Atheists: What one book would you want a Christian to read?

Seriously: I would like to read books about other viewpoints, and am wondering which ones you would suggest. I just want to learn more about what other people think/believe. Thanks!Atheists: What one book would you want a Christian to read?
Job: A Comedy of Justice by Robert A. Heinlein. An excellent and enjoyable piece of fiction that will force you to take a good look at your religious beliefs.



Or cause you to burn it as heretical, one or the other. If you like it, follow it up with Stranger in a Strange Land, same author.
watch the movie Zeitgeist

you dont have to go rent it, you can watch it legally on your computer, look it upAtheists: What one book would you want a Christian to read?
The Universe in a Nutshell - Hawking
The Time Machine, because humanity will be devoured by giant insects.Atheists: What one book would you want a Christian to read?
Twilight. It will kill their faith in god and humanity.
billy Graham's "Peace with God".
http://www.amazon.com/Like-Rolling-Uphil…
The God Delusion is a good one by Richard Dawkins, although it is more of an offense than a defense.



Here's a vid about Atheism,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdVucvo-k…
The Age of American Un-Reason - Jacoby
Actually, I'd be happy if more of them would just read Strunk and White's "Elements of Style".



http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Style-Fou…
The Essence of Christianity - Ludwig Feuerbach



I'm actually reading that book currently :)
Excellent question. Most American Xians have never read anything actually outside of their narrow comfort zone.



Twilight of the Idols



by Friedrich Nietzsche



A brutally frank book about the difference between the superstitious mind and the objective mind. Limited in many ways because of how early on in the Rational Age it was written, it still provides an excellent backdrop that one can spring forward from.
Oh, I don't know. That's a toughie. There are a lot of good books on atheism out there, and many of them are coming from different disciplines and perspectives. The "best" book for you to read might not be the most convincing to another Christian.



For a general introduction to the subject that appeals to the widest range of readers, I'd probably recommend Sam Harris's "Letter to a Christian Nation." It isn't the best book out there, and its arguments against the existence of God aren't stunning, and are unlikely to convince believers, but I think it does the best job of trying to get believers to see the value of secular society and thinking critically about religious belief.
God is Not Great, The God Delusion, and/or Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World.
The three little pigs.
Why would I read atheists literature?



I want to get out of the box not put myself in it.
I would read another religion's religious text! Preferably a non-abrahamic religion (That is, not the Torah, and not the Koran)



Read the texts of Buddhism or Hinduism, and see how they relate to the teachings in the Bible.



I am an atheist, but I don't believe in convincing others of atheism. I just want people to understand each other. And understanding others' values and moral codes, and how they relate to your own, is a huge step in doing that!
It's not really atheistic, but I think it would be helpful to read conversations with god. Other then that the god delusion.
50 Reasons People Give For Believing in a God, by Guy P. Harrison



Even if it does nothing to change your mind, it tries very hard to help the reader understand where atheists are coming from, without being harsh or condescending. It's an interesting read, for nearly anyone. There will be sometimes when you'll probably have to shake your head and wonder how some people can think that way, and others where you might find common ground with the author.



You may also want to check out "Letter to a Christian Nation," by Sam Harris. I wouldn't call it profound, but it brings up a few decent points.
THE BIBLE! Christians hardly read the Bible!



The Bible writers created the story of the Jewish God that is worshipped by gullible Christians mainly in America. This God forced the Jews to eat their own children for dinner NOT AS A PUNISHMENT, but as an option in times of famine. Not even as an option, but as the “WILL OF GOD!” God NEVER objected about slaughtering and cooking children for dinner. God won’t let the Jews eat pigs, but children YES! The Christians always cover up anything negative about the Bible God! I dropped out of Christianity and religion after many years serving in the Christian ministry! A preacher has to be very dishonest not to admit any of these facts! The Bible was written to control low IQ religious people who need a crutch to function in this world. Any religion back then was as savage as you can’t possibly imagine. The Bible is a hangover from those days... Rather recently America became officially ONE NATION UNDER GOD and IN GOD WE TRUST under Christian pressure after the collapse of the US gold monetary system!



This Bible God is totally powerless to teach any lesson without FORCING the Jews to eat their own children for dinner. The Bible writers say that Palestine was a “Land Flowing with Milk and Honey” ONLY before the Israelite invasion. The former dwellers used to live in plenty! After the invasion (SURPRISE!!!) suddenly the “milk and honey” stopped flowing! So now the Bible writers are promising that “God will make the desert (Israel) blossom like a rose!” The perennial carrot hanging at the end of the stick is working!



God’s sadistic pleasures are the kinkiest ones ever to be imagined! None of the “Godless” dictators in the world EVER thought of forcing his people to eat their own children for dinner...! That is so repulsive that no smut publication is publishing anything like that either, but any pervert can enjoy reading all about it in the Holy Bible! The rest of Christians are totally brainwashed with the GOD IS LOVE bit! No wonder the Clergy hid the Bible from public view for so many centuries! To their great relief hardly any Christian today pays attention to what they read in the Bible!



Leviticus 26:29 - (God is impatiently saying) YOU WILL eat the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters* (*without warning of any evil! Christians are trained to believe that no matter how pervert it may sound “if God says it I believe it… and that settles it!”)



Deuteronomy 28:53-57 - Because of the suffering that your enemy will inflict on you during the siege* (*God is conditioning the mind of the Israelites 700 Bible years into the future! In our society today anybody promoting the idea of any crime like that is put in jail!), YOU WILL EAT THE FRUIT OF THE WOMB, THE FLESH OF THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS the LORD your God has given you* (*God WILL NOT do anything to protect the innocent children, but his chosen people will enjoy eating them…! Praise the LORD! Sweet Jesus… Amen?) Even the most gentle and sensitive man* (*not a sinful homosexual or a Godless atheist, but a CHOSEN CHILD OF GOD!) among you will have no compassion on his own brother or the wife he loves or his SURVIVING children, and he will not give to one of them any of the flesh of his children that he is eating…* (*according to the Bible writers, not sharing is “THE SIN”! Only religious perverts can dream on feeding on their own children for ever!)



Jeremiah 19:9 I* (*God, NOT SATAN, but GOD!) WILL MAKE THEM EAT THE FLESH OF THEIR SONS AND DAUGHTERS* (This sick God has to FORCE the Jews to eat their own children! During the real historic Roman siege of “Masada” [do Google] all the Jewish families killed themselves before even dreaming about eating their own children!)



God won’t force the Jews to eat PIGS, but their own children YES! The Bible writers say that when the 666 mark will be instituted Christians won’t be able to buy or sell food without it. Based on Bible precedents, will the heart bleeding Christians of the Westboro orientation eat their own children for dinner? Christians would deny it or say that if God forced the Jews to do it, it was because they were very “sinful”!



Ezekiel 5:10 - Therefore in your midst fathers WILL EAT THEIR CHILDREN...



Any secular government would offer its citizens better protection than the Bible God. They would certainly allow them to eat pork instead of children! It took Moses 2 men to carry a single bunch of gigantic size grapes to show Israel how plentiful was the Land of Palestine that they were going to invade (Num 13:23)! Actually that was just another trick in the Bible script to motivate well fed Jews into COVETING* (*the heck with the 10 Commands!) to leave Egypt and to invade the Holy Land. (BTW, there is not a shred of historical evidence that millions of slave Jews ever lived in Egypt or that they ever ate their children!) Now the Jews can eat their own children in the Holy Land for God’s kinky pleasure! Actually, for the pleasure of wanking Bible writers and some freaky Bible readers today!



Lamentations 4:10 - With their own hands COMPASSIONATE WOMEN* (*GODLY WOMEN…! Not lesbians or atheistic ladies, but “MANY” God loving heterosexual ladies) HAVE COOKED THEIR OWN CHILDREN...!



Here is a case in FULL EXPLICIT CONTEXT in the Bible that is IMPOSSIBLE for any Preacher to “spiritualize” and make it go away!



2 Kings 6:26-29 As the king of Israel was passing by on the wall, a woman cried to him, “Help me, my lord the king* (*a God related King)!” The king replied, “If the Lord does not help you, where can I get help for you? Then he asked her, “What's the matter?” She answered, “This woman said to me, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him today, and tomorrow we'll eat my son.’ So we cooked my son and ate him* (*BTW… it came out delicious!!!). The next day I said to her, ‘Give up your son so we may eat him, but she had hidden him!* (*God cursed woman! She cheated!)



They were all COMPASSIONATE Godly, non-Atheistic, heterosexual women that HAVE SLAUGHTERED AND COOKED THEIR OWN CHILDREN FOR DINNER at the tune of “The LORD is my Shepherd I shall not want” (Psa 23)!



Isaiah 49:15 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I* (*God) WILL NOT FORGET YOU!* (*I’ll make her eat the child! Hey, not even Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is that scary! God must have a serious psychopathic disorder and ought to see a shrink!)



The last bunch of Bible writers claim that God the Son Jesus Christ was beaten to a pulp thoroughly tenderized and heavily marinated in Roman soldiers’ spit to become the dignified “Lamb of God” grotesquely nailed to the Holy Cross so the Christians can snack his ROMAN SPIT FLAVORED MEAT AND DRINK HIS HOLY BLOOD to go to Heaven! (John 6:53) The eating of children is part of the BIBLE tale so the forever snacking on the ONLY Son of God in the Holy Communion is not half that bad…!



The Bible God also promotes the killing of children to get rid of future enemies!



Psalm 137:8-9 - O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, HAPPY is he who repays you for what you have done to us --he who seizes your infants and DASHES them against the rocks.



The Bible writers say that our enemies ought to be killed in their infancy when it is easier to get rid of them (Amen?) Needed abortions today are for VERY HUMANE reasons! Notice HUMANE vs GODLY. Godly requires that the fetus be born into a child before he/she can be dashed to pieces against the rocks, or eaten for dinner!



Isaiah 13:16 (KJV) Their little ones also WILL BE DASHED TO PIECES before their eyes; Their houses will be plundered And their wives ravished…. (Only a few pervert ladies would wish to be ravished? But their children must be DASHED TO PIECES – Praise the LORD!)



God the Son Jesus Christ is hardly any better than his Daddy God up in the sky!



Revelation 2:23 (In his apocalyptic “revelation” Jesus Christ says) I WILL STRIKE HER CHILDREN DEAD* (*No abortionist can beat Jesus at killing babies --not fetuses, but children! God the Father forced Israel to eat their children for dinner now God the Son Jesus Christ promised to kill the children in the wrong Churches so they can learn a lesson on WHO IS THE BOSS and to add insult to injury, preachers are getting rich selling books on Jesus’ love for the little children of the world! Today, Jesus Christ would be in jail for bullying about killing any child to favor a particular brand of faith!) Then ALL THE CHURCHES WILL KNOW that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds.* (*I’m the BOSS says Jesus Christ! Not even the Mafia talks like that in public!)



Romans 15:4 (Saint Paul says) For EVERYTHING that was written in the past* (*Old Testament) was written to teach us* (*Christians!)



Today Christians don’t believe that EVERYTHING written in the Bible is for them! Christianity is one of the most DISHONEST religions in the world second only to Islam! The Bible is a selection of many books written by wanking perverts! If you have a respectable IQ you ought to know what any religion is all about! I know your first impulse is to delete what I post! Christians ought to share this post with their spiritual leader and demand an intelligent answer not just another intimidation!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

Lmao. :)

It's a fantastic funny book!
I know one book an athiest should read....does that count??? :)