(From Mark Tindall)

The Mind of the Bible Believer by Edmund D. Cohen isn’t a book about the bible as much as its a psychology book. He says of it, “This is the book I wish had been available to me before I became a ‘believer.'” It discusses why Christian fundamentalism has the attraction it does, and why it appeals so strongly to the seeker. He takes the view that the New Testament was written to bring believers together during a time of moral collapse and political oppression (first century Jewish Palestine), and that as such, it is “history’s most successful psychological manipulation, achieving with uncanny facility what motivational researchers and psychological warfare experts can only dream about… having long outlived its original purpose.” And he makes a very good case for his thesis. This book will give you some real insight into the mind of the Christian evangelical fundamentalist. Can’t recommend it highly enough! If you buy only one book to try to understand evangelical fundamentalism, this should be that book.

In The Beginning – A Scientist Shows Why the Creationists Are Wrong by Chris McGowan, a zoologist, meets the fundamentalist creationists headon and systematically shows why they are clearly wrong, using genuine, credible scientific evidence.

Bible Prophesy – Failure or Fulfilment by Tim Callahan is an excellent guide to Biblical prophesy as fundamentalists describe it, and how their interpretations are usually wrong and how the prophesies themselves have provably failed.

The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy by C. Dennis McKinsey is the best survey I’ve yet come across of the errors, inconsistencies and doctrinal problems in the Bible. It goes on for 500 pages, and brings up thousands of problems. Many could be explained by ‘miracles’ but many hundreds cannot not be.

What The Bible Really Says About Homosexuality by Daniel A. Helminiak, Ph.D., is a discussion, by a widely recognized Biblical scholar, of how the fundamentalist interpretation of Biblical scripture relating to homosexuality is a misinterpretation resulting from the ignorance of the cultural context in which those scriptural references were written.