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Favorite Atheist books?
#11
RE: Favorite Atheist books?
Aside from Dawkins and Hitchens, who I respect:

Sam Harris, of course.  Anything he writes.
Daniel Dennett, "Breaking the Spell"
(yes, I know I just listed "The Four Horsemen" - guys please don't yell at me!)
I read Bertrand Russell a long time ago, and loved it.
Stephen Hawking
Carl Sagan
Michael Shermer  "Why People Believe Weird Things"
James Randi's "Flim Flam"
Jennifer Michael Hecht "The End of the Soul"
Ray Kurzweil
Joshua Kelley   "Oh Your God!"
Peter Boghossian

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#12
RE: Favorite Atheist books?
All of my books are atheist - not a single one of them believes in gods.

Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
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#13
RE: Favorite Atheist books?
(December 29, 2015 at 12:44 pm)TrueChristian Wrote: For all those who do not know, I am currently an agnostic who has posed as a True Christian.

I have read God is not great, but wonder if there are other good atheist authors and books. Christopher Hitchens was very smart, but he seemed at times too uptight and stuffy, almost like an author from 40-50 years ago was writing today.

I sort of respect Dawkins, but he seems a bit too dry and scientific.

I really like Sam Harris and am thinking of purchasing "Letter to a Christian nation"

Any recommendations?

Perhaps if you describe what you want most to learn at this point...
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#14
RE: Favorite Atheist books?
Carl Sagan's, "The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark".

Not exactly an atheist book, but it offers a very good mental tool kit of the best known method of differentiating fact from fiction.

The methods can be applied to any existential or supernatural claim (including the god claim) in order to determine which are most likely true, or most likely false

You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
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#15
RE: Favorite Atheist books?
Richard Carrier is awesome on history, philosophy, and naturalism/skepticism.

Sense and Goodness Without God, by Richard Carrier
http://www.amazon.com/Sense-Goodness-Wit...1420802933

Like a lot of atheists, however, his politics is out there in left-field la-la-land unfortunately.
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#16
RE: Favorite Atheist books?
Flatland!!! The sphere is like God in that which the square pwns.
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