Recommended Reading for New Atheists

Reading - Recommended

• Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism Atheist Universe details why God is unnecessary to explain the universe’s diversity, organization and beauty. Using simple, straightforward logic, this book rebuts every argument that claims to “prove” God’s existence.
• God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The End of Faith, Christopher Hitchens makes the ultimate case against religion.
• Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don't Know About Them) This New York Times bestseller reveals how books in the Bible were actually forged by later authors, and that the New Testament itself is riddled with contradictory claims about Jesus—information that scholars know… but the general public does not.
• The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design The Blind Watchmaker is the seminal text for understanding evolution today.
• The Cure for Christianity Library The purpose in this Cure for Christianity Library is to document many of the resources now available to inquiring minds, and I do hope that Christians can take the hint: use this list to get a grasp of what all the fuss is about.
• The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific thinking is critical not only to the pursuit of truth but to the very well-being of our democratic institutions.
• Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects The classic essay collection that expresses the freethinker’s views to religion and challenges set notions in today’s society from one of the most influential intellectual figures of the twentieth century.