Atheist / Agnostic Informational Resource Library

[Near]

This is a community project to build a helpful resource on a variety of topics that are of interest to Atheists, Agnostics, Skeptics, Freethinkers, Secular Humanists or Non Religious people. This is an ongoing project, all contributors and contributions are welcome! Together we can build a great resource for people regardless of whether or not they have been atheists their whole lives, or are just starting to come to terms with their disbelief. When I was first starting to learn about my atheism I had to start from nothing, and it has taken a long time to learn about all of the resources that are out there for us. In this thread I hope to compile a quick start guide on a variety of subjects in a variety of different media, but I need your help!


If you find any documentaries, please post them in this thread. Also, if you happen to know of, or find any sites that could assist in debunking, or at least raising very serious concerns about various beliefs or religions, that would also be great. Some of the videos are more useful for a general overview, rather than for use in debunking, or questioning religious claims.


It is always important to look at the sources for the information that is presented, or to do your own research to either confirm or refute anything that has been put forward. A good video to watch that will give you a place to start is Michael Shermer's Baloney Detection Kit.

I would also suggest starting off with Potholer54's video discussing editing tricks, before watching documentaries. Even if the documentary says something that you agree with, it is possible that editing tricks are used to make the religious or religions look worse.


A good place to start:

Michael Shermer: Baloney Detection Kit
Quotes and Cutaways
Quotes and Cutaways (UK and Ireland version)


Apps

Atheism 101 (iPhone, iPod Touch)
Atheist Pocket Debater (iPhone, iPod Touch)
Creationist Claims Index (iPhone, iPod Touch)


Blogs:

Bad Astronomy
Freethought Blogs (Numerous atheist bloggers hosted on this site, but I will just link to the main site.)
Mark Fulton
Matt McCormick
Quran Spotlight
Skeptics Blog (authors include: Shermer, Prothero, Novella, Plait, Loxton, Dunning)
Skeptics Book
Thunderf00t


Books:


Books regarding mainly religion:

50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Against the Gods
An Atheist's Critique of the Bible (It has been written by our very own Buddy Christ and is available for purchase online; see below)
An Atheist's Critique of the Bible (Old Testament)
An Atheist's Critique of the Bible (New Testament) (Both of the NT and the OT volume are available for purchase on Lulu.com as well)
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism
Biblical Nonsense: A Review of the Bible for Doubting Christians
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Forged: Writing in the Name of God--Why the Bible's Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Jesus Christ and Mythology
Letter to a Christian Nation
Mortality
God is not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists
Good and Evil
Good Sense Without Good (Available to read free online, and probably as an e-book from amazon or another similar service.)
Myths from Mesopotamia: Creation, the Flood, Gilgamesh, and Others
Religion in Human Evolution: From the Paleolithic to the Axial Age (Sociology)
The Book of J
The Church of Fear: Inside the Weird World of Scientology
The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The God Delusion
The Interpreter's Bible
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True (Science information for beginners, and also a bit about myths and religions)
The Moral Landscape
The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics
The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
Who Wrote the Bible? (The Bibliography at the end is a compendium of most of the classic works of Biblical scholarship)
Why I Am Not a Christian (Not a book, but it is well worth a read. It's more of an essay and it can be read for free online)


Books regarding mainly science:

A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing
Climbing Mount Improbable
Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe
Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness
The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design
The Extended Phenotype: The Long Reach of the Gene
The Grand Design
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe (Mathematics from Pythagoras to the present)
The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition
The Quantum Universe (And Why Anything That Can Happen, Does)
Why Evolution is True


Charities and Aid Groups, Secular and Atheist:

Amnesty International
Donors Choose
Engineers Without Borders (Similar to MSF, but they help provide clean water, sanitation and electricity)
Foundation Beyond Belief
Goodwill
Kiva (There are other micro-loan websites, but I am only familiar with this one. I am a member of the main Atheist team there)
Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders
Nature Conservancy
Oxfam
Population Connection
Rotary
Seed Foundation
Union of Concerned Scientists
UNICEF
Volunteers Beyond Belief
Wheelchair Foundation


Comedy

Atheist Comedy Playlist (Full Disclosure: This playlist is on my personal YouTube Channel. I am certain there are many other playlists on YouTube that would work as well, but if I link you to this one, I can add other videos that are being submitted in the future.)


Conventions, Events, Meet-ups

Atheist Community of Austin Lecture Series (Check website for upcoming lectures and speakers)
Australian Skeptics National Convention
Skeptics in the Pub (find a group)
Global Atheist Convention
Israeili Atheists
Kentucky Freethought Convention
Oklahoma Freethought Convention
Rock Beyond Belief
Reason in the Rock (Arkansas)
Skepticon
Skeptics in the Pub - Liverpool
Texas Freethought Convention
The Amaz!ng Meeting (TAM)
Question Explore Discover (QED Con) (See website for list of speakers for 2013 including Richard Dawkins)


Debate Resources:

Arguments
(Full Disclosure: This playlist is on my personal YouTube channel. It
is a collection of videos that I have found contain lots of helpful
information that could be used in debates or arguments. I am sure there
are other playlists that could be equally useful, but this way I can add
submitted videos, and keep the playlist up to date.)
Arguments for Atheism
Evil Bible
God is Imaginary
Iron Chariots (Wiki offering counters to common creationist arguments)
Logical Fallacies
Skeptics Annotated Bible (Also include Qur'an (Koran) and The Book of Mormon)
Skeptics Dictionary
Talk Origins (Index to Creationist claims)
Understanding Evolution
What's the Harm? (Useful information about how various strange beliefs and practices have harmed or killed people over the years)
Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
Christianity Disproved
Contradictions in the Bible


Discussions/Debates from the forum:

Anthropic Principle refutation / Intelligent Design refutation resources
Aquinas proofs refuted
Bonhoeffer was an atheist
Confusion of speech
Catholic Birth Control / Inconsistent
Commonly Used Debate Arguments
Creationisms goofs/other dating methods, and resources
Deception in the Church
Immortal Souls Debunked
Islam's Origins examined
Old Testament Reexamined
Resurrection Debunked
Salvation Mythic Origins
Santa/Easter Bunny
Sodom and Gomorrah explained
The Golden Calf and Bible Bull(s)
Virgin Birth explained
Yahweh's origins


Documentaries:

50 Renowned Academics Speaking about god
ABC - Scientology: The Ex-Files
Authentic Mormon Temple Ceremony
Banned Mormon Cartoon
BBC Panorama: Scientology and Me
BBC Panorama: Secrets of Scientology
Conspiracy Road Trip: Creationism
Excavating the Empty Tomb (You can download all episodes here)
From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians
Gospel of Judas
Inside Australia's Chilling New Cult (Australian Jesus)
Intelligent Design on Trial (NOVA)
Jesus Camp (Link to the wiki article. The documentary is currently available on Hulu, and possibly on other sites as well.)
Marjoe (Links to part 1/10 on YouTube, the rest of the parts can be found in the sidebar.)
My Brother the Islamist
Panorama: The Road to total freedom? (Scientology)
Penn and Teller Bullshit! The Bible
Peoples Temple (Jonestown)
Reason Cinema (A collection of films and documentaries are available on this site, they appear to be free to view as well.)
Religulous (Link to the wiki article, documentary can be found elsewhere)
Richard Dawkins; The Root of All Evil: The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins; The Root of All Evil: The Virus of Faith
Russian Jesus
The God Who Wasn't There (Link to the wiki article. The documentary is currently available on Netflix, and possibly other sites as well.)
Warren Jeffs (and other polygamist FLDS Mormons)


Gnostic Gospels

The Infancy Gospel of Thomas
The Gospel of Thomas
The Gospel of Mary (Note: Clicking the link will download a .pdf version of the text)


Organizations


Atheist Organizations:

American Atheists
American Humanists
Atheist Alliance America
Atheist Alliance International
Atheist Community of Austin
Atheist Foundation of Australia
Atheist Ireland
Brazillian Association of Atheists and Agnostics (Website in Portuguese)
Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (There are also German, and Austrian branches of this organization.)
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Free Thought Exchange
Grief Beyond Belief
Humanist Canada
Norwegian Heathen Society
Rational Response Squad
Recovering from Religion
SEA-Atheists (Atheist groups from Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand)
Secular Coalition for America
The Jesus Seminar
(Not sure where this link should go yet. I'm not certain that they
aren't a religious organization, but they do seem to critically examine
'Jesus Christ'.)
Union of Rational Atheists and Agnostics (Website in Italian)


Skeptical Organizations:

Australian Skeptics
Center For Inquiry
Central Ohioans For Rational Inquiry
Greater Manchester Skeptics
James Randi Educational Foundation
Liverpool Humanists
Merseyside Skeptics Society
The Skeptics Society


Podcasts:

Ask an Atheist
Bible Stories Your Parents Never Taught You (Not a podcast, free to listen online.)
DebateGod - RSS
Irreligiosophy
Living After Faith
Magic Sandwich Show (You may need to download the episodes directly from their site. They seem to be having trouble with iTunes.)
Oh no, Ross and Carrie!
Penn's Sunday School
Point of Inquiry
Skeptically Speaking
Skeptics Guide to the Universe
Skeptics With a K
Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena
The Atheist Experience
The Bible Geek with Robert M. Price
The Non Prophets
The Pseudo Scientists
The Skeptic Zone
The Thinking Atheist (In case anyone links to this from outside of the site.)


Recovering From Religion

Grief Beyond Belief
No Longer Quivering
PostMormon.org
Recovering from Religion
SecularTherapy.org


Resources for Parents:

AtheistParents.org
Camp Quest
Scouting for All (Not necessarily Atheist, but the organization is non discriminatory unlike the official stance of the BSA)


Talks and Lectures

Atheism - A History of God (Links to part one of a series by a YouTube user)
Compilation of Debates and Lectures (Includes Hitchens, Dawkins, Harris, Carrier, deGrasse Tyson, Dennett, Myers and others)
John Shelby Spong - The Roots of Religion
Reexamining the Hebrew Bible (Links to part 1/8.)


TTA Skype Group (usernames)

shintarokozu (Atothetheist)
jxtuck (Near)
orianathehobbit (Hobbitgirl)


Useful/Informational links:

Brain and Behavior (Interesting info about the blind spots in our eyes, and how group behaviour works)
Debunking Scientology: E-Meter
Evolution and Natural Selection
Freethoughtpedia
God Checker (Learn all about over 3000 deities and supreme beings!)
God Hates Shrimp
Infidels.org
Jesus Never Existed
Pareidolia
Patheos.com/Atheist
The Establishment Clause (Mainly of interest to people from the US)
The Unreliable Birth Story of Jesus
Quack Watch


YouTube Channels:

AronRa
Brett Palmer
c0nc0rdance
DarkMatter2525
Discern4
dprjones
Edward Current
Evid3nc3
JeffersonLab (Interesting Science related videos, not necessarily Atheist.)
merseyskeptics
Mr. Deity
NonStampChannel2
NonStampCollector
philhellenes
Profmth Mitch
potholer54
Potholer54debunks
QualiaSoup
Religious Antagonist
Steve Shives
SydneyAtheists
The Living Dinosaur
TheJinnAndTonicShow
TheMagicSandwichShow
Thunderf00t
TheraminTrees
TheThinkingAtheist
WanderingTaoist101


If you have any links to submit, please do!

*Note: Links to outside sites are made by me and other submitters. They are not to be taken as endorsements by the owner(s) of The Thinking Atheist website, nor as endorsements of our community by the owners of the sites that are linked to.

Thanks to all who have contributed thus far. If you have a link that you would like to submit, please do!

Did you find a link that you think should be in another section, or that you think shouldn't be included? Contact me on the forum!

[Vosur]

Religulous

[Bucky Ball]

Anthropic Principle refutation / Intelligent Design refutation resources : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...m+debunked
Aquinas' proofs refuted : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...ht=Aquinas
Bonhoeffer was an atheist : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...Bonhoeffer
Catholic Birth Control / Inconsistent http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...t=Sebelius
Confusion of speech/Tower of Babel : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...on-deniers
Creationisms goofs/other dating methods, and resources : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...ght?page=9
Deception in the Church : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...rly-church
Islam's Origins examined : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...ns?page=25
Misuse of Leviticus in anti-gay campaigns; Equality. Class, & Status in Ancient Israel : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...rah?page=2
Old Testament Reexamined http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...+Testament
Salvation Mythic Origins http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...=salvation
Sodom and Gomorrah explained : http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...d+gomorrah
Virgin Birth explained http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...rgin+birth
Yahweh's origins: http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...ght=Yahweh
Prophesy : The fallacy of prophecy as telling of future events. http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/...#pid257278

[caffeinesoul]

TruthSurge has a playlist of his own videos that look into the context and alterations of the New Testament. Very interesting stuff (and it's still being updated with more parts).

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1D58C69D194384D2

[Near]

I thought that that thread would turn into a TL;DR, so I didn't read most of it. Thanks for the link to your post though Bucky! That's pretty much what I wanted to start with this thread. I know that Seth has a resource page on the main part of the site, but I wanted this one to be more in depth. I think that it would also be nice to post links to podcasts, or religious debates. Sometimes trying to learn by reading isn't as easy as learning by watching and listening.

Thanks for the contributions thus far, please continue if you have any more!


EDIT:
First post has been edited to include the submitted links.

[Bucky Ball]

(24-09-2012 07:39 AM)Near Wrote:  I thought that that thread would turn into a TL;DR, so I didn't read most of it. Thanks for the link to your post though Bucky! That's pretty much what I wanted to start with this thread. I know that Seth has a resource page on the main part of the site, but I wanted this one to be more in depth. I think that it would also be nice to post links to podcasts, or religious debates. Sometimes trying to learn by reading isn't as easy as learning by watching and listening.

Thanks for the contributions thus far, please continue if you have any more!


EDIT:
First post has been edited to include the submitted links.

Ok. Ill edit my original post here with stuff I've done already, and update it, once in a while.

[Near]

Thanks for all of the great links Bucky!

The first post has been edited to include all of Bucky's links. Some other things that I am interested in adding to the list are:

Atheist and/or Skeptical blogs or informational websites.
Debates (a lot of great debate videos on youtube, if you have some favourites, please share!)
Atheist organisantions
Skeptical/free thinking organisations
Atheist YouTubers

[Atothetheist]

(24-09-2012 08:53 AM)Bucky Ball Wrote:  

(24-09-2012 07:39 AM)Near Wrote:  I thought that that thread would turn into a TL;DR, so I didn't read most of it. Thanks for the link to your post though Bucky! That's pretty much what I wanted to start with this thread. I know that Seth has a resource page on the main part of the site, but I wanted this one to be more in depth. I think that it would also be nice to post links to podcasts, or religious debates. Sometimes trying to learn by reading isn't as easy as learning by watching and listening.

Thanks for the contributions thus far, please continue if you have any more!


EDIT:
First post has been edited to include the submitted links.

Ok. Ill edit my original post here with stuff I've done already, and update it, once in a while.

Fucking Bucky, you never cease to amaze me. Please, if you get a chance, recommend me some awesome books that you personally have read, I would love to have some of the information that you have access to. Send ALL of what you have... I shall put it on the highest importance... Please be as complete as possible.

PM me anytime you want, you fucking genius.

[Bucky Ball]

Thanks a heap !!! This is exactly what we needed !

[Near]

Thanks for the books idea Atothetheist, I linked to a few books but any other suggestions are welcome and will be put up.