 | Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity by John W. Loftus
Buy new: $13.57 My book gives an insider's account of leaving the Christian faith along with a fairly comprehensive set of arguments against it. This book is being recommended by Christian apologists Norman L. Geisler and James F. Sennett, as well as by atheists Daniel C. Dennett, Christopher Hitchens, Paul Kurtz, Eddie Tabash, and Dan Barker. It'll be available in August '08.
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 | Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker
Buy new: $10.17 This should be a good book!
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 | Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy by Scot McKnight
Buy new: $19.95 Scot McKnight highlights my story in one of his chapters.
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 | Walking Away from Faith: Unraveling the Mystery of Belief and Unbelief by Ruth A. Tucker
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $5.84 Christian professor Dr. Tucker writes as one who struggles with her faith and examines why people lose their faith.
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 | Four Views on Hell
Buy new: $10.87 / Used from: $8.49 A great discussion by Christian thinkers on the nature of hell. This discussion helped me to affirm the position of "conditional immortality" and freed me from the fear of hell while I investigated my faith.
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 | The Fourth Day: What the Bible and the Heavens Are Telling Us About Creation by Howard Van Till
Buy new: $28.00 / Used from: $4.34 A key book in why I became an atheist. Then Christian professor Van Till describes what the ancients thought of the universe and how it cannot be harmonized with the creation accounts in Genesis.
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 | The Meaning of Creation: Genesis and Modern Science by M. Conrad Hyers
Buy new: $19.55 / Used from: $7.59 Written while Hyers was still a Christian, he persuasively argues that the stories in Genesis 1-11 are myths.
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 | The Case Against Christianity by Michael Martin
Buy new: $30.30 / Used from: $9.20 This is a scholarly book that covers several key issues concerning Christianity.
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 | Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $2.49 You should read this.
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 | C.S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion (Revised and Updated) by John Beversluis
Buy new: $16.00 / Used from: $14.01 The standard critique of C.S. Lewis' apologetics.
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 | The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth by Valerie Tarico
Buy new: $17.96 / Used from: $16.65 Dr. Tarico gives her personal account of why she left the Christian faith. As a psychologist she is at her best when describing why people believe and why it's so hard to escape from the shackles of faith.
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 | God: The Failed Hypothesis: How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist by Victor J. Stenger
Buy new: $16.80 / Used from: $7.31 Excellent, especially when it comes to science.
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 | The Non-Existence of God by Nicholas Everitt
Buy new: $33.26 / Used from: $30.98 A superior book that can be understood by the average college student.
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 | The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy)
Buy new: $25.19 / Used from: $14.00 An excellent discussion by scholars.
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 | The Improbability of God
Buy new: $23.36 / Used from: $15.99 A very nice selection of arguments against the probability that God exists.
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 | The Impossibility of God
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $16.99 A very nice selection of scholarly writings showing that God cannot exist. This is a good book for thought.
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 | The Wisdom to Doubt: A Justification of Religious Skepticism by J. L. Schellenberg
Buy new: $44.80 / Used from: $55.53 A superior book arguing for complete religious skepticism. A must read.
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 | The End of Biblical Studies by Hector Avalos
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $20.92 Harvard trained Avalos argues that the Bible is irrelevant to the modern person and that Biblical scholarship shows this to be true.
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 | Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $5.91 An excellent book that shows the development of the Old Testament.
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 | Secret Origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan
Buy used from: $8.69 This book reveals the research of scholars showing that much of the Bible is borrowed from other ancient sources.
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 | The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide by Gerd Theissen
Buy new: $28.47 / Used from: $13.47 A comprehensive guide to studying the sources for understanding the historical Jesus.
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 | Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium by Bart D. Ehrman
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $10.98 The best overall defense of Jesus as a failed apocalyptic prophet one can find.
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 | The One Who Is to Come by Joseph A. Fitzmyer
Buy new: $12.24 / Used from: $9.00 Catholic scholar Fitzmyer argues that the early Christian writers misused the Old Testament Messiah texts, even though he unexplainedly maintains Jesus was still the Messiah.
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 | Who Killed Jesus?: Exposing the Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Gospel Story of the Death of Jesus by John Dominic Crossan
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $0.01 Very important for understanding the trial and death of Jesus.
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 | The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond The Grave
Buy new: $21.12 / Used from: $16.86 A robust set of arguments showing Jesus did not rise up from the grave.
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 | Honest to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millennium by Robert W. Funk
Buy used from: $0.17 An excellent book showing how to investigate the Jesus behind the New Testament and what we can know about him.
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 | Who Wrote the Gospels? by Randel McCraw Helms
Buy used from: $7.22 A provocative look into the authorship of the four Gospels.
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 | Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? by Robert M. Price
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $16.88 Price shows why Biblical scholarship doesn't leave much that Jesus actually said and did.
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 | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why (Plus) by Bart D. Ehrman
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $7.70 By former Christian turned agnostic, reveals how the Bible came down to us through imperfect means.
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 | Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $6.99 Early Christianity was not theologically unified. This book reveals this for all to see.
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 | The Bible Against Itself: Why the Bible Seems to Contradict Itself by Randel McCraw Helms
Buy used from: $180.61 Helms reveals the many disputes that the Biblical writers had with themselves.
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 | The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts by Neil Asher Silberman
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.95 Shows how there is basically no archaeological evidence for the exodus from Egypt, the wilderness wanderings, and the conquest of Canaan.
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 | Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $5.90 Written by a philosopher, it is one of the most detailed and comprehensive cases against creationism.
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 | The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $5.00 An excellent book describing how morals developed.
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 | Unmasking the Powers (Powers, Vol 2) by Walter Wink
Buy new: $22.00 / Used from: $7.48 A great book written by a liberal Christian scholar discussing the existence of the devil.
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 | Suffering Belief: Evil and the Anglo-American Defense of Theism (Toronto Studies in Religion) by Andrea M. Weisberger
Buy new: $34.95 An excellent discussion of the problem of evil by an atheist.
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 | The Evidential Argument from Evil (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)
Buy new: $20.66 / Used from: $13.70 An excellent discussion of the problem of evil between Christian and atheist scholars.
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 | God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer by Bart D. Ehrman
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $13.88 An excellent Biblical study on the Biblical answers to the problem of evil and why they fail.
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 | The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe by Brian Levack
Buy new: $38.40 / Used from: $24.00 Christians must learn about this period in their history. Why didn't God ever say, "Thou shalt not kill witches," and say it often enough so the church would get the point?
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 | Fighting Words: The Origins Of Religious Violence by Hector Avalos
Buy new: $20.44 / Used from: $8.20 Avalos shows why religions cause people to do evil and answers the Hitler/Stalin accusation against atheists.
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