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External Links

Looking for resources about critiquing faith? Try these.

Videos

Shorter Clips

• “You’re already committed to reason” – Steven Pinker (4 mins)
• Hitchens destroys religion – Christopher Hitchens (10 mins)
• “The complete idiot’s guide to atheism” – short montage (10 mins)
• Naturalism and the meaning of life – Sean Carroll (7 mins)
• Ricky Gervais - The Unbelievers Interview – (15 mins)
• Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 – (19 mins)
• Sam Harris replies to a regressive liberal apologist of Islam – (5 mins)
• Counter Arguments: “Religious Text Has No Meaning” – (9 mins)
• Counter Arguments: “Islamophobia” – (14 mins)
• Sarah Haider on Reza Aslan and Reforming Islam – The Ruben Report (17 mins)
• Tim Maudlin On Rationality And Truth – (4 mins)
• Raheel Raza: By The Numbers - The Untold Story of Muslim Opinions & Demographics – (15 mins)

Longer Talks

• Christopher Hitchens talks at Google – (1h)
• Christopher Hitchens on free speech – (21 mins)
• Christopher Hitchens on global conflict
• Sam Harris’ TED talk: Science can answer moral questions – (24 mins)
• “God is not a good theory” – talk by Sean Carroll (53 mins)
• “Poetic Naturalism” – talk by Sean Carroll (49 mins)
• “Four Horsemen” – discussion between Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens on September 30, 2007 (2h).
• Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz discuss the future of Islam – (26 mins)
• Waking Up with Sam Harris #125 - What Is Christianity? (with Bart Ehrman) – (110 mins)

Debates

• Sam Harris debates Rabi David Wolpe – (1h45m)
• Sean Carroll and Hans Halvorson debate religion – (1h35m)
• Sean Carroll and William Lane Craig debate “God and Cosmology” – (2h)
  • TL;DW version – (10 mins)
• Tim Maudlin and William Lane Craig debate “Cosmology, Theology and Meaning” – (1h)

Collections and Series

• The Atheist Experience – TV show with many great episodes
• Street Epistemology interviews about faith by Anthony Magnabosco
• Jonathan Miller’s “Atheism: A Rough History of Disbelief” episode 1, episode 2, episode 3 – (each 1h)
• Shelly Kagan’s philosophy course at Yale: Death – (26 1h lectures)

Articles

Atheism

• Carter, N. (2015). Atheists Need Help Mourning, Too.
• Kunesh, T.P. (1996). Gordon Stein on the Meaning of Agnosticism.
• Stein, Gordon (2XXX). The History of Freethought and Atheism. positiveatheism.org. (broken!)

Christianity

• Eichenwald, Kurt. (2015). The Bible: So Misunderstood It’s a Sin. Newsweek.
• The Historicity of the Patriarchal Narratives
• Abraham in History and Tradition

Islam

• Pew Research Center. (2013). The World’s Muslims: Religion, Politics and Society,
• Rizvi, Ali A. (2014). An Open Letter to Moderate Muslims. Huffpost. (also published at RDFRS)
• Syed, Muhammad & Haider, Sarah. (2014). Reza Aslan is Wrong About Islam and This is Why. friendly atheist blog.

Naturalism

• Prado, Ignacio. (2006). Ionian Enchantment: A Brief History of Scientific Naturalism. naturalism.org

Blogs

• A Year Without God, which became Life After God
• Common Sense Atheism
• positivists.org

Books

• Dennett, Daniel. (1996). Darwin’s Dangerous Idea.
• Harris, Sam. (2005). The End of Faith.
• Dennett, Daniel. (2007). Breaking the Spell.
• Harris, Sam. (2008). Letter to a Christian Nation.
• Hitchens, Christopher (2009). God is Not Great.
• Harris, Sam. (2011). The Moral Landscape.
• Hirsi Ali, Ayaan. (2015). Heretic: Why Islam Needs a Reformation Now.

Reference

• wiki.ironchariots.org
• naturalism.org
• rationalwiki.org
• quran.com
• The Skeptic’s Annotated Bible
• yourlogicalfallacyis.com

Wiki Articles

• Atheism - IEP
• Atheism, New - IEP
• Atheism - Wikipedia
• Atheism and agnosticism - SEP
• Atheism, Criticism of - Wikipedia
• Atheism, History of - Wikipedia
• Biblical minimalism
• Democritus - SEP
• Democritus - Wikipedia
• De rerum natura - Wikipedia
• Enlightenment, Age of - Wikipedia
• Epicurus - SEP
• Epicurus - IEP
• Epicurus - Wikipedia
• Hiddenness of God - SEP
• Historicity of the Bible
• Lucretius - Wikipedia
• Naturalism - SEP
• Naturalism - IEP
• Naturalism - Wikipedia
• Patriarchal age
• Problem of evil - SEP
• Problem of evil - IEP
• Tractatus Theologico-Politicus - Wikipedia