It has been reported that Ireland is now in the top ten for people claiming to be “convinced atheists”. We are still in a minority but this is great news. There is also another story of the failure of a recent recruitment drive by the Catholics to find any replacement priests. So as the majority of the diehard Catholics are over 60, the ratio of Atheists to theists should increase again. All good news to my ears. Teach, don't preach.…

I hear Christians and those on the "right" making the claim of how we should return our country to the way it was when the founding fathers started it. As if the founding fathers created the United States to be a Christian nation, they didn't. Most of the people who came to America prior to the creation of the United States and after, will cite their coming to the US for economic and/or religious freedom and this is well documented. In the case of religious freedom, one has to ask: if the…

When I say I hate you, there are a few things you need to understand.



I do not hate you because of your race. We're all Homo Sapiens. We differ in the details, but at our core, we're so similar that it hardly matters at all what our skin color is. This reason is also why I do not hate you because of your gender, or your sexuality. These things are meaningless, in the big picture.



I do not hate you because of your religion. I've been on the receiving end of that hatred.…

Hey everybody! I just came on this website since forever. I know I'm not completed devoted to atheism like them damn christians with their "Jesus" and stuff but I am still a full blown atheist. I had a few friends around here but I don't see them online tonight. So for those of you who don't know me send me a message and we can talk! I'm very friendly! most of the time anyway :)

mr. hope & change is saddened again,

as just a few weeks ago the nation mourned

the deaths of those blown away in a movie

theater,

now a skinhead takes out 6 in a Wisconsin

Sikh temple &

yet the refrain is the same---

not only will he not address the real issues at

hand,

he sends his little babbling bird, mr. carney,

out to do the dirty work,

telling us that it’s the gangs that kids are

joining, which…

never did like the southern accent,

no matter how gorgeous the lady was

whose mouth it was coming out of---

always had a preference for the

NYC toughness or the sophisticated-

car-commercial-intense

langue des Londoniens

&

to be truthful, it wasn’t the accent

but the christ that bubbled out from the

mouths of every individual he

encountered whilst sweltering in

the haze of Tennessee or

the stale…

Nothing and I mean nothing gets my blood boiling more than religious corporal punishment. I caught another installment of Anderson Coopers Ungodly Discipline segment on TV, I then watched more on youtube and learned about The Independent Fundamentalist Baptists or IFB. After listening to the stories from 'survivors' told and hearing about those who did not survive their godly punishment. After my initial rage I thought this: Why in America are these religious institutions or cults given so…

Where I live in the southeast, I rarely see black or Latino people in Starbucks. However, when I went to Atlanta recently, I walked into a Starbucks and I was the only white person there (including the employees). It made me wonder if minorities feel uncomfortable and awkward when they are the only person representing their race (whatever that term means, it's actually a biologically vague term).

What's way more uncomfortable for me is when I'm with a group of people and they all are…

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uncle sam took a moment to sit down

at the diner counter & shove a couple more

doughnuts down his gullet,

but don’t you worry,

now that Kofi Annan has thrown in the towel,

the big fucking bully of the world

is gonna get its way again---

this time,

Sec. Clinton will no doubt come rumbling out

bantering on about how Putin is the closest thing to

the christian imaginary boogeyman

whose name is just as long as his…

I was out as both an atheist and a bisexual while I worked at the Salvation Army, and had co-workers who were lesbian, heterosexual, Mennonite, Catholic, atheist -- all across the spectrum. We rarely talked religion in our time laughing, working, and hanging out together. Occasionally though, the volunteers I worked with would sheepishly ask me if I'd be willing to answer some questions they had about atheism. These were great conversations. I found that many of them were familiar with the…

Hello everyone i am a strong atheist and the bad thing is i live in the south(full of religious nut jobs).

I am surrounded my christians and all those very religious people and when I try to tell them im atheist they assume im satanic or im a bad person. i just need help on how to deal with people like this.

For awhile now ive been an atheist and when i tell people i am they think i am a horrible person. What i want to know is whats so bad about atheism? Of course my answer is nothing.

If people were more concerned with secular--HUMAN--values, people wouldn't stand in line to eat shitty fast food to show their support for OPPRESSING others in the name of religion. 

I don't understand how people can love something they can't see or prove more than they can love and care for what's right in front of them: other human beings... 

I wish we could live our lives for each other and not for what "happens when we die"...

The Devil Didn't Make Him Do It: Or, Why Atheists Can't Read

By Scott P. Richert, About.com GuideJuly 31, 2012

In "The Devil and James Holmes,…