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• UFOs, Ghosts, and a Rising God: Debunking the Resurrection of Jesus (ebook edition, c2013), by Chris Hallquist (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (fifth edition; New York: Vanguard Press, 1928), by Upton Sinclair
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• The Antichrist, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by H. L. Mencken (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History (second part of the "Freethinker's Text-Book" series), by Annie Besant (Gutenberg text)
• Christianity Unveiled: Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion (London: R. Carlile, 1819), by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, trans. by W. M. Johnson (HTML at Freethought Archives)
• The Coming Religion, by Gerald Massey (HTML in the UK)
• Crimes of Christianity (only volume published), by G. W. Foote and J. M. Wheeler (HTML at Freethought Archives)
• The Diegesis: Being A Discovery of the Origin, Evidences, and Early History of Christianity (Boston: J. P. Mendum, 1860), by Robert Taylor (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dio Contro Dio (Il Maiale Nero): Documenti e Rivelazioni (in Italian; Milan: Istituto Editoriale Italiano, 1920), by Umberto Notari (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Forgery in Christianity, by Joseph Wheless (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Future of Religion: Mr. G. K. Chesterton's Reply to Mr. Bernard Shaw (Reprinted for The Heretics) (ca. 1911), contrib. by G. K. Chesterton (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Key of David, by Warder Cresson (HTML at jewish-history.com)
• Misopseudes: or, The Year 2075, a Marvellous Vision (Melbourne: W. H. Williams, ca. 1875) (PDF in Australia)
• The Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic Interpretation (based on an early edition, ca. 1917), by Upton Sinclair (Gutenberg text)
• The Rationalist's Manual, by M. D. Aletheia (HTML at infidels.org)
• Faith Born of Seduction: Sexual Trauma, Body Image, and Religion (New York and London: New York University Press, 1995), by Jennifer L. Manlowe (HTML with commentary at NYU Press)
• The Bible Handbook for Freethinkers and Inquiring Christians (new edition; London: Freethought Pub. Co., 1900), ed. by G. W. Foote and W. P. Ball (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Des Schemtob ben Schaphrut Hebraeische Ubersetzung des Evangeliums Matthaei, Nach den Drucken des S. Munster und J. du Tillet-Mercier (Hebrew translation of the Gospel of Matthew attributed to Ibn Shaprut, via Munster, Du Tillet, and Mercier, with added notes by Herbst in German; Gottingen: Dieterischsche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1879), ed. by Addolf Herbst, trans. by Shem Tov Ibn Shaprut, contrib. by Sebastian Münster, Jean Du Tillet, and Jean Mercier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essence of Christianity (translated from the second German edition; London: John Chapman, 1854), by Ludwig Feuerbach, trans. by George Eliot (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Essence of Christianity (second edition of a translation from the second German edition; London: Trübner and Co., 1881), by Ludwig Feuerbach, trans. by George Eliot (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Essence of Christianity (second edition of a translation from the second German edition; London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1890), by Ludwig Feuerbach, trans. by George Eliot
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Is the Bible Worth Reading? And Other Essays, by L. K. Washburn (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Miracles of Jesus, and Other Essays (New York: Truth Seeker Co., 1917), by L. K. Washburn (page images at HathiTrust)
• An Open Letter to Jesus Christ (New York: The Truth Seeker Company, n.d.), by De Robigne Mortimer Bennett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prodigal Press: The Anti-Christian Bias of the American News Media, by Marvin N. Olasky (PDF at AWS)
• A Refutation of Deism, in a Dialogue (London: Progressive Pub. Co., 1890), by Percy Bysshe Shelley, ed. by G. W. Foote (page images at HathiTrust)
• "The Kingdom of God is Within You": Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constance Garnett (Gutenberg text)
• The Truth About Jesus: Is He a Myth?, by M. M. Mangasarian (Gutenberg text)
• Why I Quit Going to Church, by Rupert Hughes (HTML at infidels.org)
• Crucifixion or Cruci-Fiction? (with other Islamic titles), by Ahmed Deedat
  • PDF in South Africa
  • HTML at quranmalayam.com
• Doubts in Dialogue, by Charles Bradlaugh (HTML at infidels.org)
• The Gospel of Barnabas, ed. by Lonsdale Ragg and Laura M. Ragg (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Porphyrii De Philosophia ex Oraculis Haurienda: Librorum Reliquiae (main text in Greek, commentary in Latin; Springer, 1856), by Porphyry, ed. by Gustav Wolff
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Why I Left the Ministry and Became an Atheist, by G. Vincent Runyon (HTML at infidels.org)
• The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, by Kersey Graves (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Historias de la Corte Celestial, por un Sacristan Jubilado (in Spanish; Madrid: Imprenta popular, ca. 1891), by Narciso Campillo y Correa (page images at HathiTrust)
• Toleration and other essays, by Voltaire, trans. by Joseph McCabe (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christianity in relation to Freethought, Scepticism, and Faith: Three discourses by the Bishop of Peterborough with special replies by Mr. C. Bradlaugh, by Charles Bradlaugh and William Connor Magee, contrib. by Robert A. Cooper and Edward Meyrick Goulburn (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Kernel and the Husk: Letters on Spiritual Christianity, by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Gutenberg ebook)
• Antikristus: Arvostelukoe kristinopista (in Finnish), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, trans. by Aarni Kouta (Gutenberg ebook)
• King Solomon's Goat, by George Willard Bartlett (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Story of My Mind; Or, How I Became a Rationalist, by M. M. Mangasarian (Gutenberg ebook)
• A Handbook of Freethought: Containing in Condensed and Systematized Form a Vast Amount of Evidence Against the Superstitious Doctrines of Christianity, ed. by W. S. Bell (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Kingdom of God is Within You; What is Art?, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Aline Delano (Gutenberg ebook)
• "The Kingdom of God Is Within You": Christianity Not as a Mystic Religion but as a New Theory of Life, by Leo Tolstoy, trans. by Constance Garnett (Gutenberg ebook)
• De la cruauté religieuse (in French), by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christian Mystery: A Chinese Tale, Found in the Portfolio of a Portuguese Friar (Gutenberg ebook)
• Thoughts on the Christian Religion, by a Deist: To Which Are Added, a Few Ideas on Miraculous Conversion, and Religion in General, by a Theophilanthropist (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Doubts of Infidels: Or, Queries Relative to Scriptural Inconsistencies & Contradictions, by William Nicholson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Christianity Unveiled: Being an Examination of the Principles and Effects of the Christian Religion, by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, trans. by W. M. Johnson (Gutenberg ebook)
• Satires and Profanities, by G. W. Foote and James Thomson (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Christian Creed; or, What it is Blasphemy to Deny, by Annie Besant (Gutenberg ebook)
• The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ, by Kersey Graves (Gutenberg ebook)
• Ingersoll in Canada: A Reply to Wendling, Archbishop Lynch, Bystander; and Others, by Allen Pringle (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters To Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices, by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, trans. by Anthony C. Middleton (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Christian Religion: An Enquiry, by Robert Green Ingersoll (Gutenberg ebook)
• Hell: Warm Words on the Cheerful and Comforting Doctrine of Eternal Damnation, by Robert Green Ingersoll (Gutenberg ebook)
• Frauds and Follies of the Fathers: A Review of the Worth of Their Testimony to the Four Gospels, by J. M. Wheeler (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Cradle of the Christ: A Study in Primitive Christianity, by Octavius Brooks Frothingham (Gutenberg ebook)
• God and the State, by Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (Gutenberg ebook)
• Letters to Eugenia; Or, A Preservative Against Religious Prejudices, by Paul Henri Thiry Holbach, trans. by Anthony C. Middleton (Gutenberg ebook)
• Versuch einer Kritik aller Offenbarung (in German), by Johann Gottlieb Fichte (Gutenberg ebook)
• The true state of Christianity, truly discribed, and also discovered unto all people what it was in its beginning and purity, and what it now is in its apostacy and degeneration ... / written by ... Edward Burrough. (London : Printed for Thomas Simmons ..., 1658), by Edward Burrough (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The antiquity of the Protestant religion with an answer to Mr. Sclater's reasons, and the collections made by the author of the pamphlet entitled Nubes Testium : in a letter to a person of quality : the first part. (London : Printed for Ben. Griffin, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor..., 1687), by Edward Pelling (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• A discourse of Christianity laying open the abuses thereof in the anti-Christian lives and worship of many of its professors, especially the Romanists : and shewing the way to a holy life in the character of a true Christian / written originally in French by the famous Monsieur de Gombaud ; and now done into English by P Lorrain. (London : Printed for S. Lowndes ..., 1693), by Jean Ogier de Gombauld and P. d. 1719 Lorrain (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Aut Deus aut nihil God or nothing, or, a logicall method comprised in twelve propositions, deducing from the actual being of what we evidently experience, the unavoidable necessity of a God, against the atheists of our age and nation / by Vincent Hattecliffe. (London : Printed by Ralph Wood for the author, and are to be sold by Nath. Brooks, 1659), by Vincent Hattecliffe (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Sure-footing in Christianity examined by George Hughes ... (London : Printed for Abisha Brocas ..., 1668), by George Hughes (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Christianity contrasted with deism: or The present religion of France. To which is added, an address to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Piety. / By Peter Porcupine. (Philadelphia. : Printed, for the booksellers., 1796), by Peter Porcupine and William Cobbett (HTML at Evans TCP)

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