Atheism category: 515 books

An Accidental God tells how, through a series of accidents, a person who lived at the dawn of civilization became God. It is a fictionalized but historically plausible interpretation of the story of the biblical patriarch Abraham, focusing on how coincidental events and human misperceptions lead him...

A skeptical yet deeply curious survey of how and why human beings have worshipped throughout the ages—from sun gods and cave paintings to Mormonism.   What first prompted prehistoric man, sheltered in the shadows of deep caves, to call upon the realm of the spirits? And why has belief thrived ever...

This book will explain why the earth we live on very well could be the actual location of hell.Wouldn’t it be frustrating to get to heaven and find out that the earth was the location of hell all along? Think of all the things we could do to better enjoy our time here if we had only known.By...

Did you ever pause to wonder how Christianity came to be the world’s leading religion?It certainly is a strange belief system, with its flying angels, virgin birth, miracles galore, magic wafers, and that rather strange and unpleasant idea that we are all supposedly born into sin. Nor should...

This book is written to provide a quick overview of the philosophy of Humanism for the average Joe or Jane. I don’t care which actually because I’m a Humanist and I don’t judge people based on their gender or skin color or any other arbitrary characteristic. So, let’s revise that introductory...

By some estimates, over 1 billion people in the world are non-religious (humanist/secular/atheist) yet we base many of our parenting techniques and traditions on religion. There are many books available on parenting around each of the major religions, but few describe parenting in a Humanist household....

Extraordinary claims and extraordinary evidence.   The mainstream and social media feed our minds a diet of fringe science and outright pseudoscience. They relentlessly stream paranormal, supernatural, and otherwise extraordinary claims. Where do all these come from? They’re spread by shysters...

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...

Between the sublime confidence of both biblical fundamentalists and radical atheists lie various shades of belief, agnosticism, wishful thinking and escapist fantasy. The passion to prove the existence of God has always been frustrated by rationalism and always will be, which is why the subject of...

Learn everything you ever wanted to know about atheists, love and God from this funny & provocative little children's book for adults that will keep you thinking and laughing. "This is Eat Pray Love for atheists with a sense of humor, but with a lot less words, no mumbo-jumbo, no long...

For too long, critiques of religious thought have been delivered exclusively in clinical scientific terms, intentionally stripped of emotion by the nature of analysis. The trouble with that approach is that to argue only by science or reason is to implicitly concede to religions that their positions...

Religious believers try to claim that "Creationism" is a science. But if that's true, can they explain why a lightbulb works? This article was originally published as a guest editorial in Analog magazine.::This essay also includes a sample from the novel POLLY!

Taking a retrospective view of the dark and unenlightened past, when the mighty forces of nature were almost entirely hidden from the human gaze; contemplating the sad spectacle of our forefathers being sunken in gross superstition, ere the light of to-day had arisen above the horizon of mental ignorance,...

There is no doubt that the majority of people in most parts of the world—save in those in which Buddhism is supreme—believe in the existence of a God. The kind of God may vary indefinitely, but there is generally “some God or other”. Now a growing minority in every civilised country finds...