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🗓️ 15 December 2025
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| 0:00.0 | In today's episode, I'm going to honestly rank every single book I've ever written with the classic |
| 0:04.5 | tier ranking of S being superior, A being great, B good, C, okay with some flaws, D meaning a lot of |
| 0:11.8 | flaws, and F being the worst. And especially when it comes to the not-so-great books I've written, |
| 0:17.1 | I'll recommend some better ones in their place, along with just other good books on the subjects I've already written about. |
| 0:22.9 | So let's get started in the order of my book's publication. |
| 0:26.0 | Number one, 2013's Answering Atheism. |
| 0:29.2 | F tier. |
| 0:30.1 | It's the worst book on the whole list. |
| 0:32.9 | It's not a bad book. |
| 0:34.4 | It's just my first book. |
| 0:35.7 | So I made a lot of style and structure mistakes as a new |
| 0:39.0 | author. I'm also placing this as F tier because I've done a lot of work on the philosophy of religion |
| 0:44.6 | since I published that book 12 years ago. And I've changed my mind on things like the Kalam cosmological |
| 0:50.1 | argument or the moral argument, as can be seen in my debates, dialogues, and podcast episodes. |
| 0:55.5 | Also, I'm really not a fan of the book's cover. So eventually, I want to write a whole new book |
| 1:00.8 | on atheism, but until then, if you want a really good book on atheism, get Ed Fasers' Five Proofs |
| 1:07.0 | for the Existence of God, Josh Rasmuson's How Reason Leads to God, Brian Brian Davies book on the Philosophy of Religion, and One Less God Than You by John DeRosa, which is published by Catholic Answers Press. Number two, 2014's Persuasive Pro-Life. This is D-tier. It's still my second book, so I'm getting used to writing, so the writing kind of drags, and the layout can be confusing |
| 1:27.6 | because my editor wanted me to address different types of pro-choice people instead of different |
| 1:33.1 | kinds of pro-choice arguments. But I'm really glad that I wrote the book because I'm grateful |
| 1:37.8 | I could share my decade of experience in pro-life apologetics I had before joining the staff |
| 1:43.2 | of Catholic Answers, and to share that |
| 1:45.0 | with people who are passionate about defending the unborn. And in 2022, I totally reworked Persuasive |
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