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by think-large
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I'd love to get any references you have. I enjoy learning from anyone who can keep an open mind. I do have to say that your comment about sheep herders, while funny (and accurate) was a little over the top. Deistic or Theistic, if someone doesn't suck at religion I think that they should be left alone. Especially if that leads them to give money to the poor, teach in developing nations, etc. While it can be argued that those things have negative effects I've also seen some of the good that comes from it first hand. I love this comic. I believe it sums up most of what I think about religion. The only thing I would change is the one where the father is teaching his daughter. There does need to be room for a parent to "express" belief to his children and acceptance when the children differ from the parent. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/religion Agnostic and atheistic beliefs can be added to the above comic as well. :-) That being said, if you see someone sucking at their religion please school them and tell them I'm asking them not to make the rest of us look bad. |
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A Devil's Chaplain
Are You Living in a Computer Simulation
Arguing About Gods
Atheism - The Case Against God
Atheist Manifest - In Defense of Atheism
Atheist Universe
Biblical Cosmology
Breaking the Spell - Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Cognitive and neural foundations of religious belief
Darwin's Dangerous Idea Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark
Dossier Of Reason
Evil God Challenge
Forged
God - The Failed Hypothesis
God Is Not Great
Godless
History of God
Jesus Interrupted
Jesus Myth - The Case Against Historical Christ
Letter To A Christian Nation
Logic and Theism
Love Thy Neighbour - Evolution of In-group Morality
Lying
Misquoting Jesus
Superstition In All Ages
The Ascension of Yahweh_ The Origins and Development of Israelite Monotheism
The Christian Delusion
The Dialogues of Plato
The Early History of Heaven
The End of Faith
The Evolution of God
The God Delusion
The God Virus How Religion Infects Our Lives And Culture
The Moral Landscape
Who Wrote the Bible
Why I am not a Christian
These are just some of the books I have read on the subject, but there are others highly rated and recommended that I still want to go through. However, these are really good.
If this list seems daunting I would recommend a shorter list:
"Breaking the spell" by Daniel Dennett "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkings "God is not great" by Christopher Hitchens "End of Faith" by Sam Harris
But books by Steven Hawking "The Grand Design", "Universe from Nothing" by Lawrence Krauss and "Your Inner Fish - A Journey into the 3.5 billion year history of the human body" by Neil Shubin, are also great although somewhat more technical. All other books are softer read.