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OKC Metro Library Book Sale - Feb 22 & 23

The 24th Annual Friends of the Library Booksale is Saturday and Sunday February 22 & 23 9:30 AM thru 5:30 PM at the Made in Oklahoma Building, State Fairgrounds in Oklahoma City.300,000+ used...

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MEAN GENES by Terry Burnham & Jay Phelan

In The Odyssey, Odysseus faces the peril of the sea nymphs known as the Sirens. Singing, the Sirens lured passing mariners with their enchanting voices; ineluctably, the latter crashed their ships on...

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The Golden Compass... by Philip Pullman

Random House's Official WebsitesA not-so favorable reviewand more reactionThis children's fantasy trilogy has become one of the most popular series world wide and, next to Harry Potter, the most...

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The Human Stain by Philip Roth

Excellent book... A movie has been made with Sir Anthony Hopkins getting it on with Nicole Kidman. WTF??I'm skeptical that the movie will even offer a fraction of the introspective delight this book...

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Doubt

I have just started reading "Doubt: A History" by Jennifer Michael Hecht, sub-title: The Great Doubters and Their Legacy of Innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Emily...

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Why I am not a Christian by Betrand Russell

AmazonI give it 5/5 smiles for quality and 4/5 devils for promotion of critical thought and atheism Great read, brilliant mind, wonderful lines.....................

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The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown

This thread is for discussion of topic book. Please post insightful questions and useful historical sources for our book club event in April.OKLAHOMA ATHEISTSwebsite | ezboard | store

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A Couple Movies:

Contact with Jodi Foster and Sleepy Hollow with Depp both have interesting religious comflicts and sub-plots, in addition to being well written, funny and visually captivating in very unique and...

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A list of secularist podcasts

Here's some a list of providers of podcast programs featuring a secularist perspective. The list includes the podcast feed for your podcatcher, aggregator, or audio-playing software. You can also...

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The End of Faith

This is a bestselling atheistic book, so I kind of expect that the majority of people here have read it, but I want to start a thread on it.There was a lot of things I learned about from this book,...

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The Blind Watchmaker

More about biology than atheism, but one of Richard Dawkins' classics.Overall a very enjoyable read, I must say. I was motivated to read as much of it as possible for I went up to Lawrence, Kansas on...

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The God Delusion

Whether or not you wholly agree with him or think he's a PR nightmare for atheists, I think The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins is a must-read for atheists, agnostics, and basically anybody willing to...

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Apocalypto

I like it. It was very violent and dark. It had some silly supernatural @#%$ in there, too, but I'm not one to watch a movie to see something totally realistic anyway. Besides... the fortune-telling...

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junebug (the movie, have you heard of it?)

very interesting film. i think one could watch it with christians in the room and they would not get the obvious. the main character is a woman of the world, i think she is probably and athiest at...

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The Making of the Fittest

This book, by Professor Sean B. Carroll is one of the most fascinating books about evolution that I have read. This book takes the facts to the genetic and DNA level. It shows the simplicity of...

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Carl Sagan Books

I have not read any of Carl Sagans books; however, I see and hear his name mentioned frequently. So, which one should I start with? Also, this may be saying something about me but I find many of the...

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Blogging the Bible

Bloggin the BibleI'm pretty sure this link has been made somewhere before but for what it's worth this was a cool project/blog by a Slate contributor who read the entire Hebrew Bible in one year and...

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SciFi Atheist Author Harry Harrison

This guy is old school scifi for quick amusing reads for the most part.I prefer series of books when it comes to scifi and Harrison has a few:Stainless Steel Rat series:A space opera romp detailing...

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jesus camp

and i thought i was weird. watch it."The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded." -George Orwell

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Devil's Playground

A movie about the amish and their experiences in rumspringa.Baptism, rumspringa, and shunningThe Amish and other Anabaptists do not believe that a child can be meaningfully baptized; this is, in fact,...

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