What are some books others would recommend for me to read about getting more comfortable with speaking out about my lack of respect for organized religion?
I just finished a great book, Fantasy Land, by Kurt Anderson, it ties together the link between people’s belief in superstition and magical religion to their willingness to accept other nonsense, reject science and helped create our "alternate fact" reality we currently find ourselves in.
And you want to do thing his because.....? Explaining yourself one on one just happens, of course, but "speaking out" on a street corner?
Not quite a street corner speaker (yet) but just so I carry on an intelligent conversation, rather than from emotion...when the need arises. Thanks!
I would read, Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, And Sam Harris. Read "God is Red" by Vine Deloria, a native American. Read "Why I am Not a Christian" by Bertrand Russell. I would seriously watch the youtube videos, of George Carlin and Lewis Black on religion or creationism, Absolutely stunningly brilliant assessments of religion, IMO. Watch the movie, The Life Of Brian by Monty Python. Watch the movie Runaway Train by Andrei Konchalovsky.
Ingersoll:Immortal Infidel is another good one about Robert Ingersoll.
Michael Schermer's Why People Believe Weird Things, The Science of Good and Evil, Sam Harris' The End of Faith, Thomas Paine's Age of Reason, and Reza Aslan's Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth. You might also enjoy looking up the YouTube video of Richard Dawson reads love letters.