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The Harm Done by Religion

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The Born Again Skeptic’s Guide to the Bible

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Living the Secular Life

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Life Driven Purpose

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Just Pretend: A Book for Young Freethinkers

Dan Barker

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Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and
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Hitch 22: A Memoir

Christopher Hitchens

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2010

God: The Most Unpleasant Character in All Fiction

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God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales

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Godless: How An Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists

Dan Barker

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2008

Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life

R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick

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God Is Not Great

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2007

For Small Creatures Such as We: Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World

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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress

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Don Addis

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