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Add to My Profile | More VideosI am Gary Lenaire; an author, musician, and freethinker. As a musician, I've released 11 records and was nominated for six GMA (Dove) Awards. In 2000 I recorded many tracks that became the CD Gary Lenaire - "The Lost Years." I founded Los Angeles rock band Cripple Need Cane and released "The Big Dance" in 2005. Currently, I am the vocalist and guitarist of Los Angeles metal band 2050. 2050 recently premiered its first song and video . I am a former Chaplain/Bible teacher. You can order my new book, AN INFIDEL MANIFESTO - WHY SINCERE BELIEVERS LOSE FAITH online. For more info, CLICK HEREBUY Gary Lenaire's latest music release "THE LOST YEARS VOLUME 2" At iTunes BUY Gary Lenaire's music release "THE BIG DANCE" At iTunesBUY Gary Lenaire's NEW BOOK

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Music:

2050, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Puscifer, Rush, Pink Floyd, Volto!, Bad Religion, Slaughter House 3, Porcupine Tree, The Mars Volta, Necrophagist, Morrissey, k.d. Lang, Vangelis, Beatles, Beck, 311, Black Sabbath, Carcass, Elton John, John Williams, Harry Gregson-Williams, Korn, The Smiths, Benny Hill (The Fastest Milkman In The West), Stevie Wonder, Tenacious D, ZZ Top, Scorpions, Foo Fighters, Weezer, Dixie Chicks, Opeth, Slayer, Disturbed, Judas Priest, Maiden

Movies:

L'Age d'Or/Un Chien Andalou, Belle de Jour, Anything directed by Kevin Smith and Mike Judge, True Romance, The Remains of the Day, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Syriana, The Illusionist, V for Vendetta, Adaptation, The Matador, The Good Shepherd, The Prestige, Blade Runner, Idiocracy, Caddyshack, The Baxter, Groundhogs Day, Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, Pulp Fiction, Predator (1), Buckaroo Banzai

Television:

The Onion News Network, Penn and Teller-Bullshit, Southpark, Real Time with Bill Maher, The Daily Show, Howard TV, Colbert Report

Books:

AN INFIDEL MANIFESTO - WHY SINCERE BELIEVERS LOSE FAITH , The Aeneid-Virgil, Ideas and Opinions-Einstein, Absalom, Absalom-William Faulkner, The Age of Reason-Thomas Paine, Enquiries concerning Human Understanding-David Hume, Thus Spoke Zarathustra-Friedrich Nietzsche, The Character of Physical Law-Richard Feynman, The Demon-Haunted World-Carl Sagan, Challenges to the Enlightenment: In Defense of Reason and Science-Paul Kurtz, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms-Stephen Jay Gould, The Blind Watchmaker & The God Delusion-Richard Dawkins, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science-Martin Gardner, End of Faith-Sam Harris, Why Darwin Matters-Michael Shermer

Heroes:

Spinoza, Thomas Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, Benny Hill, Frank Zappa, Bill Hicks

My Blog

OBJECTIONS TO THE BOOK

Most of the objections I receive regarding An Infidel Manifesto are emotional responses. I certainly expected that given the subject matter of the book. Many readers are prone to take sentences out of...
Posted by An Infidel Manifesto on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:09:00 PST

About The Book, AN INFIDEL MANIFESTO: WHY SINCERE BELIEVERS LOSE FAITH

ORDER The New Book By Gary Lenaire: Why did the God of the Bible create people who are capable of sinning? Why does the God of the Bible let children suffer? Is prophecy real, was it written a...
Posted by An Infidel Manifesto on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:43:00 PST

Dr. MICHAEL SHERMER'S COMMENTS ON "AN INFIDEL MANIFESTO"

"Conversion stories are a dime-a-dozen in religious bookstores; deconversion stories--that is, stories about how someone religious changed their mind and gave up their religion--are rare. Gary Lenair...
Posted by An Infidel Manifesto on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 09:34:00 PST

GOD IS A SO-CALLED GENTLEMAN? [excerpt from the book]

An excerpt from my new book, An Infidel Manifesto: Why Sincere Believers Lose Faith: "The Bible also says that it was not our (the descendants of Adam) will to be sinners. We were born sinners (withou...
Posted by An Infidel Manifesto on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 01:05:00 PST

BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS [excerpts from the book]

"There is no indication of a universal flood in ancient Egyptian, Indus or Chinese writings, temples, pyramids, statues, etc., which existed at the time of Noah. If a worldwide flood really did occur,...
Posted by An Infidel Manifesto on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 11:04:00 PST

PUBLIC SCHOOL PRAYER [excerpt from the book]

"Imagine it is 100 years in the future. In this United States democracy, the American Chinese Buddhist community has become the cultural, spiritual, and political majority. The "Buddhist Coalition" ha...
Posted by An Infidel Manifesto on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:51:00 PST

JESUS LOVES YOU? [excerpt from the book]

When I hear people make comments to perfect strangers like "Jesus loves you," I immediately wonder what their knowledge of the biblical Jesus really is. Jesus, we read, will save a limited number of p...
Posted by An Infidel Manifesto on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:48:00 PST

THE GOSPEL OF "Q"

"In the 19 th century German theologians Christian Hermann Weisse, Paul Wernle, and Heinrich Julius Holtzmann (among others) noticed some interesting patterns in the Synoptic gospels. A different gos...
Posted by An Infidel Manifesto on Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:43:00 PST