Bibliography

The following are a few resources that may assist in your further research into the various topics discussed herein – many of which were helpful in formulating the conclusions of this book.

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Comparative Religion / The Jesus Myth

The Pagan Christ: Recovering the Lost Light (Tom Harpur)

The Jesus Puzzle: Did Christianity Begin with a Mythical Christ? Challenging the Existence of an Historical Jesus (Earl Doherty)

The Christ Conspiracy: The Greatest Story Ever Sold (DM Murdock/Acharya S)

The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God? (Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy)

The Early Christian Church / The Gnostics

Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew (Bart D. Ehrman)

The Gnostic Gospels (Elaine Pagels)

Biblical Archeology

The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein)

The Bible Unearthed (DVD - Neil Asher Silberman, Israel Finkelstein)

Religious Morality: Sexism, Homophobia, Racism & Religious Intolerance

Holy Bible - New International Version (Zondervan)

Holy Bible - Lamsa Version (George M. Lamsa)

The Qur'an - Translation (Sayed A. A. Razwy, Abdullah Yusuf Ali)

Eastern Spirituality

Buddhism Plain and Simple (Steve Hagen)

The Bhagavad Gita (Eknath Easwaran)

An Introduction to Jainism (Bharat S. Shah)

Tao Te Ching: A New English Version (Stephen Mitchell)

Deism

The Age of Reason (Thomas Paine)

The Complete Conversations with God (Neale Donald Walsch)

Atheism

The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Christopher Hitchens)

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Daniel C. Dennett)

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Sam Harris)

The Born Again Skeptic's Guide To The Bible (Ruth Hurmence Green)

Pantheism

Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology (Max Jammer)

Science

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Carl Sagan)

A Brief History of Time (Stephen Hawking)

Miscellaneous

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner)

Capitalism: A Love Story (DVD - Michael Moore)

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (Joseph A. Schumpeter)

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Jared Diamond)

Earthlings (DVD)

An Inconvenient Truth (DVD - Al Gore)

The How of Happiness: A Scientific Approach to Getting the Life You Want (Sonja Lyubomirsky)