I AM THAT I AM! · @BibleAlsoSays
6th Jul 2011 from Twitlonger
@drmystics @tucholskic BOOK LIST Here's a few to start with, when you're done with these I can give you many more'
"Evolution of God" by Robert Wright - Excellent in General ,
All of Bart Ehrman's Books ... "Misquoting Jesus" all about mistakes, deliberate changes, forgeries, interpolations in the Bible. Ad his newest one "FORGED" Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
"Jesus Interrupted" all about the Contradictions in the Bible
"Lost Christianities" all about all the wildly divergent varieties of early christian belief and how what we now know as the "Orthodoxy" was simply the winner of a long battle aided tremendously by Constantine and how that Roman Christian Church worked to wipe out all other forms and erase them from history and the rewrite history to show that they were the "True" Christianity all along from the beginning, which they absolutely were not.
"Lost Scriptures" Bart Ehrman -
"God's Porblem" EXCELLENT!!! Should be read by EVERYBODY about the "Problem Of Evil"
"Who wrote the Bible?" by Richard Elliot "A History of God" by Karen Armstrong A History of God (Part 1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlnnWbkMlbg
"The Bible Unearthed" Finkelstein & Silberman - See Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=959OCN1Q8b4
"Who Wrote The New Testament" by Burton Mack Another EXCELLENT Book is "Doubt" by Jennifer Michael Hect the history of disbelief throughout history also exposes belief for what it is.
"JESUS WARS" about what happened after Constantine and how Christianity is the result of political bullshit "Jesus Wars: How Four Patriarchs, Three Queens, and Two Emperors Decided What Christians Would Believe for the Next 1,500 years" by John Philip Jenkins
"The Faith Instinct: How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures by Nicholas Wade -Completely lays waste to religion full high definition explanations of how all its concepts came about and how it all developed.
Religion Explained" by Pascal Boyer
How about some great "Jesus Never Existed" stuff "Jesus: Neither God Nor Man - The Case for a Mythical Jesus" is Excellent! Long at 814 pages but an expanded update of "The Jesus Puzzle" by Earl Doherty. This guy is incredible and makes the best case I've ever heard that a Historical Jesus never existed and regardless if that is true or not the information packed into this book is amazing and will change the way you think about it all
"Jesus Deconstructed" & The Incredible Shrinking Son Of Man" by Robert Price
"The God Virus" was very good about how religion spreads
"How we Believe" by Michael Shermer explains why people believe such crazy things
"The Tell Tale Brain" by V.S. Ramachandran all about how the brain works, how it lies to itself and how it
"The Moral Landscape" by Sam Harris is BEYOND EXCELLENT!!!! A Must read.
"The Greatest Show On Earth" by Richard Dawkins
"The Grand Plan" By Stephan Hawking.
"Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson" by Jennifer Michael Hect A history of disbelief and a history of religion at the same time.
Of course the "Biggies"
"The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins,
"The End Of Faith" & Letter To A Christian Nation" by Sam Harris,
"God Is Not Great" by Christopher Hitchens
"Breaking The Spell" by Daniel Dennett
"Godless" by Dan Barker
"Why I became an Atheist" by John Loftus
This will give you a good start on the road to discovering exactly why religion, ALL religions, ESPECIALLY the "Revealed Religions" are 100% complete bullshit and why, quite probably, there is no "God" at all.