Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology, was a best seller in America, where it caused a short-lived deistic revival. Promoting a creator-God while advocating reason in the place of revelation, Paine's controversial pamphlet caused his native British audience, fearing the results of the French Revolution, to receive itContinue reading "Book of the Day "The Age of Reason""

Richard Dawkins, evolutionary biologist, presents a gorgeously lucid, book examining some of nature's most fundamental questions both from a mythical and scientific perspective.Science is our most precise and powerful tool for making sense of the world. Before we developed the scientific method, we created rich mythologies to explain the unknown. The pressing questions that primitiveContinue reading "Book of the Day "The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True""

  The assumption that Jesus existed as a historical person has occasionally been questioned in the course of the last hundred years or so, but any doubts that have been raised have usually been put to rest in favor of imagining a blend of the historical, the mythical, and the theological in the surviving recordsContinue reading "Book of the Day "On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt""

What is it like to be a preacher who no longer believes in God? In this expanded and updated edition of their groundbreaking study, Daniel C. Dennett and Linda LaScola comprehensively and sensitively expose an inconvenient truth that religious institutions face in the new transparency of the information age - the phenomenon of clergy whoContinue reading "Book of the Day "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind""

The social dynamics of "alternative facts": why what you believe depends on who you knowWhy should we care about having true beliefs? And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite consequences for the people who hold them? Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue that social factors, rather than individual psychology,Continue reading "Book of the Day "The Misinformation Age: How False Beliefs Spread""

In this classic work, Professor George G. M. James methodically shows how the Greeks first borrowed and then stole the knowledge from the Priests of the African (Egyptian) Mystery System. He shows how the most popular philosophers including Thales, Anaximander, Plato, and Socrates were all treated as men bringing a foreign teaching to Greece. AContinue reading "Book of the Day "The Stolen Legacy: Greek Philosophy Is Stolen Egyptian Philosophy""

Tommy J. Curry's provocative audiobook The Man-Not is a justification for black male studies. He posits that we should conceptualize the black male as a victim oppressed by his sex. The Man-Not, therefore, is a corrective of sorts, offering a concept of black males that could challenge the existing accounts of black men and boysContinue reading "Book of the Day "The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood""