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Other stuff:

bulletRead a news feed of current topics, maintained by American Atheists
 
bulletSee additional books for children and teens

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Sites with lists of links to Atheist web sites:

bulletSite http://www.primenet.com/ contains information on the Atheism, Christianity and the SubGenius Church. It contains many links to Atheism home pages, including a list of famous Atheists and some of their writings.

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Atheist web sites:

bulletAmerican Atheists has a home page at: http://www.atheists.org/home.html
bulletThe New Jersey section of American Atheists has a web page "American Atheists: A Haven for the Logically-Inclined," at: http://www.hdiweb.com/atheism
bulletThe American Rationalist promotes rationalism: "The mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a system of philosophy and ethics verifiable by experience, independent of all arbitrary assumptions or authority." See: http://www.infidels.org/org/ar/ 
bulletAteist.com [sic] is a very attractive web site, "created to untie the religious knots of the mind." See: http://www.ateist.com 
bulletThe Atheism Web contains the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) of all four of the Atheism newsgroups: (alt.atheism, alt.atheism.moderated, soc.atheism and talk.atheism. See: http://www.infidels.org/
bulletThe Atheist Empire at: http://atheistempire.com is a large site devoted to Atheism with sections describing Atheism; shopping, movie, and other guides; news; reference material; poetry; humor, etc. One of their features is The Atheism Directory.
bulletA list of celebrity Atheists, Agnostics and other non-theists is at: http://www.celebatheists.com/  
bulletChallenge Religion has a list of the day's top 15 stories and blogs dealing with Atheism. A real treasure! See: http://challengereligion.com/
bulletThe Debate Cathedral is a web site dedicated to discussing the relative merits of atheism and theism. See: http://www.debatecathedral.com/
bullet I Am An Atheist is a humorous website on Atheism. See http://www.iamanatheist.com It is well worth reading. Consider the following exchange about Pascal's Wager:

Christian: If you believe in God and are wrong, then it's no big deal, but if you don't believe in God and are wrong, you'll be punished eternally, so it's not a good idea to be an atheist.

Atheist: "What if you're wrong that God prefers unthinking self-righteous toadies to honest people who try and live a good life?"

bulletThe Internet Infidels site maintains the Secular Web at: http://www.infidels.org. The infidels:
bulletpromote secularism,
bulletgive access to various secular organizations, books and periodicals
bulletupdate readers with news of attacks on basic freedoms by religious groups

They have a section on Atheism at: http://www.infidels.org/

bulletThe Left Hemisphere site: http://www.xnet.com/~blatura/left_hem.shtml contains dozens of links to various skeptical religious and secular sites.
bullet The Net Atheists maintains an enormous list of hundreds of web pages by Atheists at: http://www.squirm.net/tna/ The North Texas Church of Freethought has many Atheists, Agnostics, Humanists, and individuals who "form opinions about religion independently of tradition, authority or established belief" (Webster's New World Dictionary). See: http://church.freethought.org/

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Books by Atheists:

bulletLouise M Antony, Ed., "Philosophers without Gods: Meditations on Atheism and the Secular Life," Oxford University Press, (2007). Read reviews or order this book safely from Amazon.com online book store
bulletDan Barker, "Losing faith in faith: From preacher to Atheist," Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc., (1992). Read reviews or order this book
bulletRichard Dawkins, "The God Delusion," Houghton Mifflin, (2006). Read reviews or order this book
bulletDaniel C. Dennett, "Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon" Viking Adult, (2006). Read reviews or order this book
bulletSam Harris:
bullet"Letter to a Christian nation," Knopf, (2006). Read reviews or order this book
bullet"The End of Faith: Religion, terror and the future of reason," W. W. Norton, (2005). Read reviews or order this book
bulletChristopher Hitchens, "God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything," Twelve Books, Hachette Book Group, (2007). Read reviews or order this book
bulletJack Huberman, "The Quotable Atheist: Ammunition for Non-Believers, Political Junkies, Gadflies, and Those Generally Hell-Bound," Nation Books, (2006) Read reviews or order this book
bulletDouglas Krueger, "What is Atheism? A short introduction," Prometheus Books, (1998). Read reviews or order this book
bulletMichael Martin:
bullet"Atheism: A Philosophical Justification," Temple Univ Press, (1992). Read reviews or order this book
bulletMichael Martin, "Atheism, Morality, and Meaning (Prometheus Lecture Series)," Prometheus Books, (2002). Read reviews or order this book
bulletDavid Mills, "Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism," Ulysses Press, (2006). Read reviews or order this book
bulletMichael Onfray, "Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam," Arcade Publishing, (2007). Read reviews or order this book
bulletGeorge Smith, "Atheism: The case against God,"  Prometheus Books, (1980). Read reviews or order this book
bulletGordon Stein, "The Second Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism (Skeptic's Bookshelf)," Prometheus Books, (1988). Read reviews or order this book
bulletVictor J Stenger, "God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist," Prometheus Books, (2007). Read reviews or order this book

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A guide for Atheist parents:

bulletDale McGowan, Ed., "Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical, Caring Kids Without Religion," American Management Association (2007). Read reviews or order this book

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Book search at Amazon.com:

The following books are the result of a search for books on Atheism at the Amazon.com web site. If you see a generic ad here, please click on your browser's refresh button:

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Christian books which attempt to refute Atheism:

bulletBooks by conservative Christians:
bullet"Faith with Reason: Why Christianity is True" is a 110 page book by Joseph Farinaccio that has been posted to this web site with the permission of BookSpecs Publishing.  According to the publisher, the book "...is geared towards those who want to get to the heart  of   worldview disputes between Christians and unbelievers....[It] Offers readers major points to refute     atheism by demonstrating that logic, human rights and meaning in life can only exist within a biblical view of Reality." " Chapter 9 "Atheism and Agnosticism" starts on Page 69. It is a 734 KB file, so it may load slowly. You may need software to read this pdf file. It can be obtained free from:
bulletPatrick Glynn, "God, The Evidence: The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World," Prima Publishing, (1997). Read reviews or order this book
bulletJ.P. Moreland & Kai Nielsen. "Does God Exist: The Debate between Theists and Atheists," Prometheus Books, (1993). Read reviews or order this book
bulletRavi Zacharias, "A Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheism," Baker Books, (1993). Read reviews or order this book
bulletRavi Zacharias, "Can Man Live Without God?" Word Publishing, (1996). Read reviews or order this book

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