion and that God was real. He reluctantly came to the conclusion that there is no God and that no religion is true. Staunch believers in God and readers who are trying to find their own truth will find Sam's journey compelling. It moves from Alabama...
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There are two forms of atheism, not just one, and in the death of ignorant atheism, James Duncan shows how important it is for both believers and non-believers to understand the difference between the two.
The book addresses and debunks the common objections raised by modern atheists against the existence of the creator, and convincingly demonstrates how atheism is just empty fiction that exists within western society due to wide spread ignorance,...
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This book is the second in A series. Its A continuation of the best of the best true stories about Sir David as he prefers to be called.His stories are at times very funny Interesting and very captivating. Mostly about the Mormon church and its crazy ways history and beliefs as well as his experiences being both in and out of the church, having resigned twice.He has been married 6 times and raised 14 children most of them are still LDS and have rejected...
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First published anonymously in 1919, these letters from a dying woman to her doctor display an attitude to death which is fiercely independent of religion but full of hope. The book will appeal to diverse readers: it is a picture of family life and love, interspersed with clear-headed musings on the nature of illness, loss and death; it illuminates the development of rationalist thought, humanism and liberal education and the history of adoption;...
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The faith Joy inherited at the age of three worked for almost fifty years. She believed it, preached it, wrote songs about it, lived it. Jesus was the center of her universe, literally and metaphorically. Hence, one can only imagine the tsunami that followed when her ironclad theological foundation unexpectedly and involuntarily collapsed with a deafening thud.
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This book is controversial, funny, sarcastic, witty and comes from a young man raised in the Catholic tradition. I am an Atheist now and the cover is a mock of religion. I truly feel that if there really is a GOD, then he has to be the Devil and God in one. Only someone that sadistic could make the world we have now and the rules to live by. I always am open to anyone's opinion. I took my life experiences and translated them into written form. I used...
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Radical understanding of ourselves is now possible to our very corrugator insight into whom we really are, where we came from, what our evolution has been, what it has meant, and what it means now and for the future. That quest has been an intellectual one, but it also has been a spiritual one and answers with spiritual meaning are now possible, even for the atheists, doubters, skeptics, humanists, and freethinkers. In this study, author Douglas Falknor...
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What is Easter? Where did it come from? How does a Christian holiday somehow include a rabbit that lays eggs? What is Passover? Are they the same thing? Are all Easter traditions Christian?Are you an atheist or secular humanist wanting to learn more about the Easter season? Or maybe you left religion and now you're reapproaching spring celebrations with fresh eyes?Join Betsy DeVille to learn what Easter is (and isn't) and how some of the most common...
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During a time span covering over four decades, the author fought back, as best as he could, the religious indoctrination of both the Catholic and the Protestant churches that haunted him from his early life on, as well as that of the so-called esoteric schools to finally, at the end of a long trek, stumble upon a different approach to understanding God that satisfied his inquisitive mind.
His long search included also a period of atheism but it was...
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Get the Summary of Antony Flew & Roy Abraham Varghese's There Is a God in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "There Is a God" chronicles Antony Flew's intellectual journey from atheism to theism, detailing his early life, academic career, and the philosophical inquiries that led to his belief in a divine intelligence. Flew's upbringing in a religious household did not cement his faith; instead, he became an atheist,...
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