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"Pastor Rick Warren?s The Purpose-Driven Life has been both a commercially successful best seller and a widely influential book in the Christian community. As a rejoinder to the fundamentalist assumptions of Warren?s book, Robert M. Price, a biblical scholar, a member of the Jesus Seminar, and a former liberal Baptist pastor, offers this witty, thoughtful, and detailed critique. Following the concise forty-chapter structure of Warren?s book, Price?s...
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A plethora of books has been published by and for those who support belief in psychic phenomena. A scientific approach is all too rarely considered. Can psychic phenomena and other "inexplicable happenings" be tested by methods of scientific verification? "A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology" is the first comprehensive collection of essays by many of the world's leading skeptics and parapsychologists. It combines a detailed history of parapsychology...
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"In 1517, Martin Luther, disgusted with the corruption then reigning in the Catholic Church, nailed on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany, 95 theses calling for a Reformation. During Pentecost week 2005, former Dominican priest Matthew Fox reenacted Luther's call, posting at the same Castle Church a new set of 95 theses calling for a reawakening of the Christian spirit and a repudiation of the authoritarian, punitive tendencies that...
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This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world?s three major monotheistic religions?Christianity, Judaism, and Islam?have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death. Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive appeared, to question the role of the world?s three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche proclaimed the death of God, Onfray starts...
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This fascinating and revealing look at religious history explains the origin of gods from many cultures, tracing their evolution from primitive to sophisticated societies. Some of the compelling revelations presented include how the Christian god originated as the volcano god of an ancient tribe, how Hebrew prophets originated as traveling fortune tellers, and much more. Illustrated.
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Through his popular science blog, Pharyngula, PZ Myers has entertained millions of readers with his infectious love of evolutionary science and his equally infectious disdain for creationism, biblical literalism, intelligent design theory, and other products of godly illogic. In this funny and fearless book, Myers takes on the religious fanaticism of our times with the gleeful disrespect it deserves, skewering the apocalyptic fantasies, magical thinking,...
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The author sets out to demolish what he considers the most widespread and destructive of all th emyths devised by man, the concept of a supreme being. With painstaking scholarship and rigorous arguments, he examines, dissects and refutes the myriad "proofs" offered by theists -- the defenses of sophisticated, professional theologians as well as the average religious layman. He explores the historical and psychological havoc wrought by religion in...
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Can God's existence be established by good, clear, objective evidence? It all depends on what is meant by "God." This book expands the frontiers of philosophy by exploring that nest of issues in greater detail than ever before and presents the strongest case yet for atheism. Among the many philosophers whose work is discussed are J.L. Schellenberg, Daniel Howard-Snyder, William Alston, Alvin Plantinga, Michael Martin, Stephen Wykstra, Peter van Inwagen,...
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Fundamentalism is a world-shaking force. It has given joy, peace of mind, and a sense of purpose to millions. It has become a formidable political and social movement. Yet fundamentalism has apparently disappointed many of its former followers, who are now fearful and confused. This book explains exactly what has gone wrong with fundamentalism and why. It contains no mockery, no disrespect, and no malice. It is a book written with love, for those...
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