We met December 13 at the Blue Moose at 5pm.
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Everyone brought in a wide range of books. Here’s the list:
Next month’s book: The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification by Julian Montague
- Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity by John W. Loftus
- Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe by Greg Epstein
- Then Why Do I Have Toenails?: How To Be The Best Atheist You Can Be by Thom Phelps
- The God Virus: How religion infects our lives and culture by Darrel W. Ray
- Microcosm: E. Coli and the New Science of Life by Carl Zimmer
- God Hates You, Hate Him Back: Making Sense of The Bible by CJ Werleman
- The Atheist Camel Chronicles: Debate Themes & Arguments for the Non-Believer (and those who think they might be) by Dromedary Hump
- The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court by Peter Irons
- Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
- Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore
- How We Believe, 2nd Edition: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God by Michael Shermer
- Flock of Dodos: Behind Modern Creationism, Intelligent Design and the Easter Bunny by Barrett Brown
- The Wisdom of the Native Americans by Kent Nerburn
- 101 Myths of the Bible: How Ancient Scribes Invented Biblical History by Gary Greenberg
- Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment by Phil Zuckerman
- Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America by Barbara Ehrenreich
- Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
- Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle by Daniel L. Everett
- Out of Eden: The Peopling of the World by Stephen Oppenheimer
Please leave a comment below with your three choices, in order of first favorite. Please comment this week so that you don’t forget and we can get the list set.
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This meeting will be a bit different.
Bring along some appropriate books you would like to share with the group.
To clarify, bring books you’d like to share for either a possible book for us to all read, or just books you think we might find interesting. They might be books you’ve already read that you just want to share, or something you haven’t read yet but you think we’d all like to read it together.
We’ll share our books with everyone and talk about them.
Some ideas of what to bring:
- nonfiction, textbooks or even fiction
- secular or religious studies
- critical thinking
- science
If all goes well, someone will bring along a great read that we’ll then choose for our January meeting. 
Hey Everyone,
Butch found a book preview online that I mentioned at the last meeting. It’s called “God Hates You. Hate Him Back” by CJ Werleman.
The book is being released on Amazon in December, I believe. I contacted the publishing company and told them we might like it for our book club and offered to do a review on Amazon for it and they said they’d mail me a copy. I don’t know when that will happen, but in the meantime, here is a link to the sample first chapter:
http://www.godhatesyou.net/uploads/God_Hates_You_Sample_Chapter_Web.pdf
If you get a chance, you can read it before this meeting so we can see if we’d be interested in it.
See you in December and Happy Thanksgiving!
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My picks are:
1. The God Virus
2. Good Without God
3. 101 Myths of the Bible
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My picks are: 1 The God Virus (since it was my idea!) 2 Good Without God 3 Out of Eden.
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God Hates You, Hate Him Back by CJ Werleman
Don’t Sleep, There Are Snakes by Daniel L. Everett
Society without God by Phil Zuckerman
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Thanks for commenting right away, guys!
By the way as I made this list, I realized that God Hates You, Hate Him Back is now available on Amazon now. It’s linked above.
Keep your votes coming everyone else!
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My choices:
The God Virus
Then Why Do I Have Toenails?
God Hates You, Hate Him Back
But I have to say, it was tough. I liked the sound of quite a few of these books.
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This is tough – All the books seem interesting but I HAVE to vote. So here are my ‘top’ three:
1. The God Virus
2. How We Believe
3. 101 Myths
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OK, in no way do I want to influence any further voting. Gerald, Neece, and Brent … free beers on me! Dave … go suck a pretzel. ;o) GO GOD VIRUS!!!!!
Joe
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Neece Reply:
December 16th, 2009 at 7:56 pm
HAHHAHAHA!!!!
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God Hates You (Hate Him Back)
Flock of DoDos
Society Without God
I definitely want to read most of these though, so I hope we’re going to be coming back to the ones that don’t make the top 3 this round.
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God Virus
Native American Wisdom
101 Myths of Bible
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