 | Crisis of Conscience by Raymond Franz
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $10.82 a former governing body member gives a non-vindictive account of the organization.you wil not view "the society"the same again,and you might even begin to think for yourself.
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 | In Search of Christian Freedom by Raymond Franz
Buy used from: $12.23 a great follow-up. demolishes j.w. teachings from blood to the "faithful and discreet slave".
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 | Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard Elliott Friedman
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $3.98 so you think that the bible is god's infallible word? read on.
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 | The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $4.92 what an eye-opener!paganism re-told and resold as christianity.
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 | The Secret Origins of the Bible by Tim Callahan
Buy used from: $21.56 the stories in the bible are myhths,legends,and stories,many of which are taken from older cultures.the very foundation of everything i once believed has crumbled.
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 | Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $6.42 from holocaust deniers to creationism. and....maybe there's something to this evolution thing after all.
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 | The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
Buy new: $11.56 / Used from: $4.42 an incredibly gifted writer on skepticism and science.
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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 used from: $3.00 shermer's best book. the evolutionary origins of human nature.
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 | The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.42 dawkins is a great popularizer of evolutionary theory for non-scientists.
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 | Atheist Universe: Why God Didn't Have A Thing To Do With It by David Mills
Buy used from: $5.23 a great intro to atheism.not extremely in-depth on some subjects,but you can't beat it as a first book on the subject.
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 | A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Buy new: $9.90 / Used from: $4.90 a good intro into natural history and the scientific view of life, written by a non-scientist for non-scientists,but very well researched.
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 | Awakening of a Jehovah's Witness: Escape from the Watchtower Society by Diane Wilson
Buy new: $20.45 / Used from: $12.00 a personal account from a woman's perspective.
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 | Tower of Babel: The Evidence against the New Creationism by Robert T. Pennock
Buy new: $19.76 / Used from: $2.95 discusses creationist arguments from duane gish to michael behe and phillip johnson.
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 | Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Buy new: $11.55 / Used from: $6.97 a history of not only atheists and agnostics, but those who questioned religious orthodoxy.the first third of the book and the last third are great fun to read,but the middle section is a bit tedious.
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 | Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
Buy new: $18.15 / Used from: $3.95 many of the great figures in american history were not fundamentalist(literalist)christians.
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 | Why the Religious Right Is Wrong: About Separation of Church & State by Rob Boston
Buy used from: $0.05 a history of church and state in america.
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 | The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of Faith and the Fall of Reason by Charles Freeman
Buy new: $11.53 / Used from: $5.98 how religion gives the state the power to impose religious orthodoxy on the people and to supress independent thought.
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 | Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy (Anchor books) by Robert M. Hazen
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 | God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism by Jonathan Kirsch
Buy used from: $1.48 the rise of monotheism and its inherent intolerance for other beliefs.
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 | The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to Evolution
Buy used from: $1.01 |
 | Skeptic
Buy new: $30.00 |
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