Made to Reason
A blog by CJ Thompson
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Philosophy
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A History of Western Philosophy (Bertrand Russell)
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Dialogues and Natural History of Religion (David Hume)
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Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoevsky)
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The Sunset Limited (Cormac McCarthy)
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Euthyphro (Plato)
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Lying (Sam Harris)
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Sophie's World (Jostein Gaarder)
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The Problems With Philosophy (Bertrand Russell)
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The Sacred and the Profane (Mircea Eliade)
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Walden (Henry David Thoreau)
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Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer)
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Apologetics
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Philosophical Foundations for a Christian Worldview, Revised Edition (William Lane Craig, J. P. Moreland)
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The Problem of Pain (C. S. Lewis)
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A Grief Observed (C. S. Lewis)
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God in the Docks: Essays on Theology and Ethics (C. S. Lewis)
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Can Man Live Without God? (Ravi Zacharias)
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The Everlasting Man (G. K. Chesterton)
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Miracles (C. S. Lewis)
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Mere Christianity (C. S. Lewis)
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The Abolition of Man (C. S. Lewis)
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God Over All: Divine Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism (William Lane Craig)
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Escape from Reason (Francis Schaeffer)
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Evidence That Demands a Verdict: Life-Changing Truth for a Skeptical World (Josh McDowell, Sean McDowell)*
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Jesus Among Other Gods (Ravi Zacharias)
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Some Everyday Thoughts (C. S. Lewis)
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Improbable Planet: How Earth Became Humanity's Home (Hugh Ross)
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I Don’t Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist (Norman Geisler, Ravi Zacharias)
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The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism (Tim Keller)
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The Case for Christ (Lee Strobel)
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The Case for Faith (Lee Strobel)
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Tactics (Greg Koukl)
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Atheistic Apologetics
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What I Believe: 3 Complete Essays on Religion (Bertrand Russell)
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God is not Great (Christopher Hitchens)
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Sam Harris)
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Jesus Interrupted (Bart D. Ehrman)
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Zealot (Reza Aslan)
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The God Delusion (Richard Dawkins)
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History
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The Rape of Nanking (Iris Chang)
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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution on Poland (Christopher R. Browning)
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich (Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn)
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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Outliers (Malcolm Gladwell)
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Tipping Point (Malcolm Gladwell)
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David and Goliath (Malcolm Gladwell)
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The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Max Weber)
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Apology (Plato)
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Totem and Taboo (Sigmund Freud)
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The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Émile Durkheim)
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Politics
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The Republic (Plato)
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1984 (George Orwell)
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Lord of the Flies (William Golding)
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Brave New World (Aldous Huxley)
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Animal Farm (George Orwell)
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Fahrenheit 451 (Ray Bradbury)​
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The Weight of Glory (C. S. Lewis)
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The Four Loves (C. S. Lewis)
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The Screwtape Letters (C. S. Lewis)
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The Everlasting Man (G. K. Chesterton)
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The Father Brown Series (G. K. Chesterton)
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Sense and Sensuality (Ravi Zacharias)
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Summa Theologica (Thomas Aquinas)
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The Great Divorce (C. S. Lewis)
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A Grief Observed (C.S. Lewis)
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Reflections on the Psalms (C. S. Lewis)
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Letters to Malcolm: Chiefly on Prayer (C. S. Lewis)
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The Narnia Series (C. S. Lewis)
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Don’t Waste Your Life (John Piper)*
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Overwhelmed by a Relentless God (Francis Chan, Danae Yankoski)
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The Purpose Driven Life (Rick Warren)
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Confessions (Saint Augustine)
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Lifestyle
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Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor E. Frankl)
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12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos (Jordan B. Peterson)
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How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
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Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill)
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The One Thing (Gary Keller, Jay Papasan)
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7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen Covey)
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Letters to a Young Contrarian (Christopher Hitchens)
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How to Read a Book (Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren)
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As a Man Thinketh (James Allen)
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The 4 Hour Work Week: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated) (Timothy Ferriss)
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The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance (Josh Waitzkin)
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Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones (James Clear)
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Make Today Count (John C. Maxwell)
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Willpower Doesn’t Work (Ray Dalio)
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Make Your Bed (William H. McRaven)
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Blink (Malcolm Gladwell)
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Thinking Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
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The Power of Habit: What We Do in Life and Business (Charles Duhigg)
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The Elements of Style (William Strunk Jr., E. B. White)
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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Stephen King)
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How Successful People Think (John C. Maxwell)
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Start with Why (Simon Sinek)
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The Way of the SEAL: Think like an Elite Warrior to Lead and Succeed (Mark Divine, Allyson Edelhertz Machate)
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Mindfulness 25th Anniversary Edition (Ellen J. Langer, Bernadette Dunne)
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48 Laws of Power (Robert Greene)
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Essential Bukowski Poetry (Charles Bukowski)
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Secular Fiction
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Inferno (Dante Alighieri)
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Notes from the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
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The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
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Hamlet (William Shakespeare)
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The Hobbit (J. R. R. Tolkien)
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Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
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The Old Man and the Sea (Ernest Hemingway)
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Great Expectations (Charles Dickens)
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The Most Dangerous Game (Richard Connell)
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Mark Twain)
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Of Men and Mice (John Steinbeck)
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Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey)*
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Romeo and Juliet (William Shakespeare)
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A Midsummer's Night Dream (William Shakespeare)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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The Trial (Franz Kafka)
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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain)
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Sherlock Holmes: The Hounds of the Baskervilles (Arthur Conan Doyle)
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Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
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A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
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Frankenstein (Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
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Death of a Salesman (Arthur Miller)
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Ivan the Fool (Leo Tolstoy)
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The Catcher in the Rye (J. D. Salinger)
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Prey (Michael Crichton)
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The Stand (Stephen King)
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The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
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Tortilla Flat (John Steinbeck)
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WEBSITES
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Philosophy
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Christian Apologetics
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Blogs
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PODCASTS
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Christian Apologetics
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Unbelievable?
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Reasons to Believe Podcast
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Defenders Podcast
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Theology
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Lord of Spirits
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Pints with Jack
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The Symbolic World
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Pints with Aquinas
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The Plodcast
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Personal Development
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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast
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Philosophy
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The Partly Examined Life
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History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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News
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The World and Everything in It
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The Briefing with Albert Mohler
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The Plodcast
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History
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Revisionist History
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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe
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Politics
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The Daily Wire
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Culture
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The Eric Metaxas Show
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The Pursuit of Manliness
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The Art of Manliness
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YOUTUBE CHANNELS
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Christian Apologetics
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ReasonableFaithOrg
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Inspiring Philosophy
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Capturing Christianity
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Drcraigvideos
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Unbelievable?
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Theology
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Canon Press
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Alpha & Omega Ministries
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CSLewisDoodle
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Bishop Robert Baron
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Jonathan Pageau
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Mike Winger
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Personal Development
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Jordan B Peterson
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Philosophy
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Majesty of Reason
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Carneades.org
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Politics
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Young Heretics
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Culture
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Wranglerstar
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Living Waters
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