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Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe might be a start. Check your local library.

> Questions about the role of God and religion in today's world have never been more relevant or felt more powerfully. Many of us are searching for a place where we can find not only facts and scientific reason but also hope and moral courage. For some, answers are found in the divine. For others, including the New Atheists, religion is an "enemy."

> But in Good Without God, Greg Epstein presents another, more balanced and inclusive response: Humanism. He highlights humanity's potential for goodness and the ways in which Humanists lead lives of purpose and compassion. Humanism can offer the sense of community we want and often need in good times and bad—and it teaches us that we can lead good and moral lives without the supernatural, without higher powers . . . without God.

My wife is lutheran, Im an Atheist. She takes them to church but I try to teach them a love of science, questioning cherished beliefs and logic. She reads them bible lessons and I read them books like this one. I never criticize what my wife is doing regarding church or undermine her in any way and she supports me in encouraging them to form their worldview based on facts and evidence. Also, when they get older and can have a mature discussion about religion I'll tell them I'm an atheist if they ask. There is a perception that atheists are evil and have no moral compass. I want them to know thats total horsecrap.

Here is a great place to start. At Barnes and Noble (Barney Rubble), this book sells for 8 bucks:
http://www.amazon.com/Great-Philosophers-Historys-Greatest-Thinkers/dp/1847240186/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1292811676&sr=8-3

Starting on page 123, Soern Kierkegaard is foundational and although a strong Christian, his view sets the stage for the modern examination of faith and for a lot of other secular humanists of his time. My statement isn't 100% accurate, but it's a good place to start and you can see how his arguments led to a deeper understanding of faith than Anselm.

You can take secular humanism further back to Kant or Pascal, but they didn't really look at the meaning of faith.

>Firstly, the Bible says homosexual acts are wrong. Leviticus, Romans, all over. There's very little room to say otherwise and be faithful to the Bible.

This is not really correct. A starting place to find out why might be this book by Jack Rogers.

The Greek meaning of the word "pais", often translated as "slave" or "servant" in the Gospel of Matthew's story of the Roman centurion, clearly had the additional meaning of same sex lover. The writer of Matthew had other words he could have used without this meaning, so I think it likely that the Gospel shows that Jesus blessed a same sex couple and held them up as an example to Israel.

For me, the key point is the witness of the first conference of Jerusalem regarding the place of Gentiles in the church.

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Sorry, I live in a diff city and it was relayed to me by my parents. My mom is quite Christian, and she was helping my nephew w/his homework. But she said she refused to help him learn it because the book was so absurd.

My brother is pissed, too. Not for the first time...I don't know the title of the "science" book, but my nephew likes dinosaurs and brought home this book from their library one time. It says dragons were real:

https://www.amazon.com/Dragons-Legends-Dinosaurs-Laura-Welch/dp/0890515581

I would highly recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1539302598/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_awdb_t1_6f3VDbW0P0DCG

When I was a young boy, my grandmother gave me the book "Stairway to Hell" it's full of comics like that.