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2012 - Celebrity Compliment Christianity, Again

Atheism is Dead | 15 hours ago by Mariano

As Dan Brown and the New Atheists have done; Roland Emmerich compliments Christianity. Roland Emmerich is the director of the new movie 2012.I must say that the concept of 2012 AD has been fascinating to me for at least as far back as 17 years when I read more

Mariano

PZ Myers Responds in a Self-Interested Way to Local Conditions

Atheism is Dead | November 14th 2009 by Mariano

What else could he do? He is bound by Darwinism to do so and so he does so.At least celebrity atheists agree and are consistent.I love it when Darwinism is applied to anything and everything because there is absolutely nothing that cannot be “expla read more

wncooney

Skepticism: The Critical Commodity

Living Without God - A Life of Reason | November 12th 2009 by Bill Cooney

In the world some of us grew up in, obedience and conformity were the rule. Questioning authority was a sin. Was that the way it really should have been?As it turns out, obedience and conformity are necessary when the only sustenance being offered on read more

KiqRoqzGraphiqz

Its Always The Good Ones That Go

Asilee.com | November 12th 2009 by Lee

I was just reading this Cleveland Plain Dealer article on Cleveland.com about two brothers who was just walking home  when some gang called the Lakeshore Boys shot and killed one of the brothers and wounded another. Brandon Young and his younger bro read more

Stingerstein

Talk About a Leap of Faith

Disillusioned Words | November 12th 2009 by Jeffrey Stingerstein

Chicago Mayor Richard Daley pointed to America’s “love” affair with guns as the driving factor behind last week’s shooting at Fort Hood, becoming the latest and possibly most prominent figure to show a reluctance to cite relig read more

spackledorfed

100 Things

Spackledorfed's Blog | November 12th 2009 by Emily Speed

This could turn out sounding really trite and self-serving* and all that, and there’s probably going to be a lot of purely hypothetical things on this list. I’ve just been short on ideas lately and saw some Lists of 100 on the Internet, a read more

PsiCop

Threats Issued Over Atheist Billboard

Miscellanea Agnostica | November 12th 2009 by PsiCop

Let’s hear it for how great religiosity is, how it makes everyone so moral and upright, how it promotes compassion and peace. Let’s hear about how, if atheists ran everything, things would be no better than they’d been in the “ read more

vjack

What's So Bad About Religion?

Atheist Revolution | November 12th 2009 by vjack

I have never met an atheist who would claim that religion is the source of all evil in the world or that a post-religious world would necessarily be some sort of Utopian paradise. Many of us may still long for a post-religious world, but we are real read more

Advancing Atheism in America

A Good Choice . . . for Ohio | November 11th 2009

It is not enough that our schools, our courts, our government, our political organizations, many of our politicians, many of our churches most of our corporations are godless, now there is an anything-but-reasonable organization, called the United Co read more

unrright

Hot Atheist Girls

The Unreligious Right | November 11th 2009 by David

If anyone is looking, I stumbled onto this site. read more

spackledorfed

The Ten “Commandments” of Nonreligiousness

Spackledorfed's Blog | November 11th 2009 by Emily Speed

There is more to moral behavior than mindlessly following rules. Be especially skeptical of positive claims. If you want your life to have some sort of meaning, it’s up to you to find it. Search for what is true, even if it makes you uncomforta read more

Wings1295

xkcd: Organ Donation

Caffeinated Joe | November 10th 2009 by Wings

Hemant @ The Friendly Atheist posted this panel from xkcd:I like it.We can all make a difference when we are gone. I won't need my parts, so why not let them go back in 'the bin' for others to use?:) read more

Billyist

Separate still isn't equal: Why gays need to call it marriage

Good Reason News | November 10th 2009

Watch this at Boston.comI've laid out my argument for gay marriage several times before, but to succinctly review what I've said, I maintain that since homosexuality is not a mental disorder, that when it takes place between two human adults, they read more

emanuelb

Bible says our planet is only 6000 years old

The Howling Wolf | November 10th 2009 by Emanuel

Bible says our planet is only 6000 years old6000 years old!According to Genesis, God made Adam and Eve on the sixthday of Creation Week. The Genesis genealogies then detail theexact ages at which Adam and his male descendants "begat" theirown male o read more

emanuelb

Noahs flood never happened

The Howling Wolf | November 10th 2009 by Emanuel

Most Christians do not know some of the evidence that's stacked against the stories in there holy bible. The reason for this is because they are closed minded to science and archeology discoveries. Another reason is the only things they know concerni read more

kimminentdanger

I accept the Blasphemy Challenge!!! (My first YouTube Vid)

goddities | November 10th 2009 by Kim Shannon

There's no turning back now... I accept the Blasphemy Challenge in this, my very first YouTube video! read more

godlessblogger

The Switch Flips Off

Godless Blogger | November 10th 2009 by Jake Collyer

I seem to remember reading somewhere an analogy about losing one’s religion that had to do with a switch. This is a pretty perfect symbol for the phenomenon. Personally I never had the switch turned on, so I don’t really know the anagnori read more

KenPerrott

This Hell would be useful!

Open Parachute | November 10th 2009 by Ken Perrott

Book Review: The Infernova by S. A. Alenthony Price: US$11.21 Paperback: 220 pages Publisher: Blackburnian Press (August 11, 2009) Language: English ISBN-10: 0981967892 ISBN-13: 978-0981967899 Hello there! If you are new here, you migh read more

Mariano

Dan Barker's Views On Human Dignity

Atheism is Dead | November 10th 2009 by Mariano

What is under consideration in this essay is Dan Barker’s (of the Freedom From Religion Foundation[1]) view on human dignity. There is perhaps no better measure of someone’s view of human dignity than is exampled in their views on the most innoce read more

MarmaladeSteele

Re: Proof for God’s Existence?

Marmalade | November 10th 2009 by Benjamin David Steele

Someone pointed out the blog post entitled Proof for God’s Existence? by Mark Tetzlaff.  Here is the beginning of the post: It is interesting to note that the Bible does not begin with a proof for the existence of God. Instead it simply begins read more

Nizars

Blind Faith

Nizar's Blog | November 10th 2009 by Nizar Selander

I thought I would share this funny picture with you guys, I really don’t have much to add to it since it says quite a lot without any additional commenting. Posted in funny Tagged: atheism, Blind faith, funny, picture read more

Mariano

“Darwin Was Wrong” - Upcoming Webcasted Conference

Atheism is Dead | November 9th 2009 by Mariano

This weekend, November 13-14, 2009 AD, a conference will take place at Calvary Chapel of Costa Mesa (Santa Ana, California, USA) admission is free.Entitled “Darwin Was Wrong,” the conference will be webcast at this link.Details are found at this read more

Mariano

Adolf Hitler Was a Christian! Was Adolf Hitler a Christian?, part…

Atheism is Dead | November 9th 2009 by Mariano

“History is currently being distortedby the millions of Christians wholie to have us believe that the Holocaustwas not a Christian deed”—EvilBible.comWe now continue considering the evidence presented by evilbile.com as they claim, via an artic read more

seamjay

All Muslims are Not Terrorists

Saucy Seaside Postcards | November 9th 2009

     America in particularr, seems to blame the Muslims every time there is a bombing, shooting or any kind of plot against the Government.  I am sick of the whole thing.  A good example of this is the recent shooting by read more

tuibguy

Vitaly Ginzburg, Man of Courage and Brilliance

Tangled Up In Blue Guy | November 9th 2009 by Mike Haubrich

I Am Still Inclined to Believe in the Brilliant Future of Mankind Thank you, Vitaly! Vitaly Ginzburg was a physicist who resisted the movement to re-integrate the Russian Orthodox church into governmental affairs during Vladimir Putin’s reign read more

steutychus

Who is Bert Erhman you say?

St Eutychus | November 9th 2009 by St Eutychus

Bert Erhman has been mentioned pretty frequently in the continuing conversation on Dave’s post about why he’s not an atheist. Other than the fact that his surname is an anagram of Herman I didn’t really know who Ehrman was, or much read more

discerningtheworld

Coca-Cola Happiness Song BUT ONLY IF…

Discerning The World | November 9th 2009 by Discerning The World

Coca-Cola Happiness Song for a New World [Specially highlighted song lyrics in red] – [Comments by DTW in Green] Watch video at the end of article… Lyrics VERSE ONE ahhh..ohhh Well hello is this thing on Is anybody listening A brand new d read more

StellaHere

The Intelligence Squared Debate - Christopher Hitchens and Stephe…

Swiftspeech | November 8th 2009 by Stella

[source]What could be better? Don't miss it!Here's part 3, featuring Stephen Fry (begins at 2:45 mark). read more

cubiksrube

It’s “pot shots at easy targets” day

Cubik's Rube | November 8th 2009 by Cubik's Rube

(Which you know means I’ve been lazy today and am struggling to get something done before bed.) I can’t find the letter of October 19th referred to in this post, perhaps because I don’t care and I haven’t really tried. But I&# read more

birdenadol

Week in Review: Frank Schaeffer Takes on Fundamentalists

during fourth | November 8th 2009 by birdenadol

Frank Schaeffer has a new book now, Patience with God: Faith for People Who Don't Like Religion (or Atheism), and in it he takes on both the "incipient fascism" of the religious right and what he called "proselytizing" atheism of Richard Dawkins and read more