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INTRODUCTION
“What do you think about the upheaval in Jesus studies?” THIS IS THE QUESTION I WOULD so much like to pose to my Christian friends—to be met, I am sure, in most instances–with blank stares. “What upheaval?” Because they are not paying attention. In fact, the Jesus question has been removed from the exclusive domain of Bible scholars and ecclesiastical functionaries. Most New Testament scholars have been, and remain, committed to the Jesus faith. These are the folks who, in the words of one observer, “…still write books manufacturing and manicuring Jesus to look like they do.” Secular observers decided that this biased community could no longer be trusted to provide honest answers on who and what Jesus was. So you will find plenty of titles on this list by secular analysts who have opened up Jesus studies as never before—and exposed its faulty methodologies and conclusions, e.g., Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty, David Fitzgerald, Raphael Lataster, Robert Price, R. G. Price.
Of course, it’s not just Jesus; theism in general and Christianity in particular have been subjected to penetrating, withering critique. As I point out in the Introduction of my book, we are experiencing—and have been for some twenty years—an unprecedented atheist publishing surge. This has never happened before. Ever. There are more than 400 titles on the list below. Some of the titles predate 2000; I have included them because they are classics in the deconstruction of Christianity, e.g. H. L. Mencken’s Treatise on the Gods (1932) and Charles Guignebert’s Jesus (1935). Not all of the authors cited here are atheists, but one thing that they do have in common is their conviction that the Christian brand of theism—no matter how successful it has been—has been falsified.
My purpose in this Cure-for-Christianity Library is to document many of the resources now available to inquiring minds, and I do hope that Christians can take the hint: use this list to get a grasp of what all the fuss is about—why we have been smacking Christianity down so emphatically—and get a move on! Tackle the homework.
These are the resources that have come to my attention, in book form. Admittedly, this approach may have an archaic aroma. Books? What percentage of the populace—spread across multiple demographics—still reads books? But even for people who no longer pick up hard copies, the titles listed here can be considered portals; many of the authors on this list have their own websites, Facebook pages, blogs, Twitter accounts. “The Internet,” it has been said, “is where religion goes to die.”
In my book I have presented ten tough problems in Christian thought and belief, to whet the appetite. Please pursue research, read, probe: find out how Jesus, Christianity and theism have all been so convincingly slam dunked.
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Abram, Cheryl,
Firing God, 2014
Alcántar, Fernando,
To the Cross and Back: An Immigrant’s Journey from Faith to Reason, 2015
Alter, Michael,
The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry, 2015
Andrews, Seth,
- Confessions of a Former Fox News Christian, 2020
- Deconverted: A Journey from Religion to Reason, 2012
Angier, Natalie,
The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, 2008
Anonymous,
Atheism Is Winning! 2015
Antony, Louise, ed.,
Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life, 2010
Arel, Dan,
Atheist Republic,
Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty without Religion, 2015
Avalos, Hector,
- The Bad Jesus, 2015
- Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence, 2005
- The End of Biblical Studies, 2007
- The Reality of Religious Violence: From Biblical to Modern Times, 2019
- Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship, 2011
Babinski, Edward, editor,
Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists, 1995
Baggini, Julian,
Atheism: A Very Short Introduction, 2003
Baker, Brian,
Nonsense from the Bible, 2012
Barbera, Don,
Black and Not Baptist: Nonbelief and Freethought in the Black Community, 2003
Barker, Dan,
- God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction, 2016
- Life Driven Purpose: How an Atheist Finds Meaning, 2015
- Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist, 1992 & 2006
- Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists, 2008
Barrett, Justin,
Why Would Anyone Believe in God?, 2004
Beaumont, Paul,
A Brief Eternity, 2013
Bechthold, Henry,
Exposing Mega Churches and the Prosperity Gospel Scam, 2019
Bekius, Drew,
The Rise and Fall of Faith: A God-to-Godless Story for Atheists and Christians, 2017
Bennett, Derreck,
Addictus: A Nonbeliever’s Path to Recovery, 2017
Benson, Ophelia & Stangroom, Jeremy
- Does God Hate Women?, 2009
- Why Truth Matters, 2006
Besant, Annie Wood,
My Path to Atheism, 1878
Beversluis, John,
C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion, 2007
Blackford, Russell & Schüklenk, Udo,
Boghossian, Peter,
A Manual for Creating Atheists, 2013
Bowen, Joshua Aaron,
The Atheist Handbook to the Old Testament, Volume 1, 2021
Boyer, Pascal,
Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, 2002
Brancazio, Peter,
The Bible from Cover to Cover: How Modern Scholars Read the Scriptures, 2007
Brewster, Melanie, ed.,
Atheists in America, 2014
Bradley, Raymond,
God’s Gravediggers: Why No Deity Exists, 2016
Brain, Marshall,
How “God” Works: A Logical Inquiry on Faith, 2015
Brodie, Thomas,
Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery, 2012
Brucker, J. D.,
God Needs to Go, 2015
Burge, Ryan,
The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, 2021
Callahan, Tim,
Secret Origins of the Bible, 2002
Cameron, Christopher,
Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism, 2019
Carroll, Sean,
Carrier, Richard,
- Hitler Homer Bible Christ: The Historical Papers of Richard Carrier 1995-2013, 2014
- Jesus from Outer Space: What the Earliest Christians Really Believed About Christ, 2020
- Not the Impossible Faith: Why Christianity Didn’t Need a Miracle to Succeed, 2009
- On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt, 2014
- Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus, 2012
- Sense and Goodness without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism, 2005
- Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith, 2011
Casso, Raul,
The Folly Bible: The Bible’s Internal Proof of It’s 100% Human Authorship, 2020
Centre, Bart,
- The Atheist Camel Chronicles: Debate Themes & Arguments for the Non-Believer (and those who think they might be), 2009
- The Atheist Camel Rants Again!: more arguments and observations from the atheist front, 2011
Chaney, Daniel,
Religion Refuted: Debunking the case for God, 2018
Chase, Stephany,
Pulling Back the Green Curtain: 666 Things Your Religious Leaders Never Taught You, 2016
Christina, Greta,
- Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why, 2014
- Comforting Thoughts About Death That Have Nothing to Do with God, 2014
- The Way of the Heathen: Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life, 2016
- Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, 2012
Chumney, David,
Jesus Eclipsed: How Searching the Scriptures Got in the Way of Recounting the Facts, 2017
Comings, David,
Did Man Create God? Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace With Your Thinking Brain? 2008
Compere, John,
Outgrowing Religion: Why a Fifth-Generation Southern Baptist Minister Left God for Good, 2016
Conner, Jonah David,
All That’s Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More, 2017
Conner, Robert,
- Apparitions of Jesus: The Resurrection as Ghost Story, 2018
- Jesus the Sorcerer, 2006
- Magic in Christianity: From Jesus to the Gnostics, 2014
- The Secret Gospel of Mark, 2015
Coyne, Jerry,
Cragun, Ryan,
- What You Don’t Know About Religion (but Should), 2013
- How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Steps: A Toolkit for Secular Activists, 2015
Crane, Tim,
The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View, 2017
Cunningham, George,
Curran, Andrew,
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, 2019
Daleiden, Joseph,
The Final Superstition: A Critical Evaluation of the Judeo-Christian Legacy, 1994
Dana, Dan,
The Reason Revolution: Atheism, Secular Humanism, and the Collapse of Religion, 2014
Daniels, Kenneth,
Why I Believed: Reflections of a Former Missionary, 2010
Dawkins, Richard,
- Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide, 2019
- The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, 2005
- The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design, 2015
- The God Delusion, 2008
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution, 2009
- The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True, 2012
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder, 2000
Dennett, Daniel & LaScola, Linda,
Caught in The Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind, 2013
Dennett, Daniel,
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, 2007
- Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life, 1996
DeWitt, Jerry & Brown, Ethan,
Hope after Faith: An Ex-Pastor’s Journey from Belief to Atheism, 2013
Doherty, Earl,
- Challenging the Verdict: A Cross Examination of Lee Strobel’s “The Case for Christ”, 2001
- Jesus: Neither God Nor Man – The Case for a Mythical Jesus, 2009
- The End of an Illusion: How Bart Ehrman’s “Did Jesus Exist?” Has Laid the Case for an Historical Jesus to Rest, 2012
- The Jesus Puzzle. Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? : Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus, 1999
Dressler, Alan,
Voyage to the Great Attractor: Exploring Intergalactic Space, 1994
Duke, Doyle, E.,
The Amazing Deception: A Critical Analysis of Christianity, 2009
Du Mez, Kristin Kobes,
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, 2020
Dumphy, Catherine,
From Apostle to Apostate: The Story of the Clergy Project, 2015
Dykstra, Tom,
Eden, Jason,
That’s Me In the Corner: Coming Out as An Atheist on Facebook, 2014
Edis, Tanner,
Ehrman, Bart,
- Forged: Writing in the Name of God–Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are, 2012
- God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question—Why We Suffer, 2009
- Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife, 2020
- How Jesus Became God: The Exaltation of a Jewish Preacher from Galilee, 2015
- Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium, 2001
- Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior, 2016
- Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (And Why We Don’t Know About Them), 2010
- Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew, 2005
- Lost Scriptures: Books that Did Not Make It into the New Testament, 2005
- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, 2007
- The Orthodox Corruption of Scripture: The Effect of Early Christological Controversies on the Text of the New Testament, 2011
Einhorn, Lena,
A Shift in Time: How Historical Documents Reveal the Surprising Truth about Jesus, 2016
Eldridge, J. R.,
The MisreadBible: Genesis, 2019
Eller, David,
Epstein, Greg,
Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, 2010
Evans, D. K.,
Emancipation of a Black Atheist, 2017
Everett, Nicholas,
The Non-Existence of God, 2003
Ferris, Timothy,
Coming of Age in the Milky Way, 1988
Finklestein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher,
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, 2002
Fitzgerald, David,
- Jesus: Mything in Action, Volume I, 2016
- Jesus: Mything in Action, Volume II, 2016
- Jesus: Mything in Action, Volume III, 2016
- Nailed: Ten Christian Myths That Show Jesus Never Existed at All, 2010
- The Complete Heretic’s Guide to Western Religion Book One: The Mormons, 2014
Fodor, James,
Unreasonable Faith: How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity, 2018
Fox, Cassie,
Black Sheep: My Journey from Evangelical Christianity to Atheism, 2019
Fox, Robin Lane,
The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, 1992
Fredriksen, Paula,
From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, 2000
Garcia, Hector,
Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, 2015
Garst, Karen L.,
- Women Beyond Belief: Discovering Life Without Religion, 2016
- Women v. Religion: The Case Against Faith—and for Freedom, 2018
Gaylor, Annie Laurie,
Woe to the Women: The Bible, Female Sexuality and the Law: The Bible Tells Me So, 2014
Gerry, Lyn,
Gilgamesh, Horus,
- Awkward Moments Children’s Bible, Vol. 1, 2013
- Awkward Moments (Not Found In Your Average) Children’s Bible – Vol. 2: Don’t blame us – it’s in the Bible! 2014
Gill, Tyson,
Belief in Science and the Science of Belief, 2010
Gorham, Candace A.M.,
The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion—and Others Should Too, 2014
Grant, Michael,
Saint Paul, 2000
Grayling, A.C.,
- The God Argument: The Case Against Religion and for Humanism, 2014
- The Good Book: A Humanist Bible, 2013
Green, Ruth,
The Born Again Skeptic’s Guide to the Bible, 1999
Guigneberg, Charles,
Jesus, 1935
Hafer, Abby,
Hägglund, Martin,
This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom, 2019
Hall, Jim,
Most People Believe in God, Can They All Be Wrong?: The Christianity Counter-Apologetics Handbook, 2013
Hallquist, Chris,
UFOs, Ghosts, and a Rising God: Debunking the Resurrection of Jesus, 2009
Harbour, Daniel,
An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Atheism, 2001
Harding, Nick,
How to Be a Good Atheist, 2008
Harris, Sam
- Free Will, 2012
- Letter to a Christian Nation, 2008
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason, 2005
- The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values, 2011
Harrison, Guy,
- 50 Popular Beliefs That People Think Are True, 2012
- 50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God, 2008
- 50 Simple Questions for Every Christian, 2013
- Think: Why You Should Question Everything, 2013
Harvie, Robin. & Meyers, Stephanie, eds.,
The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas, 2010
Harwood, William,
Mythology’s Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus, 1992
Haught, James A.,
- Fading Faith: The Rise of the Secular Age, 2010
- Holy Horrors: An Illustrated History of Religious Murder and Madness, 1990
- Religion is Dying: Soaring Secularism in America and the West, 2014
Hawking, Stephen,
Brief Answers to the Big Questions, 2018
Hawking, Stephen & Mladinow, Leonard,
The Grand Design, 2012
Hecht, Jennifer Michael,
Heimlich, Janet,
Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, 2011
Helms, Randel,
Highland, Chris,
A Freethinker’s Gospel: Essays for a Sacred Secular World, 2018
Hitchens, Christopher,
- God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, 2007
- The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever, 2007
Houk, James,
The Illusion of Certainty: How the Flawed Beliefs of Religion Harm Our Culture, 2017
Howson, Colin,
Objecting to God, 2011
Hunsberger, Bruce & Altemeyer, Bob,
Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America’s Nonbelievers, 2006
Hyppolite, Carolyn,
Still Small Voices: The Testimony of a Born Again Atheist, 2014
Ingman, Neel,
- Not Very Intelligent: On the Origin, Creation and Evolution of the Theory of Intelligent Design, 2018
- Not Very Intelligent Design Too: Planet Earth, a Perfect Place for Human Life? 2020
Jacob, Margaret,
The Secular Enlightenment, 2019
Jacoby, Susan,
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism, 2004
- Strange Gods: A Secular History of Conversion, 2016
- The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought, 2014
- The Age of American Unreason, 2009
James, Craig,
The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God, 2010
Jefferson, Thomas
The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Press, 2011
Jelbert, Glenton,
Evidence Considered: A Response to Evidence for God, 2017
Jenkins, Philip,
Jillette, Penn,
God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, 2012
Johnson, Chris,
A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy & Meaning in a World Without God, 2014
Johnson, David, et al,
Still Unbelievable: Why after listening to Christian Arguments We Are Still Skeptics, 2018
Joshi, S. T.,
- God’s Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong, 2003
- Icons of Unbelief: Atheists, Agnostic, and Secularists, 2008
- The Original Atheists: First Thoughts on Nonbelief, 2014
- The Unbelievers: The Evolution of Modern Atheism, 2011
Kelly, Joshua,
Oh, Your God!: The Evil Idea That Is Religion, 2016
Kennedy, Ludovic,
All In the Mind: A Farewell to God, 1999
Kent, Jack,
The Psychological Origins of the Resurrection Myth, 1999
Kick, Russ, ed.,
Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion, 2007
Kiekeben, Franz
- Atheism: Q & A 2016
- The Truth about God, 2015
Klein, George
The Atheist and the Holy City: Encounters and Reflections, 1990
Klein, Peter
Beyond God: Why Religions Are False, Outdated and Dangerous, 2018
Komarnitsky, Kris,
Doubting Jesus’ Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box? 2009
Krauss, Lawrence,
A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, 2013
Lalli, Nica,
Nothing: Something to Believe In, 2007
Lataster, Raphael,
- Jesus Did Not Exist: A Debate Among Atheists, 2015
- Questioning the Historicity of Jesus, 2019
- The Case Against Theism: Why the Evidence Disproves God’s Existence, 2018
- There was no Jesus, there is no God: A Scholarly Examination of the Scientific, Historical, and Philosophical Evidence & Arguments for Monotheism, 2013
Law, Stephen,
Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole, 2011
Lee, Adam,
Daylight Atheism (2014)
Lehto, Bill, ed.,
Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories, 2012
Lents, Nathan,
Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, 2018
Le Poidevin, Robin,
Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, 1996
Lewis, Ralph,
Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even If the Universe Doesn’t, 2018
Lindsay, James,
- Dot, Dot, Dot: Infinity Plus God Equals Folly, 2013
- Everybody Is Wrong About God, 2015
- God Doesn’t; We Do: Only Humans Can Solve Human Challenges, 2012
Lindsay, Ronald,
The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can’t Tell Us What To Do, 2014
Lobdell, William,
Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace, 2009
Loftus, John,
- Christianity Is Not Great: How Faith Fails, 2014
- Christianity in the Light of Science: Critically Examining the World’s Largest Religion, 2016
- How to Defend the Christian Faith: Advice from an Atheist, 2015
- The Case Against Miracles, 2019
- The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails, 2010
- The End of Christianity, 2011
- The Outsider Test for Faith: How to Know Which Religion Is True, 2013
- Unapologetic: Why Philosophy of Religion Must End, 2016
- Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity, 2008
Long, Jason,
- Biblical Nonsense: A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians, 2005
- The Religious Condition: Answering and Explaining Christian Reasoning, 2008
Maccoby, Hyam,
The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity, 1998
MacDonald, Dennis,
- Luke and Vergil: Imitations of Classical Greek Literature, 2014
- The Dionysian Gospel: The Fourth Gospel and Euripides, 2017
- The Gospels and Homer: Imitations of Greek Epic in Mark and Luke-Acts, 2014
- The Homeric Epics and the Gospel of Mark, 2000
Mack, Burton,
- The Christian Myth: Origins, Logic, and Legacy, 2003
- Who Wrote the New Testament?: The Making of the Christian Myth, 1996
MacLean, Brent,
My Perfect Broken God: Musings of a Former Believer, 2019
Maguire, Daniel,
Christianity without God: Moving beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving the Epic Moral Narrative, 2014
Madison, David,
Maisel, Eric,
The Atheist’s Way: Living Well Without Gods, 2009
Malkin, Vitaly,
Dangerous Illusions: How Religion Deprives Us of Happiness, 2018
Mark, Jeffrey,
Martel, Frédéric,
In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, 2019
Martin, Colby,
- The Shift: Surviving and Thriving after Moving from Conservative to Progressive Christianity, 2020
- Unclobbered: Rethinking Our Misuse of the Bible on Homosexuality, 2016
Martin, Michael,
- Atheism: A Philosophical Justification, 1992
- Atheism, Morality, and Meaning, 2003
- The Cambridge Companion to Atheism (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy), 2006
- The Case Against Christianity, 1991
Martin, Michael & Monnier, Ricki, eds.,
- The Impossibility of God, 2003
Matheson, Chris,
The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy about Love (and Hate), 2015
McAfee, David,
- Atheist Answers: Rational Responses to Religious Questions, 2016
- Disproving Christianity and Other Secular Writings, 2011
- Mom, Dad, I’m an Atheist: The Guide to Coming Out as a Non-believer, 2012
- No Sacred Cows: Investigating Myths, Cults, and the Supernatural, 2017
McCormick, Matthew,
Atheism and the Case Against Christ, 2012
McGowan, Dale,
- Atheism for Dummies, 2013
- Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids without Religion, 2016
- Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, 2009
- Sharing Reality: How to Bring Secularism and Science to an Evolving Religious World, 2017
McGowan, Dale, ed.,
Voices of Unbelief: Documents from Atheists and Agnostics, 2012
McGowan, Dale; Matsumura, Molleen; Metskas, Amada; Devor, Jan,
Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, 2009
Mencken, H. L.,
Treatise on the Gods, 1932
Mehta, Hemant,
- I Sold My Soul on eBay: Viewing Faith Through an Atheist’s Eyes, 2007
- The Friendly Atheist: Thoughts on the Role of Religion in Politics and Media, 2013
- The Young Atheist’s Survival Guide: Helping Secular Students Thrive, 2012
Miller, Richard C.,
Miller, Robert J.,
- Born Divine: The Birth of Jesus and Other Sons of God , 2003
- Helping Jesus Fulfill Prophecy, 2015
- The Jesus Seminar and Its Critics, 1999
Mills, David,
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person’s Answer to Christian Fundamentalism, 2006
Mitchell, Deborah,
Growing Up Godless: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Kids Without Religion, 2014
Molyneux, Stefan,
Against the Gods? A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism, 2011
Moss, Candida,
The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom, 2014
Murphy, Derek,
Murray, Malcolm,
The Atheist’s Primer (Broadview Guides to Philosophy, 2010
Musolino, Julien,
The Soul Fallacy: What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of Our Soul Beliefs, 2015
Naff, Clay Farris,
- Free God Now! How to Liberate Yourself from Old Times Religion & Just Maybe Saved the World (Volume 1), 2012
- It’s a Miracle!? What Modern Science Tells Us about Popular Bible Stories, 2018
Navabi, Armin,
Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God, 2014
Nicholls, William,
Christian Anti-Semitism: A History of Hate, 1995
Nickell, Joe,
The Science of Miracles: Investigating the Incredible, 2013
Niose, David,
- Fighting Back the Right: Reclaiming America from the Attack on Reason, 2014
- Nonbeliever Nation: The Rise of Secular Americans, 2013
Nixey, Catherine,
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, 2018
Onfray, Michel,
Atheism Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam, 2011
Oppy, Graham,
- Arguing About Gods, 2006
- Atheism: the Basics, 2018
- A Companion to Atheism and Philosophy, 2019
- Describing Gods: An Investigation of Divine Attributes, 2014
- Naturalism and Religion: A Contemporary Philosophical Investigation, 2018
- The Best Argument Against God, 2013
Orenstein, David & Blaikie, Linda,
Godless Grace: How Non-Believers Make the World Safer, Richer and Kinder, 2015
Orenstein, David & Hafer, Abby,
Ostman, Cami & Tive, Susan,
Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions, 2013
Ozment, Katherine,
Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age, 2016
Palmer, Michael,
- Atheism for Beginners: A Course Book for Schools and Colleges, 2013
- The Atheist’s Creed, 2010
- The Atheist’s Primer, 2012
Parsons, Keith,
God and the Burden of Proof: Plantinga, Swinburne, and the Analytical Defense of Theism, 1989
Paulkovich, Michael
Beyond the Crusades: Christianity’s Lies, Laws and Legacy, 2016
Pearce, Jonathan MS,
- Did God Create the Universe from Nothing? Countering William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument, 2016
- The Little Book of Unholy Questions, 2011
- The Nativity: A Critical Examination, 2012
- The Problem of “GOD”: Classical Theism under the Spotlight, 2015
Pearce, Jonathan MS, editor,
- Filling the Void: A Selection of Humanist and Atheist Poetry, 2016
- Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century, 2017
- 13 Reasons to Doubt, 2014
Perakh, Mark,
Unintelligent Design, 2003
Pervo, Richard,
- The Making of Paul: Constructions of the Apostle in Early Christianity, 2010
- The Mystery of Acts: Unraveling Its Story, 2008
Pfeiffer, C. Boyd
No Proof at All: A Cure for Christianity, 2015
Pinn, Anthony,
- The End of God-Talk: An African American Humanist Theology, 2012
- Writing God’s Obituary: How a Good Methodist Became a Better Atheist, 2014
Price, R. G.,
Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed, 2018
Price, Robert,
- Blaming Jesus for Jehovah: Rethinking the Righteousness of Christianity, 2016
- Deconstructing Jesus, 2000
- Holy Fable: The Old Testament Undistorted by Faith, Volume 1, 2017
- Holy Fable: The Gospels and Acts Undistorted by Faith, Volume 2, 2017
- Holy Fable: The Epistles and the Apocalypse Undistorted by Faith. 2018
- Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition? 2003
- Jesus Christ Superstition, 2019
- Jesus Is Dead, 2007
- Killing History: Jesus in the No-Spin Zone, 2014
- Moses and Minimalism: Form Criticism vs. Fiction in the Pentateuch, 2015
- The Amazing Colossal Apostle: The Search for the Historical Paul, 2012
- The Case Against The Case For Christ: A New Testament Scholar Refutes the Reverend Lee Strobel, 2010
- The Christ-Myth Theory and Its Problems, 2011
- The Historical Bejeezus: What a Long, Strange Quest It’s Been, 2013
Price, Robert & Suominen, Ed
Evolving Out of Eden, 2013
Price, Robert & Lowder, J. J., eds.,
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond The Grave, 2005
Prothero, Stephen,
- American Jesus: How the Son of God Became a National Icon, 2004
- God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World, 2011
Pyle, Jack,
Rafferty, Tom,
Making Stuff Up Is Unwise: An Introduction to Reason, Skepticism and Science, 2012
Ramsey, David Blair,
Speaking of God: We Don’t Know $hit: A Former Minister Reflects on God and Religion, 2020
Rastrelli, Tom,
Confessions of a Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary, 2020
Ray, Darrell,
The God Virus: How Religion Infects our Lives and our Culture, 2009
Rhodes, Larry,
Atheism: What’s It All About?, 2015
Rigsby, Casper,
- Holy Sh!t: The Insanity of Blind Faith, Volume 1: Christianity, 2018
- The Bible in a Nutshell, 2019
- Where’s Your God Now? 2018
Ripley, Bob,
Life Beyond Belief: A Preacher’s Deconversion, 2014
Roberts, Teresa,
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