 | God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: $15.74 / Used from: $3.23 If you read one book about atheism, make it this one. The audio version is great also, as Hitchens reads his own words (and it is unabridged).
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 | The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: $9.41 / Used from: $5.87 Readings selected by the man himself.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $4.81 This, and all books by Dawkins, are worth reading.
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 | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $1.70 The beginning of this book is unforgettable.
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 | Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.30 How religion evolved over time.
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 | Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $12.53 / Used from: $4.64 It's not just a theory; evolution is a fact.
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 | The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.40 A book about the greatest fraud of the twentieth century.
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 | The Preacher and the Presidents: Billy Graham in the White House by Nancy Gibbs
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $0.06 The man who traded anti-Semitic comments with Richard Nixon. What people won't do for a little thrill of power!
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 | The Bible According to Mark Twain: Irreverent Writings on Eden, Heaven, and the Flood by America's Master Satirist by Mark Twain
Buy new: $11.52 / Used from: $5.51 |
 | Extracts from Adam's Diary/Eve's Diary by Mark Twain
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.75 |
 | Julian: A Novel by Gore Vidal
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.97 The West's last chance before it descended into the dark ages, as chronicled by the great Gore Vidal.
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 | Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal by Gore Vidal
Buy new: $17.00 / Used from: $0.01 More from Gore. Funny!
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 | Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $2.30 A great book by a very brave woman. Heart-rending.
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 | American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll by Orvin Larson
Buy new: $25.00 / Used from: $8.21 |
 | Resurrection: Myth or Reality? by John Shelby Spong
Buy new: $11.66 / Used from: $1.88 This book is mind-boggling if you are still a believer.
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 | The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.75 One of my favorite books by the late and great Carl Sagan.
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 | The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $10.88 / Used from: $2.44 We are, all of us, star-stuff.
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 | Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $10.92 / Used from: $2.59 |
 | Monkey Girl: Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul by Edward Humes
Buy new: $19.72 / Used from: $1.01 |
 | Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion by Edward J. Larson
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.89 |
 | A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial by H.L. Mencken
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $9.72 |
 | The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial: Starring Charles Durning, Edward Asner and Tyne Daly by Peter (Adapted By) Goodchild
Buy new: $23.95 / Used from: $7.98 |
 | Root of All Evil?
A great DVD featuring Richard Dawkins.
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 | Cosmos: Carl Sagan (7 DVD Set)
Buy new: $74.99 / Used from: $80.50 I watched this sweries as a child and it still fascinates, entertains, and informs.
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 | The Anti-Christ by Friedrich Nietzsche
Buy new: $6.90 / Used from: $4.99 |
 | Living with Nietzsche: What the Great "Immoralist" Has to Teach Us by Robert C. Solomon
Buy used from: $9.97 How to live -- not as Schopenhauer did, but as Nietzsche did.
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 | Nothing: Something to Believe in by Nica Lalli
Buy new: $14.80 / Used from: $1.19 I loved this book. It is a very well-written account of someone growing up without having to wade through all the religious stuff the rest of us had to deal with.
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 | Lead Us Not into Temptation: Catholic Priests and the Sexual Abuse of Children by Jason Berry
Buy new: $27.00 / Used from: $1.95 The Church set up the dynamic for child rape by making the priest the intermediary with god. Under catholic doctrine, you can't be forgiven a serious sin without going to a priest for confession. This makes the priest a man who can literally determine the destiny of your "soul." "Father" has a lot of power. He can't do anything wrong, can he?
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 | Thomas Jefferson : Writings : Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters (Library of America) by Thomas Jefferson
Buy new: $24.75 / Used from: $9.80 American religious liberty is due in no small measure to Thomas Jefferson. As Hitchens says, "Mr. Jefferson, build up that wall!!!" Amen.
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 | The Jefferson Bible, The Life And Morals Of Jesus by Thomas Jefferson
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $5.60 Thomas Jefferson's redaction of the bible. Very interesting!
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 | Jefferson and Madison on the Separation of Church and State by Lenni Brenner
Buy new: $14.49 / Used from: $8.50 Too bad the religious right can't read. This book blows their arguments about America being a christian nation to smithereens.
Once again, as Hitchens says, "Mr. Jefferson, build up that wall!!!" Amen.
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 | Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Eminent Lives) by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $4.95 Hitchens on Jefferson, America's first freethinker hero(although he had to hide this behind a cloud of deism, which amounted to the same thing).
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 | Sworn on the Altar of God: A Religious Biography of Thomas Jefferson (Library of Religious Biography Series) by Edwin S. Gaustad
Buy new: $15.60 / Used from: $3.14 Jefferson and religion.
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 | Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (Books That Changed the World) by Christopher Hitchens
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $6.95 Hitchens on Paine. One great man writing about another.
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 | Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America) by Thomas Paine
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $10.25 |
 | Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
Buy new: $13.64 / Used from: $3.00 And still another founder who would gag at the cklaptrap about the "Founding" spread by the right wing of American politics today.
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 | Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings (Library of America) by Benjamin Franklin
Buy new: $19.80 / Used from: $17.00 |
 | H.L. Mencken on Religion by H. L. Mencken
Buy new: $21.77 / Used from: $19.40 |
 | The New Oxford Annotated Bible with the Apocrypha, Augmented Third Edition, New Revised Standard Version, Indexed
Buy new: $32.76 / Used from: $28.00 Finally, read this book. If, after doing so, you can still worship a god who sanctions murder, rape, child abuse, genocide, racism, slavery, polygamy, and anything other than blasphemy, you are welcome to do so.
If not, leave childish things behind and grow up!
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