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2) I believe
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
Nine-year-old Brian has a supernatural encounter with God, an experience that sends him on an adventurous quest to 'find out more about what Christians believe.' He faces heavy opposition from the world around him especially from his own father Simon, an atheist TV newscaster. Brian's pure and innocent faith brings about manifestations of God's extraordinary power that quickly become breaking news.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Using logic, common sense, philosophy, ethics, history, and science, the author rebuts every argument that claims to "prove" the existence of God.
IS THERE REALLY A GOD?
OR DOES GOD EXIST ONLY IN OUR HEADS?
IS THE BIBLE TRULY GOD'S WORD?
OR IS IT A JUMBLE OF FANCIFUL MYTHS?
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...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
For all his far-reaching fame, Sol Harkens, the world's most famous atheist, is a lonely soul and a lousy part-time dad. After a near death experience challenges his simplest assumptions about this world, Sol finds his purpose and re-imagines his life, in a film that will make you laugh and cry and want to stand up and cheer.
5) Lucky
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
The spiritual journey of a ninety year old atheist, and the quirky characters that inhabit his off-the-map desert town.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Description
What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton's inspiring book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are entirely false--but that it still has some very important things to teach the secular world. Religion for Atheists suggests that rather than mocking religion, agnostics and atheists should instead...
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
A cranky, atheistic philosophy professor is chosen to create a philosophy for a computer world exactly like ours. Much to his frustration, every model he introduces - Darwinism, Existentialism, Buddhism - fails. The only way to preserve the computer world is to introduce laws from outside their system through a Law Giver. Even then, the world requires a computer character like himself to personally explain it. Then a rival introduces a virus into...
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
"Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated from her repressive family, she responds to a flyer for free therapy at a local Catholic church, and finds herself being greeted by Father Jeff, who assumes she's there for a job interview. Too embarrassed to correct him, Gilda is abruptly hired to replace the recently deceased receptionist Grace....
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"From colonial times into the twentieth century, our laws and court cases ignored atheism, assuming that all good Americans were religious. Americans came to associate atheism with radical social philosophies that advocated violence--especially anarchism and communism. Avowed nonbelievers were derided, even the famous patriot Thomas Paine. Only in the twentieth century, with the passage of laws allowing for conscientious objection to war, did nonbelief...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"The United States is in the midst of a religious revolution. Or, perhaps it is better to say a non-religious revolution. Around a quarter of US adults now say they have no religion. The great majority of these religious "nones" also say that they used to belong to a religion but no longer do. These are the nonverts: think "converts," but from having religion to having none. Even on the most conservative of estimates, there are currently about 59...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of RIVER OF DOUBT and DESTINY OF THE REPUBLIC, the stirring story of one of the great feats of exploration of all time, and its complicated legacy The Nile River is the longest in the world. Its fertile floodplain allowed for rise to the great civilization of ancient Egypt, but for millennia the location of its headwaters was shrouded in mystery. Pharaonic and Roman attempts to find it were stymied by a...
15) Mortality
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Diagnosed with the esophageal cancer to which he eventually succumbed in December 2011, cultural critic Hitchens found himself a finalist in the race of life, and in his typically unflinching and bold manner, he candidly shares his thoughts about his suffering, the etiquette of illness and wellness, and religion in this stark and powerful memoir. Commenting on the persistent metaphor of battle that doctors and friends use to describe his life with...
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