Atheistic Eschatology-----References 4

The World Turned Upside Down---Melanie Phillips

2011-03-09T12:42:00.000-08:00

subtitled : The global battle over God, Truth, and Power

In what we tell ourselves is an age of reason, we are behaving increasingly irrationally. More and more people are signing up to weird and wacky cults, parapsychology, seances, paganism and witchcraft. We tell ourselves that religion and reason are incompatable, but in fact the oppositite is the case. It was Christianity and the Hebrew Bible that gave us our concepts of reason, progress and an orderly world-- the foundations of science and modernity.

The Moral Landscape---Sam Harris

2011-03-02T14:09:00.000-08:00

subtitles : How science can determine human values

This book provides a new look at one of the deepest problems of the world of ideas. Harris makes a powerful case for a morality that is based on human flourishing and thoroughly enmeshed with science and rationality.

God is not Great-- Christopher Hitchens

2010-01-17T07:49:00.000-08:00

subtitled : How Religion Poisons Everything

With a necessary part of it's collective mind, religion looks forward to the destruction of the world. By this I do not mean it " looks forward " in the purely eschatological sense of anticipating the end. I mean, rather, that it openly or covertly wishes that end to occur. It stretches from the epistles of Saint Paul, who clearly thought and hoped that time was running out for humanity, through the deranged fantasies of the book of Revelation, to the best selling pulp-fiction " Left Behind ' series.

The End OF Faith-- Sam Harris

2010-01-13T07:39:00.000-08:00

subtitled : Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government actually believed that the world was about to end and that it's ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half the American population apparently believes this, purely of the basis of religious dogma, should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.

The God Delusion-- Richard Dawkins

2010-01-13T07:18:00.000-08:00

American " Rapture Christians " with powerful influence on American Middle East foreign policy is governed by their biblical belief that Israel has a God-given right to all the lands of Palestine. Some Rapture Christians go further and actually yearn for nuclear war because they interpret it as the Armageddon which, according to their bizarre but disturbling popular interpretation of the book of Revelation, will hasten the Second Coming of Jesus Christ.

Breaking The Spell-- Daniel C. Dennett

2010-01-12T07:38:00.000-08:00

subtitled : Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Dennett makes a comprehensive case for an evidence based examination for the processes and fruits of faith. His eloquent book is essential reading in a time of potential religious war.