Book Recommendation

[TheBeardedDude]

The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins was my first book after outing myself as an atheist.

I haven't read a ton of atheist literature since then, but God is not Great and The Missionary Position (both by Hitchens) are also great for solidly slamming a nail in religion for me.

I preferred to listen to podcasts while I worked in the lab for a while. I like the Non-Prophets and the Atheist Experience (both put on by the Atheist Community of Austin). The non-Prophets is my favorite (they went on a hiatus for a while) because they discuss current events. The Atheist Experience is great, but becomes repetitive since it is a call-in show, the same things come up over and over again on that one, so you can burn yourself out on it (and there was a period over last summer or so when it got really hard to listen to because the hosts were being a bit too dickish, and that can still be a problem). The last one I used to listen to was The Thinking Atheist by Seth Andrews. He does a lot of topical shows that are pretty good, but can kind of get a bit preachy at times. I kind of migrated away from his podcasts when the topics became less and less interesting to me, so I don't really listen to his anymore (but there were some good ones in there for sure).