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Books: Confessions of a Teenage Jesus Jerk

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Author Tony DuShane, a former Jehovah’s Witness, uses his first novel to spill the beans on what it is truly like to be a young JW. It’s fascinating and scary.

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Muhammad Entering From the Rear: A review of Osama Van Halen

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If punk rock songs are short, loud, offensive, and give a big F.U. to the mainstream, then Michael Muhammad Knight’s new novel, Osama Van Halen (Soft Skull Press) is very punk rock.

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I’m Perfect, You’re Doomed: a book review

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This is a story about being raised in, and exiting a cult. What’s not to love?

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An afterlife for Atheists? Read for yourself

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The Atheist Afterlife, describes a non-religious afterlife that requires nothing more than physics and therefore no supernatural realm.

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Atheism for kids

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A German faith-based group is in an uproar over a children’s book that promotes atheism. But is the book really dangerous?

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Happy birthday Thomas Jefferson, you blasphemous heretic you

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Imagine if Barack Obama took a copy of the Bible and cut out his favorite passages with scissors, glued them onto paper and said, “there, that’s a better version.”

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Women in the Bible, one novel at a time

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Men are the central characters in most Bible stories. But for one author, it’s all about the ladies.
An interview with Eva Etzioni-Halevy.

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Sum by David Eagleman: April’s book of the month

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Usually the answer to the question of afterlife is based on one’s spiritual belief system, or lack thereof. But we don’t need to be limited to religious definitions of “the great beyond” thanks to David Eagleman’s imaginative new book, Sum: Forty Tales From the Afterlives.

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Nobel Laureates and scientists who believe in God

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Nobelists.net has a free e-book called “50 Nobel Laureates and Other Great Scientists Who Believe in God.” Not a very catchy title, but an interesting little 146 page read.

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The ghost of Daniel Johnston

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If Daniel Johnston were born in a different time and place, he might have been burned as a heretic or confined forever to an insane asylum. But in this age, the self-taught singer-songwriter, given to paranoid delusions about Satan and violent outbursts, has become a revered figure in the underground art and music world.

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David Plotz’ Good Book: a review

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His column “Blogging the Bible” on Slate.com was the precursor to his new book about his Bible reading adventure called Good Book: The Bizarre, Hilarious, Disturbing, Marvelous, and Inspiring Things I learned When I Read Every Single Word of the Bible. “Every single word of the Bible” doesn’t include the New Testament of course. As a Jew, he is exempt.

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