so i saw this just 30 seconds ago and i want you to share what do you think here is the link http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/22/prominent-atheist-blogger-converts-to-catholicism/

On August 9th in Wayne county of Missouri, (My home town). Missouri voters approved prayer issue. I voted against this, and at least I tried to do something good in my state. But the majority has spoken, but I remember something that Bill Maher once said: "Just because the majority out weights the minority, doesn't mean the minority is wrong. The majority once thought that the world was flat, but that didn't make them right."  It's tough to do something right, when everyone else is against…

I closed one of my recent Internet Religious debates with the following line:

"I can be nice to people (really, I can) without fearing that the violent magic psychopath in the sky is going to lock me in the basement and set fire to me for 100,000 years for not loving him the right way...."

Too harsh?

Today, I experienced a moment of wondrous lucidity, a moment where conscious thought elevated itself to the level of intuition. In laymen's terms, ideas which required a conscious effort on my part to be understood, suddenly became so obvious and so clear to me, that they almost became common sense.

This experience happened to me as I was reading Dawkins' "The God Delusion", when he alluded to the character Winston in Huxley's "1984". I thoroughly enjoyed reading "1984" previously,…

They ride clouds of ignorance and cast stones of hate and intolerance. They close their minds yet open their mouths. They miss the beauty and complexity. Substituting it with judgment and simplicity. They indoctrinate the helpless with their bigotry. Leading the young into a world of hypocrisy. Why does faith continue to breath? Why is it resilient? It laughs in the face of logic and insults the intelligence people. Faith serves none but the greedy. Life is undervalued by the believer, and…

This is just a little paper I put together. Hope you all enjoy it & please feel free to share =)

http://paper.li/f-1341385511

I've been waiting for years for Paul Ryan to be named on the 2012 GOP Presidential ticket.  I had tiny worries of Santorum or fellow Minnesotans Bachmann and Pawlenty being serious considerations, but have anticipated that Paul Ryan would be the BoyWonder they would pick in the end. …

Hey guys, you can help out Think Atheist Radio and yourself by using this link to sign up for a Dropbox cloud storage account. When you sign up using the link both you and the show will pick up some extra bonus space that's a huge help to us as we grow! We use Dropbox to backup and transfer audio files as we record and edit our interviews. It's a fantastic resource to secure pictures, videos, and other important…

Right now im in a debate with myself i have reasons to believe that ghosts are real and exist, but also im not so sure if they do. i want to know what all you guys think about the paranormal world?

This morning, Romney has introduced a unique stimulus package, where as selecting his running mate will create a wider sector for comedians, and thus generate more money for them, which will generate more tax revenue... 

It's called "Trickle Out Laughter Economics", where the steady pace of jokes will boost the economy...



As Romney and Obama, are pretty much identical in polices I didn't give a flying turd about who would win, short of not…

3000+ cameras come to

the big apple, echoing the

CCTV of London, furthering

the police state, under the

guise of “fighting terrorism”---

makes this future

unperson,

wonder if Orwell is rolling over

in his grave &

wonder as well, what will be

coming in the next decade, the

next 20 years or more,

as the empire continues to decline,

spreading its military further by

the day

all over the…

Hi everybody. Dave Kilby here with a shameless plug:

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Drop by and take a gander at the work-in-progress and feel free to comment, suggest or tell me to "go to Hell" (even if it doesn't exist).

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Religion As Cognitive Poison Ivy

Tonight I started a discussion with my religious friend about immortality. I was interested in talking about the problems it would pose, such as population ect, and the solutions and products of those solutions. The conversation soon sidetracked.

He asked me what marriage would mean if we all lived for a very long time. I said it would mean the same thing today, depends on the couple. If people are going to stay together, they will. If they want a divorce, they will get one,…

A few days ago (just Monday, actually) one of my friends came out as being gay. When I first read his Facebook post I thought "Oh. Yeah, makes sense, whatever."

A few moments later my reaction was "Should I comment this on it:

Wait, am I supposed to hit you over the head with a cross and yell "come back from sin!" repeatedly? (that way, I'll deal enough brain damage for you to think that seeing people differently than others see them is actually a bad thing)"

I didn't,…

by BARBARA BRADLEY HAGERTY

David Barton says Americans have been misled about their history. And he aims to change that.

"It's what I would call historical reclamation," Barton explains, in his soft but…

They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. – Exodus 11:8

Seven days they you shall eat unleavened bread.  On the first day you shall remove leaven out of yours houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. – Exodus 11:15

And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your…

I've seen so many groups get all upset over different issues ranging from the Occupy Wall Street movement to anti-war protesters to Creationist propaganda.  I also see from time to time the hate spewed by the Westboro Baptist Church and I cringe each time. I've seen people accuse and believe political propaganda and spout off repeated twists of the truth to serve their own agenda knowing its a lie. I've seen people con others into scams, political ideology and all around social nonsense. But…

I’ve seen and heard the new breed of skeptics, where any idea or hypothesis is presented with little to no evidence, backed with a statement about how the government is hiding something or the “evidence” is top-secret. Or somebody posts a well made video on Youtube that explains some claim, with the caption “I was skeptical, but here’s proof!!” For a while now my first response was seriously!?! All you need is a video or a claim?

I’ve seen many people use the “skeptic” label to…