Recommendy thingies
Jerry A. Coyne
- Why Evolution Is True
Richard Dawkins
- A Devil’s Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
- Climbing Mount Improbable
- The God Delusion
- Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder
- The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
- The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
- The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
- The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
Daniel Dennett
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Richard Elliott Friedman
Sam Harris
- The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
- Letter to a Christian Nation
- The Moral Landscape - How Science Can Determine Human Values
Christopher Hitchens
- God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
- The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
Dromedary Hump
- The Atheist Camel Chronicles
An amusing series of short (about 2 pgs) articles on many topics and arguments between theists and atheists.
James Kugel
- How to Read the Bible: A Guide to Scripture, Then and Now
Michel Onfray
- In Defence of Atheism (aka The Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam)
Bertrand Russell
- Religion and Science
- Why I Am Not a Christian & Other Essays on Religion & Related Subjects
Carl Sagan
- The Demon Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark
Neil Shubin
- Your Inner Fish - A Journey into the 3.5 Billion Year History of the Human Body
Al Stefanelli
Victor J. Stenger
- God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
- The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
“various authors:” The Bible/Qur'an/Torah/etc.
- A downloadable version of the Bible is available here, free of charge (in most formats).
- An online version of the Qur'an is available here, with complete Chapters & Verses in Arabic as well as various accepted English translations for each verse.
- The skeptic’s annotated bible is available here, with sections on the Bible, the Qur'an, and The Book of Mormon
- Arguments for the existence of God
Each argument links to another page which holds criticisms of the argument in question - 36 Arguments for the existence of God
See also (links)
- Atheist Reading List - post with many links
- /r/TravellingIntellect
- NukeThePope’s atheist book list
- malaggar’s Dossier of Reason - an ex-youth-pastor’s outline of counterarguments to Christianity and religion
Recommended Viewing
Movies & Documentaries
Following is a list of movies and documentaries about religion or atheism that have been recommended many times in various posts on r/atheism.
{List is in no particular order}
The Magdeline Sisters (2002) watch
Flight from Death: The Quest for Immortality (2003) trailer
The God who wasn’t there (2005) watch
Deliver us from evil (2006) watch
The Man from Earth (2007) trailer
The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008) watch
Collision: Christopher Hitchens vs. Douglas Wilson (2009) trailer
The Invention of Lying (2009) trailer
8: The Mormon Proposition (2010) trailer
Monty Python’s Life of Brian (1979) trailer
A History of God: Karen Armstrong full documentary summary
See also
Lots more videos in this post
A compilation of youtube atheist videos (only original content)
TV, Speeches, Talks & Debates
Following is a list of TV shows, recorded speeches, talks or debates about religion or atheism by prominent or renowned Atheist speakers.
{List is in no particular order}
500+ Atheism vs. Theism Debates watch
Why are you not a Christian?.. (Interview with Bertrand Russell) watch
A Universe not made for us (Carl Sagan) watch
The View From The End Of The World (Talk by Sam Harris) watch
The Clash between Faith & Reason in the Modern World (Talk by Sam Harris) watch
Sam Harris: Can Science Determine Human Values? part1 part2 part3 part4 part5 part6 part7
Richard Dawkins on Militant Atheism (2002 TED talk) watch
Richard Dawkins demonstrates laryngeal nerve of the giraffe/evidence for evolution watch
Richard Dawkins: Root of all evil? (2006 UK TV Special) watch
Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion (2006 UK TV Special) watch
Richard Dawkins: The Enemies of Reason (2007 UK TV Special) watch
Richard Dawkins: Faith Schools menace? (2010 UK TV Special) watch
The Four Horsemen (Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens & Harris) (2008) watch
Debate: The Catholic Church is a force for good in the world (Christopher Hitchens & Stephen Fry vs. Ann Widdecombe & Archbishop John Onaiyekan) watch
Debate: Is religion a force for good in the world? (Christopher Hitchens vs. Tony Blair) watch
Freedom of Speech (Christopher Hitchens) watch
On Religion (Christopher Hitchens) watch
On God or Gods (Carl Sagan) watch
Pale Blue Dot (Carl Sagan) watch
A Universe from Nothing (Lawrence Krauss) watch
Godless in America - The Madalyn Murray O'Hair story watch
Interview (Ayaan Hirsi Ali) watch part1 part2 mirror
Atheism: Jonathan Miller’s Brief History of Disbelief (2004) part1 part2 part3
The Atheism Tapes 1 (Colin Mcginn) (2004) watch
The Atheism Tapes 2 (Steven Weinberg) (2004) watch
The Atheism Tapes 3 (Arthur Miller) (2004) watch
The Atheism Tapes 4 (Richard Dawkins) (2004) watch
The Atheism Tapes 5 (Denys Turner) (2004) watch
The Atheism Tapes 6 (Daniel Dennett) (2004) watch
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