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Against All Gods
by A. C. Grayling
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The Age of Reason
by Thomas Paine
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All That Glitters Is Not God : Breaking Free from the Sweet Deceit of Multi-Level Marketing
by Athena Dean
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Atheism : The Case Against God
by George H. Smith
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Atheist Manifesto : The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
by Michel Onfray
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The Australian Book Of Atheism
by Warren Bonnett (Ed)
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Bare-faced messiah : the true story of L. Ron Hubbard
by Russell Miller
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Blind Faith
by Ben Elton
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Breaking the Spell : Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
by Daniel C. Dennett
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Bullshit! Season 1 DVD
by Penn & Teller
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Bullshit! Season 2 DVD
by Penn & Teller
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Bullshit! Season 3 DVD
by Penn & Teller
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Bullshit! Season 4 DVD
by Penn & Teller
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The Caged Virgin : An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The Cartoons That Shook the World
by Jytte Klausen
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Christian Science
by Mark Twain
This is a hilarious expose of one of the silliest (and most dangerous) combinations of religious nonsense and medical misconception. A classic that is still relevant after a century. (This is a downloadable free version of the book, courtesy of Project Gutenberg.)
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine (Hell)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine (Paradise)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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The Comedy of Dante Alighieri the Florentine (Purgatory)
by Dorothy L. Sayers
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Conspiracy : How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From
by Daniel Pipes
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Creationism's Upside-Down Pyramid : How Science Refutes Fundamentalism
by Lee Tiffin
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Crisis of Conscience
by Raymond Franz
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Cults in Our Midst
by Margaret Thaler Singer and Janja Lalich
Everyone knows that they are too smart to ever get sucked in by a cult, but when you look at the victims there are some smart people there who believed the words of conmen and liars. The difference with most conmen is they only take your money but the cults can take your family, your sanity and your life.
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Denying History : Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It
by Michael Shermer, Alex Grobman and Arthur Hertzberg
There are people who deny that the Holocaust happened; there are people who say that if it happened, nobody high up planned it; there are people who say it might have happened but it wasn't really that bad. Underlying all of this is a barely-disguised foundation of racism.
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The End of Faith : Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris
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Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds
by Charles MacKay
This book was first published in 1841 and told about panics and hysterias of the past. Updating the book to today would just require the addition of a chapter on the Internet stock craze, an update to the witchcraft chapter to include mention of recovered memory syndrome, satanic ritual abuse and alien abductions, and a new chapter about Y2K madness.
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The Faith Healers
by James Randi
It is bad enough that charlatans hawk untested medicines and techniques to sick people, but there seems to be something particularly evil about people who claim to have magic healing powers or who claim to be using powers delegated to them by God. At least some of the quack medicine salespeople believe in what they are doing.
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Finding Darwin's God
by Kenneth Miller
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The Five Gospels : What Did Jesus Really Say? The Search for the AUTHENTIC Words of Jesus
by Robert W. Funk
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Free Expression Is No Offence
by Lisa Appignanesi (Editor)
The book that helped to win a battle! Edited by Lisa Appignanesi, the PEN/Penguin book with thought-provoking essays by Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Monica Ali, Hari Kunzru, Howard Jacobson, Helena Kennedy and many more was published on December 1 2005.
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The Future of an Illusion
by Sigmund Freud
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God : The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
by Victor Stenger
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
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God Is Not Great : How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
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Goddess Unmasked : The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality
by Philip G. Davis
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Gulliver's Travels
by Jonathon Swift
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H.L. Mencken on Religion
by H. L. Mencken (Author) and S. T. Joshi (Editor)
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Has Science Found God? The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe
by Victor Stenger
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The Healing Revelations of Mary Baker Eddy : The Rise and Fall of Christian Science
by Martin Gardner
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The Hidden Hand : Middle East Fears of Conspiracy
by Daniel Pipes
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How We Believe : The Search for God in an Age of Science
by Michael Shermer
Shermer makes the distinction between belief, non-belief and unbelief, and describes his own transition from one state to another. Religion and science have different roles in society, and this book looks at the boundaries and overlaps which are legitimate for each.
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The Human Question
by Hervey Peoples
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In Pursuit of Satan : The Police and the Occult
by Robert D. Hicks
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In the Path of God : Islam and Political Power
by Daniel Pipes
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Infidel
by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Jesus for the Non Religious
by John Shelby Spong
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L. Ron Hubbard : Messiah or Madman?
by Bent Corydon
You might think the title of this book is a rhetorical question, but the criminal cult of Scientology is out there as a testament to Hubbard's madness so there are obviously still some people who can't work out the right answer for themselves. If you are unfamiliar with the cult, Operation Clambake is a good place to start.
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Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
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Leviathan
by Thomas Hobbes
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The Long Shadow : Culture and Politics in the Middle East
by Daniel Pipes
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Militant Islam Reaches America
by Daniel Pipes
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Miniatures : Views of Islamic and Middle Eastern Politics
by Daniel Pipes
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Miracle Mongers and Their Methods
by Harry Houdini
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Misquoting Jesus : The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
by Bart D. Ehrman
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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires
by Jonathan Swift
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The Myth of Islamic Tolerance
by Robert Spencer (Editor)
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The Natural History of Religion
by David Hume
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Nothing : Something to Believe in
by Nica Lalli
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A Piece of Blue Sky : Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
by Jon Atack and Russell Miller
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The Political Teachings of Jesus
by Tod Lindberg
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)
by Robert Spencer
You just know that the author of this book is hitting the target right in the middle when you see that an Islamist web site referred to him by using the words: "May Allah rip out his spine from his back and split his brains in two, and then put them both back, and then do it over and over again. Amen". Apparently the writer of that comment was upset about Spencer's view that Islam is not all about peace and light.
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The Portable Atheist : Essential readings for the unbeliever
by Christopher Hitchens (Editor)
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The Praise of Folly
by Desiderius Erasmus
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The Reasonableness of Christianity As Delivered in the Scriptures
by John Locke
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Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
by Michael Barkun
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The Root of All Evil?
by Richard Dawkins (TV program)
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The Rushdie Affair : The Novel, the Ayatollah, and the West
by Daniel Pipes
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The Satanic Verses
by Salman Rushdie
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Science and Religion : Are They Compatible?
by Paul Kurtz, Barry Karr and Ranjit Sandhu (Editors)
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The Science of Good and Evil
by Micheal Shermer
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Science Versus Religion
by Tad S. Clements
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Second Mencken Chrestomathy
by H. L. Mencken
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The Sins of Scripture
by John Shelby Spong
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Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast : The Evolutionary Origins of Belief
by Lewis Wolpert
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Slave Soldiers and Islam : The Genesis of a Military System
by Daniel Pipes
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South Park : The Hits Volume 1
by Trey Parker and Matt Stone
Buy this just for the "Tom Cruise - Trapped in the Closet" episode!
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Spinoza : Theological-Political Treatise
by Jonathan Israel and Michael Silverthorne (Eds)
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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
by Stephen Jay Gould
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Superstition : Belief in the Age of Science
by Robert Park
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Things I Think About - Volume 1
by Peter Bowditch
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Tom Cruise : An Unauthorized Biography
by Andrew Morton
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The Trouble with Science
by Robin Dunbar
The title of this book might suggest that it is anti-science, but in fact the author posits that science is a natural part of human existence (and even that of some animals) because it is about how organisms explain and interact with the world around them. The author has produced a very good summary of the philosophical path through Popper, Kuhn, Lakatos and Feyerabend, and there is commentary about the relationship between religion and science which mightn't please Richard Dawkins but which provides a credible explanation for the ubiquity of religion across societies (and which allows for religion to be abandoned when better knowledge comes along).
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A Universe From Nothing
by Lawrence Krauss
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience : A Personal View of the Search for God
by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
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Who Wrote the Gospels?
by Randel McCraw Helms
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Why I Am an Agnostic and Other Essays
by Clarence Darrow
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Why I Am an Atheist : Including a History of Materialism
by Madalyn O'Hair
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