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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"The best-selling author of Why Evolution Is True discusses the negative role of religion in education, politics, medicine and social policy, explaining how religion cannot provide verifiable or responsible answers to world problems"--
Author
Publisher
Sterling Publishing Co., Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Does God exist? Using an intellectually rigorous, scientific approach, Marshall Brain (the founder of HowStuffWorks.com and author of the How Stuff Works series) sets out to resolve the eternal debate once and for all. With a compelling sense of curiosity, he breaks down mankind's search for a higher power, tackling such quandaries as: Who is God? What are his attributes? What is God doing and why? How does God interact with humanity? And ultimately,...
Author
Publisher
Samuel French, Inc
Pub. Date
[1956]
Language
English
Description
"Author Frank Carney is concerned with such fundamental ideas as reason vs. faith, and superstition vs. religion. His script has to do with a girl who returns to the poor farmhouse in which she was born in Ireland's County Mayo, after working in England during World War II. It is obvious that she is emotionally disturbed. A well-meaning doctor, who seeks to find a reason behind everything, thinks her condition can be bettered in a hospital. But the...
Author
Language
English
Description
Mary Neal takes readers deeper into her experience, which includes encounters with angels, a journey to a "city of light," and what it was like to meet Jesus face-to-face. Even more, Neal shares how she came back with clarity that the God we hope for - the one who knows us, loves each of us as though we are the only one, and wants us to experience joy in our daily life - is worthy of our absolute trust. She offers practical insights and inspiration...
Author
Publisher
Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Prominent atheists claim the Bible is a racist text. Yet Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. read it daily. Then again, so did many ardent segregationists. Some atheists claim religion serves to oppress the masses. Yet the classic text of the French Revolution, What is the Third Estate?, was written by a priest. On the other hand, the revolutionaries ended up banning religion. What do we make of religion's confusing role in history? And what of religion's...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale Momentum
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Guillaume Bignon was a French atheist and he was perfectly happy. He was very successful as a software engineer in finance, a musician, and a volleyball player. Yet a chance encounter with a beautiful woman would change the way he thought about his life and beliefs forever. Confessions of a French Atheist is the unusual story of Guillaume Bignon--a man who didn't need God but who grew to believe in God after he thought through the nature of morality,...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A revelatory and game-changing narrative that rewrites everything we thought we knew about the modern history of the Islamic world. With majestic prose, Christopher de Bellaigue presents an absorbing account of the political and social reformations that transformed the lands of Islam in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Flying in the face of everything we thought we knew, The Islamic Enlightenment becomes an astonishing and revelatory...
