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Atheist Reading Material
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Atheist Reading Material
It's not surprising that in my small rural town the library has absolutely zero reading material about anti-theism. So can anyone recommend a good read, preferably something I could get on my Kindle?
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#2
RE: Atheist Reading Material
Not other than just listing off some well known atheists like Sam Harris or Christopher Hitchens.
Poe's Law: "Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing."

10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

Good video to watch, if you want to know how common the Jesus story really is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: Atheist Reading Material
(July 23, 2014 at 11:16 pm)lezbehonest Wrote: It's not surprising that in my small rural town the library has absolutely zero reading material about anti-theism. So can anyone recommend a good read, preferably something I could get on my Kindle?

God is Not Great by the late, great Christopher Hitchens.

The God Delusion, of course, is a classic.

I honestly haven;t read any other atheist books.

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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RE: Atheist Reading Material
I've become more knowledgeable after coming here and checking out a heap of YouTube videos. Anything and everything from genetics, Dawkins, Krause, evolution, etc.
I don't like reading books, I get blue lips!
No God, No fear.
Know God, Know fear.
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#5
RE: Atheist Reading Material
Read "Jesus Interrupted" by Bart Ehrman.

They may have that one. If not, PM an email address and I'll send you an e-version.
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#6
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I know nothing about Kindle. And I don't read too much anyway, but I do love Letter to a Christian Nation, by sam Harris.
"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan
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RE: Atheist Reading Material
Atheism or anti theism? Because both are different positions
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you

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#8
RE: Atheist Reading Material
Robert G. Ingersoll:
http://www.positiveatheism.org/tochingr.htm

A Kindle collection can be found at Gutenberg:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38813
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RE: Atheist Reading Material
The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche is great (I recommend Walter Kaufmann's translation).
Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell
Darwin's Dangerous Idea and also Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett
As others said, The God Delusion and God is Not Great by Dawkins and Hitchens, respectively, are good too.
He who loves God cannot endeavour that God should love him in return - Baruch Spinoza
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(July 24, 2014 at 10:03 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Why I Am Not A Christian by Bertrand Russell

I had such a hard time sticking with this book that I'm still not finished with it. I gave it up and read some Bart Ehrman stuff instead.

I quite enjoyed Ehrman's Lost Christianities, but that's not on atheism or anti-theism, it's about all of the sects of Christianity that were steamrolled as orthodoxy developed in the ancient world. Very interesting.

I quite enjoy Victor Stenger's books, too: God: The Failed Hypothesis and God and the Folly of Faith, but between those two, I liked the Failed Hypothesis better.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
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