Liberated from Religion: The Inestimable Pleasure of Being a Freethinker

Paulo Bittencourt

Paulo Bitencourt

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★ ★ ★ ★ ★ “The best books about Atheism are the ones written by Paulo Bittencourt, because, unlike Richard Dawkings, Christopher Hitchens and Sam Harris, who have never been religious, he was raised Evangelical, studied Theology and, therefore, speaks from experience.” (D. Barker)

Liberated from Religion, the book most hated by religions, creeds, beliefs, cults, dogmas, churches, rites, sects, abbots, apostles, archbishops, archdeacons, archimandrites, archpriests, astrologers, augurs, ayatollahs, babalawos, babalorishas, beati, bishops, canons, cardinals, chaplains, clerics, deacons, deans, devotees, divines, ecclesiastics, enchanters, enlightened ones, evangelists, faith healers, fortune tellers, friars, gurus, imams, magicians, mediums, missionaries, monks, monsignors, necromancers, nuncios, occultists, pastors, patriarchs, pontiffs, popes, preachers, prelates, presbyters, priests, primates, priors, prophets, protodeacons, rabbis, religious, reverends, seers, shamans, sorcerers, vicars, witch doctors and witches.

Despite the enormous expansion of knowledge, the great advances in Science (with our space probes exploring the boundaries of the Solar System) and all philosophical thought, 250 years after the Enlightenment billions of people still think it’s indispensable to believe religious primitivenesses.

While the world religions despise each other, thousands of Christian denominations fight over the “The True Church” title. Yet, in their combat against reason and in the imposition of their dogmatisms on the whole of society, they feign unity and harmony.

As Islam becomes ever more radicalized, Third World countries are being the stage of a galloping increase in religious intolerance perpetrated by Pentecostals who seek to convert them into Evangelical theocracies.

Based on his personal experience with biblical literalism, Paulo Bittencourt takes a historical approach to Christian fundamentalism and exposes the fallacies of religious dogmas, the negative effects of suppressing critical thinking and the benefits that living without religion brings the individual and, consequently, the world.

Topics covered: Allah, Atheism, Bible, Christianity, Adventist, Baptist, Catholic, Evangelical, Pentecostal Church, Communism, Devil, Evolution, Freethought, God, Gospel, Humanism, Heaven, Hell, Islam, Jesus, Judaism, Mohammed, Philosophy, Protestantism, Satan, Science, Skepticism, Socialism, etc.

Paulo Bittencourt was born in Paraná, Brazil, spent his childhood in Rio de Janeiro and studied Theology in São Paulo. Close to becoming a pastor, he had doubts, dropped out of college, ventured through Europe and ended up settling in Austria. The book Ethics, by Bento de Espinosa (Baruch Spinoza), strengthened his skepticism and consolidated him as a freethinker. Paulo Bitencourt dedicates his life to helping people liberate themselves from religion.

Paulo Bittencourt is the author also of the books Wasting Time on God and Com Zeus Não Se Brinca (Zeus Is Not to Be Played With).

“There is no greater pleasure than to be a freethinker.”

— Paulo Bittencourt

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Ratings and reviews

An exhausting rant / diatribe of the author's hatred of religion. Reading it is like drinking vinegar. Would have been better for author to share this content with a counsellor (who could help him process it) versus publishing it.

I appreciate the honest view on religious beliefs, the author makes clear to his readers the downsides of religions, especially the monotheistic ones. How absurd their scriptures are and how indoctrinated people may can recover from their cognitive dissonance.

I was depressed, struggling with my faith in God. I had doubts, but was taught that having doubts is wrong and dangerous. Luckily, I came across this book and, oh boy, what a wonderful book it is! It opened my eyes and made me clearly see that religion is evil, and that there are no reasons whatsoever to be afraid of sadistic invisible beings invented by primitive minds. I feel relieved.

About the author

Paulo Bittencourt was born in Paraná, Brazil, spent his childhood in Rio de Janeiro and studied Theology in São Paulo. Close to becoming a pastor, he had doubts, dropped out of college, ventured through Europe and ended up settling in Austria. The book Ethics, by Bento de Espinosa (Baruch Spinoza), strengthened his skepticism and consolidated him as a freethinker. Paulo Bitencourt dedicates his life to helping people liberate themselves from religion.

Paulo Bittencourt is the author also of the books Wasting Time on God: Why I Am an Atheist and Com Zeus Não Se Brinca: Loucuras da Crença em Deus (Zeus Is Not to Be Played With: Madnesses of the Belief in God).