my fondest memory of church

had to have been the day that girl from my confirmation class

whom i can’t for the life of me remember the name of now

showed up in a skin tight neon pink dress

which was hiked right up

inches upon inches above her knee

leaving very little to be desired

but i desired so very much---

i wanted her

i wanted what any bored, horny, teenage

nonbeliever would,

in such a…

Most of us from the western world have been born into a religious environment. I myself was a catholic, went through the whole circus of sacraments and religious teaching and kind of took my religion for granted.



Now one thing the old communist regimes had about them was atheism. They rejected religion outright, based on Marx's* view of religion as being a yoke to keep people subdued so that they accept the status quo where others had the power and they had to live with it - the…

1 Cor 5:10-13... I think I said it last time, but I'll say it again.  Atheists need to know this passage.  It severely restricts Christians from all sorts of undesirable behavior. 

How I came to be atheist is actually a pretty long story.  I've explained it to a few people in the past, and even moreso in recent times, since reason, logic, and atheism have been more prominent in my thoughts.  I'll start from as far back as I can remember, which is probably when I was 5 or 6 years old.



I grew up in a Christian family.  Not all church going Christians, or "by the book" Christians, so to speak, but Christians nonetheless.  My grandparents on my mother's side were…

I posted "Why are atheists so angry" to a friend on facebook. Another friend, who had recently within the past year converted to Catholicism, saw it and became outraged at Greta Christina's frequent mentions of the wrongdoings of the Catholic Church such as the sex abuse scandals. This friend proceeded to write several angry statuses about how atheists can't just leave other people alone and let them believe what they want to believe.

Ah, Facebook.

I was repeatedly told that I…

What is “Pro-Life?”

The term gets thrown around

quite a bit these days.

Mostly to protect the “unborn children.”

What about the un-unborn children?

The air breathing kind that you see in the streets.

The children who are beaten,

broken down, and starving.

What about young teens

running away from their homes

or killing themselves

because they feel unwanted?

Twenty and thirty year…

It’s that time of the year again, when About.com hold the annual Readers’ Choice Awards, and our community Think Atheist deserves to be on the top 5 nominated as we were last year.

So, do me guys a super special personal favor and nominate Think Atheist for…

Religion justifies everything with the umbrella statement, "God works in mysterious ways".

Most memorial services drone on and on about how the dead person is better off, because God has called that person "home". 

Really?

I can see it now...like playing with tonka trucks, god collides the drunk into the family sedan

No, I can't see it...now or never

And for that, I am intensely grateful.

I've read this chapter 4 argument a couple times, and I still don't get it.   The following is my understanding: 

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Straw Man:  So, it's pretty much impossible for human beings to just come together by chance.  Therefore God exists. 

Richard Dawkins.  Actually, there's this thing called evolution.  I know quite a bit about evolution.  Evolution is great. Oh, yeah, the thing…

 Pharyngula details the advanced science of Islam. Just simply astounding ...

 "If a housefly falls in the drink of anyone of you, he should dip it (in the drink), for the one of its wings has a disease and the other has the cure of the disease."

So saith the Prophet, and so affirmeth these Islamic so-called scientists.

I…

There is one argument regarding free will which seems to come up time and time again, and it deserves a response. There was the week before last Sunday School linked blog making it, and the blog in the title. The basic argument is that since our brains are made of physical…

I will be attending the Reason Rally with a group of fellow atheists and free thinkers from Mississippi State University.  If there is anyone in the north Mississippi/Alabama area that would like to travel with us let me know ASAP.  We are considering renting a van and/or carpooling to Tuscaloosa to "get on the bus" with the group there.  The more the merrier, especially when it comes to logic and reason!

I still feel a little naughty about letting anyone else know that I'm in the atheist camp.  My parents, sister, brother-in-law, grandmothers, etc. are all evangelical Christians, and I know it would break their hearts to know that I've gone the opposite direction.  I'm still protecting my family from knowing too much about me (long story), but I know the truth will eventually come out.

And when they ask me why?  When they ask how I could leave the faith they so carefully taught…

Much to my excitement a dark and primitive concept was shown to be intolerable  in Canada today as all members Shafia family are found guilty of first degree murder. Hamed Shafia, his second wife Tooba Mohammad Yahya, 42, and their eldest son, Hamed, 21 were arrested in July of 2011 for the murder of Hamed Shafia’s three daughters…

Many a good atheist have experienced the futility of presenting logic and reasoning to a devout theist. As I have just completed P. Boyer's Religion Explained -The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought my viewpoint of religion and the theistic mind has been changed dramatically. Why?

My new understanding of the theistic mind from a cognitive perspective has forced me to realize that tools such as science and logic and even religious scriptures are not that important to the average…

The biggest event in secular world history is coming up fast! The Reason Rally is happening on MARCH 24! It is CRITICAL that we get as many atheists to attend as possible! The purpose of the reason rally is both a celebration of life without god AND an increase to the visibility of American atheists! PLEASE ATTEND! Atheist organizations have worked VERY hard to make it easy and cheap to travel and get a hotel room! RICHARD DAWKINS AND ADAM SAVAGE (MYTHBUSTERS) WILL BE FEATURED…

In case you've been in a freethought cave for the last couple of weeks, you've heard about the brave atheist teen, Jessica Ahlquist, and her (along with the ACLU and others) fight to have a prayer banner taken down from the auditorium of her high school. The Huffington Post has published an updated news story concerning this battle for separation of church…