Top products from r/Freethought
We found 20 product mentions on r/Freethought. We ranked the 32 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
3. Atheists: The Origin of the Species
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4. Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus: Flavian Signature Edition
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5. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
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7. The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia
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9. The Moral Animal: Why We Are, the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
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The Moral Animal Why We Are the Way We Are The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology
10. Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)
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Hyperion (Hyperion Cantos)Hyperion & The Fall of Hyperion 2 Book Set
11. The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
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12. Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
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13. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World
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14. Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity
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15. The Atheist's Guide to Reality: Enjoying Life without Illusions
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16. The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature
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17. Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
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18. Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
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Quiet The Power of Introverts in a World That Can t Stop Talking
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>People who remove religion from their lives often fill the void with less effective (and sometimes harmful) substitutes.
This is actually really interesting and I think explains what happened to me, too. It's a good argument for showing one reason why religion, and creating a false need/purpose, can be a negative thing. It's much easier to live without religion if you've never believed in it before, in my opinion.
Hyperion looks like a good read. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll probably pick it up on Kindle.
For those interested in this topic, I'd also recommend The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller - a book about the impact of sexual selection on the development of the mind and our attraction to aesthetics, humor, music, etc.
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Wonderment, visionary experiences, and shared insights can be quite magical, if not magic.
Paul Devereux, in his book, "The Long Trip: A Prehistory of Psychedelia", makes the case that much drug use is actually quite "natural", from a historical perspective.
Ronald K. Siegel, in his book, "Intoxication: The Universal Drive for Mind-Altering Substances", makes the same claim from a more scientific perspective.
Are you sure you're not just focusing on the "straight-edge" part of modern culture?
And there's scholarship to suggest that lots of the martyrdom stories are later romantic inventions of the church fathers who were obsessed with the ideal of a "good death". This coming from Christian scholars even.
http://www.amazon.com/The-Myth-Persecution-Christians-Martyrdom/dp/0062104527
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This is an amazing book about that:
The Moral Animal
I am somewhat familiar with his notion. Is it pantheism? I was reading this book on pantheism and I realized that a concept of unity seems central to pantheism. I'm not sure why unity would be divine, though. https://www.amazon.com/Pantheism-Non-Theistic-Michael-P-Levine/dp/0415755867/ref=sr_1_12?keywords=pantheism&qid=1556842060&s=books&sr=1-12
I assume you haven't read this book then.
What do you suppose that social evolution is based on if it is not biological evolution? I.e. how did we get to be a social species?
One's culture certainly determines what god/s is/are ingrained, just like it determines what language is spoken. However, the culture does not determine whether or not the normal person will have the capacity for religious belief anymore than it determines the capacity for language.
See if you can find any culture that does not have gods. If people don't have gods they invent them. I watched this happen with my grandson who was being raised home schooled in an un-religious household that didn't talk about religion one way or the other. He invented space alien ancestors, reincarnation, and a sort of rapture (his alien relatives were coming to get him.)
Certainly he took elements from his surrounding culture to invent his religion, but he was not instructed to invent one nor to not invent one.
An easy and informative read of many such errors and additions is Bart Ehrman's Misquoting Jesus. I recommend you check it out if you haven't yet.
I highly recommend The Historical Figure of Jesus by E.P. Sanders.
http://www.amazon.com/Historical-Figure-Jesus-E-Sanders/dp/0140144994/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1256229581&sr=1-1
If you're intrigued by this idea, I can recommend The Clock of the Long Now.
Proving something on Fox wrong is like kicking the kid in the wheelchair over - this isn't worth much.
I'd like to see him and others address all of the issues raised in The Deniers
The roots of all American conspiracy theories are in this document - Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, the Birchers, the teabaggers, everything. Of course the ideas in the Protocols have their own pedigree but this is the nexus that explains much of modern America's delusional thinking.
Another really important document in this vein is William Guy Carr's Pawns in the Game. edit: oh man, don't miss the 5 star reviews at amazon.
I bet my dad that since I was bigger, I would fall into the pool before my younger brother did. He took a video camera out and recorded it, and we fell at the same time. I got mad and said that we had to do it again, so we did, and we both fell at the same speed. Then he explained gravity to me, and showed me Galileo's experiments off the leaning tower.
I don't recall ever having another understanding of the world that I believed so much, but turned out to be false - but this is a memory that's stuck with me for decades, so I think that in some way that experience did shape me.
Also, Lawrence Krauss has this book that is really good, although the subtitle question was not suitably answered for me.
Summary: This article is by the author of "Atheists: The Origin of the Species" a book whose stated conclusion is that "we should expect to hear more about atheism in the future for the simple reason that God is back." Because the scientists he chooses to write about have been Christians like himself, he believes there's no need to become an atheist simply to be "scientific" (whatever that means to him), and he further explains that the people who call themselves atheists are doing so not because they happen to lack a belief in any deities, but instead for political reasons.
Go google the history of our leaders regarding "Cult of Personality" vs "Cult of Character".
Also, go read (or get at your library/audible) Quiet: The Power Of Introverts.
https://www.amazon.com/Caesars-Messiah-Conspiracy-Flavian-Signature/dp/1461096405
I wonder if historically something like Dewey the Cat will have sold more copies than something like The Iliad. Well, maybe not that, but maybe something like Suicide by Durkheim or Sula by Morrison. Also makes me wonder if I've missed out on an especially stellar book due to poor sales/bad publisher/poor promotion/general non-awareness.
She has a contact form here where she asks you to ask permission to use the phrase Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway.
Some new readers have started to review her book here