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San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1987.
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New York: Prometheus, 2004.
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New York: Prometheus, 2004.
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Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.
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Westminster John Knox Press, 1996.
Price, Robert M., and Jeffery Jay Lowder, eds.
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave.
New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.
The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond the Grave.
New York: Prometheus Books, 2005.
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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs.
New York: William Morrow, 2008.
Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs.
New York: William Morrow, 2008.
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. New York: Free Press, 2007.
Babinski, Edward T.
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New York: Prometheus Books, 1995.
Leaving the Fold: Testimonies of Former Fundamentalists.
New York: Prometheus Books, 1995.
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New York: Prometheus Books, 2001.
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New York: Prometheus Books, 2001.
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Freethought Today
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Bloomington, Indiana: Authorhouse, 2006.
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iUniverse, Inc., 2008
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iUniverse, Inc., 2008
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Toronto: McClellan and Stuart, Inc., 1996.
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New York: Viking, 2006.
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. New York: W. H. Freeman & Company, 1999.
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Index
Ad hominem
arguments
arguments
Adam; and biblical contradictions
Adultery, and seventh commandment
Afterlife; atheist concept
“Agency detector” theory
Agnosticism; definition
Ahaziah, and biblical contradictions
Allegro, John
Allen, Woody
Anaheim Christian Center
Anger
Animals on ark, and biblical contradictions
“Anti-theists
,”
,”
Arcadia Friends Church
Archer, Gleason
Archko Volume
Argument from Incredulity
Ark, and biblical contradictions
Atheism; definitions; vs. Christianity (author’s debates).
See also specific issues
See also specific issues
Atheist afterlife
Atheists: musical composers; well-known.
See also specific names
See also specific names
Atheists United
Avalos, Hector
Azusa Pacific College (later University)
Bar-Serapion, Mara
Barfoot, Milton
Barker, Carol (first wife)
Barker, Dan (author): atheist beliefs; call to the ministry; children; college years; debates, as atheist; deconversion letter; deconversion, reactions to; and FFRF; as minister; missionary work in Mexico; musical work; ordination; personal religious experience; questions about Christianity; religious work, after college; religious work, early; travels, as atheist; as “true Christian,” youth
Barker, Darrell (brother)
Barker, Keith (uncle)
Barker, Norman (father)
Barker, Pat (mother)
Barker, Tom (brother)
BE/NBE sets (existence/nonexistence)
Beatitudes
Behavioral dilemmas.
See
Morality
See
Morality
Belief, religious, origin of
Benson, Steve
Berry, Joy
Bible; contradictions and discrepancies; ethics; “good” teachings; and human rights; metaphors/ parables; and “might makes right,” and moral examples; and morality; Old Testament/New Testament parallels; translations /versions
Big Bang and Big Bang cosmology
Birth of Jesus.
See
Jesus, birth
See
Jesus, birth
Blind men and elephant analogy
Blindness analogy, and faith
Bolton, Rich
Bonilla, Manuel
Book of Mormon
Boone, Pat
Bova, Ben
Boyd, Greg
Boyer, Pascal
Buddhism: “Golden Rule” version; Ten Precepts
Burckhardt, Jacob
Bush, George W.
Calvin, John
Capital punishment, and bible; Fourth Commandment
Carrier, Richard
Castration, and Jesus
Catholic Church, and Second Commandment
Causality and cause/effect arguments
Character attacks
Charismatic Movement
Christianity vs. atheism (author’s debates)
Christians in Action (CIA)
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
See
Mormons
See
Mormons
Clergy, former, becoming atheists
Colson, Chuck
Compassion
Confucianism, “Golden Rule” version
Copleston, Frederick
Corey, Michael
Cosmos and cosmological arguments
Cox, Shirley and Verlin
Craig, William Lane
Creation; and biblical contradictions
Creationism
Crucifixion.
See
Jesus, crucifixion
See
Jesus, crucifixion
Cummins, Ted
D’Souza, Dinesh
Daniels, Edwin (pseudonym)
David and the Shewbread story, and biblical contradictions
Davies, Paul
Dawkins, Richard
Dead Sea Scrolls
Death
Decalogue.
See
Ten Commandments
See
Ten Commandments
Deceit, and God
Declaration of Independence
Deism, definition
DiIulio, John
Disabled, and God
Dispensationalists, and Old Testament
Domeij, Scoti
Doyle, James
Edwards, James
Ehrman, Bart
Elohim
“End times” concept; author’s experience of
Essenes
Ethical relativism
Ethics and ethical systems.
See also
Morality
See also
Morality
Eusebius
Eve; and biblical contradictions
“Evidence” concept
Evil; and bible
Evolution
Extinction
Faith
Faith-based initiative
Faith Works (organization)
Falsifiability
FANG, (Freewill Argument for the Nonexistence of God)
Farrer, Carl
Fermicus
Fernandes, Phil
FFRF.
See
Freedom From Religion Foundation
See
Freedom From Religion Foundation
“Fine tuner” concept
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