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Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving Their Religion (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 848 ratings — published 1993
Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 202 ratings — published 1996
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 7,333 ratings — published 2008
Why I Believed: Reflections of a Former Missionary (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.15 — 455 ratings — published 2008
Testament: Memoir of the Thoughts and Sentiments of Jean Meslier (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 183 ratings — published 1729
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 113,940 ratings — published 2007
The God Delusion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 286,231 ratings — published 2006
Infidel (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 93,238 ratings — published 2006
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 81,966 ratings — published 1995
Losing My Religion: How I Lost My Faith Reporting on Religion in America and Found Unexpected Peace (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,433 ratings — published 2009
Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,202 ratings — published 2006
Counting the Cost (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.99 — 160,320 ratings — published 2023
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 6,911 ratings — published 2024
I Felt the End Before It Came: Memoirs of a Queer Ex-Jehovah's Witness (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.56 — 514 ratings — published 2023
Wayward: A Memoir of Spiritual Warfare and Sexual Purity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.38 — 643 ratings — published
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 6,363 ratings — published 2018
Introduction to Philosophy: Classical and Contemporary Readings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 31 ratings — published
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 72,884 ratings — published 1988
Finding God in the Waves: How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 5,103 ratings — published 2016
Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 533 ratings — published 2012
Mormonism and White Supremacy: American Religion and The Problem of Racial Innocence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 471 ratings — published 2020
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 42,172 ratings — published 1986
The Struggle to Stay: Why Single Evangelical Women Are Leaving the Church (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.27 — 74 ratings — published 2022
Watchman on the Tower: Ezra Taft Benson and the Making of the Mormon Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 245 ratings — published
Fallacy of Fine-Tuning: Why the Universe Is Not Designed for Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 518 ratings — published 2011
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 7,674 ratings — published 2011
Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 5,427 ratings — published 2006
Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 10,004 ratings — published 1997
American Crusade: How the Supreme Court Is Weaponizing Religious Freedom (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.48 — 460 ratings — published 2022
Sincerely Held: American Secularism and Its Believers (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)
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avg rating 4.41 — 17 ratings — published
The Flag and the Cross: White Christian Nationalism and the Threat to American Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 1,528 ratings — published 2022
On Death, Dying, and Disbelief (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 8 ratings — published
The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.25 — 2,630 ratings — published 2020
One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 2,651 ratings — published 2015
Empty the Pews: Stories of Leaving the Church (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 465 ratings — published 2019
Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth (ebook)
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avg rating 3.88 — 2,377 ratings — published 2012
Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,163 ratings — published 2020
Forged: Writing in the Name of God—Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 3,867 ratings — published 2011
Writing God's Obituary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 43 ratings — published 2014
Educated (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,924,894 ratings — published 2018
Women v. Religion: The Case Against Faith―and for Freedom (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 41 ratings — published 2018
Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible & Why We Don't Know About Them (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 11,289 ratings — published 2009
Faithfully Religionless (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 1,056 ratings — published 2016
Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of 'Brainwashing' in China (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 332 ratings — published 1963
Profits of Religion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 243 ratings — published 1917
20 Answers: Atheism (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 69 ratings — published
Finding Faith, Losing Faith: Stories of Conversion and Apostasy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 32 ratings — published 2008
Walking Away from Faith: Unraveling the Mystery of Belief and Unbelief (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 60 ratings — published 2002
The Human Faces of God: What Scripture Reveals When It Gets God Wrong (and Why Inerrancy Tries To Hide It)
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avg rating 4.24 — 187 ratings — published 2010
The Symbolic Jesus: Historical Scholarship, Judaism and the Construction of Contemporary Identity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 10 ratings — published 2005
“I’ve got stories under my skin—
women whom I’ve adored in silence,
to whom I’d offer my whole being if they asked.
Peel my heart open like ripe mangos in August
or Post-its left in prayer rooms.
After de-converting, I sought repentance,
relentless in my search for a cure
in a man,
longing for a "he" to dim the light in my eye
that sparkles for curvy silhouettes and sharp tongues.
But I found no one.
My heart ached with an emptiness,
my soul bellowing in darkness
it didn’t need to endure.”
―
women whom I’ve adored in silence,
to whom I’d offer my whole being if they asked.
Peel my heart open like ripe mangos in August
or Post-its left in prayer rooms.
After de-converting, I sought repentance,
relentless in my search for a cure
in a man,
longing for a "he" to dim the light in my eye
that sparkles for curvy silhouettes and sharp tongues.
But I found no one.
My heart ached with an emptiness,
my soul bellowing in darkness
it didn’t need to endure.”
―
