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How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Steps
- A Toolkit for Secular Activists
- Narrated by: Ryan T. Cragun
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Publisher's summary
Do you want the greatest political and societal challenges of the day to be addressed with thoughtful, reality-based solutions rather than with cherry-picked quotations from scripture? Do you want to shrink religion - especially fundamentalist religion - to the point that it plays no noticeable role in public life? Do you want right-wing religious leaders to be so unpopular that politicians avoid them rather than pander to them for endorsements? Drawing on the latest social-scientific research on religion, How to Defeat Religion in 10 Easy Steps illustrates specific, actionable steps nonbelievers - and even progressive believers - can take to facilitate fundamentalist religion's decline. With each of its 10 chapters focusing on a specific strategy that research has shown can weaken religion, detailing the how and why, the book covers topics as far ranging as education, welfare, sex, science, capitalism, and Christmas, and offers a wide range of recommendations for individuals, local groups, and national organizations interested in speeding up secularization.
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On March 29, 1516, the city council of Venice issued a decree forcing Jews to live in il geto - a closed quarter named for the copper foundry that once occupied the area. The term stuck. In this sweeping and original interpretation, Mitchell Duneier traces the idea of the ghetto from its beginnings in the 16th century and its revival by the Nazis to the present. As Duneier shows, we cannot understand the entanglements of race, poverty, and place in America today without recalling the history of the ghetto in Europe, as well as later efforts to understand the problems of the American city.
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Impressive
- By Jean on 12-10-16
By: Mitchell Duneier
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A Battle for the Soul of Islam
- An American Muslim Patriot's Fight to Save His Faith
- By: M. Zuhdi Jasser
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
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Among the unsettling social shifts in the wake of 9/11 was the global attention paid to Islam. Here in the United States, we became divided, often sadly along partisan lines, between those who believed every Muslim was a potential threat and those who believed no Muslim could do wrong. For conservative Wisconsin native and former U.S. Navy lieutenant commander Dr. M. Zuhdi Jasser, these radical times meant facing a new reality as a devout Muslim and a patriot - a certain betrayal within his faith.
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A courageous and clear champion of American Liberty
- By Craigan on 04-07-16
By: M. Zuhdi Jasser
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The Conservative Heart
- How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
- By: Arthur C. Brooks
- Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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In The Conservative Heart, Arthur C. Brooks contends that after years of focusing on economic growth and traditional social values, it is time for a new kind of conservatism - one that helps the vulnerable without mortgaging our children's future. In Brooks' daring vision, this conservative movement fights poverty, promotes equal opportunity, celebrates earned success, and values spiritual enlightenment. It is an inclusive movement with a positive agenda to help people lead happier, more hopeful, and more satisfied lives.
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Outstanding recitation of conservatism!
- By GLENNO on 08-06-15
By: Arthur C. Brooks
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The Politics of Resentment
- Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker
- By: Katherine J. Cramer
- Narrated by: Coleen Marlo
- Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
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Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall that brought thousands of protesters to Capitol Square, he was subsequently reelected. How could this happen? How is it that the very people who stand to benefit from strong government services not only vote against the candidates who support those services but are vehemently against the very idea of big government?
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Important, but shallow
- By Catherine Spiller on 12-11-18
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The War on the West
- By: Douglas Murray
- Narrated by: Douglas Murray
- Length: 12 hrs and 42 mins
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In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia?
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Every Human (seriously, everyone) Read This!
- By aaron on 04-27-22
By: Douglas Murray
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Everything You Wanted to Know about Indians but Were Afraid to Ask
- By: Anton Treuer
- Narrated by: Kaipo Schwab
- Length: 5 hrs and 1 min
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What have you always wanted to know about Indians? Do you think you should already know the answers-or suspect that your questions may be offensive? In matter-of-fact responses to over 120 questions, both thoughtful and outrageous, modern and historical, Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist Anton Treuer gives a frank, funny, and sometimes personal tour of what's up with Indians, anyway.
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one of the better books
- By Erica Kerr on 07-14-18
By: Anton Treuer
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It's Dangerous to Believe
- Religious Freedom and Its Enemies
- By: Mary Eberstadt
- Narrated by: Margaret Winston
- Length: 5 hrs and 20 mins
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In It's Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents how people of faith - especially Christians who adhere to traditional religious beliefs - face widespread discrimination in today's increasingly secular society. Eberstadt details how recent laws, court decisions, and intimidation on campuses and elsewhere threaten believers who fear losing their jobs, their communities, and their basic freedoms solely because of their convictions.
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Not about Freedom of Religion
- By A. A. Gunnarsdóttir on 01-29-19
By: Mary Eberstadt
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- C. Mcculloch
- 12-27-18
Replace religion with socialism?
Not a bad book, but it partly advocates socialism as replacement of some religious functions.
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- G
- 04-03-16
Great ideas
I really like hearing about his ideas on changes to help take religion away from holidays and insert humanistic good time fun I place- would love to see his school ideas actually implemented! Someday! I Hope!
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- amanda
- 04-17-19
pretty good
This was a little slow and boring, but has very good information. Not too bad.
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- evolozzy
- 05-11-16
A really concise and well written book
This book is a summary and a road map for secular activists to have a more humanist and equal society. The language is really basic so it can be offered for even pre high school kids.
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- Pete Day
- 03-31-16
Über liberal manifesto
The book was ok.
The author was of the opinion that the end justifies the means when it comes to social engineering. His "wedge" strategy that emulates the creationist movement, is as dishonest as the religious right's attempts to get evolution out of schools. We can't accept that the only was to secularize the country is to try to indoctrinate children in public school (as the right tries to do).
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- Anonymous Ed
- 08-19-18
Worst book to promote atheism, and honesty
The title of this book is a lie. This book has little to do with promoting atheism in the world. I've been looking for good books about how to get people off their mystical nonsense indoctrination. I have come to expect honesty from the atheist movement and atheist authors. This was a waste of my time. He mentions noted liars and theists to follow and support. I have a new title for this book. "Why I think Karl Marx has compelling ideas" or "Venezuela is not so bad". He literally tells us that the biggest problem with atheism is that it is led and filled with white, hetero men- not just once but over and over again. He asserts a whole slew of claims completely untethered to supporting evidence. He needed to be honest, as others have. He needs to know and support real knowledge that as we become more secular, we'll stop all the nonsense and horrors that come with faith based religion. I can dismiss this book as another book extolling the virtues of communist ideology - not atheism. thanks for nothing.
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- Amazon Customer
- 10-04-18
Extremely left wing.
Speaking as a Libertarian atheist business owner in the Midwest, many of the policy changes recommended in this book would lead to the bankrupting and destruction of America. Many of those include policies recommended by the Socialist Party as well as backhandedly advocating communism. while I agree with the goal of reducing or eliminating the influence of religion, I wouldn't want it to cost America it's exceptionalism.
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