 | Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
Buy new: $18.96 / Used from: $3.78 A quick primer on textual criticism and what it means to the understanding of the New Testament we all thought we knew.
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 | Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament by Bart D. Ehrman
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 | The Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew by Bart D. Ehrman
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 | When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome by Richard E. Rubenstein
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $2.00 Easily understood narrative of the so-called "Arian Heresy."
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 | God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism by Jonathan Kirsch
Buy used from: $1.55 Scary things happen when people claim that there is only one way to conceptualize the world.
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 | Whose Bible Is It? A History of the Scriptures Through the Ages by Jaroslav Pelikan
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 | The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
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 | The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason by Sam Harris
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $2.50 Even if you don't agree with his argument, it will get you thinking.
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 | The Battle for God by Karen Armstrong
Buy new: $25.55 / Used from: $2.64 Makes a lot of modern politics a lot more understandable, though not excusable.
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 | God's Own Scientists: Creationists in a Secular World by Christopher P. Toumey
Buy used from: $3.50 |
 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.73 |
 | What Is Gnosticism? by Karen L. King
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $8.75 |
 | Secret Origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan
Buy used from: $10.50 Comparative mythology is a wonderful thing.
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 | Return to Sodom and Gomorrah by Charles R. Pellegrino
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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: $11.18 / Used from: $3.98 |
 | The Hebrew Goddess 3rd Enlarged Edition by Raphael Patai
Buy new: $19.25 / Used from: $14.86 |
 | A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity by Keith Hopkins
Buy new: $26.00 / Used from: $1.56 |
 | David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition by Israel Finkelstein
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 | Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by Daniel C. Dennett
Buy new: $17.13 / Used from: $4.49 Whether or not discussing religion as "memes" is a valid argument, at least he's asking questions. And that is what rational enquiry is all about, not being afraid to question received wisdom.
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 | Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $1.09 Sam Harris got so much flack from fundamentalist christians that he had t o re-state his arguments, just for them.
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 | The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $17.82 / Used from: $4.24 Eminent biologist Dawkins will get you thinking about the most basic questions. Also look for his tv program "The Root of All Evil?", which no American station is brave enough to air.
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 | A World Full of Gods: An Inquiry into Polytheism by John Michael Greer
Buy new: $19.95 / Used from: $9.00 Instead of going for full-on atheism, try the argument for polytheism, aka, "good old-fashioned paganism."
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 | On Being a Pagan by Alain de Benoist
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $21.42 Another one outside the Christianity/Atheism dichotomy. A french philosphers' argument that re-organized forms of ancient paganism are actually more useful and healthful for humans than christianity.
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