Richard Dawkins, whom Discover magazine recently called "Darwin's Rottweiler" for his fierce and effective defense of evolution, now turns his considerable intellect on religion, denouncing its faulty logic and the suffering it causes. He eviscerates the major arguments for religion and demonstrates the supreme improbability of a supreme being. He shows how religion fuels war, foments bigotry, and abuses children, buttressing his points with historical and contemporary evidence. In so doing, he makes a compelling case that belief in God is not just irrational, but potentially deadly.
John Turner's meticulously-researched account provides listeners with an inside look at a colossal figure in American religion, politics, and westward expansion.
A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up
John Allen Paulos Dick Hill
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not, and in Irreligion he presents the case for his own worldview, refuting the twelve arguments most often put forward for believing in God's existence.
Veteran journalist Chris Hedges challenges the Christian Right's religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society. He argues that the movement's yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America.
Though the New Testament gospels are some of the most extraordinary documents ever written, the picture they provide of Jesus's world is a very partial one. This remarkable work paints a comprehensive and colorful picture of the world that Jesus knew. From detailed, convincing portraits of John the Baptist, Pontius Pilate, Herod, Jesus himself, and other key figures, to the Jewish and Hellenistic leaders often ignored in scripture, Who's Who in the Age of Jesus is a critical, in-depth look at one of the most tumultuous eras in human history.
A landmark examination of Christianity's place in American life across the broad sweep of this country's history, from the Puritans to the presidential administration of George W. Bush.
The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia---and How It Died
Philip Jenkins Dick Hill
The surprising story of how Christianity flourished in China, India, the Middle East, and Africa for 1,000 years, shaping Christianity—and Islam—as they are today.
How Today's Churches Are Mixing God with Politics and Losing Their Way
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend Renée Raudman
For too long the subject of religion has been politicized by the Right and largely ignored by the Left, as American churches have become increasingly more concerned with what people do with their bodies than with their souls. Now Kathleen Kennedy Townsend issues a spiritual call to arms to all those who feel that churches in America today—Catholic and Protestant alike—are FAILING AMERICA'S FAITHFUL.
