-
To Pray Is Not the Way - How to Be an Atheist
- Religion - the Most Dangerous Addiction (Intelligent Atheism)
- Narrated by: Jeremy Zentner
- Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
Add to Cart failed.
Add to Wish List failed.
Remove from wishlist failed.
Adding to library failed
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Buy for $6.04
No default payment method selected.
We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method
Listeners also enjoyed...
-
The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- By: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.
-
-
Why Good People Are Divided - Good for whom?
- By K. Cunningham on 09-21-12
By: Jonathan Haidt
-
Jesus Among Secular Gods
- The Countercultural Claims of Christ
- By: Ravi Zacharias, Vince Vitale
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale defend the absolute claims of Christ against modern belief in the "secular gods" of atheism, scientism, relativism, and more. The rise of these secular gods presents the most serious challenge to the absolute claims of Christ since the founding of Christianity itself. The Christian worldview has not only been devalued and dismissed by modern culture, but its believers are openly ridiculed as irrelevant. This audiobook is fresh, insightful, and important, and faces head on today's most urgent challenges to Christian faith.
-
-
Affirming the truth
- By stephen joseph whitten on 04-04-17
By: Ravi Zacharias, and others
-
What Is a Woman?
- One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation
- By: Matt Walsh
- Narrated by: Matt Walsh
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We used to think being a woman had something to do with biology, but the nation’s top experts keep assuring us that is definitely not the case. So Matt decided to do what no man had done before. He sat down with the experts and asked them directly. Join Matt on his often comical yet deeply disturbing journey as he answers the question generations before us never knew they needed to ask: What is a woman?
-
-
A book that all teens and people need to read
- By Disneydreamer74 on 07-05-22
By: Matt Walsh
-
You Are Now Less Dumb
- How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
- By: David McRaney
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we’re not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.
-
-
Not a lot of guidance
- By A. Yoshida on 02-08-14
By: David McRaney
-
My Final Word
- Holding Tight to the Issues that Matter Most
- By: Charles W. Colson, Anne Morse
- Narrated by: Maurice England
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the most respected and influential Christian leaders of the last several decades, Chuck Colson engaged millions through his books, public speaking, and radio broadcasts. In My Final Word, longtime Colson coauthor Anne Morse has selected and arranged pieces Colson wrote mostly during the last decade of his life, spotlighting what he saw as key topics of ongoing importance for Christian cultural engagement.
-
-
Wonderful insights
- By Garry Wilson on 08-23-16
By: Charles W. Colson, and others
-
Baptized Atheist
- By: David Smalley, David Eller
- Narrated by: David C. Smalley
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"As a firm believer, I began having doubts. Doubts about faith, and doubts about believers not asking questions. I embarked on a journey to get closer to God. Perhaps I became too close. What I saw changed my life forever."
-
-
A Journey About Religion That Everyone Can Take!
- By RVOnTheWayside on 06-12-12
By: David Smalley, and others
-
The Righteous Mind
- Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
- By: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrated by: Jonathan Haidt
- Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In The Righteous Mind, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt explores the origins of our divisions and points the way forward to mutual understanding. His starting point is moral intuition - the nearly instantaneous perceptions we all have about other people and the things they do. These intuitions feel like self-evident truths, making us righteously certain that those who see things differently are wrong. Haidt shows us how these intuitions differ across cultures, including the cultures of the political left and right.
-
-
Why Good People Are Divided - Good for whom?
- By K. Cunningham on 09-21-12
By: Jonathan Haidt
-
Jesus Among Secular Gods
- The Countercultural Claims of Christ
- By: Ravi Zacharias, Vince Vitale
- Narrated by: Peter Berkrot
- Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Ravi Zacharias and Vince Vitale defend the absolute claims of Christ against modern belief in the "secular gods" of atheism, scientism, relativism, and more. The rise of these secular gods presents the most serious challenge to the absolute claims of Christ since the founding of Christianity itself. The Christian worldview has not only been devalued and dismissed by modern culture, but its believers are openly ridiculed as irrelevant. This audiobook is fresh, insightful, and important, and faces head on today's most urgent challenges to Christian faith.
-
-
Affirming the truth
- By stephen joseph whitten on 04-04-17
By: Ravi Zacharias, and others
-
What Is a Woman?
- One Man's Journey to Answer the Question of a Generation
- By: Matt Walsh
- Narrated by: Matt Walsh
- Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
We used to think being a woman had something to do with biology, but the nation’s top experts keep assuring us that is definitely not the case. So Matt decided to do what no man had done before. He sat down with the experts and asked them directly. Join Matt on his often comical yet deeply disturbing journey as he answers the question generations before us never knew they needed to ask: What is a woman?
-
-
A book that all teens and people need to read
- By Disneydreamer74 on 07-05-22
By: Matt Walsh
-
You Are Now Less Dumb
- How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself
- By: David McRaney
- Narrated by: Don Hagen
- Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
You Are Now Less Dumb is grounded in the idea that we all believe ourselves to be objective observers of reality - except we’re not. But that's okay, because our delusions keep us sane. Expanding on this premise, McRaney provides eye-opening analyses of 15 more ways we fool ourselves every day. This smart and highly entertaining audiobook will be wowing listeners for years to come.
-
-
Not a lot of guidance
- By A. Yoshida on 02-08-14
By: David McRaney
-
My Final Word
- Holding Tight to the Issues that Matter Most
- By: Charles W. Colson, Anne Morse
- Narrated by: Maurice England
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
One of the most respected and influential Christian leaders of the last several decades, Chuck Colson engaged millions through his books, public speaking, and radio broadcasts. In My Final Word, longtime Colson coauthor Anne Morse has selected and arranged pieces Colson wrote mostly during the last decade of his life, spotlighting what he saw as key topics of ongoing importance for Christian cultural engagement.
-
-
Wonderful insights
- By Garry Wilson on 08-23-16
By: Charles W. Colson, and others
-
Baptized Atheist
- By: David Smalley, David Eller
- Narrated by: David C. Smalley
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"As a firm believer, I began having doubts. Doubts about faith, and doubts about believers not asking questions. I embarked on a journey to get closer to God. Perhaps I became too close. What I saw changed my life forever."
-
-
A Journey About Religion That Everyone Can Take!
- By RVOnTheWayside on 06-12-12
By: David Smalley, and others
-
Keeping Your Kids on God's Side
- By: Natasha Crain
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Empower your kids to respond well to the hard questions that threaten their faith. It's no secret that children of all ages are being exposed to negative criticism of Christianity as they spend time at school, with friends, or online. Are you prepared to talk with your kids about how they can effectively answer the tough questions that come their way? In Keeping Your Kids on God's Side, you'll find 40 of the most common challenges kids face - along with clear, easy-to-understand responses you can discuss together.
-
-
Complexity in an educated nutshell
- By Amazon Customer on 07-05-19
By: Natasha Crain
-
What You Don't Know about Religion (but Should)
- By: Ryan T. Cragun
- Narrated by: Ryan T. Cragun
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What is a religion? Why are people religious? Are religious people more educated than nonreligious people? Are religious people more moral, more humble, or happier? Are religious people more or less prejudiced than nonreligious people? Is religion good for your health? Are people becoming more or less religious? Studying religion as a social phenomenon, Ryan T. Cragun follows the scientific data to provide answers to these and other questions.
-
-
Basically review
- By Kris seals on 02-12-15
By: Ryan T. Cragun
-
A Manual for Creating Atheists
- By: Peter Boghossian
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith - and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, this audiobook offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith - but for talking them out of it.
-
-
The first atheist missionary
- By Paul on 03-18-14
By: Peter Boghossian
-
Combating Cult Mind Control
- The #1 Best-Selling Guide to Protection, Rescue, and Recovery from Destructive Cults
- By: Steven Hassan
- Narrated by: Daniel Greenberg
- Length: 13 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The techniques of undue influence have evolved dramatically and continue to do so. Today, a vast array of methods exist to deceive, manipulate, and indoctrinate people into closed systems of obedience and dependency. This audiobook can help you protect or regain your sanity, freedom, and health. It can also help you protect others from the use of mind-control techniques.
-
-
Getting to know you.
- By Bryan Zingen on 10-27-18
By: Steven Hassan
-
Torn
- Rescuing the Gospel from the Gays-vs.-Christians Debate
- By: Justin Lee
- Narrated by: Justin Lee
- Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
As a teenager and young man, Justin Lee felt deeply torn. Nicknamed "God Boy" by his peers, he knew that he was called to a life in the evangelical Christian ministry. But Lee harbored a secret: He also knew that he was gay. In this groundbreaking book, Lee recalls the events - his coming out to his parents, his experiences with the "ex-gay" movement, and his in-depth study of the Bible - that led him, eventually, to self-acceptance. But more than just a memoir, Torn provides insightful, practical guidance for all committed Christians who wonder how to relate to gay friends or family members - or who struggle with their own sexuality.
-
-
An Articulate Book that Misses the Biblical Point
- By LP on 09-13-16
By: Justin Lee
-
The Case for Faith
- A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity (Case for... Series)
- By: Lee Strobel
- Narrated by: Van Tracy
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Best-selling author and former atheist Lee Strobel investigates the nettlesome issues and doubts of the heart that threaten faith, including doubt, the problem of pain, and the existence of evil. This updated edition features two all-new chapters, an updated list of recommended resources for further study, and a new discussion guide.
-
-
Amazing
- By Delon Henegar on 03-05-23
By: Lee Strobel
-
The Atheist Muslim
- A Journey from Religion to Reason
- By: Ali A. Rizvi
- Narrated by: Neil Shah
- Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Struggling to reconcile the Muslim society he was living in as a scientist and physician and the religion he was being raised in, Ali A. Rizvi eventually lost his faith. Discovering that he was not alone, he moved to North America and promised to use his new freedom of speech to represent the voices that are usually quashed before reaching the mainstream media - those of Atheist Muslims.
-
-
An honest book
- By Naeem Rahim on 11-28-16
By: Ali A. Rizvi
-
Why There Is No God
- Simple Responses to 20 Common Arguments for the Existence of God
- By: Armin Navabi
- Narrated by: Dave Richards
- Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why There Is No God provides simple, easy-to-understand counterpoints to the most popular arguments made for the existence of God. Each chapter presents a concise explanation of the argument, followed by a response illustrating the problems and fallacies inherent in it. Whether you're an atheist, a believer, or undecided, this book offers a solid foundation for building your own inquiry about the concept of God.
-
-
An excellent overview of atheism.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz on 01-19-15
By: Armin Navabi
-
Breaking the Spell
- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why - and how - it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma.
-
-
Great Reader Actually Enhances A Great Book!
- By Don Caliente on 07-14-14
-
The New Revelations
- A Conversation with God
- By: Neale Donald Walsch
- Narrated by: Neale Donald Walsch, Edward Asner, Ellen Burstyn
- Length: 6 hrs
- Abridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The human race has reached a Time of Choosing. Our options are being placed before us by the tide of events, and by those who are creating them. We can either move forward, building together at last a new world of peace and harmony based on new beliefs about God and Life, or move backward, separately and continuously reconstructing the old world of conflict and discord.
-
-
Finally, a way to make sense of it all!
- By Robert on 11-26-05
-
Love Is an Orientation
- Elevating the Conversation with the Gay Community
- By: Andrew Marin
- Narrated by: Daniel May
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Andrew Marin's life changed forever when his three best friends came out to him in three consecutive months. Suddenly he was confronted with the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community (GLBT) firsthand. And he was compelled to understand how he could reconcile his friends to his faith. In an attempt to answer that question, he and his wife relocated to Boystown, a predominantly GLBT community in Chicago. And from his experience and wrestling has come his book, Love Is an Orientation.
-
-
This is absolutely amazing.
- By Jen on 05-23-17
By: Andrew Marin
-
Talking with Your Kids About God
- 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have
- By: Natasha Crain
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Christian parenting is hard work - and it's getting harder. Parents have a deep desire to pass on their faith, but fear that today's increasingly skeptical and hostile world will eventually lead their kids to reject the truth of Christianity. That leaves many parents feeling overwhelmed - uncertain of what they can do to help their children, given the difficulty and extent of the faith challenges they will face.
-
-
Very practical book
- By Jessica on 02-13-18
By: Natasha Crain
Publisher's Summary
Inside, you'll discover three controversial discussions:
Part one: "Religion Is a Dangerous Addiction"
Regardless of whatever prejudgments you may have, I commend you for opening this educated rant at all. I’m especially impressed if you are of the religious persuasion and therefore want to make one point irrevocably clear before I get into the meat of the message. There is a significant difference between religion and faith. Religion and faith may coexist, but they are not linked to one another as strongly as some people tend to think. Yes, you need faith if you’re going to practice religion, but you don’t need religion to have faith. It’s easy to blur the lines between the two, but you don’t have to have religion to believe in something unproven.
Part two: "Is Religion a Genetic Flaw?"
Religion versus science. It’s one of the most heated arguments of the last few centuries. Religion has felt the heat of scientific advancement since Galileo backed the idea of heliocentrism, the belief - now known to be fact - that the Earth revolves around the sun. Galileo would stand trial, be threatened with torture, and spend the rest of his days under house arrest for his belief. It’s just one example of many that show just how arrogant religion can be in promoting ignorance.
Part three: "Coming Out of the Atheist Closet"
We live in an odd time where the word tolerance is much misunderstood and selfishly used. In the US at least, we’re continually being told to have an understanding of other people’s life decisions, yet lawsuits to the contrary continue to crop up on a daily basis. One of the best examples of this double standard has to do with the ever-pressing issue of homosexuality. We’re supposed to be tolerant of homosexuals but not allow them to marry one another? How does refusing one’s rights equate to tolerance?
What listeners say about To Pray Is Not the Way - How to Be an Atheist
Average Customer RatingsReviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
- redsrule1
- 07-19-21
Needs a rewrite
Halfway through and I must say that there are better books out there covering topics concerning atheism. This one has unsubstantiated assertions (some of which may be true, but the author provides no evidence), and halfway through has not discussed prayer yet (despite the title). The author seems overly concerned with something they call "Religious addiction" (not well explained), which has nothing to do with the book's title nor what the Publisher's Summary says the book is about (although there's a tip-off in the blurb at the top of the cover image). The author states (without supporting evidence) that people who are religion addicts will behave in certain ways, and prescribes a step-by-step guide to convincing such people how to give up their religion (things like saying to just talk to them logically), steps which anyone who has spoken to the devout knows will not work like the author states. The author (or at least the publisher) seems to know this, as the first thing the book addresses is a disclaimer that they are not to be held responsible for any of the advice in the book. Overall, the book reads like a self-published thought experiment by someone without a lot of evidence to back up assertions (at least the first half, anyway; I'm giving up and returning it).
The narrator does an ok job, but mispronounces some common words like "vehemently." Also pronounces "cult" and "dull" as "colt" and "dole," but that may just be a result of the reader's natural dialect rather than a mispronunciation.
Related to this topic
-
Baptized Atheist
- By: David Smalley, David Eller
- Narrated by: David C. Smalley
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"As a firm believer, I began having doubts. Doubts about faith, and doubts about believers not asking questions. I embarked on a journey to get closer to God. Perhaps I became too close. What I saw changed my life forever."
-
-
A Journey About Religion That Everyone Can Take!
- By RVOnTheWayside on 06-12-12
By: David Smalley, and others
-
No Sacred Cows
- Investigating Myths, Cults, and the Supernatural
- By: David G. McAfee
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
While belief in religious supernatural claims is waning throughout the West, evidence suggests belief in nonreligious supernatural claims is on the rise. What explains this contradiction? How can a society with a falling belief in God have a rising belief in ghosts, psychic powers, ancient astronauts, and other supernatural or pseudo-scientific phenomena? Taking the same anthropological approach he employed in his notable studies of religion, atheist author and activist David G. McAfee turns his attention to nonreligious faith-based claims.
-
-
There're narrow minded people, I already knew that
- By Gary on 04-14-18
By: David G. McAfee
-
A Manual for Creating Atheists
- By: Peter Boghossian
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith - and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, this audiobook offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith - but for talking them out of it.
-
-
The first atheist missionary
- By Paul on 03-18-14
By: Peter Boghossian
-
The Way of the Heathen
- Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life
- By: Greta Christina
- Narrated by: Greta Christina
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
So you're an atheist. Now what? The way we deal with life - with love and sex, pleasure and death, reality and making stuff up - can change dramatically when we stop believing in gods, souls, and afterlives. When we leave religion - or if we never had it in the first place - where do we go? With her unique blend of compassion and humor, thoughtfulness and snark, Greta Christina most emphatically does not propose a single path to a good atheist life. She offers questions to think about, ideas that may be useful, and encouragement to choose your own way.
-
-
Navigating the world outside of church
- By Scott Bresinger on 01-21-17
By: Greta Christina
-
The God Virus
- How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture
- By: Darrel Ray
- Narrated by: Darrel Ray
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For thousands of years, religion has woven its way through societies and people as if it were part and parcel to that society or person. In large measure it was left unexplained and unchallenged, it simply existed. Those who attempted to challenge and expose religion were often persecuted, excommunicated, shunned, or even executed. It could be fatal to explain that which the church, priest, or imam said was unexplainable. Before the germ, viral, and parasite theory of disease, physicians had no tools to understand disease and its propagation.
-
-
A Viral Metaphor with Evidence
- By RVOnTheWayside on 11-21-12
By: Darrel Ray
-
Why Are You Atheists So Angry?
- 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless
- By: Greta Christina
- Narrated by: Greta Christina
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why are atheists angry? Is it because they're selfish, joyless, lacking in meaning, and alienated from God? Or is it because they have legitimate reasons to be angry - and are ready to do something about it? Armed with passionate outrage, absurdist humor, and calm intelligence, popular blogger Greta Christina makes a powerful case for outspoken atheist activism, and explains the empathy and justice that drive it. This accessible, personal, down-to-earth book speaks not only to atheists, but also to believers who want to understand the so-called new atheism.
-
-
I am an atheist and I am pissed off!
- By carl801 on 08-17-12
By: Greta Christina
-
Baptized Atheist
- By: David Smalley, David Eller
- Narrated by: David C. Smalley
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
"As a firm believer, I began having doubts. Doubts about faith, and doubts about believers not asking questions. I embarked on a journey to get closer to God. Perhaps I became too close. What I saw changed my life forever."
-
-
A Journey About Religion That Everyone Can Take!
- By RVOnTheWayside on 06-12-12
By: David Smalley, and others
-
No Sacred Cows
- Investigating Myths, Cults, and the Supernatural
- By: David G. McAfee
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 14 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
While belief in religious supernatural claims is waning throughout the West, evidence suggests belief in nonreligious supernatural claims is on the rise. What explains this contradiction? How can a society with a falling belief in God have a rising belief in ghosts, psychic powers, ancient astronauts, and other supernatural or pseudo-scientific phenomena? Taking the same anthropological approach he employed in his notable studies of religion, atheist author and activist David G. McAfee turns his attention to nonreligious faith-based claims.
-
-
There're narrow minded people, I already knew that
- By Gary on 04-14-18
By: David G. McAfee
-
A Manual for Creating Atheists
- By: Peter Boghossian
- Narrated by: Peter Boghossian
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For thousands of years, the faithful have honed proselytizing strategies and talked people into believing the truth of one holy book or another. Indeed, the faithful often view converting others as an obligation of their faith - and are trained from an early age to spread their unique brand of religion. The result is a world broken in large part by unquestioned faith. As an urgently needed counter to this tried-and-true tradition of religious evangelism, this audiobook offers the first-ever guide not for talking people into faith - but for talking them out of it.
-
-
The first atheist missionary
- By Paul on 03-18-14
By: Peter Boghossian
-
The Way of the Heathen
- Practicing Atheism in Everyday Life
- By: Greta Christina
- Narrated by: Greta Christina
- Length: 8 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
So you're an atheist. Now what? The way we deal with life - with love and sex, pleasure and death, reality and making stuff up - can change dramatically when we stop believing in gods, souls, and afterlives. When we leave religion - or if we never had it in the first place - where do we go? With her unique blend of compassion and humor, thoughtfulness and snark, Greta Christina most emphatically does not propose a single path to a good atheist life. She offers questions to think about, ideas that may be useful, and encouragement to choose your own way.
-
-
Navigating the world outside of church
- By Scott Bresinger on 01-21-17
By: Greta Christina
-
The God Virus
- How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture
- By: Darrel Ray
- Narrated by: Darrel Ray
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For thousands of years, religion has woven its way through societies and people as if it were part and parcel to that society or person. In large measure it was left unexplained and unchallenged, it simply existed. Those who attempted to challenge and expose religion were often persecuted, excommunicated, shunned, or even executed. It could be fatal to explain that which the church, priest, or imam said was unexplainable. Before the germ, viral, and parasite theory of disease, physicians had no tools to understand disease and its propagation.
-
-
A Viral Metaphor with Evidence
- By RVOnTheWayside on 11-21-12
By: Darrel Ray
-
Why Are You Atheists So Angry?
- 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless
- By: Greta Christina
- Narrated by: Greta Christina
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Why are atheists angry? Is it because they're selfish, joyless, lacking in meaning, and alienated from God? Or is it because they have legitimate reasons to be angry - and are ready to do something about it? Armed with passionate outrage, absurdist humor, and calm intelligence, popular blogger Greta Christina makes a powerful case for outspoken atheist activism, and explains the empathy and justice that drive it. This accessible, personal, down-to-earth book speaks not only to atheists, but also to believers who want to understand the so-called new atheism.
-
-
I am an atheist and I am pissed off!
- By carl801 on 08-17-12
By: Greta Christina
-
Atheism for Dummies
- By: Dale McGowan PhD
- Narrated by: Paul Mantell
- Length: 15 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Atheism For Dummies offers a brief history of atheist philosophy and its evolution, explores it as a historical and cultural movement, covers important historical writings on the subject, and discusses the nature of ethics and morality in the absence of religion. A simple, yet intelligent exploration of an often misunderstood philosophy.
-
-
Great topic...irritating narrator
- By Duke Playbent on 10-26-14
By: Dale McGowan PhD
-
Caught in the Pulpit
- Leaving Belief Behind
- By: Daniel C. Dennett, Linda LaScola
- Narrated by: Richard Dawkins, Daniel C. Dennett, Linda LaScola
- Length: 7 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What is it like to be a preacher or rabbi who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious institutions face in the new transparency of the information age - the phenomenon of clergy who no longer believe what they publicly preach.
-
-
Listen to Linda, skip Daniel Dennett
- By Audio Gra Gra on 09-23-16
By: Daniel C. Dennett, and others
-
How Minds Change
- The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion
- By: David McRaney
- Narrated by: David McRaney
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What made a prominent conspiracy-theorist YouTuber finally see that 9/11 was not a hoax? How do voter opinions shift from neutral to resolute? Can widespread social change only take place when a generation dies out? From one of our greatest thinkers on reasoning, HOW MINDS CHANGE is a book about the science, and the experience, of transformation. When self-delusion expert and psychology nerd David McRaney began a book about how to change someone’s mind in one conversation, he never expected to change his own.
-
-
Fascinating, nuanced, well-written, but…
- By Jason J. Gay on 08-13-22
By: David McRaney
-
Hi, I'm an Atheist!
- What That Means and How to Talk About It with Others
- By: David G. McAfee
- Narrated by: Rich Miller
- Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Hi, I'm an Atheist!, McAfee looks at what an atheist believes and how to “come out” as an atheist to your friends, family, and co-workers, offering sound advice on overcoming the difficult moments in any “coming out” conversation. Including a resource guide both for people just coming to atheism and people who have been atheists for years, Hi I’m an Atheist! is a smart, sensitive, and realistic guide to living one’s life positively and honestly without the need for a belief in God.
-
-
Another great book from McAfee
- By Matthew O'Neil on 11-05-21
By: David G. McAfee
-
Scientology: A to Xenu: An Insider's Guide to What Scientology Is All About
- By: Chris Shelton
- Narrated by: Chris Shelton
- Length: 10 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Former insider Chris Shelton grew up in Scientology and worked for it for 25 years. This critical analysis covers the key aspects of its beliefs, practices, and structure from the bottom to the top, including not just the confidential Xenu story but details of all of the upper-level scriptures. Chris goes into detail about what goes on inside Scientology churches, why its members get involved in the first place, and what it takes to get out should someone decide to leave.
-
-
Excellent & book with some technical problems
- By Dallas on 03-23-16
By: Chris Shelton
-
Generation Atheist
- By: Dan Riley
- Narrated by: Michael Beach
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
The human journey is an emotional quest to find truth and meaning. Countless books have presented this journey through the eyes of people who concluded their search with devotion to God, salvation by Jesus, or commitment to religion. But there's a changing zeitgeist in America and the world: a growing number of people are finding truth and meaning from the opposite perspective. Through 25 personal narratives, Generation Atheist tells their stories.
-
-
Great Book
- By Trent on 09-24-15
By: Dan Riley
-
Talking Across the Divide
- How to Communicate with People You Disagree with and Maybe Even Change the World
- By: Justin Lee
- Narrated by: Justin Lee
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Talking Across the Divide, social justice activist Justin Lee explains how to break through the five key barriers that make people resist differing opinions. With a combination of psychological research, pop-culture references, and anecdotes from Justin's many years of experience mediating contentious conversations, this book will help you understand people on the other side of the argument and give you the tools you need to change their minds - even if they've fallen for "fake news."
-
-
Essential for changing the world
- By Clinton on 11-05-18
By: Justin Lee
-
Talking with Your Kids About God
- 30 Conversations Every Christian Parent Must Have
- By: Natasha Crain
- Narrated by: Nan McNamara
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Christian parenting is hard work - and it's getting harder. Parents have a deep desire to pass on their faith, but fear that today's increasingly skeptical and hostile world will eventually lead their kids to reject the truth of Christianity. That leaves many parents feeling overwhelmed - uncertain of what they can do to help their children, given the difficulty and extent of the faith challenges they will face.
-
-
Very practical book
- By Jessica on 02-13-18
By: Natasha Crain
-
Emancipation of a Black Atheist
- By: D. K. Evans
- Narrated by: Juan Brown
- Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
Great journeys often start with a single question. For D. K. Evans, a newly married professional in the Christian-dominated South, that question was, “Why Do I Believe in God?” That simple query led him on a years-long search to better understand the nature of religion and faith, particularly as it applies to the Black community. Evans took inspiration from John Henrik Clarke, Yosef-Ben Jochannan, Hubert Harrison, and John G. Jackson, champions of a rich Black tradition of challenging religious orthodoxy, and also from many others in his own community who had similarly come to question their core religious beliefs.
-
-
Wonderful book with a very odd reading
- By The guy over there on 01-18-19
By: D. K. Evans
-
What You Don't Know about Religion (but Should)
- By: Ryan T. Cragun
- Narrated by: Ryan T. Cragun
- Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
What is a religion? Why are people religious? Are religious people more educated than nonreligious people? Are religious people more moral, more humble, or happier? Are religious people more or less prejudiced than nonreligious people? Is religion good for your health? Are people becoming more or less religious? Studying religion as a social phenomenon, Ryan T. Cragun follows the scientific data to provide answers to these and other questions.
-
-
Basically review
- By Kris seals on 02-12-15
By: Ryan T. Cragun
-
Breaking the Spell
- Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
- By: Daniel C. Dennett
- Narrated by: Dennis Holland
- Length: 12 hrs and 19 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why - and how - it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a moral life? Ranging through biology, history, and psychology, Daniel C. Dennett charts religion’s evolution from “wild” folk belief to “domesticated” dogma.
-
-
Great Reader Actually Enhances A Great Book!
- By Don Caliente on 07-14-14
-
Finding God in the Waves
- How I Lost My Faith and Found It Again Through Science
- By: Mike McHargue
- Narrated by: Mike McHargue
- Length: 7 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
-
Overall
-
Performance
-
Story
In Finding God in the Waves, "Science Mike" draws on his personal experience to tell the unlikely story of how science led him back to faith. Among other revelations, we learn what brain scans reveal about what happens when we pray; how fundamentalism affects the psyche; and how God is revealed not only in scripture but in the night sky, in subatomic particles, and in us.
-
-
For those wrestling with the Christian faith
- By steve on 09-14-16
By: Mike McHargue