The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read

This book has incorporated a hard look at beliefs, evidence, stories, churches and acts of omission and commission. The foundation of the book is the spirit of free inquiry, from the ancient Greeks - Protagoras, Socrates and others - through the Renaissance humanism of Erasmus and Spinoza, followed by the Enlightenment - Voltaire, John Locke, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson - to the present secular culture of great scientific achievements. All through these times, those who thought for themselves, who explored new questions and found new answers, had to contend with the repressions of religious orthodoxy. This was inevitable, since their work was a mortal challenge to old ways of thinking.
This is not an anti-religious book. The search for the meaning of life started long before Moses, Jesus, Mohammed or organized religion. This book is a reference book that is meant to be challenging and informative.