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Get the Summary of Antony Flew & Roy Abraham Varghese's There Is a God in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "There Is a God" chronicles Antony Flew's intellectual journey from atheism to theism, detailing his early life, academic career, and the philosophical inquiries that led to his belief in a divine intelligence. Flew's upbringing in a religious household did not cement his faith; instead, he became an atheist,...
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Jesus Cries When You Touch Yourself is a comic monologue written in tribute to the late George Carlin on the topic of religious bullshit in America. Influenced by Carlin, Friedrich Nietzsche, Bill Maher, Monty Python, and the writers of South Park, the author uses constant mockery and absurdist humor on a tour of ridiculous beliefs in America. With devastating logic, Jesus, the most beloved character in all of history, is revealed to be the world's...
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Despite what dictionaries, or the people addicted to stupidities and illusions say, disillusion is a good, emancipating thing. …Especially when the life is running out. "God, Self & Afterlife" is a non-fiction book unburdened by any ideological, religious, political… restraints. It is an uncompromising, non-conformist attempt to expose the false knowledge which pervades every sphere of human life. …To reach behind the words like consciousness,...
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In the contemplative shadow of Christopher Hitchens' intellectual legacy, there stands a multitude of voices, ready to engage with the spirited critiques he presented against religious belief. "Debunking Hitchens: A Christian Response" is not merely a book; it is a comprehensive, systematic Christian response to the sharp arguments laid down by one of the most formidable atheists of our time. The literary and philosophical armoury of Hitchens has...
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"Dive into the timeless wisdom of 'Short Talks' by Venerable Master Chin Kung. This collection offers concise, yet powerful insights on life, spirituality, and self-discovery. Let each talk inspire reflection and guide you toward a more meaningful existence. Embark on a transformative journey of growth with this enlightening book."
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In this personal memoir, a former evangelical Christian shares her journey away from her confining faith toward a happier, healthier, nonreligious life.
Betty Brogaard was raised to be a good Christian. By the time she was twenty years old, she had joined a fundamentalist church. She even met and married a young man who became a minister in the congregation. However, the more she came to understand Christianity from within, the more she found herself...
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Réfuter Dawkins : Une Réponse Chrétienne Ces dernières années, peu de voix ont eu autant d'influence dans le débat sur l'existence de Dieu et la valeur de la religion que celle de Richard Dawkins. Biologiste distingué, Dawkins a utilisé son sens scientifique pour critiquer la foi religieuse dans des ouvrages tels que « The God Delusion ». Mais il faut se demander : Dawkins présente-t-il un argument inattaquable ? La foi est-elle vraiment...
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Faith and facts are reconciled in this revelatory examination of biblical and secular truths that follows the path to God through science, not around it.
Always a man of science, Jim Johnson accepted Christ into his life shortly after his fiftieth birthday. This acceptance of God's unseeable power did not shake his belief in science-it strengthened it. Through years of research on the world's evolution, Johnson found that in studying every new...
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One man shares the story of his transformation from evangelical Christian to atheist and examines the train of thought that brought him there.
After almost twenty years of evangelical preaching, missionizing, and Christian songwriting, Dan Barker "threw out the bathwater and discovered that there is no baby." In Godless, Barker describes the intellectual and psychological path he followed in moving from fundamentalism to freethought. Godless includes...
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The Inspiration for An Atheist View of the Bible came from reading An Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy by C. Dennis McKinsey.
My reading of the Old Testament of the King James translation of the Bible, along with the William Buck translation of the Indian epic Mahabharata, has made me look at these ancient stories from a new and modern perspective: a perspective that the ancient scribes could not have possibly imagined and could not describe what...
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Sonja Luehrmann explores the Soviet atheist effort to build a society without gods or spirits and its afterlife in post-Soviet religious revival. Combining archival research on atheist propaganda of the 1960s and 1970s with ethnographic fieldwork in the autonomous republic of Marij El in Russia's Volga region, Luehrmann examines how secularist culture-building reshaped religious practice and interreligious relations. One of the most palpable legacies...
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Why is there suffering? Doesn't science disprove miracles? What about hell-and the millions who've never heard of Jesus? Is heaven for real? Is God unjust? Lee Strobel decided to use his award-winning journalistic skills to investigate the idea of faith, and prove that placing our trust in things we cannot see is a solid bet. This updated The Case for Faith Student Edition adapts Strobel's bestselling The Case for Faith to present hard-hitting findings...
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