Banished : Surviving my years in the Westboro Baptist Church
by Lauren Drain
with Lisa PulitzerThe story of Lauren Drain and how her family got sucked into the Westboro Baptist Church. Children look for their parents' approval, and in this, Lauren was no different than any other child. Her parents, especially her dad, made her strive for their ( Read more... )

Stolen Innocence : My story of growing up in a polygamous sect, becoming a teenage bride, and breaking free of Warren Jeffs
by Elissa Wall
with Lisa PulitzerA very captivating book about the life of Elissa Wall in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) while it was under the leadership of Warren Jeffs ( Read more... )

Creating a list of a few I need to return and haven't finished:

God is not great : how religion poisons everything
by Christopher Hitchens
Interesting look at the bad parts of religion.

Copyfraud and other abuses of intellectual property law
by Jason Mazzone

Inquisition : the reign of fear
by Toby GreenThis book covers the Inquisition - ( Read more... )

I'm moving in the next few days so I'm returning a bunch of library books.
Listing them here so as not to forget about them.

Digging Through the Bibile : Understanding Biblical People, Places, and Controversies through Archaeology
by Richard A. FreundAn interesting look at the bible through the eyes of an archaeologist. Basically why not to take ( Read more... )

I'm bringing back some library books and listing them here.
I haven't finished all of them but I'm moving soon and I figure I can always take them out again.
Some of these are because of my recent delving into bible/catholic history.

Christianity/bible topics:

A History of Christianity
by Paul Johnson
c1976

The Oxford Companion to the bibleed. ( Read more... )

Not much done in the way of game installs or books read.

One book read:

Self-Contradictions of the Bible
bu William Henry Burr
(Classics of Biblical Criticism, series editor R. Joseph HoffmanOriginally published in 1860, this 1987 reprint gives a good glimpse into the many and varied contradictions in the books of the Old and New Testaments. From ( Read more... )