Comments on: The Books That Pushed You Toward Atheism

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:07:52 +0000

Strobel’s Case For Christ, without a doubt. To this day, it remains the most vile, insipid, lying piece of trash I’ve ever read.

By: Pedro Timóteo

Pedro Timóteo — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 23:09:50 +0000

Douglas Adams' The Salmon of Doubt, which really means this interview.

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:22:24 +0000

“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived”
- Isaac Asimov

I initially read “Fundamental Lies of the Catholic Church” by Pepe Rodriguez. That with a knowledge of mythology, comparative studies of religion and science got me on the atheist path.

By: Roxanne

Roxanne — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:50:33 +0000

Mere Christianity- Lewis
The Age of Reason- Paine
Asimov’s Guide to the Bible- Asimov
Those got me started.

By: Bertram

Bertram — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:14:57 +0000

A lot of those books are pretty recent, especially of course the “New” atheist books.

So anyone who claims to have been an atheist for years can not have been influened to atheism by them, now can they.

But you know what veered me away from atheism as I was wavering?

Atheist blogs. Especially the ones that ridiculed me and actually threatened me for even considering theism.

I have had it with fundamentalists theists and fundamentalist atheists.

Friendly? My ass.

By: Rest

Rest — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:33:12 +0000

Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing by William Sargant.

By: Rest

Rest — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 22:31:28 +0000

Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing by William Sargant.

By: Mechelle

Mechelle — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:06:30 +0000

Although, I can’t say that a book, alone, “pushed” (and I really don’t like using the word “pushed” because I don’t feel forced in my lack of belief of a god) but it happened slowly over a period of several years for loads of reasons.

By: Mechelle

Mechelle — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:03:50 +0000

the bible

By: Dwight Welch

Dwight Welch — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:35:05 +0000

A few of the books listed ended up allowing me to affirm theism. In particular Spong’s book Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism: in that if a bishop was free to question anything and remain in the church I shouldn’t have to fear my own questions. I could remain in the church *and* doubt, rethink, reformulate religious ideas with the best of what we know about the world. It gave a kick start to a whole religious journey. This is an interesting topic and I may make a version of it for my blog.