Book Club
A sacred cow is someone or something that is supposedly immune to or considered inappropriate for criticism. The Memphis Freethought Alliance Book Club meets to discuss freethought books. Freethought books explore sacred cows in an open and critical manner. Many (not all) of the books focus on religion, which is the primary sacred cow for many people. However, we are also open to critically discussing other touchy topics.
Thinking, Fast & Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Saturday, 01/21/12 at 4:30 pm: Introduction and chapter 1 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 01/28/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 2, 3 & 4 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 02/04/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 5, 6 & 7 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 02/11/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 8, 9 & 10 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 02/18/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 11, 12 & 13 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 02/25/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 14, 15 & 16 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 03/03/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 17, 18 & 19 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 03/10/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 20, 21 & 22 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 03/17/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 23, 24 & 25 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 03/24/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 26, 27 & 28 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Saturday, 03/31/12 at 4:30 pm: Chapters 29, 30 & 31 of Thinking, Fast & Slow at Newk's Express Cafe at 2200 Germantown Parkway, Cordova, TN
Books & articles reviewed (in chronological order from earliest to latest):
- Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
- The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
- American Fascists by Christopher Hedges
- The Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson
- Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
- Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why by Bart D. Ehrman
- God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor J. Stenger
- Fears for Democracy in India (Hindu Fundamentalism) by Martha C. Nussbaum
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=t15b1l92nf46jb6sq8b82dpsct9f9003
http://stopfundinghate.org/sacw/index.html
http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/textbook/Amicus%20Brief%20by%20South%20Asian%20Groups%20Apr%2017.PDF - Why Darwin Matters by Michael Shermer
- Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (2006) by Daniel C. Dennett
- Animal Farm by George Orwell
- Death by Black Hole by Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- http://www.online-literature.com/twain/3263/
- http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/orwell/george/o79e/
- http://www.ditext.com/russell/russell.html
- http://www.vonnegutweb.com/archives/arc_nice.html God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to
- Answer Our Most Important Question--Why We Suffer by Bart Ehrman
- Understanding the Intelligent Design Creationist Movement by Barbara Forrest
- Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete? by Templeton Foundation
- Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell
- Top Secret: The Truth Behind Today's Pop Mysticisms by Robert M. Price
- Constitution for the United States of America
- Federalist Farmer Letter: http://www.constitution.org/afp/fedfar05.htm
- James Madison's Introduction to the Bill of Rights:http://www.usconstitution.net/madisonbor.html
- House of Cards by Robyn Dawes
- www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1162/daed.2006.135.3.86
- www.infidels.org/library/modern/debates/great-debate.html
- Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
- Why Evolution is True by Jerry A. Coyne
- Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists by Dan Barker
- "What Have the Infidels Done" and "What Would You Substitute for the Bible as a Moral Guide" by Robert Ingersoll http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/inginfid.htm#WTHD
- "The Limitations of Toleration" by Robert Ingersoll: http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/inglimtol.htm
- god.com: a deity for the new millennium by John A. Henderson
- "Ghosts (Lecture)" by Robert Ingersoll
- "What Shall We Do To Be Saved?" by Robert Ingersoll
- "Individuality" by Robert Ingersoll
- Religion Explained by Pascal Boyer
- The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
- The God Virus by Darrel Ray
- How We Decide (2010) by Johan Lehrer
- Nomad (2010) by Aayan Hirsi Ali
- Secular City Limits by Matthew Barron
- The Grand Design (2010)by Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow
- The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails (2010) by John W. Loftus
- Worked Over: Corporate Sabotage of an American Community (2003) by Dimitra Doukas
- Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (2010) by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway
- The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies--How We Construct
- Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
- A Wicked Company: The Forgotten Radicalism of the European Enlightenment by Philipp Blom
- The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution by Linda R. Monk
- Robert Ingersoll, "The Gods" (1872): http://www.infidels.org/library/historical/robert_ingersoll/gods.html
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
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