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Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists | 
| Author: Dan Barker
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Category: Book
Buy New: £8.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 13731
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 392
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1569756775
Dewey Decimal Number: 211
EAN: 9781569756775
ASIN: 1569756775
Publication Date: October 2, 2008
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Finally a book that I can recommended to christians November 21, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I have read dozens of books exposing the problems with christianity in search of a book that I could recommend to my family, all of whom are staunch christians. Many of the books out there are written by people that do not have a strong personal experience of christianity themselves and though they may be brilliant books, the christians I know could dismiss them all because the writers haven't "received the calling of the holy spirit". The few books that I have read on the subject that have been written by ex-christians may have excellent content but contain angry undertones which I know would turn the christian reader off.
Enter Dan Barker, a man who was a true believer who has escaped from the prison of christian thinking into the real world with an appreciation for the importance of genuine humanistic morality and the credibility and beauty of observable reality. He has a deep and thorough knowledge of the bible and has truly beheld the christian "experience" first hand. He cannot be accused of taking scripture out of context. He also knows much about the background of the various translations, including the original Hebrew and Greek.
I bought his previous book, "Losing Faith in Faith" hoping that it would be the book that I could pass to my family but though it had great content, I wished that it had been written as a single piece of work rather than a collection of essays and short articles.
In this new book, "Godless", he retells the best parts of "Losing Faith in Faith" as well as newer content and contains a greater emphasis on what I think is important for christians to understand about christianity. His writing was always very good, but 20+ years after his first book, it is even better and this time it is structured as a single, flowing work.
I have bought copies for my family and hope they will read this book with an open mind, if not to liberate themselves from christianity, then at least to understand that there are valid reasons for rejecting it and that life, truth and morality can be appreciated and enjoyed without religion.
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