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Permalink Reply by muhammad amer on April 26, 2009 at 12:53am

It was smooth path of litrature in my case
1-Maxium Gorkey's "Mother"
2-Anatoley France's "Panguin Island"
3-Tolestoe's "Ressurection" and short stories like"Tea house of Soorat"
4-A heaven scene from English litrature(in which Gods figures were changing in heavens as their believers concepts were changing on earth)

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Permalink Reply by Allen Uribes on April 28, 2009 at 12:31pm

I just "Googled" Penguin Island and it sounds like a great satire for me.

Thanks for the mention!

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Permalink Reply by Josh Grubb on April 30, 2009 at 12:20am

"The God Delusion" - Richard Dawkins


I have always been a non-believer this book just reinforced my reasons for being atheist.

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Permalink Reply by Valorie Lee on May 4, 2009 at 5:24pm

Dawkins "The God Delusion" was my first. Then Hitchens' "God is Not Great," and Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation." I also have several reference books, e.g., "The Quotable Atheist," by Jack Huberman and "Everything You Know About God is Wrong!" by Russ Kick.
Dawkins' book was my first--about 3 years ago I was at the gym listening to it on my iPod when it hit me about 3/4 of the way through: Could I be an atheist? Really? It sure made sense to me as I'd never had any strong religious beliefs. I guess I just thought I believed since so many other people did. But it really had no influence over my life, and when I seriously considered atheism, it just seemed to fit. I've never looked back and never doubted that this is me.

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Permalink Reply by Eli on May 4, 2009 at 6:13pm

LEt's see, there was a collection of "The wit of Mark Twain" which I read, although like a lot of folks it was really the Bible's own words that damned it.

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Permalink Reply by Lynn M. on May 4, 2009 at 10:27pm

I read "Losing Faith in Faith," by Dan Barker and my move to atheism followed afterwards. Although it would be fair to say the book was not the single catalyst of my atheistic beliefs; other things factored in as well. I enjoyed reading all the different titles people have offered in their replies. A few I've read, many I have heard of and was able to get some suggestions for more good reading material.

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Permalink Reply by Scorpion Moon on May 4, 2009 at 10:59pm

A steady diet of Mark Twain and the bible as a kid, a couple of Ayn Rand and "Fritz" books in high school, "The Satanic Bible" right after.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon on May 4, 2009 at 11:55pm

Im actually in the middle of reading my first. Its called godless by dan barker. Ive read a little bit out of a book called Atheism explained but its to much for me to take in all at once so i read a little from it every so often.

My girlfriend is reading why im not a christian at the moment but when she is done i plan to read that as well.

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Permalink Reply by Rene Benthien on May 6, 2009 at 7:52am

Hawking's A Brief History of Time. I was about fifteen when my grandfather left it for me along with a few other science and philosophy books.

Though he was a religious Hindu (in an almost Pantheistic way), he was also a pioneering science educator in a region in Sri Lanka where basic electricity was a luxury. He was a bit of a hero to the community and to me so I felt like it was a duty to read through it even though it was hard going at first.

I re-read it in a couple of years after finishing high school physics, when I was trying to decide what to do at Uni and this book just opened up a whole new world to me. I was already an Atheist but Hawking's words made me realise just how much cooler it was to actually be one; to be elevated from superstition and to freely appreciate the beauty of the universe with much greater depth.

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Permalink Reply by Justin Pearson Smith on May 8, 2009 at 6:13pm

Dawkins (The God Delusion)
George Carlin (When will Jesus bring the porkchop) Not exactly an atheism book though the topic does get tossed about. Well worth looking for the audio version.

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Permalink Reply by Brandon Benkosky on May 8, 2009 at 6:58pm

I read "Infidel" by Ayan Hirsi Ali after 9-11-2001. That book was the begining of my loss of faith. She is now a Hero of mine.

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Permalink Reply by William Young on May 25, 2009 at 10:31pm

I read none, my source for adopting atheism was the Bible.

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