Why I Am Not a Christian by Bertrand RussellA Landmark Critique of ReligionIn Why I Am Not a Christian, renowned philosopher Bertrand Russell presents a bold and thought-provoking critique of organized religion and the traditional arguments for the existence of God. Through a series of essays and lectures, Russell challenges the moral and logical foundations of Christianity, offering his insights into religion’s role in society.Key Themes Explored: The Logical Basis of Belief: Russell scrutinizes classical arguments for the existence of God, such as the First Cause and the Argument from Design. Religion and Morality: He questions the connection between religion and ethical behavior, advocating for a morality based on humanism and reason. The Influence of Religion on Society: Russell critiques how religion has historically shaped societal values and institutions. Freedom of Thought: A staunch advocate for intellectual liberty, Russell underscores the importance of questioning dogma and embracing rational inquiry.Why Read Why I Am Not a Christian? Gain a deeper understanding of philosophical arguments against religion. Explore Russell’s compelling case for reason and secular morality. Challenge your own beliefs and perspectives through a rigorous intellectual examination.A Timeless Work of RationalismWhy I Am Not a Christian is a cornerstone of modern secular thought. Whether you agree or disagree with Russell’s conclusions, this book offers a profound exploration of religion, belief, and reason that continues to spark debate and reflection. Read more

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What if you chose your life?What if every joy, every sorrow, every twist was carefully customized by you before you were born?What if forgetting was part of the plan?YOU MUST FORGET is a poetic, soul-stirring journey through childhood, heartbreak, healing, and spiritual awakening. Rooted in the Yoruba wisdom of akúnlẹ̀ yàn — what you chose is what you meet — this book invites you to reflect on your own life with grace, courage, and quiet confidence.This isn’t a guidebook. It’s a mirror.A soft nudge to awaken what your soul already knowseven if you had to forget to live it.But what happens when someone remembers? Read more

“I don’t say this about very many books, but Craig A. James’s The Religion Virus can facilitate a wholesale change in the way we think about religion … an engaging, entertaining, and educational journey … packed with a lot of good information.” — Secular News DailyWhether you’re questioning your religion, agnostic, or even atheist, you may have serious lingering doubts and fears about losing your faith. Over the past 2,000 years, religion has evolved powerful ideas that, whether true or not, are incredibly infectious; religion fills us with desires and fears that are hard to see rationally.“I feel so much better now!” – Carolyn, who lost her faith in the beliefs taught by the strict evangelical church of her youth, but was feeling lingering guilt and fear. This book allowed her to finally release her fears and explore her spirituality on her own terms.The Religion Virus (an Amazon bestseller!) will take you on a fun, fascinating, and eye-opening tour of how simple ancient spiritualism evolved into the incredibly infectious religions we know today, punctuated with humorous and insightful stories of the author’s own spiritual journey. By learning why you have doubts about your evolving spiritual ideas, you can finally begin to shed your doubts and start your real spiritual journey, free of the shackles of dogma. Recovering from religion’s infectious hold on our minds is challenging. The Religion Virus will relieve your fears.When you close the book’s last chapter, your understanding of religion will forever be changed. If you’re questioning your faith, questioning whether God is real, losing your belief in the Church’s version of Jesus, or wondering why we believe in the bible as literal truth, this book will help shed light on how faith and religion has become what it is today. Knowledge and understanding will free you from the doubt, fear, and guilt you’re feeling. Read more

The Bible is not the word of God. Biblical Nonsense is a broad look at the tremendous problem of associating divinity with the world’s most popular book. This part-philosophical, part-scientific overview explores the Bible’s divine treachery, scientific mistakes, historical errors, false prophecies, and comical absurdities. Biblical Nonsense also expands beyond these standard reasons for skepticism by tackling the rationale behind the emergence and perpetuation of Christianity, psychological and sociocultural reasons that drive Christians to cling to their beliefs, and illogical methods of argumentation invoked in the defense of the Bible. Author Dr. Jason Long is a former Christian who condenses the most significant biblical problems into this single volume. Unlike other books in the field that delve into only one topic, this manuscript, comprehensible even to those who have never opened a Bible, is a full-fledged attempt to demonstrate that God’s supposed word is a product of human minds, not divine inspiration. Dr. Long’s fresh experiences in the church and advanced levels of educational enlightenment make him the perfect individual to present this vehemently unpopular, yet undeniably appealing topic. Read more

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Without God, how can we have hope or make sense of such a broken world?Skeptics believe we don’t need God to understand reality, and that science and reason hold the keys to building a better world. Faith is blind, and there is no credible evidence for God’s existence—especially the God of the Bible. Therefore, science and religious belief are deeply incompatible, and God is no longer relevant to our modern world.But if there is no God, how can our lives have any meaning? How can we make sense of good and evil, truth, justice, beauty, rationality, or even science itself? By engaging with popular atheists and skeptics, both new and old, as well as many of Christianity’s most brilliant writers, pastor and author Zachary Broom demonstrates how not only is there powerful evidence for God’s existence, but without Him, everything begins to unravel.Instead of setting out to “prove” God’s existence, Without God carefully and seriously engages skeptic’s doubts and common arguments against God, making use of philosophy, science, literature, and real-life conversations, as well as the author's own struggles and doubts. Whether you believe in God or not, you will be challenged to wrestle carefully with life’s most important questions in a way that will lead you to a greater respect for the beliefs of others. Read more

In a quiet and unassuming way, Contraduction is utterly brilliant. Every page has a thought so deep and unexpected that it stops you in your tracks, as you not only realize, “That’s a different, really interesting way to think about the world, exactly the opposite of how I normally view things” but also, “And it is absolutely equally valid (and enriching) to adopt this opposite way of thinking.” I loved this book. — Robert Sapolsky, author of Behave and Determined.An ingenious word for an invaluable concept. Sharp, clear, and timely. — Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor of Psychology, Harvard University, and the author of The Blank Slate and Rationality Both a delightful read and a penetrating argument: Barker has invented an invaluable new concept, and puts it to work with clarity, wit, and above all conclusiveness. A must-have book! — A. C. Grayling, author of The History of Philosophy and The God ArgumentI am completely down with the concept of contraduction. It fills a need. False pattern recognitions pose a real danger to our survival. Well done! — Ann Druyan, author (with Carl Sagan) of Cosmos, Contact, and Demon Haunted WorldI love it when brilliant ideas are conveyed clearly and soundly. That’s why I love this book. Dan Barker has provided a much-needed explication of a common fallacy that needs to be understood and rebutted. It is an engaging, enlightening, and insightful book.—Phil Zuckerman, author of Society Without God and What it Means to be MoralWith Contraduction, Dan Barker gives us a new word—and a new way of looking at things. I thoroughly enjoyed this! So much to think about—and it made me laugh. What else could I ask for? — Kate Cohen, contributing columnist for the Washington Post and author of We of Little FaithI love how Dan Barker offers us a new word to help us understand how to think rationally in a fun, simple way. I will never look at my reflection in the mirror the same! — Bailey Harris, author of My Name is StardustBarker has really created something mega with this book. WOW, what an absolutely awesome mind bender [mind fuck] contraductions are, while at the same time seeming very obvious. I give Contraduction 50 hell-yeahs! [fuck-yeahs!] (outta 50). — Zeke Piestrup, director of Apocalypse Later and Satan's Guide to the BibleDan Barker's approach reminds me of Douglas Adams' famous Intelligent Design analogy about the rain puddle that "fits me rather neatly." A simple shift of perspective can be invaluable in our understanding, and Dan's fresh angle gives us plenty to consider. Simply put, I've never read anything quite like Contraduction, and that's a good thing. — Seth Andrews, Author of Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to ReasonContraduction is a delight and lights the way through complexity. Pound for pound, Dan Barker’s best book. — Ed Buckner, Author (with Michael Buckner) of In Freedom We Trust: An Atheist Guide to Religious LibertyA clarifying vision of the most baffling aspects of reality: from the simplest, such as our reflection in a mirror, to the most complex, such as time, evolution or the very existence of life. – Manel Salido, founder of "Razón o fe" and the author of ¡Fascinaos!: [Be Fascinated!] Una respuesta a las grandes preguntas. Read more

Feelings ,Colors and Numbers Flash Cards support parent fun and easy way to introduce feelings and colors to kid. The set offer cute teddy bear illustration flash card for toddler which help engage kid to learn and support creativity and reinforce learning, build decision making and develop thinking while playing fun game. Read more

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of Zealot explores humanity’s quest to make sense of the divine in this concise and fascinating history of our understanding of God. In Zealot, Reza Aslan replaced the staid, well-worn portrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, Aslan takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large.  In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, Aslan narrates the history of religion as a remarkably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to Aslan, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As Aslan writes, “Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we’re believers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves.”   But this projection is not without consequences. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature—our compassion, our thirst for justice—but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments.   More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to get to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, God: A Human History will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives.Praise for God“Timely, riveting, enlightening and necessary.”—HuffPost “Tantalizing . . . Driven by [Reza] Aslan’s grace and curiosity, God . . . helps us pan out from our troubled times, while asking us to consider a more expansive view of the divine in contemporary life.”—The Seattle Times “A fascinating exploration of the interaction of our humanity and God.”—Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “[Aslan’s] slim, yet ambitious book [is] the story of how humans have created God with a capital G, and it’s thoroughly mind-blowing.”—Los Angeles Review of Books “Aslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey.”—San Francisco Chronicle Read more

Lloyd M. Graham is out to show that the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments as we know them, are not “holy” nor are they the “word of God” revealed. The stories of the Bible were set down by power-seeking priests eager to inspire awe and to gather flocks who would take part in their rites and rituals, and they weren’t very original, either. In Deceptions and Myths of the Bible, Graham reintroduces us to the true origins of Adam and Eve, who were derived from a Babylonian account; to the story of Noah’s flood, which was the result of over four hundred years of flood accounts from various ancient civilizations; to the man named Moses who was fashioned after the Syrian story of Mises; and even to the laws of the Bible, which were patterned after the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi. Graham points out the 137 similarities between the story of Jesus and the story of the Egyptian god Horus, and the hundreds and hundreds of similarities between the story of Christ and the Hindu god Krishna. For any reader interested in history or theology, Graham’s book is essential, eye-opening, and controversial reading. If you are an atheist, you’ll be eager to read these arguments in support of your beliefs. If you are agnostic, you will want to have this evidence at your fingertips as you weigh systems of belief and disbelief. If you are religious, you will want to know how your faith came into being and how a study of history might shake or support your beliefs. Read more

Series SummaryThe new What Every Catholic Should Know series is intended for the average faithful Catholic who wants to know more about Catholic faith and culture. The authors in this series take a panoramic approach to the topic of each book aimed at a non-specialist but enthusiastic readership. Forthcoming titles planned for this series include: the Eucharist, history, art, and philosophy.Book SummaryIn Being Catholic:What Every Catholic Should Know, Suzie Andres focuses on Catholic customs, traditions, and practices that are in danger of being forgotten but which have been, for centuries, the joy of Catholics to remember. Topics covered include:The Seven SacramentsThe Layout of a ChurchDetails and Process of the MassCatholic Doctrine on MaryThe Communion of SaintsAngelsThe Liturgical YearPopes, Bishops, Priests, and Religious LifeDifferent Rites (Byzantine, Alexandrian, Latin, etc.)"Cradle Catholic, Convert, or Curious Inquirer . . . you will quickly find there are more Catholic customs, traditions, habits, and points of etiquette than articles of the Creed, and so, for easier access, my bet is that you will find it handy to have all this lore in one 50,000 word document."— From Being Catholic: What Every Catholic Should Know Read more

This book is not just a defense of the Bible—it’s a call to reality. It’s for believers who want to stand firm, and for skeptics willing to ask honest questions.We will walk through the most powerful evidence for the truth of Scripture:- Ancient manuscripts that crush every other historical record- Archaeological discoveries that match the Bible’s every word- Prophecies written centuries before fulfillment- Eyewitness accounts of a man who rose from the deadAnd we’ll expose why atheism cannot stand:- It can’t explain where the universe came from- It can’t define right and wrong- It can’t give meaning to love, hope, or human life- And it offers no hope beyond the grave Read more

The Black Madonna, Mysterious Soul Companion. . . Beginning as a research project for a graduate class in Spirituality and Culture, The Black Madonna and all that she represents became a mystical guide for Georgieff on her intimate journey of the human soul. Through travels to some of the world’s most famous Black Madonna Shrines, interviews with scholars, scientists, clergy and artists, exploration of the historic evolution of human consciousness and deep reflections on the basic purpose of the spiritual path, Georgieff weaves an intriguing story of our cosmic origins, our difficult present and our hopeful future as a human family. Read more

"For anyone who has ever wondered why all the world follows one religion or another, this is one great book."The author Bill Green begins by telling us his personal story, the generations of Greens who preceded him, their devout religious beliefs, his years growing up in their faith, and how his faith has changed over the years leading to his being an agnostic Christian."The rest of the book chronicles his life long pursuit of the truth of Christianity."He writes in straightforward language about the nature of this truth, the philosophers and theologians who pursued it, and ultimately their failure to find the truth of Christianity."The language is not only straightforward. It’s also often funny and imaginative and inspiring, and all encompassing as he tells us about the void and death and eternity and why Jesus’s name is what it is and what God does or does not look like and more and more."If you’ve ever wondered about God of what is the truth of any religion or about whether or not there is any actual truth in the world, this is the book for you." John Guzlowski Read more

Following up on the success of the original "Common Sense Atheism" book of essays, "Another Dose of Common Sense Atheism" presents even more essays -- both serious and humorous -- that explores what it means to be an atheist surrounded by theists and how to respond when theists demand that you justify your lack of belief.Included is a series of mostly lighthearted "Letters to Evangelicals" addressed to those theists who feel the need to push their beliefs onto others as well as a list of "Frequently Asked Questions" that atheists commonly encounter, especially when using various social media sites. Read more

The Grand Deception is a culmination of thoughts, arguments, and criticisms against the various religions around the world. While seeking to find the true fallacies and errant concepts in each religion, we focus more on Christianity and modern religions as to why people believe what they do, and what drives their actions to such extremism. With ingrained quotes and subtle arguments, this book will make you question your beliefs or seemingly reinforce what you have already found to be true about the world. Religion is one of the most potent forces the world has ever known, and continues to be a destructive force to humanity for those that adhere to its principles. While religion and theology are alive, the world can never truly know peace without settling their ideological differences. "Religion is the acceptance of alternative beliefs, and it attempts to alter our mindset by replacing reason with faith, morals for doctrinal teachings, logical mentality with coercive dogma, and independence for reliance." -Quote from The Grand DeceptionEmbracing a theology means to discard and reject all others as false and invalid, while denouncing their followers and unbelievers and infidels. This is simply one means of religion's methods for alienation."Religion preys on fear –the fear of death and of the unknown. Nobody knows where we go when we die, but religion seemingly offers some subtle comfort in the meantime. I would argue that this revelation of the afterlife is harmful and reckless, since it deterministically depreciates the concept and value of this current life." -Quote from the Grand DeceptionThe Bible is ultimately a subjective timepiece, which most likely can and does not hold true today. Many of its writings are outdated, antiquated, and subjective to the old times and laws. If Jesus never spoke against homosexuality, why do so many reject it so strongly today? Are women placed in a lower role because of the Bible? Did a global flood ever happen? How can we believe the creation story?The Grand Deception seeks to answer many of these questions, along with many others from a standpoint of pure reason. Logic takes a backseat when emotion pervades the mind, which is exactly what religion seeks to bind to when entering the mind of a new believer. We are all born as atheists, but somewhere along the way we become disillusioned and indoctrinated in a belief without evidence and based purely on faith.This book is not meant as a piece to de-convert or rob one of their faith or religion. It is simply an appeal to reason, and an argument for skepticism. If you are not questioning the existence of a god by the time you finish reading, then I have not properly done my job with this book. I simply put into words the very questions you may have asked yourself, or been asked by others who question the concept of God.Although these writings were attemptably ascribed from a theistically friendly perspective, many might perceive them as hostile. I promise that this was not my intention, but instead my purpose was to instill a form of reason within each that reads it, so that they may take away from it questioning everything they have been told. Read more

The central contention of the “New Atheism” of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens is that there has for several centuries been a war between science and religion, that religion has been steadily losing that war, and that at this point in human history a completely secular scientific account of the world has been worked out in such thorough and convincing detail that there is no longer any reason why a rational and educated person should find the claims of any religion the least bit worthy of attention.But as Edward Feser argues inThe Last Superstition, in fact there is not, and never has been, any war between science and religion at all. There has instead been a conflict between two entirely philosophical conceptions of the natural order: on the one hand, the classical “teleological” vision of Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas, on which purpose or goal-directedness is as inherent a feature of the physical world as mass or electric charge; and the modern “mechanical” vision of Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and Hume, according to which the physical world is comprised of nothing more than purposeless, meaningless particles in motion. As it happens, on the classical teleological picture, the existence of God, the immortality of the soul, and the natural-law conception of morality are rationally unavoidable. Modern atheism and secularism have thus always crucially depended for their rational credentials on the insinuation that the modern, mechanical picture of the world has somehow been established by science. Yet this modern “mechanical” picture has never been established by science, and cannot be, for it is not a scientific theory in the first place but merely a philosophical interpretation of science. Moreover, as Feser shows, the philosophical arguments in its favor given by the early modern philosophers were notable only for being surprisingly weak. The true reasons for its popularity were then, and are now, primarily political: It was a tool by which the intellectual foundations of ecclesiastical authority could be undermined and the way opened toward a new secular and liberal social order oriented toward commerce and technology. So as to further these political ends, it was simply stipulated, by fiat as it were, that no theory inconsistent with the mechanical picture of the world would be allowed to count as “scientific.” As the centuries have worn on and historical memory has dimmed, this act of dogmatic stipulation has falsely come to be remembered as a “discovery.”However, not only is this modern philosophical picture rationally unfounded, it is demonstrably false. For the “mechanical” conception of the natural world, when worked out consistently, absurdly entails that rationality, and indeed the human mind itself, are illusory. The so-called “scientific worldview” championed by the New Atheists thus inevitably undermines its own rational foundations; and into the bargain (and contrary to the moralistic posturing of the New Atheists) it undermines the foundations of any possible morality as well. By contrast, and as The Last Superstition demonstrates, the classical teleological picture of nature can be seen to find powerful confirmation in developments from contemporary philosophy, biology, and physics; moreover, morality and reason itself cannot possibly be made sense of apart from it. The teleological vision of the ancients and medievals is thereby rationally vindicated – and with it the religious worldview they based upon it. Read more

A “funny, gently touching, and brutally honest” memoir, I Hope I Was Wrong About Eternal Damnation is a story about how to adjust when you realize that your life is built on false beliefs.In the 1990s, Evangelical culture was an outrageous mishmash of Christian ska concerts, sexual abstinence pledges, and mega-church worship services.Thrust into Christian leadership in his youth, Tim Mathis built his entire life around that sort of thing. By his twenties, religion provided his career path, his identity, and a tight-knit social circle of priests, missionaries, and evangelists.His only problem? The dawning recognition that his faith was entirely disconnected from reality.Tim Mathis is the author of the independent hit The Dirtbag’s Guide to Life: Eternal Truth for Hiker Trash, Ski Bums and Vagabonds. He has written for Trailrunner Magazine, Grit City Magazine, The New Zealand Herald, and The Intrepid Times. He’s won awards for his short travel pieces and has been featured on The Art of Manliness Podcast, among others.Subscribe for his new projects at www.TimMathisWrites.comFollow him on Instagram @dirtbagguideReader Praise"I must confess I don't get a lot of time to read books and it takes something special to hook me in - this book did just that, I couldn't put it down. As an atheist with very little religious education I dove in with an open mind and came away feeling intrigued, reflective and somewhat validated of my own opinions. Tim has an exceptional way of engaging his reader using humor, intellect and just plain raw and honest accounts of real life experiences which I found both entertaining and humble.A must read for all, no matter your life journey - I highly recommend this book."- Sarah A., New Zealand"Mathis has an uncanny, honest and humorous way to make you think about the hard stuff of life."- Scott W., United States"The book is laugh-out-loud funny in parts, and it’s compelling...Sometimes the acute portion of whatever upheaval you are in *is* the right time to make a decision."- Neil S., Seattle Read more

If you think belief in a God of justice and mercyis irrational or unrealistic,would you be glad if you were wrong? If so, this book is for you. Drew Avery guides you to a “basecamp” of sensible, logical, rational faith. A place where you—the agnostic, the “none,” the “spiritual”—can leave vagueness behind. A place where you may find new purpose and the needed strength to live a better life and to help make a better world. Raised by atheists, Avery addresses the doubts that he, too, had to learn to doubt and speaks especially to young adults and parents raising children. He challenges atheistic presumptions with humor, counts their social cost, and explains how a theistic awakening can “heal this land.” Read more