Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible
10 best books like Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I Learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible (David Plotz): The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University, The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy, Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them, Jesus Land: A Memoir, The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief, Letter to a Christian Nation
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| ISBN | 0306816083 |
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for...
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future.
For a growing number of people, there is nothing more important than religion. It is an integral part of their marriage, child rearing, and community. In this...
As a sophomore at Brown University, Kevin Roose didn't have much contact with the Religious Right. Raised in a secular home by staunchly liberal parents, he fit right in with Brown's sweatshop-protesting, fair-trade coffee-drinking, God-ambivalent student body. So when he had a chance encounter...
The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
| Author | A.J. Jacobs |
| ISBN | 0743291476 |
From the bestselling author of "The Know-It-All" comes a fascinating and timely exploration of religion and the Bible.Raised in a secular family but increasingly interested in the relevance of faith in our modern world, A.J. Jacobs decides to dive in headfirst and attempt to obey the Bible as literally...
| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
| ISBN | 0060559799 |
A journalist's penetrating look at the untold story of christian fundamentalism's most elite organization, a self-described invisible network dedicated to a religion of power for the powerful.
They are the Family—fundamentalism's avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of...
C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy
| Author | Jeff Sharlet |
| ISBN | 0316091073 |
C Street - where piety, politics, and corruption meet
Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have reported from inside the C Street House, the Fellowship residence known simply by its Washington, DC address. The house has lately been the scene of notorious political scandal, but more crucially...
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them
| Author | Bart D. Ehrman |
| ISBN | 0061173932 |
Picking up where Bible expert Bart Ehrman's New York Times bestseller Misquoting Jesus left off, Jesus, Interrupted addresses the larger issue of what the New Testament actually teaches—& it's not what most people think. Here Ehrman reveals what scholars have unearthed:
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| Author | Julia Scheeres |
| ISBN | 1582433542 |
For Julia Scheeres and her adopted brother David, "Jesus Land" stretched from their parents' fundamentalist home, past the hostilities of high school, and deep into a Christian reform school in the Dominican Republic. For these two teenagers - brother and sister, black and white - the 1980s were a...
The Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
| Author | Francis S. Collins |
| ISBN | 0743286391 |
Does science necessarily undermine faith in God? Or could it actually support faith? Beyond the flashpoint debates over the teaching of evolution, or stem-cell research, most of us struggle with contradictions concerning life's ultimate question. We know that accidents happen, but we believe...
Letter to a Christian Nation
| Author | Sam Harris |
| ISBN | 0307265773 |
In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity....
The Challenge of Jesus: Rediscovering Who Jesus Was and Is
| Author | N.T. Wright |
| ISBN | 0830822003 |
Today a renewed and vigorous scholarly quest for the historical Jesus is underway. In the midst of well publicized and controversial books on Jesus, N. T. Wright's lectures and writings have been widely recognized for providing a fresh, provocative and historically credible portrait. Out of his...
| Author | Dale McGowan |
| ISBN | 0814474268 |
Foreword by Michael Shermer, Ph.D.
Contributors include Richard Dawkins, Penn Jillette, Julia Sweeney, and Dr. Donald B. Ardell
It's hard enough to live a secular life in a religious world. And bringing up children without religious influence can be even more...
| Author | John A. Buehrens |
| ISBN | 0807016179 |
For those contemplating religious choices, Unitarian Universalism offers an appealing alternative to religious denominations that stress theological creeds over individual conviction and belief. In this new edition of the classic introductory text on Unitarian Universalism, which includes...
| Author | William Lobdell |
| ISBN | 0061626813 |
William Lobdell's journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. Lobdell became a born-again Christian in his late 20s when personal problems—including a failed marriage—drove him to his knees in prayer. As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell—a...
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
| Author | Dan Barker |
| ISBN | 1569756775 |
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GODLESS
“Valuable in the human story are the reflections of intelligent and ethical people who listen to the voice of reason and who allow it to vanquish bigotry and superstition. This book is a classic example.”
—CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS author of God is Not Great
“The...
God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
| Author | Victor J. Stenger |
| ISBN | 1591024811 |
Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology. In the meantime, science has sat on the sidelines and quietly watched this game of words march up and down the field. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect...
Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
| Author | John W. Loftus |
| ISBN | 1591025923 |
For about two decades John W. Loftus was a devout evangelical Christian, an ordained minister of the Church of Christ, and an ardent apologist for Christianity. With three degrees-in philosophy, theology, and philosophy of religion-he was adept at using rational argumentation to defend the faith....
God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
| Author | Victor J. Stenger |
| ISBN | 1616145994 |
A thorough and hard-hitting critique that is a must read for anyone interested in the interaction between religion and science.
It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict....
