Okay, here we go. Stand by.

Three, two, one.

Action.

Assume nothing.

Brash, bald face, blasphemy.

Question everything.

I find it extremely hard to imagine.

Open your eyes.

It is quite all right to be an atheist.

The fastest growing group of people in the country

has been measured as being those who have no belief or who are atheists.

You don't have to be apologetic or quiet about it.

Challenge the opposition.

You see religion on a hundred fronts losing the argument.

And start thinking.

This is the thinking atheist worldwide.

When we are done gallivanting through the featured book on today's broadcast, there's a

really good chance you're going to want to go deeper into the subject of the Bible, where

it came from, how it was canonized, who wrote the Gospels.

How the books were transcribed and translated and passed down. Where did it all come from?

History of the Bible, the making of the New Testament canon, is a lecture at the Great Courses Plus that is taught by none other than Dr. Bart Ehrman. He's the author

of books like Jesus interrupted and forged and how Jesus became God. Well, Erman walks us

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