CONFESSIONS OF A BORN-AGAIN ATHEIST: The Implausible Lives of a Godless Guy is an autobiography in the form of 29 memoirs, each one focusing on Zindler's many lives, beginning with his life on an Austrian-type farm in Michigan during WWII (he tried to cultivate with a horse!); his tormented childhood and early college years as a homosexual living in a state where homosexual acts were felonies on par with first-degree murder; his life as a child prodigy in music, science, and linguistics; his life as a demimonde Don Juan; his life as a four-generational pater familias and his 48-year loving marriage to Ann; his life as a hypnotherapist, scientist, and Atheist activist, educator, and science professor; his life as a close confidant to Madalyn Murray O'Hair and his efforts to resurrect American Atheist Press after her abduction and murder in 1995. In this intimate self-portrait, an octogenarian public figure at last comes out of the closet.

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Frank R. Zindler has been an Atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove "In God We Trust' from American currency. A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and internationally known advocate of the Christ-Myth Theory, arguing that "Jesus of Nazareth" was not a historical figure. He is the author of many books, including the four-volume THROUGH ATHEIST EYES: Scenes from a World That Won't Reason.

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ISBN-13: 978-1-57884-039-7
Publisher: American Atheist Press
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 512 pages

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When New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman published DID JESUS EXIST? THE HISTORICAL ARGUMENT FOR JESUS OF NAZARETH, he not only attempted to prove the historical reality of a man called *Jesus of Nazareth*, he sharply criticized scholars who have sought to develop a new paradigm in the study of Christian origins, scholars who have claimed that Jesus was a mythical, not historical, figure, and that the traditional, Jesus-centered paradigm for studying the origins of Christianity must be replaced by an actual science of Christian origins.

In the present volume, some of those scholars respond to Ehrman's treatment of their research and findings, showing how he has either ignored, misunderstood or misrepresented their arguments. They present evidence that *Jesus of Nazareth* was no more historical than Osiris or Thor. Several contributors question not only the historicity of *Jesus of Nazareth,* they present evidence that the site of present-day Nazareth was not inhabited at the time Jesus and his family should have been living there.

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The authors of this volume include; Richard Carrier Ph.D., D.M. Murdock, Earl Doherty, Ren? Salm, David Fitzgerald, Frank R. Zindler, and Robert M. Price.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840199
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?608

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Until the publication of this annotated edition, Thomas Paine's third part of "The Age Of Reason" was extremely rare and almost unknown. Titled "Examination of the Prophecies," the book examines all the supposed prophecies of Jesus in the Old Testament alleged by the evangelists of the New Testament. With great wit and penetrating logic, Paine showed that not one of the Old Testament passages cited had anything to do with the Christian's would-be Messiah. Paine appears to have been the first writer in English to suggest that Jesus was not a historical figure.

Frank R. Zindler's marginal notes and commentary examine the Greek and Hebrew texts of the verses being discussed. They show that Paine, who knew no ancient languages and knew of none of the important biblical manuscripts that would be discovered after his death, was astonishingly correct in his critique.

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Thomas Paine (1737-1809) was born to a Norfolkshire Quaker family, where he learned his father?s trade of stay-making, but wandered into a wider world. He went to America in 1774 where, two years later, he wrote Common Sense. After returning to London in defense of the French Revolution, he fled to Paris where he completed the Age of Reason while imprisoned after protesting the violence of the Terror. He was no scholar, but his vigorous intelligence and forcible style gave his criticism of the Bible and Christianity an immense value that is not yet exhausted.

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Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

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ISBN-13:?9780910309707
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?95

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The ancient Jews never heard of Jesus of Nazareth. That is the startling conclusion of a comprehensive investigation of Jewish records surviving from antiquity. Every literary source ever advanced by serious scholars as being a reference to the historical Jesus is examined and found to be nothing of the sort, except for the latest layers of the Babylonian Talmud. Clearly, those references were reactions to Christianity, not to Christ.

The Jesus the Jews never knew provides a fascinating look into the world in which the gospels were invented. Every literary source ever advanced by serious scholars as being a reference to a historical Jesus is examined and found to be nothing of the sort.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578849161
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?524

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"The Peter of the Acts and of the later literature is a legendary person; of this there can be no doubt. His portrait is so shot-through with mythical features that it is quite impossible now to isolate any 'historical kernel' from the surviving reports."

An appendix by Frank R. Zindler contains English translations of all biblical passages cited, as well as English versions of all citations from church fathers and classical Greco-Roman authors.

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Arthur Drews, a German skeptic and philosopher of the early 20th century, is mainly known for his magisterial opus The Christ Myth, which argued forcefully for the non-historicity of Jesus. In the present work, Drews does the same for a character who came to occupy a central position in Catholic Christianity.

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ISBN-13:?9781578849512
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?182

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The complete collection of Frank Zindler's 4 volume work Through Atheist Eyes, now available at a special discounted price.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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Publisher: American Atheist Press
Page Count: 2264

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Did Jesus and the Twelve Disciples actually exist? Are they just literary fictions? If so, how did Jesus acquire a biography? Was Nazareth inhabited when Mary and Joseph are supposed to have lived there? Why do Catholic Bibles have more and longer books in them than Protestant ones? Gathered together in this first volume of Zindler's collected short works readers will find 49 articles, speeches, and lectures written over the space of forty years to answer those questions and to challenge and respond to claims of religious apologists and defenders of the Jewish, Christian, Mormon, and Muslim scriptures, including a reprint and critique of the Danish cartoons that triggered rioting and murder throughout the Muslim world.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840113
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?773

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What is death, and is it inevitable? How did life begin, and can it be extended indefinitely? Why is cloning a threat to theology? What does it mean to be scientific? How do we know the earth is older than is presupposed in Genesis? Who was Mitochondrial Eve, and how do we know evolution has occurred? How could wings and eyes have evolved without an Intelligent Designer? Is creationism a form of treason? How do creationists deceive the public? What's so funny about Noah's Ark? How did the kiwi get to New Zealand and why would we want to know? Is there such a thing as life after death, and do the dead have ways of communicating with the living? Answers to these questions?often humorous and surprising ones are given in this second volume of THROUGH ATHEIST EYES.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840120
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?544

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Over a space of fifty years, Frank R. Zindler took part in more than four hundred informal discussions and debates on radio and television and in dozens of formal debates on public platforms. Lamentably, most of them were not recorded at all, and most of those for which recordings were made were of such low quality that they could not reliably be transcribed for publication. Out of the remainder, only three were deemed suitable for annotation and use for instruction of Atheists and others who regularly are challenged by religionists to defend the scientific and skeptical position of the Free Thinker. Annotated transcripts of those three debates comprise Volume Ill of Through Atheist Eyes.

In the first debate, Zindler engages John Koster, the author of a nasty book?The Atheist Syndrome?in which he argues with book-length ad hominem that Atheists basically are mentally ill due to absent or abusive fathers. Unable to define his god, Koster loses the debate even in the eyes of devout Christians in the audience. In the second debate, Noah's Ark hunter/geologist John Morris of the Institute for Creation Research is challenged to show evidence that there is an ocean liner-size boat perched atop an extinct volcano in Turkey. In the third debate, superstar creationist debater Duane T. Gish is tricked into admitting that creationism is not science.

Elaborate notes help readers to gain a better understanding of the factual dimensions of the subjects under dispute and are intended not only to give readers a sense of Zindler's strategy and support base in these debates but also to help them better intuit the strategies and purposes of Koster, Morris, and Gish.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840137
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?293

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What is Atheism, and what are its logical and philosophical foundations? How does it relate to Humanism? Is religiosity a mental disorder, and why is it so hard to cure? Is there such a thing as free will? Do Atheists have funerals? Was The Amityville Horror really a true story? Who was Madalyn Murray O'Hair? Are we being inundated by a flood of religious disinformation? In addition to answers to these and other questions, readers of this fourth volume of THROUGH ATHEIST EYES will find a lot of humorous material as well?including the often hilarious Fun-With-Dial-an-Atheist pieces that have been recalled from the brink of oblivion and are being presented for one last performance. In addition, readers will find both words and music scores for the outrageous Dial-an-Atheist songs "Rutabaga Baby" and "Theophagy Tango." To balance all that levity, this volume ends with "Poems I Have Spared" ?a swansong of sorts to prepare readers for the autobiographical Volume V: Atheist At Large.

About the Author

Frank R. Zindler has been an atheist activist since 1959 when he began publicly to defend the teaching of evolution and to criticize religious encroachments upon the public sphere. A professor of biology and geology at SUNY for almost twenty years, he was forced to give up teaching when he joined Madalyn Murray O'Hair in a lawsuit that attempted to remove ?In God We Trust?; from American currency.

A linguist and editor of scientific literature, he is a former member of The Jesus Seminar and the current Jesus Project and is the author of The Jesus the Jews Never Knew. He is a veteran of more than 400 commercial radio and TV interviews and debates in defense of atheism.

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ISBN-13:?9781578840144
Publisher:?American Atheist Press
Page Count:?654

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