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What I'm reading now:
The God Virus: How religion infects our lives and culture
God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible by CJ Werleman
Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life (this is excellent. Well written and fascinating. Highly recommended)
God Is Not Great (Hitchens is extremely erudite but I agree with him a lot here. Excellent so far)
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Listening to the audio version. Excellent!)


What I just finished:
Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (Recommended. The first half is a great read. Thorough and detailed but easy to understand.)
Letting Go of God (I listened to the audio version. It was poignant and funny. Highly recommended!)
His Dark Materials Trilogy (The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass) (best trilogy I've ever read!)

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Happy Atheist Love

Entertainment That Enlightens 1

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Today I thought I’d share some books, movies and podcasts with you. Like anyone else, I love being entertained. I go through phases where I only read textbooks, then sometimes I only want fiction. I’ve noticed that even when I’m only reading fiction I still seem to always get something more from the book, though. Right now I’m in a fiction phase, pointedly ignoring the dozens of textbooks I have piling up. Yet I still want to share the good ones with you because they are much deeper than just a light read. I also thought it was high time to share my favorite podcasts and some great movies with you. What all these things have in common, aside from being entertaining, is that they are all enlightening too. Bonus! :D

So let’s start with podcasts. A couple years ago I finally realized [...]

Religulous: We’re On The Road To Nowhere

If I believed in divine providence I would say that destiny helped me stumble upon the following movie. But I’m as godless as can be, so I just have to thank whoever posted Religulous to AtheistNation. I don’t go to the movies, so I didn’t get to see it in the theaters. But I watched it a bit ago and I have to say I’m glad I did. It was excellent.

Here is the full movie (140 minutes)

I learned some interesting facts and tidbits, but most of what Bill Maher finds out in these interviews around the world are not new to me. But combined with his commentary, it is interesting and provocative, to say the [...]

You Don’t Have To Pass An IQ Test To Be In The Senate

Stumbling around the web, I found this snippet of Bill Maher’s interview with Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas for the documentary, Religulosity:

So this senator, who helps run the country, believes in a snake talking to Eve in the garden of eden 5,000 years ago. The senator makes a funny though. Yeah, really [...]

Neece’s Book List

*Or how a hapless believer lost her faith and became a happy atheist. As you can see from this list, I didn’t read the traditional books to shake off the shackles of my [...]

Neece

My parents weren’t religious when I was young, but my older sister got sucked into the local baptist church, so of course she dragged me along. It was the typical fire and brimstone kinda preaching. In the summer, we would go visit my grandparents, and my grandmother would take us to the christian scientist church. They didn’t conflict too much for my young brain, so it wasn’t that bad. I was a good little christian girl, and got baptized as soon as I could with the god fearing baptists.

When I was about 12, my parents suddenly got religious in the church of christ. More fear of god preaching filled my head, including bible study once a week with the minister. I got baptized two more times in two different churches, for good measure, and went to church faithfully. I was terrified of burning in hell. It didn’t help [...]

Movies

A major step in my journey to atheism involved a movie. It brought up questions about religion that I then had to answer through reading books.

So here we’ll list movies that might either make you ask questions, or maybe even hint at answers.

The movie that changed my life was The Name of the Rose. I highly recommend it, along with the book that it was based on.

Neece’s Motivating Movies:

Great Stuff I Watched Recently (not necessarily about atheism or religion):

  • War, Inc. (very clever satire from the headlines. cynical but funny)
  • Taken (gritty, violent, excellent retribution!)
  • The Day of the Triffids (BBC series. Good acting, 80’s low budget effects)
  • City of Ember (DVD) (good movie, much better than the [...]

Inside Joke

I love those little inside jokes in movies. When you spot them, you kind of feel like you are part of something. Of course, you’re not, but hey, it feels all warm and fuzzy at the time.

Some eagle eye spotted this hieroglyphic of R2D2 in this Indiana Jones movie. I haven’t seen the latest one yet. I hope it’s [...]