A viciously cogent attack upon all of humanity's most stubborn, irrational and sacred beliefs. Victor Godot tracks God back to his little "hidey hole," takes names and beats the holy crap out of him, mano y mano. Result? Godot 1 - God 0, by decisive knockout.

Continuing a theme begun in This and That, J.T. McDaniel now presents a collection of 19 essays, ranging from the titular More on Theistic Atheism, to Odd Animals and Space Aliens. In the first, the author further develops the idea of an atheism that includes a deity (if admittedly an imaginary one). While the idea that, "It's okay to believe in god, as long as you realize it's imaginary" essentially defines theistic atheism, most of the other essays simply dispense with the idea of any reality beyond the physical. Along with appeals to logic and critical thinking, essays cover such topics as gay marriage, abortion, climate change, the relationship between government and religion, and between religion and science. On the lighter side, McDaniel examines some reasons why the world is unlikely to end in 2012, the music he wants played at his funeral (Queen, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Boito, but definitely not Amazing Grace), and the possibility of actual immortality in a virtual world. There is a suggestion that a new political party might be in order. Climate change is viewed through a practical lens, which suggests that far more could be accomplished through the use of tax incentives than the usual government instinct of using any crisis as an excuse to wring more funds out of the taxpayers. The use of existing infrastructure to produce cheap hydrogen is also studied. The collection concludes with a look at cryptozoology, which the author finds valid mostly in the realm of insects and fish, but not bigfoot or mokele-mbembe. He then argues that space aliens are probably real, but that it's unlikely they have visited here, or that any extraterrestrial civilization would even know we were here.

The Complete Heretics' Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons The next time that squeaky clean pair of LDS elders comes knocking on your door, they're in for a surprise Find out the secrets the Mormon Church would rather you didn't know (and for which they paid plenty of money to keep hushed up - unsuccessfully ) In this first book of The Complete Heretic's Guide to World Religion series, historian and award-winning atheist author Dave Fitzgerald takes us behind the Salt Lake Curtain for a glimpse at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and answers your questions: Where did this multi-billion dollar tax-exempt corporation come from? Did Joseph Smith really sleep with all those women? Are the Mormons going to take over the whole world, and if so, is there any way to stop them? But that's not all Learn about the bizarre, oxymoronic world of Mormon Archeology and discover their strange beliefs, not just all the crazy stuff you already know, but all the truly twisted things you never even suspected - including the astounding shocking skeletons rattling around in the closet of the Mormon church hierarchy. Don't miss out on this fun, informative and painstakingly researched historical romp by the highly praised and award-winning author of Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed At All. So when the missionaries show up on your doorstep, you'll have plenty to discuss with them... Later days, Saints The Complete Heretic's Guide to Western Religion. Because Religion isn't just wrong. It's hilarious.

The Fallacy of God, A Religious Conspiracy: No one could study the Bible with an open mind and still believe that the scribble written inside was ever inspired by some loving entity. The Bible is filled with contradictions and superstitious beliefs of an angry, jealous, man-made controlling God. Only through blind faith, the act of unthinking, could anyone possibly believe that the immoral, unjustified, homicidal stories of a greedy Creator were not just fabrications and old mythological legends compiled into religious propaganda. Religious leaders grow fat with money while they preach of giving and not living for materialistic possessions. They are hypocritical pretenders to what they teach. We should all blindly follow and obey, for any one of us who doubts the existence of God will face His wrath of eternal Hellfire? Its basic dogma, of one true religion, breeds hatred between brothers and wars throughout our world, and we must live in fear of the coming Battle of Armageddon. Christianity is blasphemous to what Jesus believed, and the Shroud of Turin is a fraudulent sham, no one was ever resurrected from the dead. Some of the information presented in this book is from my anti-religious series including "Empirical Truth," and "Jesus Christ Revolutionary Mythology." If you want to know how rapacious the Bible truly is, you will want to read this book.

Through a relatively congenial but frank interchange among three siblings, the dialogues highlight three very different ways of living and apprehending the universe. One sibling has a traditional view of God (traditional, that is, within a Christian/Judaic/Islamic context). One has a very different view of God. And one is an atheist. Their interchange reveals interconnections between their views about God and about politics, society, beauty, science, personal relationships, individuality, good and evil, and war and peace. This interchange among the three illustrates how very different views about God impact practically everything else. But how can those with such conflicting views live together in the same community, the same society, the same world? By challenging each other in eleven dialogues, the siblings, in spite of their conflicting views, come to a common realization and agreement. To find out what it is and to understand how they get there, read these dialogues.

Bible Babble Bull (Second Edition) is a compilation of some of the most controversial topics expressed in my five book series on religion including Empirical Truth, and Bible Propaganda: there is also a new updated chapter on the Shroud of Turin. The Bible is an immoral book, and the act of following an immoral book by blind faith alone is an amoral act. We should not be teaching from an old superstitious book that which we do not really understand or know what is written within its pages. I have included many Bible Scriptures, including chapter and verse for you to read and or look up in any Bible. It is unfortunate that we, humankind believed in Biblical Mythology when the process of multi-copies became possible, as one large book makes people believe that it must be the truth; but the Bible is not a book about one God, most of its stories were taken form much earlier long forgotten and debunked past gods. Darwinism is cruel; survival of the fittest, yet with increasing knowledge, civilizations can evolve to have an ameliorate world; while the Bible is immoral, and by its very nature will always be immoral.

The topic of gods and religion has bewildered generations throughout history. Some have been led to believe that believing in a god is the only way to be happy, others fear that the fabric of society would fray and tear without widespread deference to religion, and still others have chosen to believe because they did not realize that there was ever even an alternative. This book articulates the "None of the Above" alternative to the multiple-choice question of gods and religion. Beginning with a systematic deconstruction and demolition of religious thought as unreliable, imprecise, and unproven, the discussion then turns to rebuilding one's identity once he has relinquished the concept that gods are anything more than an idea. Leading the reader through the process and techniques of rebuilding his intellect, emotions, morals, and meaning, What Are You Without God? refuses to destroy religious thought without providing a definite alternative, namely, to be a human being with the fleeting chance to give effect to his desires and emotions before he closes his eyes for good.

Two grandfathers. Each born in the same year. The story of their lives will shock you and delight you. The way their lives intersected will astound you. Michael Newman tells the story of his grandfathers and how the events of their lives led him to wrestle with the biggest questions of human existence. It started with a murder. It kept going because of a miracle. Be prepared to think, to ponder, and to observe. There are no easy answers when you look square in the face of reality. "There is No God, Or is There?" takes you on a journey you will never forget. It may even change your life forever. Discussion Guide included For more books by Michael W. Newman go to: www.mnewman.org

Five track athletes from New York went to Jamaica to learn the secrets to Jamaican sprinting. In their quest for immediate success, they ventured into the sacred hills of Jamaica. The harrowing experience almost killed them. Defeat and disappointment at the local track meet led them to become spies. The clues that they found convinced them that they could crack the secret codes that Jamaican's use to communicate and hide the secrets to sprinting. After a near death experience, a trip to the hospital and trickery from the number one con man in Jamaica, they returned to New York to compete in the County Championships.

A concise compilation of logical and reasonable responses to Christian apologetic claims. This book will be of use to anyone who debates with Christians. It offers "old hands" a reminder of some of the arguments they may have forgotten, and maybe provides some new ones. It offers newcomers to the debate the common sense and rationality that is atheism and very good advice on how to keep control of theists who attempt to veer off the point or steer their rudders toward safer waters.

2013 Reprint of 1935 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Learn to use practical Rosicrucian principles to help solve your everyday problem both at home and in business dealings. This book gives you specific examples of how to attain health, happiness, and success. Avoid the delays and disappointments that stand between you and your goals by recognizing the right and wrong ways to use metaphysical and mystical principles. Spencer was a founder of the Ancient and Mystic Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC), a modern revival Rosicrucian order headquartered at San Jose, California. Lewis was born in Frenchtown, New Jersey, November 25, 1883, of Welsh ancestry. In 1904 Lewis founded and served as president of the New York Institute for Psychical Research. The institute specialized in occult studies with emphasis on Rosicrucian teachings. The AMORC was organized in several stages over the next years, and by 1917 held its first national convention in Pittsburgh, at which Lewis established his plan to develop correspondence courses. AMORC taught philosophical and mystical practices in order to develop the latent faculties of man, and it sold literature by mail order. Lewis himself authored the basic set of correspondence lessons and a number of the books published by AMORC.

Is it possible with an average educated intelligence, in all good faith (pun intended), truly and honestly to contemplate our world and be convinced that it was created by an omniscient (all knowing), omnipotent (all powerful), all loving God? This book is a collection of thoughts that anybody could have if he or she took the time to stop, wonder, think and observe the world with the tools that our 21st century culture gave us. An open mind is needed. Narcissism (I'm the child of a God), and self interest (I am a soul that doesn't die) must be repressed.

This book is the compilation of the two parts of the "Inside a Non-Believer's Mind" series. In the first part, the author explains why he became a freethinker, and atheist, despite having a strong religious upbringing. He also explains the concept of atheism, and why he believes that our differences only reflect our humanity - that we all come from different parts of the world, different backgrounds, and have different belief systems. He only hopes that we can recognize that we are more alike than we are different. In the second, part, he argues that the concept of God is poorly explored by believers, and greatly explored by non-believers, when in reality should be the opposite. As religious people grow up in religious environments, at some point God becomes just a word without a definition, and people lose perspective of what they really mean when they say: I do believe in God. The author also defends the concept of morality on the absence of religion, which is of paramount importance for those who wonder about good and evil in a humanist, science-driven society. His only true objective is to promote reason and tolerance, and both believers and non-believers alike will find his work enticing, and thought-provoking.

This book is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is intended to preserve the cultural legacy and to promote the timeless works of classical literature. Readers of a TREDITION CLASSICS book support the mission to save many of the amazing works of world literature from oblivion. With this series, tredition intends to make thousands of international literature classics available in printed format again - worldwide.

This is a cynical comedy about the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ. People say "Jesus Saves." But when cast into the modern day paparazzi meatgrinder, can The Savior even save himself?

Writers know how a book can take on a new direction, a life of its own as s/he gets deeply into it. GODLESS has done this many times since I began it in 1987. I explain some of these changes within, but I want to share where I am in my atheism. Cynthia Sue Larson and Patricia Zerman "got it' when they read the book. I am no longer defensive about atheism as I realized how deeply rooted it is in my emotional life and my limbic brain. I no longer have to be offensive about it and my responses to attacks on the radio resulted in me being identified as "atheist lite." I don't think they meant I was a lightweight thinker (some may disagree), but that I was refreshingly honest, funny, and fair. Further, I didn't attack others' religious beliefs, but only explained why I felt my beliefs were based on many powerful emotional experiences and then later came my intellectual defenses or (to me) logical, rational explanations of my beliefs. I have observed that this is what everyone does. We are not basically logical, rational beings, but are ruled more by what we "feel" in our bodies. From childish arguments that sound like this - "You're stupid " - "No, You're stupid" - which continues with no additional changes until one gives up - to arguments between loved ones and the devastating "discussions" between representatives of nations or political or religious leaders that are emotionally based so NO compromises are possible. I love my wife, children, and grandchildren more than anyone or anything. Yet, they are all believers in God and some religion. At times, it has left me somewhat lonely as I have tread lightly on what I felt were the fallacies in their thinking and beliefs. I knew their beliefs were based on their need for some security, some protection from life's uncertainties, its unavoidable pains and lack of justice. What kind of husband and father would I be if I tried to take what religion was giving them and replace it with GOD lessness? I finally found what I now believe is a compromise that they and I can live with. This, the latest incarnation of this book, is an explanation of why, one atheist, emotionally believes what he does. Instead of attacking religion and religious believers like most of the recent popular atheist writers have done (and I respect and applaud them as they have awakened the world to another way of looking at reality) I have tried to take you on a journey through my mind and my emotional experiences. My book GOD-INTOXICATED: Becoming Paranoid (2007) much more deeply delves into my specific experiences and you can take whatever I offer - or not. My hope (faith) is that it will help you become a person that can live life that meets all your needs to become the most honest, less fearful, and completely human being that can allow, even encourage all others to live their lives as freely and fearlessly.I wrote in CAREGIVING: The ANSWERS ARE...(2012) that LOVE is the ultimate answer. The same is true for a life worth living. I think you'll be surprised that an atheist can help you live a loving, purposeful life. Read how Thinking the UNthinkable is seeing endless possibilities based on MUTUAL RESPECT and openness to others' experience of OUR world.

The purpose of this book is to teach you how to receive Healing and Deliverance from God. The simple keys in this book will work for anyone that will take the time to apply them. I had scriptures and healing materials from three different sources and didn't understand how to apply the materials. I was sick and continued to get worst with the keys from God's word at my fingertips. I didn't understand God's word. I didn't understand how to apply God's word. I didn't understand God's system of operation. A simple six-minute thumb surgery caused me to have a stroke, damaging the entire right side of my body. I received damage to my entire nervous system. I started having uncontrollable full body muscle spasms. I started having problems with my heart, breathing and blood pressure. My mouth would draw up to the right side of my face and there were constant trembles of my arms and legs. I had problems sleeping and my body temperatures increased to 100 degrees or more. I was sensitive to touch, cool temperatures and light. I could not control my own body movements at times and I had problems walking and talking. Touching my skull, neck, back and checking my reflexes would cause me to go into uncontrollable full body muscle spasms. I was told that I had a muscle build-up where there should not be any muscle and because of this muscle build-up and the massive strength that I had developed; I could break a bone in my neck. A doctor told me: due to the amount of time that I suffered and the complexity of the problems I had, that they would be with me for the rest of my life. The problems could not be fixed, repaired and there was no cure. I was seen by at least thirty or more doctors without any help. I felt sure I was going to die from all of the problems in my body. I could see myself dead lying in a casket. I decided that I was going to murder three of the doctors. God led me to a church where I received understanding of God's word. I learned God's system of operation. I also learned how to apply God's word to my life for the healing and deliverance that I needed. As a result of understanding and applying God's word to my life, in a three-month process I was delivered from the spirit of murder and healed from all of the damage to my entire body. I suffered for three years and two months because of the lack of understanding of God's word. I am still delivered, healed and have been teaching God's word for healing and deliverance for eleven years now.
The principles in this book are the principles that I learned and applied to my life and received my healing and deliverance from God's word. The principles in this book are the same principles that I have been teaching for the last eleven years and they are still delivering and healing God's people today. People are being healed and delivered by understanding and applying the principles in this book. The principles in this book will work for anyone that will take the time to apply them.

Written by a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who has been severely disabled by cerebral palsy since birth, this book gives insight into Mormon beliefs. The "talks," as they are called by Mormons, were read to various congregations . Because Mr. Beatty has a severe speech impediment he typed his talks and someone would read them for him. The talks were given over the span of 40 years and cover such subjects as faith, the Plan of Salvation, reverence, prayer, unity, and other basic principles which form the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Four essays are also included. The main essay is unique because Mr. Beatty attempts to answer the age old questions of why disability exists and what God intends mankind (especially the person with a disability) to learn from them. This is done from the perspective of Mormon /Christian theology. The other essays relate to the Independent Living Movement among those with severe disabilities in the United States, addiction recovery, and a short biography.

My book is an inspirational and challenge to others to want to know God on a personal basis. This is my testimony of how God is working miracles in my life. All my life I have been trying to do things on my own. But when I realized that I could not make, i had to find another source. When i accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior my life change. I begin to focus on the positives of life. Trusting in God is what makes our lives complete

Through the centuries, many wars have been waged in the name of religion. Today, there are currently some 26 conflicts in the world, in which religion plays a major role. Two Faces of God explores the four pillars of religion; theology, ritual, dogma and social consciousness, in an effort to determine the real cause of religious conflicts. Taking a closer look at these last two pillars, Two Faces of God concludes that religious dogma, and in particular the literal interpretation of the Scriptures, regardless of faith, is not only the cause of much of the current strife around the world, it is also the major focus of the world's media. Dogma breeds intolerance, mistrust, hatred, anger and violence and this is the first Face of God. However, it is social consciousness that is at the heart of most religions; offering comfort, hope, inspiration, solace and assistance to the less fortunate people of the world. This is the second Face of God.

The Problems With Religion answers common questions about religion including, what is religion, where did it come from and why are most people religious? The book primarily focuses on the major monotheistic religions of today, what problems they present to a harmonious world of peace, health and mutual respect. Finally, Dr. Barrett describes what we all can do to move ourselves out of these problems and toward a safe and tolerant world.

The nativity of Jesus is an event that carries much cultural recognition. However, is it a narrative which commands much support in the academic world? Is it a story which holds much historical truth? Or were the two biblical accounts of the birth of Jesus an opportunity for the authors to impart a theological truth or otherwise? These are the sort of questions that are often asked of the nativity accounts and questions which are answered in this concise and yet well-researched and informative book. Some twenty arguments are looked at and presented in a clear and detailed manner, building a cumulative case for the objection to the historical nature of the Gospel accounts. The author also questions what purpose these stories do serve if indeed they do carry little or no historical truth. With reference to a wide array of contemporary and iconic works on the subject, Pearce has created a compendium of critical arguments against the historicity of a story which still remains a vital piece of our collective cultural and religious tapestry. "For anyone beginning to doubt the reliability of the gospels as eyewitness accounts, Pearce's "The Nativity" will teach you everything you need to know to move past the limitations of biblical infallibility and explore the complicated process that went into the gospel narratives of Jesus Christ." - Derek Murphy, author of Jesus Potter Harry Christ