It’s Christian Bashing Week!
How’s that headline? Do I have everybody’s attention now? Good. Because a headline like that should get your attention. Would anybody tolerate “Gay Bashing Week” or “Woman Bashing Week?” The very idea is ludicrous. Yet, Dinesh D’Souza can print an article entitled “Atheist Bashing Week” and hardly anybody bats an eyelash. There’s certainly not public [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Humans Do Not Need to Comfort Themselves With Fairy Tales
A response to Peter Bowden’s “God, Atheism, and Human Needs”
Kelly O’Connor
Jan. 24, 2008
The idea that human beings universally need some form of mythological belief has been one of the mainstays of the defenders of faith for centuries. They claim that even if god doesn’t exist or religion causes violence and hatred, it’s acceptable because it [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Dinesh D’Souza Spreads Dishonest Propaganda…Again
Original Article
Isn’t it remarkable that Christians would like to use atheists as scapegoats for every evil action throughout history instead of admitting their own complicity? After all, they are the ones who are constantly reminding us that the inhumane actions committed by their predecessors don’t necessarily reflect upon them, so why can’t they can’t they [...]
Still Don’t Think Theism is a Mind Disorder…Part Deux
Since there have been so many things that I wanted to address in the comments, plus the fact that it got long as hell, I decided to post it here. Enjoy.
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No atheism here.Submitted by Fenriz on January 13, 2008 – 2:37pm.
Religion is different from illegal drugs because it is societally protected. Even if religion [...]
Muslims suppressing atheism in Turkey
Yesterday I blogged about muslims attempting to take down pictures of their invisible friend on wikipedia via petition. Today we got a letter from the head of the number one turkish atheist site which has been stripped from the eyes of Turks twice. Once under the original domain and then again under another domain. Unfortunately, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Still Don’t Think that Theism is a Mental Disorder?
Wow. A whole barrage of nonsense came at us in the past two weeks or so. First off…a man cuts off his own hand with a circular saw after seeing the Mark of the Beast on it. With a circular saw. And then microwaves it. And then calls the authorities. A quote from one of [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )Atheist Divisiveness and Dogmatism
Lately, I’ve been realizing that, despite what I had come to believe, religion is not the biggest danger to society. Poor thinking is. Adherence to mindless dogmatism is. The self-serving desire to fit everybody into a mold, likely similar to your own, is. These traits are unfortunately not limited to theists.
Obviously, being a member of [...]
A Response to the American People…
…represented by a small sample of letters to the editor from around the country.
Well, this will be a first with two posts in one day, but I really wanted to briefly discuss the following letters that were submitted to various papers across the US. This is certainly not a statistically significant sample, but I feel [...]
Ranting on holidays and porn…two completely unrelated topics
“Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war; and such a war as is of every man against every man. For war [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Triumph of Reason
Response to Katha Pollitt’s “The Atheist’s Dilemma”
From The Nation, Dec 3, 2007
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20071203/pollitt
In this issue of The Nation, Katha Pollitt posits that what people like to refer to as the “New Atheism” is destined for failure. She argues that the devout will not be persuaded by atheists, particularly those like Sam Harris, who “[think] religion is [...]
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