This is a bibliography of literature treating the topic of

criticism of Christianity Criticism of Christianity has a long history which stretches back to the initial formation of the religion during the Roman Empire. Critics have challenged Christian beliefs and teachings as well as Christian actions, from the Crusades to moder ...

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* John M. Allegro, The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth * Baron d'Holbach,

Christianity Unveiled ''Christianity Unveiled, or examination of the principles and effects of the Christian religion'' () is a book that criticizes Christianity attributed to Baron d'Holbach, probably published in 1766. In his religious criticism, Holbach focuses ...

Dan Barker Daniel Edwin Barker (born June 25, 1949) is an American atheist activist and musician who served as an evangelical Christian preacher and composer for 19 years but left Christianity in 1984. He and his wife Annie Laurie Gaylor are the current ...

, ''godless'' (Ulysses Press 2008) * Christian Piatt, Banned Questions about Bible * Christian Piatt, Banned Questions about Jesus * Christian Piatt, Banned Questions about Christians * Blavatsky, H.P.,

Isis Unveiled ''Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology'', published in 1877, is a book of esoteric philosophy and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's first major work and a key text in her Theosophical movement. The ...

* R. Carrier, ''Not the Impossible Faith'' (Lulu 2009) * Tim Callahan, ''Secret origins of the Bible'' (Millennium Press 2002) *

Chinua Achebe Chinua Achebe (; 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic who is regarded as the dominant figure of modern African literature. His first novel and '' magnum opus'', ''Things Fall Apart'' (1958), occupies ...

Things Fall Apart ''Things Fall Apart'' is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe, first published in 1958. It depicts pre-colonial life in the southeastern part of Nigeria and the invasion by Europeans during the late 19th century. It is seen as the ...

* Christian Missionary Activities Enquiry Committee (Madhya Pradesh, India), and Sita Ram Goel. 1998. Vindicated by time: the Niyogi Committee report on Christian missionary activities. * Richard Dawkins, ''The greatest show on earth'', (Blackswan 2007) * Richard Dawkins '' The God Delusion'' * Richard Dawkins,

The Blind Watchmaker ''The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design'' is a 1986 book by Richard Dawkins, in which the author presents an explanation of, and argument for, the theory of evolution by means of natural selecti ...

*Dayananda, S., & Bharadwaja, C. (1915). Light of truth: Or an English translation of the Satyarth Prakash, the well-known work. Allahabad: Arya Pratinidhi Sabha. (Chapter 14) * 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 Earl J. Doherty (born 1941) is a Canadian author of ''The Jesus Puzzle'' (1999), ''Challenging the Verdict'' (2001), and ''Jesus: Neither God Nor Man'' (2009). Doherty argues for a version of the Christ myth theory, the thesis that Jesus did not ...

(Age of Reason Publications, 1999) *

Sigmund Freud Sigmund Freud ( , ; born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies explained as originating in conflicts ...

, ''Civilization and its discontents'' *

, ''Future of an illusion'' *

Albert Einstein Albert Einstein ( ; ; 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist, widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest and most influential physicists of all time. Einstein is best known for developing the theory ...

''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. . *Elst, K. (1993). Psychology of prophetism: A secular look at the Bible. * 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, S. R. (1986). Papacy: Its doctrine and history. *Goel, Sita Ram. 1994. Jesus Christ: an artifice for aggression. *Goel, Sita Ram. 2009. Catholic ashrams: sannyasins or swindlers, with new appendices.Dr. Sebastian Kim. The debate on conversion initiated by the Sangh Parivar, 1998-1999. Transformation 2005 (Vol. 22, No. 4, page 224) *Goel, Sita Ram. 2016. History of Hindu-Christian encounters, AD 304 to 1996. * Jacolliot, L. (2014). The Bible in India. New Delhi: Christian World Imprints. * Karlheinz Deschner, Criminal History of Christianity *

Sam Harris Samuel Benjamin Harris (born April 9, 1967) is an American philosopher, neuroscientist, author, and podcast host. His work touches on a range of topics, including rationality, religion, ethics, free will, neuroscience, meditation, psychedelics ...

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Letter to a Christian Nation ''Letter to a Christian Nation'' is a 2006 book by Sam Harris, written in response to feedback he received following the publication of his first book '' The End of Faith''. The book is written in the form of an open letter to a Christian in the ...

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The End of Faith ''The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason'' is a 2004 book by Sam Harris, concerning organized religion, the clash between religious faith and rational thought, and the problem of intolerance that correlates with religious fun ...

* Hitchens, C. (2013). The missionary position: Mother Teresa in theory and in practice. *

Christopher Hitchens Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist who wrote or edited over 30 books (including five essay collections) on culture, politics, and literature. Born and educated in England, ...

God Is Not Great ''God Is Not Great'' (sometimes stylized as ''god is not Great'') is a 2007 book by British-American author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, in which he makes a case against organized religion. It was originally published in the United Kingd ...

, The Portable Atheist * Max Jammer, ''Einstein and Religion'' *Louis Greenspan, ''Russell on Religion'', by (Includes most all of Russell's essays on religion) *

Timothy Freke ''The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?'' is a 1999 book by British authors Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, which advances the argument that early Christianity originated as a Greco-Roman mystery cult and that Jesus was i ...

and Peter Gandy '' The Jesus Mysteries'' (Element 1999) * Collins, John J. Does the Bible Justify Violence? Minneapolis: Fortress, 2004. *

Gary Greenberg Gary Greenberg is an American author and comedian. He is known for writing comedic material for Comedy Central. He has appeared on Comedy Central and Bravo. , he is a staff writer on ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' on ABC Television. In 2012, he won a Pr ...

''101 myths of the Bible'' (Sourcebooks 2000) * Kenneth Humphreys, ''Jesus never existed'' (Iconoclast Press, 2005) * Lea, Henry Charles. 1961. The Inquisition of the Middle Ages. Abridged. New York: Macmillan. * ''The Christian Delusion'', edited by John W. Loftus, foreword by

(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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* Murdock, D.M. (2007). Who Was Jesus? Fingerprints of The Christ. Stellar House Publishing. . *

Michel Onfray Michel Onfray (; born 1 January 1959) is a French writer and philosopher with a hedonistic, epicurean and atheist worldview. A highly-prolific author on philosophy, he has written over 100 books. His philosophy is mainly influenced by such think ...

Atheist Manifesto * Bekkenkamp, Jonneke and Sherwood, Yvonne, ed. Sanctified Aggression. Legacies of Biblical and Postbiblical Vocabularies of Violence. London/New York: T. & T. Clark International, 2003. * Hiroshi Obayashi, ''Death and Afterlife, Perspectives of World Religions'' * MacMullen, Ramsay, 1989 "Christianizing the Roman Empire: AD 100–400" * MacMullen, Ramsay, 1997, "Christianity and Paganism in the Fourth to Eighth Centuries" *

Magnus Magnusson Magnus Magnusson, (born Magnús Sigursteinsson; 12 October 1929 – 7 January 2007) was an Icelandic-born British-based journalist, translator, writer and television presenter. Born in Reykjavík, he lived in Scotland for almost all his life, a ...

''BC The archaeology of the Bible lands'' (Bodley Head 1977) * Mason, Carol. 2002. ''Killing for Life: The Apocalyptic Narrative of Pro-Life Politics.'' Ithaca: Cornell University Press. * McTernan, Oliver J. 2003. ''Violence in God's name: religion in an age of conflict.'' Orbis Books. * Sharan, I., ''The myth of Saint Thomas and the Mylapore Shiva Temple.'' (2010).Catholic Shrines in Chennai, India: The Politics of Renewal and Apostolic Legacy by Thomas Charles Nagy * Thiery, Daniel E. Polluting the Sacred: Violence, Faith and the Civilizing of Parishioners in Late Medieval England. Leiden: Brill, 2009. *

Thomas Paine Thomas Paine (born Thomas Pain; – In the contemporary record as noted by Conway, Paine's birth date is given as January 29, 1736–37. Common practice was to use a dash or a slash to separate the old-style year from the new-style year. In th ...

The Age of Reason ''The Age of Reason; Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology'' is a work by English and American political activist Thomas Paine, arguing for the philosophical position of deism. It follows in the tradition of 18th-century Briti ...

(1794–1807) * Mark Twain,

Letters from the Earth ''Letters from the Earth'' is a posthumously published work of American author Mark Twain (1835–1910) collated by Bernard DeVoto. It comprises essays written during a difficult time in Twain's life (1904–1909), when he was deeply in debt an ...

Victor J. Stenger Victor John Stenger (; January 29, 1935 – August 25, 2014) was an American particle physicist, philosopher, author, and religious skeptic. Following a career as a research scientist in the field of particle physics, Stenger was associated ...

God: The Failed Hypothesis * Zeskind, Leonard. 1987. ''The 'Christian Identity' Movement'' ooklet Atlanta, Georgia: Center for Democratic Renewal/Division of Church and Society, National Council of Churches. *

Friedrich Nietzsche Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (; or ; 15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German philosopher, prose poet, cultural critic, philologist, and composer whose work has exerted a profound influence on contemporary philosophy. He began his ...

, ''The Antichrist'' *

Joseph McCabe Joseph Martin McCabe (12 November 1867 – 10 January 1955) was an English writer and speaker on freethought, after having been a Roman Catholic priest earlier in his life. He was "one of the great mouthpieces of freethought in England". Becomin ...

''A Rationalist Encyclopaedia: A book of reference on religion, philosophy, ethics and science,'' Gryphon Books (1971). *

Rajiv Malhotra Rajiv Malhotra (born 15 September 1950) is an Indian-born American Hindutva ideologue, author and founder of Infinity Foundation, which focuses on Indic studies, and also funds projects such as Columbia University's project to translate the ...

(2011), ''Breaking India: Western Interventions in Dravidian and Dalit Faultlines'' (Publisher: Amaryllis; ) *Catherine Nixey, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World *Panikkar, K. M. (1959). Asia and Western dominance: A survey of the Vasco Da Gama epoch of Asian history. London: Allen & Unwin. *Panikkar, K. M. (1997). Malabar and the Portuguese. *Priolkar, A. K., & Dellon, G. (2008). The Goa inquisition: Being a quatercentenary commemoration study of the inquisition in India. Panaji: Rajhauns Vitaran. *

Robert M. Price Robert McNair Price (born July 7, 1954) is an American New Testament scholar. His most notable stance is arguing in favor of the Christ myth theorythe claim that a historical Jesus did not exist. Price is the author of a number of books on bi ...

, ''The case against the case for Christ'' (American atheist press 2010) *

, ''The reason driven life'' (Prometheus Books, 2006) * Carl Sagan, ''The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God'' * Sandhya Jain, Evangelical Intrusions – Tripura, a case study * Herman Philipse, God in the Age of Science? * Michael Martin, ''The Case Against Christianity'' * Patrick McNamara, ''Where God and Science Meet hree Volumes How Brain and Evolutionary Studies Alter Our Understanding of Religion'' *

Bertrand Russell Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970) was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual. He had a considerable influence on mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, ...

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Why I am not a Christian ''Why I Am Not a Christian'' is an essay by the British people, British philosophy, philosopher Bertrand Russell. Originally a talk given 6 March 1927 at Battersea Town Hall, under the auspices of the South London Branch of the National Secular ...

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.Pentecostals, Proselytization, and Anti-Christian Violence in Contemporary India by Chad M. Bauman * Shourie, Arun. Arun Shourie and his Christian critic. (1995). * Spinoza, Baruch, ''

Tractatus Theologico-Politicus Written by the Dutch philosopher Benedictus Spinoza, the ''Tractatus Theologico-Politicus'' (''TTP'') or ''Theologico-Political Treatise'' was one of the most controversial texts of the early modern period. In it, Spinoza expounds his vie ...

(TTP)'' (1670) *Swarup, Ram (1992). Hindu view of Christianity and Islam. *Swarup, Ram. (1992). Hinduism vis-à-vis Christianity and Islam. *Swarup, Ram. (1995). Pope John Paul II on Eastern religions and yoga: A Hindu Buddhist rejoinder. *Swarup, Ram. (2015). Hinduism and monotheistic religions. *Vedantham, T. R., Swarup, R., & Goel, S. R. (1983). Christianity, an imperialist ideology. *Venkat, K., Humphreys, K., & Isaac, C. I. (2014). What every Hindu should know about Christianity. *Vivekananda Kendra Prakashan Trust (Chennai, India). (2007). Expressions of Christianity: With a focus on India. Chennai: Vivekananda Kendra Prakashan Trust. * ''The Historical Evidence for Jesus'', by G. A. Wells (Prometheus Books, 1988)

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