The Library

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INTRODUCTION

“What do you think about the upheaval in Jesus studies?”  

THIS IS THE QUESTION I WOULD so much like to pose to my Christian friends—to be met, I am sure, in most instances–with blank stares. “What upheaval?” Because they are not paying attention. There has been ongoing heated debate in Christian academia about what can be known about Jesus, but the clergy have no interest in letting their congregations know this has been going on. Even among the devout scholars, however, a heavy faith bias remains in place.

 In fact, the Jesus question has been removed from the exclusive domain of Bible scholars and ecclesiastical functionaries. Most New Testament scholars have been, and remain, committed to the Jesus faith. These are the folks who, in the words of one observer, “…still write books manufacturing and manicuring Jesus to look like they do.” Secular observers decided that this biased community could no longer be trusted to provide honest answers on who and what Jesus was. So you will find plenty of titles on this list by secular analysts who have opened up Jesus studies as never before—and exposed its faulty methodologies and conclusions, e.g., Richard Carrier, Earl Doherty, David Fitzgerald, Raphael Lataster, Robert Price, R. G. Price.

Of course, it’s not just about Jesus. Theism in general and Christianity in particular have been subjected to penetrating, withering critique. We are experiencing—and have been for some twenty years—an unprecedented atheist publishing surge. This has never happened before. Ever. There are more than 500 titles on the list below. Some of the titles predate 2000; I have included them because they are classics in the deconstruction of Christianity, e.g. H. L. Mencken’s Treatise on the Gods (1932) and Charles Guignebert’s Jesus (1935). Not all of the authors cited here are atheists, but one thing that they do have in common is their conviction that the Christian brand of theism—no matter how successful it has been—has been falsified.

My purpose in this Cure-for-Christianity Library is to document many of the resources now available to inquiring minds, and I do hope that Christians can take the hint: use this list to get a grasp of what all the fuss is about—why we have been smacking Christianity down so emphatically—and get a move on! Tackle the homework.

These are the resources that have come to my attention, in book form. Admittedly, this approach may have an archaic aroma. Books? What percentage of the populace—spread across multiple demographics—still reads books? But even for people who no longer pick up hard copies, the titles listed here can be considered portals. Many of the authors on this list have their own websites, Facebook pages, blogs, Twitter accounts. “The Internet,” it has been said, “is where religion goes to die.”

In my book I have presented ten tough problems in Christian thought and belief, to whet the appetite. Please pursue research, read, probe: find out how Jesus, Christianity and theism have all been so convincingly slam dunked.

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Abram, Cheryl,

Firing God, 2014

Alcántar, Fernando,

To the Cross and Back: An Immigrant’s Journey from Faith to Reason, 2015

Allen, Danica,

Love Over Religion: Why I Left Christianity, 2017

Alter, Michael J.,

The Resurrection: A Critical Inquiry, 2015

Andrews, Seth,

Andruszkiewicz, William,

The Hidden Truths: A Journey through and Critique of Religion, 2014

Angier, Natalie,

The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science, 2008

Anonymous,

Atheism Is Winning!   2015

Antony, Louise, ed.,

Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life, 2010

Arel, Dan,

Atheist Republic,

Your God Is Too Small: 50 Essays on Life, Love & Liberty without Religion, 2015

Avalos, Hector,

Babinski, Edward, editor,

Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists, 1995

Baggini, Julian,

Atheism: A Very Short Introduction, 2003

Baker, Barnaby,

Baker, Brian,

Barbera, Don,

Black and Not Baptist: Nonbelief and Freethought in the Black Community, 2003

Barker, Dan,

Barrett, Justin,

Why Would Anyone Believe in God?, 2004

Beaumont, Paul,

A Brief Eternity, 2013

Bechthold, Henry,

Exposing Mega Churches and the Prosperity Gospel Scam, 2019

Bekius, Drew,

The Rise and Fall of Faith: A God-to-Godless Story for Atheists and Christians, 2017

Bennett, Derreck,

Addictus: A Nonbeliever’s Path to Recovery, 2017

Benson, Ophelia & Stangroom, Jeremy

Besant, Annie Wood, 

My Path to Atheism, 1878

Beversluis, John,

C. S. Lewis and the Search for Rational Religion, 2007

Bhaerman, Bob, ed.,

Personal Paths to Humanism, 2016

Blackford, Russell & Schüklenk, Udo,

Blue, Dennis, R. 

Rethinking Jesus: When the Walk Fails the Talk, 2021

Boghossian, Peter,

A Manual for Creating Atheists, 2013

Bowen, Joshua Aaron,

Boyer, Pascal,

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, 2002

Brancazio, Peter,

The Bible from Cover to Cover: How Modern Scholars Read the Scriptures, 2007

Brewster, Melanie, ed.,

Atheists in America, 2014

Bradley, Raymond,

God’s Gravediggers: Why No Deity Exists, 2016

Brain, Marshall,

How “God” Works: A Logical Inquiry on Faith, 2015

Brodie, Thomas,

Beyond the Quest for the Historical Jesus: Memoir of a Discovery, 2012

Brogaard, Betty,

Brucker, J. D.,

God Needs to Go, 2015

Bullivant, Stephen & Ruse, Michael,

The Oxford Handbook of Atheism, 2014

Burge, Ryan, 

The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where They Are Going, 2021

Callahan, Tim,

Secret Origins of the Bible, 2002

Cameron, Christopher,

Black Freethinkers: A History of African American Secularism, 2019

Carroll, Sean,

Carrier, Richard,

Casso, Raul, 

The Folly Bible: The Bible’s Internal Proof of It’s 100% Human Authorship, 2020

Centre, Bart,

Chaney, Daniel, K.,

Religion Refuted: Debunking the Case for God, 2023

Chase, Stephany,

Pulling Back the Green Curtain: 666 Things Your Religious Leaders Never Taught You, 2016

Christina, Greta,

Chumney, David, 

Jesus Eclipsed: How Searching the Scriptures Got in the Way of Recounting the Facts, 2017

Comings, David,

Did Man Create God? Is Your Spiritual Brain at Peace With Your Thinking Brain? 2008

Compere, John,

Outgrowing Religion: Why a Fifth-Generation Southern Baptist Minister Left God for Good, 2016

Conner, Jonah David, 

All That’s Wrong with the Bible: Contradictions, Absurdities, and More,  2017

Conner, Robert,

Coyne, Jerry,

Cragun, Ryan,

Crane, Tim,

The Meaning of Belief: Religion from an Atheist’s Point of View, 2017

Crawford, Tom,

Bible Thumper to Atheist, 2011

Cunningham, George,

Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer? A Geneticist Responds to Francis Collins, 2009

Curran, Andrew,

Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, 2019

Daleiden, Joseph,

The Final Superstition: A Critical Evaluation of the Judeo-Christian Legacy, 1994

Dana, Dan, 

The Reason Revolution: Atheism, Secular Humanism, and the Collapse of Religion, 2014

Daniels, Kenneth,

Why I Believed: Reflections of a Former Missionary, 2010

Dawkins, Richard,

Dennett, Daniel & LaScola, Linda,

Caught in The Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind, 2013

Dennett, Daniel,

DeWitt, Jerry & Brown, Ethan,

Hope after Faith: An Ex-Pastor’s Journey from Belief to Atheism, 2013

Doherty, Earl,

Dow, Steve,

Breaking Up with Jesus: Why I Left a Faith I Loved, 2021

Drange, Theodore M.,

Nonbelief & Evil: Two Arguments for the Nonexistence of God, 1998

Dressler, Alan,

Voyage to the Great Attractor: Exploring Intergalactic Space, 1994

Duke, Doyle, E.,

The Amazing Deception: A Critical Analysis of Christianity, 2009

Du Mez, Kristin Kobes,

Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation, 2020

Dumphy, Catherine,

From Apostle to Apostate: The Story of the Clergy Project, 2015

Dustcircle, Steve,

Leaving Worship: From Worship Leader to Atheist Activist, 2015

Dykstra, Tom,

Mark, Canonizer of Paul, 2012

Eden, Jason,

That’s Me In the Corner: Coming Out as An Atheist on Facebook, 2014

Edis, Tanner,

Ehrman, Bart,

Einhorn, Lena,

A Shift in Time: How Historical Documents Reveal the Surprising Truth about Jesus, 2016 

Eldridge, J. R.,

Eller, David,

Ellerbe, Helen,

The Dark Side of Christian History, 1995/2007

Enstedt, Daniel,

Handbook of Leaving Religion, 2019

Epstein, Greg,

Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe, 2010

Evans, D. K.,

Emancipation of a Black Atheist, 2017

Evans, Lloyd,

The Reluctant Apostate: Leaving Jehovah’s Witnesses Comes at a Price, 2017

Everett, Daniel,

Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes, 2008

Everett, Nicholas,

The Non-Existence of God, 2003

Farley, David,

An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Church’s Strangest Relic in Italy’s Oddest Town, 2010

Ferris, Timothy,

Coming of Age in the Milky Way, 1988

Finch, Jamie Lee,

You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity, 2019

Finklestein, Israel & Silberman, Neil Asher,

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology’s New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts, 2002

Fitzgerald, David,

Fodor, James,

Unreasonable Faith: How William Lane Craig Overstates the Case for Christianity, 2018

Fox, Cassie,

Black Sheep: My Journey from Evangelical Christianity to Atheism, 2019

Fox, Robin Lane,

The Unauthorized Version: Truth and Fiction in the Bible, 1992

Frame, Tom,

Losing My Religion: Unbelief in Australia, 2009

Fredriksen, Paula,

From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ, 2000

Gagnon, Romain,

So Man Created God in His Own Image: The Science of Happiness, 2019

Garcia, Hector,

Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, 2015

Garst, Karen L., 

Gaylor, Annie Laurie,

Geary, Patrick J.,

Furta Sacra: Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages, 1991

Gerry, Lyn,

Morality Made Me an Atheist: Calling BS on William Barr, the Attorney General of the United States of America, 2020

Gilgamesh, Horus,

Gill, Tyson,

Belief in Science and the Science of Belief, 2010

Gorham, Candace A.M.,

The Ebony Exodus Project: Why Some Black Women Are Walking Out on Religion—and Others Should Too, 2014

Graham, Lloyd M.,

Deceptions and Myths of the Bible, 2012

Grant, Michael,

Saint Paul, 2000

Grayling, A.C.,

Greczyn, Alice, 

Wayward, A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity, 2021

Green, Ruth,

The Born Again Skeptic’s Guide to the Bible, 1999

Guigneberg, Charles,

Jesus, 1935

Gutierrez, M.L.,

The Bible Dilemma: Historical Contradictions, Misquoted Statements, Failed Prophecies and Oddities in the Bible, 2015

Hafer, Abby,

The Not-So-Intelligent Designer: Why Evolution Explains the Human Body and Intelligent Design Does Not, 2015

Hägglund, Martin,

This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom,   2019

Hall, Jim,

Most People Believe in God, Can They All Be Wrong?: The Christianity Counter-Apologetics Handbook, 2013

Hallquist, Chris,

UFOs, Ghosts, and a Rising God: Debunking the Resurrection of Jesus, 2009

Hampson, Margaret Daphne & Hampson, Daphne,

After Christianity, 2017

Hand, David J.,

The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day, 2014

Harbour, Daniel,

An Intelligent Person’s Guide to Atheism, 2001

Harding, Nick,

How to Be a Good Atheist, 2008

Harris, Sam

Harrison, Guy,

Harvie, Robin. & Meyers, Stephanie, eds.,

The Atheist’s Guide to Christmas, 2010

Harwood, William,

Mythology’s Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus, 1992

Haught, James A.,

Hawking, Stephen,

Brief Answers to the Big Questions, 2018

Hawking, Stephen & Mladinow, Leonard,

The Grand Design, 2012

Hecht, Jennifer Michael,

Doubt: A History: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily Dickinson, 2004

Heimlich, Janet,

Breaking Their Will: Shedding Light on Religious Child Maltreatment, 2011

Helms, Randel,

Hempton, David,

Evangelical Disenchantment: Nine Portraits of Faith and Doubt, 2008

Highland, Chris,

Hitchens, Christopher,

Holman, Joe E., 

Project Bible Truth: A Minister Turns Atheist and Tells All, 2010

Houk, James, 

The Illusion of Certainty: How the Flawed Beliefs of Religion Harm Our Culture, 2017

Howson, Colin,

Objecting to God, 2011

Hunsberger, Bruce & Altemeyer, Bob,

Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America’s Nonbelievers, 2006

Hutchinson, Sikivu,

Humanists in the Hood, 2020

Hyndman, Rob J.,

Unbelievable, 2015

Hyppolite, Carolyn,

Still Small Voices: The Testimony of a Born Again Atheist, 2014

Ingman, Neel,

Jacob, Margaret,

The Secular Enlightenment, 2019

Jacoby, Susan,

James, Craig,

The Religion Virus: Why We Believe in God, 2010

Jefferson, Thomas

The Jefferson Bible, Smithsonian Press, 2011

Jelbert, Glenton,

Evidence Considered: A Response to Evidence for God, 2017

Jenkins, Philip,

Jeskin, Alan,

Outgrowing God: Moving Beyond Religion, 2010

Jillette, Penn,

God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, 2012

Johns, Nathaniel Thomas,

The Search for Truth: A Deconversion from Christianity, 2017

Johnson, Chris,

A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy & Meaning in a World Without God, 2014

Johnson, David, et al,

Still Unbelievable: Why after listening to Christian Arguments We Are Still Skeptics, 2018

Joshi, S. T.,

Justice, Mark,

Toxic, 2020

Keith, Chris & Le Donne, Anthony, eds,

Jesus, Criteria and the Demise of Authenticity, 2012

Kelly, Joshua,

Oh, Your God!: The Evil Idea That Is Religion, 2016

Kennedy, Ludovic,

All In the Mind: A Farewell to God, 1999

Kent, Jack,

The Psychological Origins of the Resurrection Myth, 1999

Kick, Russ, ed.,

Everything You Know About God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion, 2007

Kiekeben, Franz,

King, D. McClain,

The Heathen’s Crucifixion Song: A Journey to Humanism, 2021

Kitcher, Philip,

Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism, 2015

Klein, George

The Atheist and the Holy City: Encounters and Reflections, 1990

Klein, Peter

Beyond God: Why Religions Are False, Outdated and Dangerous, 2018

Komarnitsky, Kris,

Doubting Jesus’ Resurrection: What Happened in the Black Box? 2009

Konner, Joan,

The Atheist’s Bible: An Illustrious Collection of Irreverent Thoughts, 2011

Krauss, Lawrence,

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing, 2013

Lalli, Nica,

Nothing: Something to Believe In, 2007

Lataster, Raphael,

Lauritzen, Bill,

The Invention of God: The Natural Origins of Mythology and Religion, 2011

Law, Stephen,

Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole, 2011

Lee, Adam,

Daylight Atheism(2014)

Lehto, Bill, ed.,

Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories, 2012

Lents, Nathan,

Human Errors: A Panorama of Our Glitches, from Pointless Bones to Broken Genes, 2018

Le Poidevin, Robin,

Arguing for Atheism: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Religion, 1996

Lerant, Frank,

How I Opened My Mind and Let God Out: An Electrician’s Road to Atheism, 2020

Lewis, Joseph,

An Atheist Manifesto, 2012

Lewis, Ralph,

Finding Purpose in a Godless World: Why We Care Even If the Universe Doesn’t, 2018

Lindsay, James,

Lindsay, Ronald,

The Necessity of Secularism: Why God Can’t Tell Us What To Do, 2014

Lobdell, William,

Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace, 2009

Loftus, John,

Loftus, John, editor,

Loftus, John & Price, Robert, editors,

Varieties of Jesus Mythicism: Did He Even Exist? 2021

Long, Jason,

Lugeons, Noah,

Maccoby, Hyam,

The Mythmaker: Paul and the Invention of Christianity, 1998

MacDonald, Dennis,

Mack, Burton,

MacLean, Brent,

My Perfect Broken God: Musings of a Former Believer, 2019

Madison, David, 

Maguire, Daniel,

Christianity without God: Moving beyond the Dogmas and Retrieving the Epic Moral Narrative, 2014

Maisel, Eric,

The Atheist’s Way: Living Well Without Gods, 2009

Malkin, Vitaly,

Dangerous Illusions: How Religion Deprives Us of Happiness, 2018

Mark, Jeffrey,

Christian No More: On Leaving Christianity, Debunking Christianity, And Embracing Atheism And Freethinking, 2008

Martel, Frédéric,

In the Closet of the Vatican: Power, Homosexuality, Hypocrisy, 2019

Martin, Colby,

Martin, Michael,

Martin, Michael & Monnier, Ricki, eds.,

Matheson, Chris,

The Story of God: A Biblical Comedy about Love (and Hate), 2015

McAfee, David,

McCormick, Matthew,

Atheism and the Case Against Christ, 2012

McFarlane, Lori Arnold,

The Last Petal Falling, 2015

McGowan, Dale,

McGowan, Dale, ed.,

Voices of Unbelief: Documents from Atheists and Agnostics, 2012

McGowan, Dale; Matsumura, Molleen; Metskas, Amada; Devor, Jan,

Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief, 2009

McGrath, Stephen,

1001 Questions God Won’t Answer for Christians, 2015

Mencken, H. L.,

Treatise on the Gods, 1932

Mehta, Hemant,

Mettinger, Tryggve,

The Riddle of Resurrection: “Dying and Rising God” in the Ancient Near East, 2017

Miller, Richard C., 

Miller, Robert J.,

Mills, David,

Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person’s Answer to Christian Fundamentalism, 2006

Miranda, Francisco J.,

Inside a Non-Believer’s Mind—Compilation, 2011

Mitchell, Deborah,

Growing Up Godless: A Parent’s Guide to Raising Kids Without Religion, 2014

Molyneux, Stefan,

Against the Gods? A Concise Guide to Atheism and Agnosticism, 2011

Morgan, Ben,

Rage of Reason: A Relentless Critique of the Bible, 2020

Moss, Candida,

The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom, 2014

Mulholland, James,

Leaving Your Religion: A Practical Guide to Becoming Non-Religious, 2013

Murphy, Derek,

Jesus Potter Harry Christ: The Fascinating Parallels Between Two of the World’s Most Popular Literary Characters, 2011

Murray, Malcolm,

The Atheist’s Primer (Broadview Guides to Philosophy, 2010

Musolino, Julien,

The Soul Fallacy: What Science Shows We Gain from Letting Go of Our Soul Beliefs, 2015

Naff, Clay Farris,

Navabi, Armin,

Why There Is No God: Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God, 2014

Nicholls, William,

Christian Anti-Semitism: A History of Hate, 1995

Nickell, Joe,

The Science of Miracles: Investigating the Incredible, 2013

Niose, David,

Nixey, Catherine, 

The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, 2018

Onfray, Michel,

Atheism Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism and Islam, 2011

Oppy, Graham,

Orenstein, David & Blaikie, Linda,

Godless Grace: How Non-Believers Make the World Safer, Richer and Kinder, 2015

Orenstein, David & Hafer, Abby,

Darwin’s Apostles: The Men Who Fought to Have Evolution Accepted, Their Times, and How  the Battle Continues, 2019

Orr, Norman,

Embracing Biological Humanism: Abandoning the Idea of God, 2021

Ostman, Cami & Tive, Susan,

Beyond Belief: The Secret Lives of Women in Extreme Religions, 2013

Ozment, Katherine,

Grace Without God: The Search for Meaning, Purpose, and Belonging in a Secular Age, 2016

Palmer, Michael,

Parsons, Keith,

God and the Burden of Proof: Plantinga, Swinburne, and the Analytical Defense of Theism, 1989

Paulkovich, Michael

Beyond the Crusades: Christianity’s Lies, Laws and Legacy, 2016

Pearce, Jonathan MS,

Pearce, Jonathan MS, editor,

Perakh, Mark,

Unintelligent Design, 2003

Pervo, Richard,

Pfeiffer, C. Boyd

No Proof at All: A Cure for Christianity, 2015

Pigluicci, Massimo,

Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk, 2010

Pinn, Anthony,

Podles, Leon J.,

Sacrilege: Sexual Abuse in the Catholic Church, 2008

Porteous, Skipp,

Jesus Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, 1991

Price, R. G.,

Deciphering the Gospels Proves Jesus Never Existed, 2018

Price, Robert,

Price, Robert & Suominen, Ed

Evolving Out of Eden, 2013

Price, Robert & Lowder, J. J., eds.,

The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond The Grave, 2005

Probulos, I. M.,

101 Reasons for Non-Belief: for Atheists, Agnostics, and Secular Humanists, 2018

Prothero, Stephen,

Pyle, Jack,

Was Jesus Potty Trained? 2018

Ra, Aron,

Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism, 2016

Rafferty, Tom,

Making Stuff Up Is Unwise: An Introduction to Reason, Skepticism and Science, 2012

Rambow,  Henry,

Confessions of a Rogue Missionary, 2020

Ramsey, David Blair,

Speaking of God: We Don’t Know $hit: A Former Minister Reflects on God and Religion, 2020

Rastrelli, Tom,

Confessions of a Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary, 2020

Ray, Darrell,

The God Virus: How Religion Infects our Lives and our Culture, 2009

Rhodes, Larry,

Atheism: What’s It All About?, 2015

Rigsby, Casper,

Riley, Dan,

Generation Atheist, 2012

Ripley, Bob,

Life Beyond Belief: A Preacher’s Deconversion, 2014

Roberts, Teresa,

Have We Been Screwed? Trading Freedom for Fairy Tales, 2017

Rodda, Chris,

Rodriguez, Orlando,

The True Nature of Human Nature: The Symbiotic Parasite Known as Religion, 2019

Roncace, Mark,

Raw Revelation: The Bible They Never Tell You About, 2012

Rosch, Staks,

Disproving God and 5 Adequate Reasons to Be an Atheist, 2021

Rubicondior, Rosa,

The Unintelligent Designer: Refuting the Intelligent Design Hoax, 2018

Russell, Bertrand,

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects, 1967

Rymel, Tim,

Rethinking Everything: When Faith and Reality Don’t Make Sense, 2018

Sagan, Carl,

Sawyer, Sig,

Christianity Disproved, 2017

Schick, Theodore & Vaughn, Lewis,

How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, 2013

Scorah, Amber,

Leaving the Witness: Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life, 2019

Seidel, Andrew,

The Founding Myth: Why Christian Nationalism is Un-American, 2019

Seidensticker, Bob, 

Sentilles, Sarah,

Breaking Up with God: A Love Story, 2011

Sherlock, Michael A., 

Shermer, Michael,

Short, Timothy Michael,

Preacher Boy: Liberty University Graduate Bids Farewell to Falwell and Hello to Atheism, 2011

Silverman, David,

Fighting God: An Atheist Manifesto for a Religious World, 2015

Silverman, Herb,

Candidate Without a Prayer: An Autobiography of a Jewish Atheist in the Bible Belt, 2012

Sjørdal, Jonathan Erik, Two Witnesses: Hebrew Texts Changed By The Greek New Testament, 2009

Sledge, Tim,

Sloan, Richard,

Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine, 2006

Smith, David Oliver,

Matthew, Mark, Luke, and Paul: The Influence of the Epistles on the Synoptic Gospels, 2011

Smith, George,

Atheism: The Case Against God, 1979

Smith, Mark A.,

Broken Promises: Jesus & The Second Coming, 2020

Snedeker, Rick,

Holy Smoke: How Christianity Smothered the American Dream, 2020

Sobel, Jordan Howard,

Logic and Theism: Arguments for and against Beliefs in God, 2004

Sparks, Elicka Peterson,

The Devil You Know: The Surprising Link Between Conservative Christianity and Crime, 2016

Speckhardt, Roy,

Creating Change Through Humanism, 2015

Starfire, Amber Lea,

Accidental Jesus Freak: One Woman’s Journey from Fundamentalism to Freedom, 2018

Stauth, Cameron,

In the Name of God: The True Story of the Fight to Save Children from Faith-Healing Homicide, 2013

Stefanelli, Al,

Stedman, Chris,

Faitheist: How an Atheist Found Common Ground with the Religious, 2013

Steele, David Ramsay,

Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy, 2008

Stenger, Victor,

Stephens, Mitchell,

Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern World, 2014

Stroop, Chrissy,

Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church,  2019

Suominen, Ed,  An Examination of the Pearl, 2012

Tarico, Valerie,

Taviano, Marla,

unbelieve: poems on the journey to becoming a heretic, 2021

Templeton, Charles,

Thomas, J. Anderson & Aukofer, Claire,

Why We Believe in God(s): A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith, 2011

Thompson, Thomas,

The Messiah Myth: The Near Eastern Roots of Jesus and David, 2005

Thompson, Thomas & Verenna, Thomas S., editors,

Is Not This the Carpenter? The Question of the Historicity of the Figure of Jesus, 2014

Tiger, Steven,

Doctrine Impossible: A Journey from Dogmatic Religiosity to Rational Spirituality, 2019

Tobin, Paul,

The Rejection of Pascal’s Wager: A Skeptical Guide to the Bible and the Historical Jesus, 2009

Torres, Phil,

The End: What Science and Religion Tell Us about the Apocalypse, 2016

Tosto, Michael Vito,

Portrait of an Infidel: The Acerbic Account of How a Passionate Christian Became an Ardent Atheist, 2016

Tuchman, Barbara,

A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century, 1987

Twitchell, James B.,

Shopping for God: How Christianity Went from In Your Heart to in Your Face, 2007

Tyson, Neil deGrasse & Goldsmith, Donald,

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, 2014

Uhl, Stephen Frederick,

Out of God’s Closet: This Priest Psychologist Chooses Friendly Atheism, 2009

Vanderburgh, William L.,

David Hume on Miracles, Evidence, and Probability,  2019

Vincent, Marc,

Liberation from God: Step Away from the Fairytale, 2014

Wackrow, Richard E.,

Beginner’s Guide to Blasphemy, 2016

Walker, Barbara, G.,

Warnock, Dave,

Childish Ways: A Memoir, 2022

Wathey, John,

Watson, Peter,

The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live since the Death of God, 2014

Weinstein, Bonnie,

To the Far Right Christian Hater…You Can Be a Good Speller or Hater, But You Can’t Be Both, 2014

Wells, George Albert,

Cutting Jesus Down to Size: What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity,  2013

Wells, Steve,

Werleman, C. J.,

Werner, Michael,

What Can You Believe If You Don’t Believe in God? 2017

Wheaton, Billy & Fuller, Joy,

Hooks and Ladders: A Journey on a Bridge to Nowhere with American Evangelical Christians, 2009

Wheless, Joseph,

Forgery in Christianity, 1930

Whitmarsh, Tim,

Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World, 2015

Williams, Albert,

Why Our Children Will Be Atheists: The Last 100 Years of Religion and the Dawn of a World Without Gods, 2013

Wilson, A.N.,

Wilson, Diane,

Awakening of a Jehovah’s Witness: Escape from the Watchtower Society, 2002

Wilson, Rodney

Killing God: Christian Fundamentalism and the Rise of Atheism, 2015

Winell, Marlene,

Leaving the Fold, 2006

Winsor, John,

What Your Preacher Didn’t Tell You: That You Really Ought to Know, 2011

Wiseman, Michael,

The Bible Says What!?, 2021

Wood, James, Jr.,

Leaving Jesus: A Book Every Christian Should Have Read Before They Believed in Jesus, 2012

Young, Matt,

No Sense of Obligation: Science and Religion in an Impersonal Universe, 2001

Young, Matt & Edis, Tanner,

Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism, 2004

Zichterman, Jocelyn,

I Fired God: My Life Inside—and Escape from—the Secret World of the Independent Fundamental Baptist Cult, 2013

Zindler, Frank R., 

Zingrone, William A.,

The Arrogance of Religious Thought: Information Kills Religion,  (2016)

Zuckerman, Phil,

Zuckerman, Phil; Galen, Luke; Pasquale, Frank,

The Nonreligious: Understanding Secular People and Societies, 2016