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The Battle for God

By: Armstrong, Karen

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Ballantine Books: February 2001

Seller ID: 333834

ISBN: 0345391691

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In our supposedly secular age governed by reason and technology, fundamentalism has emerged as an overwhelming force in every major world religion. Why? This is the fascinating, disturbing question that bestselling author Karen Armstrong addresses in her brilliant new book The Battle for God. Writing with the broad perspective and deep understanding of human spirituality that won huge audiences for A History of God, Armstrong illuminates the spread of militant piety as a phenomenon peculiar to our moment in history.

Contrary to popular belief, fundamentalism is not a throwback to some anci...
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How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror

By: Aslan, Reza

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Random House: April 2009

Seller ID: 319754

ISBN: 1400066727

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

A cosmic war is a religious war. It is a battle not between armies or nations, but between the forces of good and evil, a war in which God is believed to be directly engaged on behalf of one side against the other.
The hijackers who attacked the United States on September 11, 2001, thought they were fighting a cosmic war. According to award-winning writer and scholar of religions Reza Aslan, by infusing the United States War on Terror with the same kind of religiously polarizing rhetoric and Manichean worldview, is also fighting a cosmic war-a war that can't be won.
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The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History

By: Baigent, Michael

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper Collins: April 2006

Seller ID: 271786

ISBN: 0060827130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

What if everything you think you know about Jesus is wrong? In The Jesus Papers, Michael Baigent reveals the truth about Jesus's life and crucifixion. Despite--or rather because of--all the celebration and veneration that have surrounded the figure of Jesus for centuries, Baigent asserts that Jesus and the circumstances leading to his death have been heavily mythologized.

As a religious historian and a leading expert in the field of arcane knowledge, Baigent has unequaled access to hidden archives, secret societies, Masonic records, and the private collections of antiquities ...
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The Jesus Papers: Exposing the Greatest Cover-Up in History

By: Baigent, Michael

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harper Collins: April 2006

Seller ID: 371587

ISBN: 0060827130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists

By: Barker, Dan

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Ulysses Press: September 2008

Seller ID: 351419

ISBN: 1569756775

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

ADVANCE PRAISE FOR GODLESS

"Valuable in the human story are the reflections of intelligent and ethical people who listen to the voice of reason and who allow it to vanquish bigotry and superstition. This book is a classic example."
--CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS author of God is Not Great

"The most eloquent witness of internal delusion that I know--a triumphantly smiling refugee from the zany, surreal world of American fundamentalist Protestantism--is Dan Barker."
--RICHARD DAWKINS author of The God Delusion

The God Delusion

By: Dawkins, Richard

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: January 2006

Seller ID: 377078

ISBN: 0739481320

Binding: Trade Paperback

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The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science

By: Edis, Taner

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Prometheus Books: June 2002

Seller ID: 91823

ISBN: 1573929778

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Is there a God, or a spiritual reality beyond nature? Physicist Taner Edis takes a fresh look at this age-old question, focusing on what we have learned about our world rather than on traditional metaphysical disputes. Emphasizing a search for explanation rather than listing flaws in theistic metaphysics, Edis uses the results of natural science to present a world where complexity, intelligence, and even the sublime heights of religious experience emerge from what is ultimately material and random.
Sympathetically criticizing Muslim and New Age perspectives, as well as Jewish and Christian...
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The Jesus Mysteries: Was the 'Original Jesus' a Pagan God?

By: Freke, Timothy

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Harmony: August 2000

Seller ID: 280526

ISBN: 060960581X

Binding: Hardcover

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Deceptions and Myths of the Bible

By: Graham, Lloyd M.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Skyhorse: August 2012

Seller ID: 378459

ISBN: 1616086750

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Lloyd M. Graham is out to show that the Bible, both the Old and New Testaments as we know them, are not "holy" nor are they the "word of God" revealed. The stories of the Bible were set down by power-seeking priests eager to inspire awe and to gather flocks who would take part in their rites and rituals, and they weren't very original, either.
In Deceptions and Myths of the Bible, Graham reintroduces us to the true origins of Adam and Eve, who were derived from a Babylonian account; to the story of Noah's flood, which was the result of over four hundred years of flood accounts from ...
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Did the Resurrection Happen?: A Conversation With Gary Habermas and Antony Flew (Veritas Forum Books)

By: Habermas, Gary R., Flew, Antony

Price: $8.95

Publisher: IVP Books: June 2009

Seller ID: 48315

ISBN: 0830837183

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

In 2004 philosopher Antony Flew, one of the world's most prominent atheists, publicly acknowledged that he had become persuaded of the existence of God. Not long before that, in 2003, Flew and Christian philosopher Gary Habermas debated at a Veritas Forum at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. Habermas, perhaps the world's leading expert on the historicity of the resurrection of Jesus, made the case for rational belief on the basis of the reliability of the evidence. Flew argued for alternative understandings of the evidence presented. For two-and-a-half decades Flew and ...
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster

By: Henderson, Bobby

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Villard: March 2006

Seller ID: 378592

ISBN: 0812976568

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Can I get a "ramen" from the congregation?

Behold the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM), today's fastest growing carbohydrate-based religion. According to church founder Bobby Henderson, the universe and all life within it were created by a mystical and divine being: the Flying Spaghetti Monster. What drives the FSM's devout followers, a.k.a. Pastafarians? Some say it's the assuring touch from the FSM's "noodly appendage." Then there are those who love the worship service, which is conducted in pirate talk and attended by congregants in dashing buccaneer garb. Still oth...
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

By: Hitchens, Christopher

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Twelve: April 2009

Seller ID: 377565

ISBN: 0446697966

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Whether you're a lifelong believer, a devout atheist, or someone who remains uncertain about the role of religion in our lives, this insightful manifesto will engage you with its provocative ideas.

With a close and studied reading of the major religious texts, Christopher Hitchens documents the ways in which religion is a man-made wish, a cause of dangerous sexual repression, and a distortion of our origins in the cosmos. With eloquent clarity, Hitchens frames the argument for a more secular life based on science and reason, in which hell is replaced by the Hubble Telescope's awesom...
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Polygamy's Rape of Rachael Strong

By: Llewellyn, John R.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Agreka Books: April 2006

Seller ID: 104457

ISBN: 0977707210

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Rachael Strong was raped: By her polygamist prophet stepfather forty-five years her senior who claims he was only living his religion. By a published doctrine that warns: submit or be destroyed by God. By a Utah movement to decriminalize polygamy. By the new "political correctness." Was it incest? Was it rape? Was it extortion? Some call it simply a religious choice Rachael made. In 2006, the State of Utah is enacting policies that appear to be decriminalizing polygamy, and non-profit victims advocate Tapestry Against Polygamy has been asked not to use politically incorrect words like "victim"...
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God's World, Final, Infallible and Forever

By: McElveen, Floyd

Price: $3.95

Publisher: Gospel Truths Ministries: January 1985

Seller ID: 294723

ISBN: B00MXD1BE6

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jesus Christ/Joseph Smith: A Search for the Truth (w/DVD)

By: McElveen, Floyd C.

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Good News For LDS: January 2006

Seller ID: 340553

ISBN: 1573411558

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Scripture Twisting: 20 Ways the Cults Misread the Bible

By: Sire, James W.

Price: $5.95

Publisher: IVP Books: October 1980

Seller ID: 380319

ISBN: 0877846111

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

How often have you encountered some bizarre doctrine only to be stunned to hear a Bible verse quoted to support it? With new religious cults springing up almost daily and old ones growing rapidly, this is more and more common. How are they seemingly able to twist Scripture to mean something orthodox Christians have never believed it to mean in two thousand years? James Sire, author ofThe Universe Next Door and How to Read Slowly, has isolated twenty separate kinds of reading errors which are characteristically made by cultists as they interpret the Bible. He covers the full r...
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God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

By: Stenger, Victor J.

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Prometheus Books: April 2008

Seller ID: 333746

ISBN: 1591026520

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology, while science has sat on the sidelines. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world, somehow the notion has arisen that it has nothing to say about the possibility of a supreme being, which much of humanity worships as the source of all reality. This book contends that, if God exists, some evidence for this existence should be detectable by scientific means, especially considering the centr...
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The Lord's University: Freedom and Authority at Byu

By: Waterman, Bryan, Kagel, Brian

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Signature Books: December 1998

Seller ID: 317892

ISBN: 1560851171

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Repeatedly Brigham Young University (the "Lord's University") grabs headlines by censoring art, firing liberal faculty members, and insisting that Moses wrote the Pentateuch. Waterman and Kagel follow these volatile campus events for a ten-year period and place them within the historical context of greater American culture wars and religious change that have other campuses up in arms about the future of education as well.
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Unveiling Grace: The Story of How We Found Our Way out of the Mormon Church

By: Wilder, Lynn K.

Price: $9.95

Publisher: Zondervan: August 2013

Seller ID: 336316

ISBN: 0310331129

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

From a rare insider's point of view, Unveiling Grace looks at how Latter-day Saints are "wooing our country" with their religion, lifestyle, and culture. It is also a gripping story of how an entire family, deeply enmeshed in Mormonism, found their way out and what they can tell others about their lives as faithful Mormons.

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