Books Critical of Religion

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (books not included). Pages: 50. Chapters: Candide, We the Living, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, Religion Explained, The Future of an Illusion, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, The Talmud Unmasked, A Devil's Chaplain, Atheism: The Case Against God, Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Letters from the Earth, The Demon-Haunted World, Theologico-Political Treatise, Treatise of the Three Impostors, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Non-Believer, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, God: The Failed Hypothesis, An Intelligent Person's Guide to Atheism, God and the State, 500 years screwed but Christian, Christian Science, When Religion Becomes Evil, Did Jesus Exist?, Nothing: Something to Believe In, The Varieties of Scientific Experience, The Transcendental Temptation: A Critique of Religion and the Paranormal. Excerpt: Candide, ou l'Optimisme (; French: ) is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. The novella has been widely translated, with English versions titled Candide: or, All for the Best (1759); Candide: or, The Optimist (1762); and Candide: or, Optimism (1947). It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Edenic paradise and being indoctrinated with Leibnizian optimism (or simply Optimism) by his mentor, Pangloss. The work describes the abrupt cessation of this lifestyle, followed by Candide's slow, painful disillusionment as he witnesses and experiences great hardships in the world. Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not outright rejecting optimism, advocating an enigmatic precept, "we must cultivate our garden," in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, "all is for the best...