Books like Kindly inquisitors by Jonathan Rauch

Richard Dawkins argues that belief in God is irrational, harmful, and unnecessary, presenting scientific, historical, and philosophical evidence to refute religious claims and promote a secular, reason‑based worldview.

Christopher Hitchens: The ultimate case against religion and the case for a more secular life based on science and reason.

Sam Harris examines how faith, reason and politics collide, arguing that unchecked religious belief fuels conflict and that a secular, humanistic foundation is essential for ethics and spirituality.

Daniel Dennett examines religion through science and philosophy, questioning whether it is a product of evolution or rational choice and exploring its impact on morality.

**The New York Times bestselling author Jerry Coyne explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail.** In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne lays out in clear, dispassionate detail why the toolkit of science, based on reason and empirical study, is reliable, while that of religion — including faith, dogma, and revelation — leads to incorrect, untestable, or conflicting conclusions. Coyne is responding to a national climate in which over half of Americans don't believe in evolution (and congressmen deny global warming), and warns that religious prejudices and strictures in politics, education, medicine, and social policy are on the rise. Extending the bestselling works of Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens, he demolishes the claims of religion to provide verifiable "truth" by subjecting those claims to the same tests we use to establish truth in science. Coyne irrefutably demonstrates the grave harm — to individuals and to our planet — in mistaking faith for fact in making the most important decisions about the world we live in. [(Source)][1] [1]: http://jerrycoyne.uchicago.edu/Faith-vs-Fact.html

Pascal Boyer, professor of anthropology, applies cognitive science and evolutionary psychology to uncover the shared foundations of religious belief, showing how our minds and human needs shape diverse faith traditions.

An evolutionary psychologist explores why humans hold a belief in God, arguing the trait evolved as an adaptive illusion and is now a vestigial response to our ancestral environment.

Robert Wright traces the evolution of monotheistic faiths from the Stone Age to the Information Age, revealing a hidden pattern that reshapes our understanding of Judaism, Christianity and Islam and suggests a future of religious harmony.

Universities still set themselves apart from American society, but now they do so by enforcing their own politically correct world-view through censorship, double standards, and a judicial system without due process. The Shadow University is a stinging indictment of the covert system of justice on college campuses, exposing the widespread reliance on kangaroo courts and arbitrary punishment to coerce students and faculty into conformity. Alan Charles Kors and Harvey A. Silverglate, staunch civil libertarians and active defenders of free inquiry on campus, lay bare the totalitarian mindset that undergirds speech codes, conduct codes, and "campus life" bureaucracies, through which a cadre of deans and counselors indoctrinate students and faculty in an ideology that favors group rights over individual rights, sacrificing free speech and academic freedom to spare the sensitivities of currently favored groups.