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Wesley Thou Shalt not suffer a theist to live

Lets not turn into what we despise.

Religion will not be overcome by WAR... by hangings or burnings.....by limiting a persons freedom to believe what they wish.

Religion must be defeated by reason and logic and goodness and justice that are 'better' than what they are offering.

Its doubtful that it will ever be eradicated altogether, but its possible that it might eventually evolve into something helpfull and based upon the natural instead of the s

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Added by Wesley on February 8, 2010 at 10:05pm — 1 Comment

Pinko Commie I'm an atheist who loves me some holidays

So I'm the kind of person who gets excited by things like yarn and ribbon and hot glue guns, embossing tools, ink and stamps and all of that. I craft. I'm crafty. Craftasaurus Rex. It kind of makes sense that I would really enjoy holidays - all kinds of holidays - because holidays are a great reason to get busy making things. I love Xmas, Valentine's Day, Easter, Fourth of July, all the big ones. I even like to celebrate lesser known holidays - Earth Day (though this one hardly counts as I was b… Continue

Added by Pinko Commie on February 8, 2010 at 6:35pm — 2 Comments

Johan de Haan The end of Justified Theism

Justified Theism is a misleading term in that it denotes that theism can be justified, when clearly, even at the height of theistic influence in the western world none of the religious claims that were presented could be considered as justified in the objective sense. Nevertheless, the force of all religious thought has traditionally been its ability to provide, or proport to provide answers to life's fundamental questions.

Traditionally this justification extended to all spher

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Added by Johan de Haan on February 8, 2010 at 6:18am — No Comments

Martin Pribble All Natural - From Atheist Climber Blog

“The unnatural, that too is natural.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We often hear the squaring-off of the “natural” versus the “unnatural”;

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Added by Martin Pribble on February 8, 2010 at 1:00am — 2 Comments

Nix Manes "Secular" Bible Classes To Claim Bible "Blueprint" For Constitution

There is a national group called the National Council On Bible Curriculum In Public Schools that is pushing for what they call "secular" bible classes for our nation's public schools as an elective. There are several stories in recent months about these classes being approved. (A recent one can be found here.)

However, a look at… Continue

Added by Nix Manes on February 7, 2010 at 8:00pm — 8 Comments

Martin Pribble Confused ramblings and attempts at justification

I pass a church every day on my way to work which has a new billboard on it every month. I have blogged about it in the past because I have found the messages to be confused. But the newest one is an example of cherry-picking and twisting of other people's quotes in an attempt of self-justification, and it is awful! See the article about the billboard's justification below:

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Added by Martin Pribble on February 7, 2010 at 6:19pm — 5 Comments

Nelson Sunday School FEB 7, 2010

let's get right to it!

Jerry Coyne calls out New Scientist for once again irresponsible coverage of idiotic evolution critical tripe.

tiny galaxies reveal how the first stars formed.

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Added by Nelson on February 7, 2010 at 5:26pm — 10 Comments

Shasta McNasty What did my parents do wrong?- or how to lose something you never had

So being this is my first blog post here, i've decided to talk about a pretty familiar subject, me. More specifically, my life and lack of faith in a deity. I was raised in a very christian family. My mother is a woman of great faith, and she tried to raise her 3 children the same way. I received the standard dose of christian rhetoric until the age 17, when i stopped attending. I had gotten a job and i started to lie about what hours i worked to get out of going to church. I cant be too certain… Continue

Added by Shasta McNasty on February 7, 2010 at 4:38pm — 4 Comments

natheist Concerned xtian email

FIRST SHE SAID THIS:

i have taken note that all of your quotes are from the old testament. As stated earlier, you are not taking these quotes in context and balance. I can make the bible say that "there is no God" But, taken in context it states that "The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God". The one thing you didn't answer was what is love, truth, etc.
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Added by natheist on February 7, 2010 at 2:08pm — 13 Comments

Larry Lawson CAN AN ATHEIST "NOT" BE A SKEPTIC??

I keep running across "atheists", here and on other atheist sites, who appear to be 'skeptical' only in regard to religion.

Some are total 'believers' in various philosophies that can only be described as 'mystical'.

Some have become followers of AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming) without being able to show any data which might apply to such an opinion; preferring instead to send questioners to propaganda sites, also without data.

So
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Added by Larry Lawson on February 7, 2010 at 2:00pm — 18 Comments

Vincent Gay (or not) and coming to Amsterdam? Cancel NOW!

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Added by Vincent on February 7, 2010 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

Johnny Sunday Morning Service - 07FEB

Sunday Morning Service 07 FEB 2010 Links of Interest Discovering the Origins of Charles Darwin Things on T|A You Might Have Missed from the last week or two… Continue

Added by Johnny on February 7, 2010 at 5:00am — 7 Comments

Graham E. Lau Evolution is a Fact

2/6/10

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Added by Graham E. Lau on February 6, 2010 at 7:00pm — 8 Comments

Tony / San Francisco End-of-life issues

This is an essay for adults who can deal with end-of-life issues. If you're depressed, if you feel

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Added by Tony / San Francisco on February 6, 2010 at 10:33am — 8 Comments

Shine Concession


I really hate to admit when I am wrong, especially about ideas that I have cherished or lines of reasoning that I have ardently defended. Perhaps it just feels like such a waste of mental effort and time to intellectually retrace my steps, yet I find this to be a necessary move as I am hopelessly entangled in convoluted thinking. In particular, my mind has been coddled by a romantic notion of epistemology as I touted an ethereal stance of agnosticism. Now, I face recanting all of my argumen… Continue

Added by Shine on February 6, 2010 at 10:00am — 11 Comments

Atheist Exile Free Will is Self-Determinism

Determinism Versus Free Will: The Difference is Options

In the determinism versus free will debate, determinists believe causality and choice are mutually exclusive – while compatibilists believe they are intimately intertwined. I will attempt to present a rational argument for my particular brand of compatibilism. Mine is a unique (I can’t find my central tenet repeated by anybody else on the Internet) and forceful argument that explains how free will is compatible wi

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Added by Atheist Exile on February 6, 2010 at 9:30am — 1 Comment

Craig Schibli Another Argument With a Christian, (If anyone cares to read it)

I got in an argument over homosexuality and it's "sinfullness" with a Christian on youtube: ( http://www.youtube.com/comment_servlet?all_comments&v=hA78IEN6Dog ). So I decided to post it for anyone who's bored enough to read it. Unlike my argument with Dave Harrison, I was a little more rude in this one.

Sorry, the order the comments came in is kinda messed up.

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Added by Craig Schibli on February 5, 2010 at 9:43pm — 4 Comments

Gordon Duffy I met the Pope

To be fair, met is a strong word. Like the religion he leads the meeting was fairly formal, liturgical and overcrowded. Appropriately for Rome it was bread and circuses. He read a speech in various languages ominously, in retrospect, inviting us all to World Youth Day.

I'm tempted to think he wouldn't dare give such a speech these days, what with his contempt for youth being more widely known, but I suspect that nothing is too low or two faced for this man. He'll stand up and call hims… Continue

Added by Gordon Duffy on February 5, 2010 at 9:42am — No Comments

Pinko Commie Response to a Christian's question - Why does Dawkins hate God?

On the Twitter, I find myself having an interesting conversation with a Christian who began the talk by asking me if I felt that Dawkins was helping anyone when his message seems to be that he hates God. How can hate be helpful, he asked, and why don't more atheists dedicate themselves to building relationships with the religious community rather than isolating themselves from the religious by way of harsh criticisms of God.

I feel like these are all really good questions, not because o… Continue

Added by Pinko Commie on February 4, 2010 at 10:21pm — 21 Comments

Kenneth Mabie i think i had a good idea

i have been thinking about this for a while, after watching an episode of dharma and greg years ago, i got an idea.

in the episode a woman ( dharma's friend and grocery check out girl) is going to have a baby, and greg makes the comment about taking her to the hospital when she started labor, and dharmas mother said why she isnt sick.

that got me thinking , yea why do we have babies in a hospital, where we go when we are sick or hurt?

after thinking that i

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Added by Kenneth Mabie on February 4, 2010 at 9:24pm — 5 Comments

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