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The rejection of belief in the existence of deities

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6d06e4 No.13859

Let's compile a list.

Starting off with some classics:

>Neurophilosophy, Patricia Churchland

>The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkings

>The Ego and His Own, Max Stirner

>Principia Discordia

46774d No.13860

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>>13859

Age of Reason by Thomas Paine - seriously you'll laugh your ass off at the absurdities and prose as identified 200 years ago:

>"β€œIt is an easy thing to tell a lie, but it is difficult to support the lie after it is told. The writer of the book of Matthew should have told us who the saints were that came to life again, and went into the city, and what became of them afterward, and who it was that saw them β€” for he is not hardy enough to say he saw them himself; whether they came out naked, and all in natural buff, he-saints and she-saints; or whether they came full dressed, and where they got their dresses; whether they went to their former habitations, and reclaimed their wives, their husbands, and their property, and how they were received; whether they entered ejectments for the recovery of their possessions, or brought actions of criminal conduct against the rival interlopers; whether they remained on earth, and followed their former occupation of preaching or working; or whether they died again, or went back to their graves alive, and buried themselves.”

Letters from the Earth by American novelist mark twain.

Why i am not a christian by contemporary philosopher Bertrand russell.

Demon-haunted world by popular Nasa scientist and genius Carl Sagan (I listened to the audio book on youtube.)

Religion poisons everything by "new Atheist" Christopher Hitchens.

-nearly anything from a Marxist philosopher including Karl himself. Most popular modern philosophers trash Christianity, dogmatic thinking, or the church in their literature at some point.

Thomas Jefferson tears apart the bible in his private writings too.


6042c5 No.13862

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>>13860

>Letters from the Earth

More people should read that.

Going to add Faith vs Fact by Jerry Coyne. A good thrashing of the accomidationists attempts to act as if there's no conflict between science and religion.


9e2c5a No.13863

>>13860

>nearly anything from a Marxist philosopher

Only Marx really, his worshipers are retarded. Marx pointed it out himself.


4a99d5 No.14043

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bump


8847da No.14109

Just finished god and the multiverse by Victor Stenger. It's pretty good, probably not a classic but it's a good introduction to the modern and the history of cosmology, witch is good because he shows today's cap cosmological arguments are the same crap as they where centuries ago.


955ee3 No.14116

>Stirner

This is why people hate us.

Nietzsche and Mencken are great.


4a99d5 No.14127

>>14116

Nah, Nietzsche thinks that people should or want to have meaning.


91fc40 No.14188

>>13859

Not an atheism book but pick remind me of Richs's The Ancestor's tale and excellent book on evolution, makes a few potshots at creationist too.


46774d No.14194

Found the Atheist's Primer today. It reads like the opposite of a Catholic Encyclopedia of Apologetics.

https://books.google.com/books?id=NT27AAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false


91fc40 No.14243

Any good religious works(other than the foundation texts) that an atheist should know well . Thinking of picking up Mere Christianity and maybe some Catholic philosophy just to better know that opposing arguments, and hey if we say atheism is the rational position we might as well be open up to new evidence/arguments


939660 No.14266

Found this story about a guy who builds a time machine and goes to meet Jesus only to find that Jesus is a retard. So he takes up Jesus's role.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behold_the_Man_(novel)


6a816a No.14268

>>14266

Die you read it? Is it fun?


7c4c7f No.14270

>>14266

It's probably more plausible that he was schizophrenic. Lots of them have messiah/prophet complexes, visions, etc. This was back before it was diagnosed and people would believe stupid shit all the time. The bible is basically one big whisper game where words have morphed to support the views and wishes of people at various times.


939660 No.14278

>>14268

Haven't got around to it yet, but wiki says he discovers that Mary is just a common whore, and Joseph sneers at her claim of being impregnated by an angel.

Fyi, the author won a Nebula for it and is pretty based. He tore apart Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and C.S. Lewis's "Chronicles of Narnia" for being escapist and shallow in their longings for the bygone rural life, and praised Ursula K. Le Guin's "Earthsea" for her better writing, defined conflict and questioning. If you read between the lines, you'll notice he's attacking conservative Christian authors who write comforting romps, while consistently encouraging reading irreligious & Atheist fantasy authors that ramp up the tension and try to make you think about harder questions:

http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=953


ab3afb No.14330

>>14278

quit shilling that article nigger




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