Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
By: John W. Loftus
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For about two decades John W. Loftus was a devout evangelical Christian, an ordained minister of th…
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1. Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
By: Michel Onfray , Jeremy Leggatt
3.77
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
This tightly argued, hugely controversial work convincingly demonstrates how the world's three majo… read more
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"(...) L’intelligence, cette vertu sublime que définit l’art de lier ce qui, a priori, et pour la plupart, passe pour délié."-Michel Onfray, Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
"How strange that excision – female circumcision, with several languages using the same term for both kinds of mutilation – of little girls should revolt the westerner but excite no disapproval when i…"-Michel Onfray, Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
"The three monotheism share a series of identical forms of aversion: hatred of reason and intelligence; hatred of freedom; hatred of all books in the name of one book alone; hatred of sexuality, women…"-Michel Onfray, Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
"[Über das Paradies:] Die fünf Bücher Mose, die Genesis und der Koran beschäftigen sich eingehend mit dieser hysterischen Geographie. Die muslimische Variante ist jedoch am gelungensten und lohnt wirk…"-Michel Onfray, Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
2. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
3. Hitch 22: A Memoir
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.02
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States … read more
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"Cheap booze is a false economy."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
" Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"What is your idea of earthly happiness? To be vindicated in my own lifetime."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
4. Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
By: Richard Dawkins , Dan Barker , Dan Barker
3.97
Format: 392 pages, Paperback
One man shares the story of his transformation from evangelical Christian to atheist and examines t… read more
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"Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" …"-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
"But we exist now. We are caring, intelligent animals and can treasure our brief lives. Why is eternal better than temporal, or supernatural "higher" than natural? Doesn't rarity increase value? God i…"-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
"Isn't atheism just another religion?' No, it isn't. Atheism has no creeds, rituals, holy book, absolute moral code, origin myth, sacred spaces or shrines. It has no sin, divine judgment, forbidden wo…"-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
"People are invariably surprised to hear me say I am both an atheist and an agnostic, as if this somehow weakens my certainty. I usually reply with a question like, 'Well, are you a Republican or an A…"-Richard Dawkins, Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
5. Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
By: Simon Singh
4.21
Format: 532 pages, Paperback
A half century ago, a shocking Washington Post headline claimed that the world began in five catacl… read more
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"All that was required to measure the planet was a man with a stick and a brain. In other words, couple an intellect with some experimental apparatus and almost anything seems achievable."-Simon Singh, Big Bang: The Origin of the Universe
6. Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith
By: Charles Templeton
3.82
Format: 248 pages, Paperback
For more than twenty years, Charles Templeton was a major figure in the church in Canada and the Un… read more
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"If God's love encompasses the whole world and if everyone who does not believe in him will perish, then surely this question needs to be asked: When, after two thousand years, does God's plan kick in…"-Charles Templeton, Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith
7. The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
By: Sam Harris
3.90
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and relig… read more
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"Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love"-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"Religious moderation is the product of secular knowledge and scriptural ignorance."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
"Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction."-Sam Harris, The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
8. Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity
By: John W. Loftus
4.11
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
For about two decades John W. Loftus was a devout evangelical Christian, an ordained minister of th… read more
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9. God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction
By: Richard Dawkins , Dan Barker
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Hardcover
What words come to mind when we think of God? Merciful? Just? Compassionate? In fact, the Bible lay… read more
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10. Atheism: The Case Against God
By: George H. Smith
3.90
Format: 49 pages, Paperback
Does a god exist? This question has undoubtedly been asked, in one form or another, since man has h… read more
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11. The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts
By: Israel Finkelstein , Neil Asher Silberman
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this groundbreaking work that sets apart fact and legend, authors Finkelstein and Silberman use … read more
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12. Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
By: Michael Parenti
4.41
Format: 166 pages, Paperback
Blackshirts & Reds explores some of the big issues of our time: fascism, capitalism, communism, rev… read more
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"Ecology's implications for capitalism are too horrendous for the capitalist to contemplate."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"Decentralized parochial autonomy is the graveyard of insurgency-which may be one reason why there has never been a successful anarcho-syndicalist revolution."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"A joke circulating in Russia in 1992 went like this: Q. What did capitalism accomplish in one year that communism could not do in seventy years? A. Make communism look good."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
"...the [pure socialist] critics [of communist countries] seem unable to apply their own leadership genius to producing a successful revolutionary movement in their own country."-Michael Parenti, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism
13. Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All
By: David Fitzgerald
4.36
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Why would anyone think Jesus never existed? Isn't it perfectly reasonable to accept that he was a r… read more
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14. The God Delusion
By: Richard Dawkins
3.90
Format: 374 pages, Hardcover
A preeminent scientist - and the world's most prominent atheist - asserts the irrationality of beli… read more
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"Pantheism is sexed-up atheism. Deism is watered-down theism."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"نؤمن بنظريةالتطور لان الادلة تدعمها وسنرفضها بين ليلة وضحاها عندما تظهر ادلة تنفيها"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"لا تلقن اطفالك بل علمهم طريقة التفكير المستقلة وكيفية التاكد من الادلة وكيف يمكنهم مخالفتك فى الرأي"-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
"As J. B. S. Haldane said when asked what evidence might contradict evolution, 'Fossil rabbits in the Precambrian."-Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion
15. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
By: Mary Wollstonecraft , Miriam Brody , Bebi Fernández
3.50
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France,… read more
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16. Hope after Faith: An Ex-Pastor's Journey from Belief to Atheism
By: Ethan Brown , None
3.91
Format: 144 pages, Hardcover
Atheism's leading lights have long been intellectuals raised in the secular and academic worlds: Ri… read more
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17. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
By: Carl Sagan , Ann Druyan
4.29
Format: 459 pages, Paperback
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t un… read more
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"Gullibility kills."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Occasionally, I get a letter from someone who is in “contact"-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
"Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."-Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
18. Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
By: Armin Navabi , None
3.67
Format: 499 pages,
* "Science can't explain the complexity and order of life; God must have designed it to be this way… read more
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19. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
By: Michel Foucault , Robert Hurley
4.00
Format: 201 pages,
Michel Foucault offers an iconoclastic exploration of why we feel compelled to continually analyze … read more
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20. Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
By: Daniel C. Dennett
3.74
Format: 646 pages,
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21. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
By: Peter Zeihan
4.42
Format: None pages, Hardcover
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER… read more
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22. The Universe: Leading Scientists Explore the Origin, Mysteries, and Future of the Cosmos
By: John Brockman
4.33
Format: 226 pages, Paperback
John Brockman brings together the world's best-known physicists and science writers--including Bria… read more
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23. Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
By: Bertrand Russell , Paul Edwards
4.10
Format: None pages, Paperback
Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned wi… read more
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24. Letter to a Christian Nation
By: Sam Harris
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriati… read more
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"There had been ample warning that a storm “of biblical proportions"-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"These data are unequivocal: we are building a civilization of ignorance."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
25. Burn Book: A Tech Love Story
By: Kara Swisher
3.99
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
From award-winning journalist Kara Swisher comes a witty, scathing, but fair accounting of the tech… read more
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26. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
By: David McRaney
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In this lively journey through human psychology, bestselling author and creator of the You Are Not … read more
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"I couldn’t shake the idea that I, too, was probably one conversation away from changing my own mind about something, maybe a lot of things. But I also recalled how many conversations I’d had that onl…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
"Before scientists began researching the Leadership LAB’s technique, few studies supported the possibility that campaigns could change voters’ views on polarized, partisan, politically controversial i…"-David McRaney, How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
27. Speaking of God: We Don't Know Sh*t: A Former Minister Reflects on God and Religion
By: D.B. Ramsey
4.19
Format: 83 pages, Kindle Edition
This personal story about a spiritual journey away from Christianity is an honest examination of wh… read more
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28. The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
By: Andrew L. Seidel
4.45
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Do “In God We Trust,” the Declaration of Independence, and other historical “evidence” prove that A… read more
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"Evangelical Christianity invaded and polarized the political debate in the decades leading up to the Civil War, limiting the potential political solutions. It turned the democratic process, which rel…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"In God we Trust", "one nation under God," "God bless America." These tidbits are not historical so much as they are rhetorical. Their tardiness precludes arguments that they somehow prove the foundin…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"Trump's dictatorial tendencies and mendacity, negative attributes for many voters, poised him perfectly to manipulate the evangelical mind. Like the biblical god evangelicals worship, Trump is a thin…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
"For the average American during the 1950s, afraid of facing societal backlash, the question may simply have been: Which god or which religion? Today, the question is not which god or religion, but: S…"-Andrew L. Seidel, The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism Is Un-American
29. Ten Things Christians Wish Jesus Hadn't Taught: And Other Reasons to Question His Words
By: David Madison
4.27
Format: 149 pages, Kindle Edition
For centuries the gospels have been cherished devotional literature, and under the guidance of prea… read more
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30. Armageddon: What the Bible Really Says about the End
By: Bart D. Ehrman
4.25
Format: 8 pages, Audiobook
A “humane, thoughtful, and intelligent” (The New York Times Book Review) bestselling Biblical schol… read more
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31. Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present
By: Fareed Zakaria
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The CNN host and best-selling author explores the revolutions—past and present—that define the pola… read more
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