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#7: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
by James Davison Hunter
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#2: Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion
Original Intent: The Courts, the Constitution, & Religion
by David Barton
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#5: Separation of Church & State: What the Founders Meant
Separation of Church & State: What the Founders Meant
by David Barton
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#4: Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices
by Mosab Hassan Yousef, Ron Brackin
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#10: Letter to a Christian Nation
Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris (Author)
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#3: Can America Survive?: 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The Terminal Generation
Can America Survive?: 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The Terminal Generation
by John Hagee (Author)
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#8: Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America
Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld that's Conspiring to Islamize America
by P. David Gaubatz, Paul Sperry
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#6: Son of Hamas
Son of Hamas
by Ron Brackin (Author), Mosab Yousef (Author)
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#9: When a Nation Forgets God: 7 Lessons We Must Learn from Nazi Germany
When a Nation Forgets God: 7 Lessons We Must Learn from Nazi Germany
by Erwin W. Lutzer
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#1: Can America Survive?: 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The Terminal Generation
Can America Survive?: 10 Prophetic Signs That We Are The Terminal Generation
by John Hagee
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#10: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power
by Jeff Sharlet
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Christianity: Critiquing Christianity
When criticizing Christianity, what is it that we criticize? Are we only attacking a 'false' form of Christianity, ignoring the 'True Christianity' which is immune to such comments? That is ...
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Atheists Draw Stick Figures; Christians Burn Qurans
In Gainesville, Florida, the non-denominational Dove World Outreach Center is planning an "International Burn A Quran Day" to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The church insists that "Islam is of the devil" and thus such protest events are integral to their overall Christian mission.
Compare and contrast this with atheists who do nothing more than draw stick figures of Muhammad and get lambasted by religious theists for being too militant, intolerant, etc. Which is really worse?
Atheists Draw Stick Figures; Christians Burn Qurans originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Saturday, July 31st, 2010 at 12:00:07.
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Debates Over Microevolution & Macroevolution
The basic scientific perspective on macroevolution and microevolution is that macroevolution is lots of microevolution over time, but there are other natural processes that influence the course of macroevolution. This isn't much of a revelation because there are all sorts of natural processes that influence the course of microevolution as well. This doesn't change the fact that microevolution is fundamentally the operation of natural selection, mutation, genetic drift, and gene flow.
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#8: America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story
America's Prophet: Moses and the American Story
by Bruce Feiler
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Should You Reveal Your Atheism to Friends & Neighbors?
Not all atheists have revealed their atheism to their friends and neighbors. Religious theism is so widespread, and distrust of atheists so prevalent, that many people can't tell the full ...
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David Walker: It's Arrogant Not to Believe in My God
It's common for Christians to complain that atheism is arrogant and, therefore, that atheists are arrogant. Why are atheists supposed to be arrogant? Because we reject their god -- but somehow, it's not arrogant for Christians to reject all the other gods that humans have believed in. It's only atheists who get this label and thus only atheists who are supposed to change their ways.
This is consistent with many, many other cases of privileged majorities attacking minorities simply for doing nothing different than what the majority is accustomed to doing. It's the privileged attacking others for daring to assert any sort of equality.
David Walker: It's Arrogant Not to Believe in My God originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Friday, July 30th, 2010 at 12:00:10.
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Skepticism & Atheism in Ancient Rome
The philosophy of Rome owed much to Greece, and so it is not surprising to find some of the same critical themes later taken up by Roman writers and philosophers. In fact, it's hard to find much that's entirely new and original in Roman philosophy -- the Romans tended to eschew speculative philosophy in favor of more practical concerns regarding morality and how to live a good life. Even here, though, they tended to lean heavily on Greek writings.
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#10: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
by Ahmed Rashid
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#9: Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)
Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)
by Sam Harris
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Moral Panics, Authoritarian Government, and Conservative Christianity
America's Christian Right has long made the idea of 'law and order' an important political slogan. Religious conservatives have attacked the prison system for being too lenient, for emphasizing rehabilitation ...
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Fleeing the Enlightenment
Because atheism is more common and accepted in Europe, we don't see the problem there of Christians (usually liberal and moderate) complaining that critics of religion are really just "fundamentalist atheists" who are too "intolerant" and "strident" to be taken seriously. Yet, almost exactly the same phenomenon is happening in Europe -- but instead of these attacks being directed against atheists who are publicly critical of religion generally, they are people applied to people like Hirsi Ali who are critical of Islam in particular and patriarchal religion generally.
Fleeing the Enlightenment originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Thursday, July 29th, 2010 at 12:00:00.
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Weekly Poll: Which of the Atheist Bus Ads or Billboards Do You Like Best?
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Religious apologists keep insisting that atheists are being offensive, rude, insensitive, and even "militant" for purchasing billboards and bus advertisements to communicate the fact that they exist, the fact that there is nothing wrong with atheism, and even that people should reconsider religious theism. These ads have sparked a lot of positive interest in the atheist community -- but which one do you like best? Which one do you think is most effective? The critical reactions from religious apologists come regardless of what the ads say, which indicate that the problem for apologists is that atheists are speaking out at all, not that they are speaking out with an inappropriate tone or message. These reactions are, I think, best explained by fear -- but fear of what? Are they afraid that the more people learn about atheists and atheism, the harder it will be for religious leaders to preserve the stigma that they have managed to attach to disbelief? Are they afraid that when atheists stake out an equal place in the public square, then they might not be able to compete?
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#10: The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation
The War for Righteousness: Progressive Christianity, the Great War, and the Rise of the Messianic Nation
by Richard M. Gamble
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Myth: Atheism is the Conviction that Nothing is Beyond Human Knowledge
Atheists are frequently accused of being arrogant for thinking that they know too much. Sometimes they are accused of thinking they can know God doesn't exist (but it's OK for ...
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Polish Catholic Church Losing Members, Credibility
Poland has long been one of the most Catholic nations in Europe, but today it's experiencing the sort of reduction in loyalty to the Catholic church which one normally sees in more secularized western European nations. The reason seems to be how problems with priests sexually abusing children -- and especially Catholic leaders covering it up -- has spread to Poland. The scandal isn't as extensive there as it is elsewhere, but it's been enough.
Polish Catholic Church Losing Members, Credibility originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 12:00:02.
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Forum Discussion: Ever Wonder if Christians are Right?
It's common for theists -- but especially Christians -- to ask atheists "but what if Christianity is right?" Their assumption seems to be that if their god exists, then people would naturally have to become Christians. That, however, is not a conclusion which follows necessarily from the premise. Just because Christianity is "true" in some sense does not entail becoming a Christian. After all, what if you find the Christian system to be barbaric, immoral, and unreasonable?
Forum Discussion: Ever Wonder if Christians are Right? originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Wednesday, July 28th, 2010 at 08:00:49.
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#10: The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power
The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth, and Power
by Melanie Phillips
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Do People Follow the Ten Commandments?
There are lots of debates over the cultural and political status of the Ten Commandments, but in all of those debates there is a common assumption that devout religious people ...
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Religion Really is an Opiate? Religion as Anti-Anxiety, Anti-Error-Response
Did you know that you have an anterior cingulate cortex? Well, you do -- we all do. It's a small region of the brain, but it does something that can be very important: it makes you anxious and uneasy when you think you've made a mistake. It's called "error response negativity" and while none of use likes anxiety or to think we've made a mistake, it's like pain: it's useful, if we use it properly.
Curiously, religion seems to suppress error response negativity, which is to say that it suppresses the anxiety we should be feeling when confronting information that contradicts our beliefs and thus should be causing us to reconsider our positions. Who knew: maybe religion really is an anti-anxiety opiate. If Marx were alive today, he might change his text to say that religion is the Xanax of the masses. Religion Really is an Opiate? Religion as Anti-Anxiety, Anti-Error-Response originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Tuesday, July 27th, 2010 at 12:00:03.
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Comment of the Week: Protecting Women From Themselves
One of the primary themes of Christian misogyny is the idea that religious and political leaders -- mostly men -- have the authority to protect women from their bad decisions. ...
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Adolf Hitler on Religion: Quotes from Hitler on the Importance of Religion
Christian apologists try to portray Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party as being secular and anti-religious, but in reality Hitler regularly proclaimed the importance of religion in society. He opposed ...
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Backlash Against Atheists: As Real as Gods
I wrote recently about a poll which shows that 18% of Americans accept that humans evolved naturally, without any divine or supernatural intervention or guidance. That's a pathetically low number, but it's still an improvement because in 1999 it was only 9%. So the situation appears to be improving, even if slowly. There is one interesting question raised by these numbers: where is that "backlash" against evolution which has supposedly been created by atheists criticizing religion?
Backlash Against Atheists: As Real as Gods originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 12:00:06.
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#9: The Jefferson Bible or, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (mobi)
The Jefferson Bible or, The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth (mobi)
by Thomas Jefferson (Author)
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Book of the Week: Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries
Is there any real relationship between the Muslim military campaigns of previous centuries and the recent terrorism campaigns? Paul Fregosi argues that there is -- both are reflections of a fundamental antagonism to the non-Muslim world, and in particular to the economically and militarily powerful West.
Book of the Week: Jihad in the West: Muslim Conquests from the 7th to the 21st Centuries
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