Bibliography of books critical of Christianity

This is a bibliography of literature treating the topic of criticism of Christianity, sorted by source publication and the author's last name.

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Criticism of religion

By religion

* Baháˈí Faith
* Buddhism
* Christianity
* Catholic
* Jehovah's Witnesses
* Latter Day Saint movement
* Protestantism
* Seventh-day Adventist
* Unification movement
* Unification Church in Japan
* Westboro Baptist Church
* Hinduism
* Swaminarayan sect
* Islam
* Islamism
* Twelver Shia Islam
* Wahhabism
* Jainism
* Judaism
* Monotheism
* New religious movement
* Neopaganism
* Scientology
* Sikhism
* Yazdânism
* Zoroastrianism

By religious figure

* Aisha
* Charles Taze Russell
* Ellen White
* Jesus
* Moses
* Muhammad
* Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
* Saul

By text

* Bible
* Quran
* Hadith
* Mormon sacred texts
* Book of Mormon
* Talmud

Religious violence

* Buddhism
* Christianity
* Mormonism
* Judaism
* Islam
* Terrorism
* Christian
* Hindu
* Islamic
* Jewish
* Persecution
* Christian thought on persecution and tolerance
* War
* In Islam
* In Judaism
* Sectarian violence
* By country
* India
* Anti-Christian violence
* In Odisha
* Nigeria
* Pakistan

Bibliographies

* Christianity
* Islam
* Judaism
* Mormonism
* Scientology

Related topics

* Abuse
* Apostasy
* In Islam
* In Christianity
* Criticism of atheism
* Criticism of monotheism
* Sexuality
* Slavery
* Superstitions
* Muslim
* Jewish

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## Books by author

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* Ismail al-Faruqi,  Christian Ethics: A Historical and Systematic Analysis of Its Dominant Ideas (1967)
* John M. Allegro, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth
* Baron d'Holbach, Christianity Unveiled
* Dan Barker, godless (Ulysses Press 2008)
* Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
* Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee (Madhya Pradesh, India), and Sita Ram Goel. 1998. Vindicated by time: the Niyogi Committee report on Christian missionary activities.[1][2]
* Richard Dawkins, The greatest show on earth, (Blackswan 2007)
* Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
* Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
* Daniel Dennett Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
* Freeman, C. The Closing of the Western Mind
* David and Solomon, by I. Finkelstein and N. Asherman (Freepress 2006)
* The Jesus Mysteries, by T. Freke and P. Gandy (Element 1999)
* The Jesus Puzzle, by Earl Doherty (Age of Reason Publications, 1999)
* Sigmund Freud, Civilization and its discontents
* Sigmund Freud, Future of an illusion
* Albert Einstein Out of my later years and the World as I see it
* Ellens, J. Harold (2002). The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-99708-1.
* Gage, M.J. (1997). Woman, church and state: A historical account of the status of woman through the Christian ages, with reminiscences of the matriarchate.
* Goel, Sita Ram. 2009. Catholic ashrams: sannyasins or swindlers, with new appendices.[1][3]
* Goel, Sita Ram. 2016. History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996.[1][4]
* Jacolliot, L. (2014). The Bible in India. New Delhi: Christian World Imprints.
* Karlheinz Deschner, Criminal History of Christianity
* Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
* Harris, Sam. The End of Faith
* Hitchens, C. (2013). The missionary position: Mother Teresa in theory and in practice.
* Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great
* Christopher Hitchens, The Portable Atheist
* Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion
* Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy The Jesus Mysteries (Element 1999)
* Collins, John J. Does the Bible Justify Violence? Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004.
* Lea, Henry Charles. 1961. The Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Abridged. New York: Macmillan.
* The Christian Delusion, edited by John W. Loftus, foreword by Dan Barker (Prometheus Books, 2010)
* The End of Christianity, edited by John W. Loftus (Prometheus Books, 2011)
* John W. Loftus, Why I Became an Atheist: A Former Preacher Rejects Christianity (Prometheus Books, 2008)

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* Michel Onfray Atheist Manifesto
* Magnus Magnusson BC: The Archaeology of the Bible Lands (Bodley Head 1977)
* Sharan, I., The myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple. (2010).[5]
* Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason (1794–1807)
* Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth
* Victor J. Stenger God: The Failed Hypothesis
* Friedrich Nietzsche, The Antichrist
* Joseph McCabe A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics and science, Gryphon Books (1971).
* Rajiv Malhotra (2011), Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines (Publisher: Amaryllis; ISBN 978-8-191-06737-8)
* Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
* Robert M. Price, The case against the case for Christ (American atheist press 2010)
* Robert M. Price, The reason driven life (Prometheus Books, 2006)
* Carl Sagan, The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
* Herman Philipse, God in the Age of Science?
* Michael Martin, The Case Against Christianity
* Bertrand Russell, Why I am not a Christian and other essays
* The encyclopedia of Biblical errancy, by C. Dennis McKinsey (Prometheus Books, 1995)
* Shourie, Arun. (2006). Harvesting our souls: Missionaries, their design, their claims. New Delhi: Rupa.
* Shourie, Arun. (2006). Missionaries in India: Continuities, changes, dilemmas. New Delhi: Rupa.[6]
* Shourie, Arun. Arun Shourie and his Christian critic. (1995).
* Spinoza, Baruch, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (TTP) (1670)
* The Historical Evidence for Jesus, by G. A. Wells (Prometheus Books, 1988)

## References

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1. ^ a b c Dr. Sebastian Kim. The debate on conversion initiated by the Sangh Parivar, 1998-1999. Transformation 2005 (Vol. 22, No. 4, page 224)
2. ^ Thomas, Abraham Vazhayil (1974). Christians in secular India. Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press.
3. ^ Dr. T. Jacob Thomas. Book review in the Indian Journal of Theology [1] "Book Reviews," Indian Journal of Theology 37.2 (1995): 93-99.
4. ^ Christians Meeting Hindus: An Analysis and Theological Critique of the Hindu..., by Bob Robinson
5. ^ Catholic Shrines in Chennai, India: The Politics of Renewal and Apostolic Legacy by Thomas Charles Nagy
6. ^ Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India by Chad M. Bauman

## See also

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* Bibliography of books critical of Islam
* Bibliography of books critical of Judaism
* Bibliography of books critical of Mormonism
* Bibliography of books critical of Scientology
* List of apologetic works
* List of Christian apologetic works
* List of Islamic apologetic works

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Criticism of religion

By religion|

* Baháˈí Faith
* Buddhism
* Christianity
* Catholic
* Jehovah's Witnesses
* Latter Day Saint movement
* Protestantism
* Seventh-day Adventist
* Unification movement
* Unification Church in Japan
* Westboro Baptist Church
* Hinduism
* Swaminarayan sect
* Islam
* Islamism
* Twelver Shia Islam
* Wahhabism
* Jainism
* Judaism
* Monotheism
* New religious movement
* Neopaganism
* Scientology
* Sikhism
* Yazdânism
* Zoroastrianism

Religious texts|

* Bible
* Quran
* Hadith
* Mormon sacred texts
* Book of Mormon
* Talmud

Religious figures|

* Aisha
* Charles Taze Russell
* Ellen White
* Jesus
* Moses
* Muhammad
* Mirza Ghulam Ahmad
* Saul

Religious discrimination|

* Ahmadiyya
* Atheism
* Bahá'i Faith
* Buddhism
* Catholicism
* Catholic Church
* Christianity
* post–Cold War era
* Druze
* Falun Gong
* Hinduism
* Persecution
* Islam
* Persecution
* Jehovah's Witness
* Judaism
* Antisemitism
* Anti-Judaism
* Persecution
* Mormonism
* Neopaganism
* Eastern Orthodoxy
* Oriental Orthodoxy
* Copts
* Protestantism
* Rastafari
* Sikhism
* Sunni Islam
* Shia Islam
* Sufism
* Zorostianism

Religious violence|

* Buddhism
* Christianity
* Mormonism
* Judaism
* Islam
* Terrorism
* Christian
* Hindu
* Islamic
* Jewish
* Persecution
* Christian thought on persecution and tolerance
* War
* In Islam
* In Judaism
* Sectarian violence
* By country
* India
* Anti-Christian violence
* In Odisha
* Nigeria
* Pakistan

Books|

* Atheist Manifesto
* Breaking the Spell
* Christianity Unveiled
* God in the Age of Science?
* God Is Not Great
* God: The Failed Hypothesis
* Letter to a Christian Nation
* The Age of Reason
* The Blind Watchmaker
* The Caged Virgin
* The End of Faith
* The God Delusion
* The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
* Why I Am Not a Christian
* Why I Am Not a Muslim
* The Demon-Haunted World

* Books critical of Christianity
* Books critical of Islam
* Books critical of Judaism
* Books critical of Mormonism
* Books critical of Scientology

Movements|

* Agnosticism
* Antitheism
* Atheism

* Criticism

* Cārvāka
* New Atheism
* Nontheistic religions
* Parody religion

Related topics|

* Abuse
* Apostasy
* In Islam
* In Christianity
* Criticism of atheism
* Criticism of monotheism
* Sexuality
* Slavery
* Superstitions
* Muslim
* Jewish

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