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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
Jon Krakauer
Anchor, 2004
Meticulously researched and well presented
There are far better and longer reviews than mine posted here, so I hesitated to even attempt one. However, I've traveled to many of the places described in Jon's book, including Separation Canyon (within the Grand Canyon) and Colorado City, long before the ...
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
Bruce Bawer
Broadway, 2007
The Multi-cult Mess in Western Europe
Bawer is a homosexual who found out that gay rights and freedoms are being threatened by the Islamic minority in Western Europe. He also writes about how Islamicists are threatening other values of liberal democracy. Without really knowing Islamic culture very well, ...
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Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine
Wayne Grudem
Zondervan, 1995
Outstanding and Unsurpassed
The title of my Review says it all, and since there are already over 130 Reviews, I will make this short. This is simply the best comprehensive modern systematic theology in one volume on the market I have seen in 40 years of ministry. Why? It covers charismatic, ...
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Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Dan Barker
Ulysses Press, 2008
Lika a letter from a friend
The startling thing about Dan Barker's writing is how he well tells the story of his journey from Christian preacher to freethinker in a warm, human way, then proceeds to dissect the errors of that former faith with keen precision. Like a letter from a good friend who ...
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His Favorite Wife: Trapped in Polygamy
Susan Ray Schmidt
Kassidy Lane Publishing LLC, 2006
Great Book!!!!
Susan told a remarkable story of her life as a child bride. It is truly amazing what these women and children have to go through and Susan takes you right into their world. Awesome book.
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The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
Houghton Mifflin, 2006
A Book for Every Thinking Person's "Must Read" List
One will readily expect the perceptions and reviews of Richard Dawkins' THE GOD DELUSION to fall along what might euphemistically be called "party lines." Blue Staters, rationalists, and the college educated (especially in mathematics, engineering, the sciences, and ...
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Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
David Mills
Ulysses Press, 2006
Exceeded all of my expectations...
I've been questioning relgion for quite some time, but never really labeled myself as an atheist. This book is intended as a specific rebuttal to the creative design 'science' promoted by religiously influenced schools. Not only does it wonderfully refute creative ...
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Letter to a Christian Nation (Vintage)
Sam Harris
Vintage, 2008
A true breath of fresh air....
BRAVO!!! This is one the most clearly argued and important cultural critiques of the last decade. Mr. Harris gives elegant voice to the concerns many of us have over the power that modern religious groups wield to alter not only history but our daily lives. We need ...
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The Conservative Soul: Fundamentalism, Freedom, and the Future of the Right
Andrew Sullivan
Harper Perennial, 2007
Conservativism as Attitude to Life
Andrew Sullivan is one of our premier public intellectuals and a delight to read. Both facts are confirmed by this book. While at first glance you would think he will be making talking points for a political perspective, Sullivan quickly disabuses the reader of such a ...
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The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible
A. J. Jacobs
Simon & Schuster, 2007
As a self proclaimed agnostic...
As a self proclaimed agnostic, I have no clue what led me to pick up this book in an airport. But I'm hooked, and I've probably learned more about the bible then some that are "religious". In a fun, nonthreatening, no fire and brimstone, low key way. I give kudos to ...
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The Dawkins Delusion?: Atheist Fundamentalism and the Denial of the Divine
Alister E. McGrath, Joanna Collicutt Mcgrath
IVP Books, 2007
Accomplishes what the author set out to do
Alister McGrath's _The Dawkins Delusion_ is a short book with one aim: to introduce readers to the flaws in Dawkins' _The God Delusion_. The book's introduction explains that this is neither a full treatment of philosophy of religion, nor even a point-by-point ...
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Bible Doctrine
Wayne Grudem
Zondervan, 1999
Covers All Basic Topics
This is a great book and reference guide covering the basic teachings of the Christian faith. There are 34 chapters addressing just about all of the basic doctrines of Christianity.
This would be a great book for someone who has been a Christian for a short time to ...
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God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist ...
Andrea Moore-Emmett
Pince-Nez Press, 2004
Great Overview
Having read many books on the problem of polygomy this was a great overview of all the different groups practicing this lifestyle and stories of women who had escaped from this way of life.
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The Battle for God
Karen Armstrong
Ballantine Books, 2001
A compelling and necessary read
This book is a fascinating and surprisingly readable history of emergent fundamentalism in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. Armstrong traces monotheistic fundamentalism through the 20th century, and details the economic, social, and political circumstances that ...
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Catholicism and Fundamentalism: The Attack on "Romanism" by "Bible Christians"
Karl Keating
Ignatius Press, 1988
Why didn't I learn this in school?
This book, 2 Baptist preachers, a AKJV Bible and Joseph Smith allowed Jesus to bring me out of a Baptist denomination and home to His visible body on earth, His Catholic Church.
You can not deny the truth in this book or the complete 73 Book Bible.
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