The Bible itself made me question religion.

Yes...the bible.

The first was "Illusions" by Richard Bach. Later in life it was "The Varieties of Religious Experiences by William James. Carl Sagan's lectures compiled in "The Varieties of Scientific Experiences" came later and lately E.O. Wilson's "The Meaning of Human Existence."

I remember sitting in school when I was in the 6th grade...? I was reading about other ppls religion in the world. Taoists seemed so peaceful.. . I think that same day was when I learned of the world chaos... and what it truly means. At least what it means for me.

I called myself an agnostic for years because I didn't feel comfortable calling myself an atheist, just in case someone came up with a proof of a god. I think after I read "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan, I was convinced enough to pronounce myself an atheist.

Absolutely. This single argument was the straw that broke the camels back for me.

The Hero's Journey by Joseph Campbell. Also books by Carl Sagan. And, I was greatly affected by a National Geographic TV special in the late 1960's about Leaky's discovery of human ancestors in Africa.

I like the 'Ancient Aliens' show on TV. If ET's did visit earth long ago, they would have appeared to be gods to our ancestors whenever they demonstrated their advanced technology devices, flying machines, weapons etc.

In 1986 I bought an issue of OMNI magazine. In the letters to the editor section, there was a letter about alternative medicine, or something, I don't remember. The editor responded with skepticism. It made me think that I should be more skeptical about things and ,wouldn't ya know it, I had just started reading the old testament before that. I was an atheist before I finished Deuteronomy.

No book or movie, it was the comedy of George Carlin.

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No not really. I also was not exposed to god until about the age of 7 in any real way. My grandmother put me in a sunday school class at 7, and they read a few stories from the bible the first day. I remember thinking these people are freaking crazy. I complained to my dad his mother was forcing me to go to sunday school and never had to go again. I remained uninvolved in religion until about 22. I was openly atheist but I never went out of my way to shove my views in other peoples faces, that is until my buddies family starting shoving their Christion crazy in my face. I decided then to educated myself on religion and all its crazy. So the first book I read was the bible, that was a joke. Then some other book about The reason god is real. No joke the first line in the book is all I read. It said "God is real, because god is real" I closed the book, and started reading the counter argument, YouTube debates so on so forth. If I was going to argue with people I would be informed. Been vary vocal about my Atheist beliefs ever sense.

Yeah. It is a book actually. It is God Delusion.

"Bulfinch's Mythology" started it. Many since have helped give my disbelief shape and substance. "The End of Faith,""God Is Not Great," "The Portable Atheist," "The God Delusion," "Breaking the Spell," "God: The Failed Hypothesis," "Infidel," "The Plague" all come to mind. Movies like "Religulous" and the BBC's "The Root of All Evil" and "The History of Disbelief" are excellent. I also like a lot of the stuff you can find on YouTube which includes but is not limited to the work of Non-Stamp Collector, DarkMatter2525, Evid3nc3, "The thinking Atheist," and any Christopher Hitchens debate.

Actually, I was watching the General Conference of the LDS church. This is 12 hours of church done twice a year over 3 days. There are 2 hour sessions where our church leaders teach us on gospel subjects, also lots and lots of hymns.

I'd quit going to church, or taking any of it seriously at that point in my life, but I wasn't anti-religious yet. Something in the hymns and talks that day "OPENED MY MIND." It suddenly hit me, "WE WORSHIP DEATH." We get together every week and drink pretend human blood, and eat pretend human flesh. We constantly talk about Christ's death, and on an on and on. YUCK. YUCK. YUCK.

At that moment I started thinking of all Christian religions as Christian Death Cults.

I quickly thought, "if I were to join a church, and they ritualistically sacrificed animals to their god, would I join that religion?" Yet, the Jews did that for centuries and I've always counted it as righteousness?????????????

Up to this point, I hadn't looked at a single anti-religion website, post, book, youtube video, etc..
After that day, I immersed myself in these things. Watched dozens of debates on religion on youtube, read Richard Dawkins & Sam Harris's books. Actually learned about what was in the Bible, the history of it, the conflicts between the authors of it, and on and on and on. My world was opened up that day.
THANK GOD!!!!

'God is not Great' by Christopher Hitchens
I haven't made it all the way through the book, it's rather heavy reading, but he makes such intelligent and well thought out points against religion, I don't know how anyone with an open mind could read it and still believe in 'god'.

Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, helped solidify my thoughts, but prior to that there were various other books and movies.

Monty Python's "The life of Brian" - I saw it when I was in college as a freshman. it was the first time I had ever seen religion ridiculed. It also portrayed "Brian" to be an accidental Jesus which made me first see Jesus as just a man who preached a new philosophy. Just thinking that all his good ideas got mixed into "Christianity" makes me sad.

I've never been religious but the second most impactful book for me was "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell. The first most impactful book was the Bible itself, and I don't mean that as a joke. I read the NIV cover to cover, and the fact that I was never indoctrinated allowed me to read it without "God glasses on." Craziest damn thing I've ever read.

Yes. The bible. A great NOVEL.