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A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy & Meaning in a World Without God

Categories: Atheism, PhilosophyGenres: Atheism, Philosophy, ReligionPublished: 1/1/2014Format: HardcoverPage Count: 254Goodreads Rating: 4.21Goodreads ID: 18747558ISBN13: 9780989936002ISBN: 0989936007Book URL: GoodReads.comThe myth persists. Even in our modern world, countless people believe that without God, one’s life has no purpose or meaning — that the lives of atheists are devoid of joy and happiness because they are not religious. Read more

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God’s Gravediggers: Why No Deity Exists

Categories: Atheism, Philosophy, ReligionAuthor: Raymond D BradleyGenres: Atheism, Philosophy, ReligionPublisher: Ockham PublishingPublished: 2/12/2016Format: PaperbackPage Count: 372Goodreads Rating: 4.71Goodreads ID: 29066346ISBN13: 9781910780084ISBN: 9781910780084Book URL: GoodReads.comFew can offer a more experienced view on religion than Ray Bradley. Having been raised as a ‘winner of souls for Christ’ in the 1940s, he spent the next 40 years as

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The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for Humanism

Categories: Atheism, PhilosophyAuthor: A. C. GraylingGenres: Atheism, PhilosophyPublisher: Bloomsbury USAPublished: 3/4/2014Title: The God Argument: The Case against Religion and for HumanismFormat: PaperbackPage Count: 288Goodreads Rating: 3.78Goodreads ID: 17978141ISBN13: 9781620401927ISBN: 1620401924Book URL: GoodReads.comExamining all the arguments for and against religion and religious belief–across the range of reasons and motives that people have for being religious and

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The Courage to Become: The Virtues of Humanism

Category: PhilosophyAuthor: Paul KurtzGenre: PhilosophyPublisher: PraegerPublished: 6/30/1997Title: The Courage to Become: The Virtues of HumanismFormat: PaperbackPage Count: 152Goodreads Rating: 3.93Goodreads ID: 605897ISBN13: 9780275960162ISBN: 978-0275960162Book URL: GoodReads.comDoes life have meaning if one rejects belief in God? This book responds affirmatively to that question. Paul Kurtz, America’s leading secular humanist, provides a powerful defense of the humanist

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Philosophers Without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life

Categories: Atheism, PhilosophyAuthor: Louise M. AntonyGenres: Atheism, PhilosophyPublishers: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 10/1/2010Title: Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular LifeFormat: PaperbackPage Count: 315Goodreads Rating: 4.01Goodreads ID: 9639632ISBN13: 9780199743414ISBN: 978-0199743414Book URL: GoodReads.comAtheists are frequently demonized as arrogant intellectuals, antagonistic to religion, devoid of moral sentiments, advocates of an “anything goes” lifestyle. Now, in

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Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom

Category: HumanismAuthor: Andrew CopsonPublishers: Oxford University Press, USAPublished: 12/1/2017Title: Secularism: Politics, Religion, and FreedomFormat: HardcoverPage Count: 176Goodreads Rating: 4.00Goodreads ID: 34927510ISBN13: 9780198809135ISBN: 0198809131Book URL: GoodReads.comUntil the modern period the integration of church (or other religion) and state (or political life) had been taken for granted. The political order was always tied to an official religion

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The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not

Author: Abby HaferPublisher: Cascade BooksPublished: NaN/NaN/2015Title: The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does NotFormat: PaperbackPage Count: 229Goodreads Rating: 3.97Goodreads ID: 36581237ISBN13: 9781320329412ISBN: 9781620329Book URL: GoodReads.comWhy do men’s testicles hang outside the body? Why does our appendix sometimes explode and kill us? And who does the Designer like better, anyway–us

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Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults

Publisher: Park Street PressPublished: 10/1/1990Title: Combatting Cult Mind Control: The #1 Best-selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive CultsFormat: PaperbackPage Count: 256Goodreads Rating: 4.37Goodreads ID: 173711ISBN13: 9780892813117ISBN: 0892813113Book URL: GoodReads.comA former cult member, now a counselor helping those affected by destructive cults, Hassan exposes the troubling facts about cults’ recruitment, their use of

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The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake

Publisher: Grand Central PublishingPublished: 10/2/2018Format: HardcoverPage Count: 512Goodreads Rating: 4.56Goodreads ID: 38508766ISBN13: 9781538760536ISBN: 1538760533Book URL: GoodReads.comAn all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts. It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths,

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Happy: Why More or Less Everything is Absolutely Fine

Author: Derren BrownPublisher: Bantam PressPublished: 9/22/2016Format: PaperbackPage Count: 448Goodreads Rating: 4.07Goodreads ID: 30142270ISBN13: 9780593076200ISBN: 9780593076200Book URL: GoodReads.comEveryone says they want to be happy. But that’s much more easily said than done. What does being happy actually mean? And how do you even know when you feel it? Across the millennia, philosophers have thought long and

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