There was a meeting of the Chicago Latino Atheistsa couple of weeks ago.

As usual, there were a few new people. Martha was not able to make it. Jose was there. Jaime was there. Unfortunately, Jaime’s wife was not there. We needed La Acha there, because Francisco was there. We started with introductions, and it felt like…

Post Exile Jerusalem

Ezra 1:1 to 9:1



1:1 During the very first year under the rule of King Cyrus, the new king of Persia, the Jews enslaved in Babylon got some excellent news. The king posted a written public notice that read as follows: …

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11830-what-bullies-can-teach-our-kids-and-us

Netanfuckingnutstanyahu

drawing his

red line on

a cartoon bomb

in front of the UN,

in front of the world,

in front of your very

eyes, if you

give a shit at all &

he will not stop the

settlements & he will

not stop strangling the

last bits of life out of

Gaza & he will not

pause for even a moment’s

breath from beating

on the war drum,

with the neck…

And Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram the sons of Eliab, and they said, “We will not come up. Is it a small thing that you have brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that you must also make yourself a prince over us? Moreover, you have not brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, nor given us inheritance of fields and vineyards. Will you put our the eyes of these men? We will not come up.” – Numbers…

 (not Cori Withell)

A row has erupted over a priest banning yoga from a church hall because the class was “not compatible” with the Catholic faith.

Has anyone else seen or heard about this..?

By LiveScience Staff

Well, I am feeling particularly atheist today, so i wanted to give an argument to any theists (christians) who always say, 

“Albert Einstein believed in God. Do you think you’re more clever than him?”

Hmmm..“Albert Einstein believed in God. Do you think you’re more clever than him?”

Einstein did once comment that “God does not play dice [with the universe].” This quotation is commonly mentioned to show that Einstein believed in the Christian God. Used this way, it is out…

• RELIGION
• SEPTEMBER 25, 2012
• BY: HUGH KRAMER

The Long Beach Book and General Geekery Club…

From The River War:

How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life…

“The United Nations

Development Fund for Women

estimates that at least

one of every three women globally

will be beaten, raped or otherwise

abused during her lifetime.^”

-futureswithoutviolence.org

1 billion women &

men who feel that

violence against women

across the world has to end

will go on strike

this coming

February 14^th,…

I've wanted to put together a list of all those nasty theories that get in the way of divine/religious dogma. But I didn't think until now of a place (here) to start such a list.

I happen to think that the "theory of gravity" is a bad example, because I don't know of any people present or past who preached or taught something against a theory of gravity. It's the blatant, anti-science preaching/teaching (e.g. Creationism) that I'm more concerned with.

List theories…

I don't like to ridicule people. Well, not unless they ridicule, first. I try to avoid it because it's rarely productive, except maybe when it's like preaching that excites the choir. Sometimes Ben Stein's angry preaching gets me excited.

Here's an outtake of his latest writing for The American Spectator. If it sounds like I'm taking it out of context,…

Christianity, context and moral relativism.

For this argument I am not claiming that moral relativism is a good or bad thing (its all relative XD) but Christian apologists frequently claim that is an atheist/humanist concept and inferior to an absolute morality that comes from the word of God?

However, Christians also frequently claim that atheists take the actions of the Christian god out of context when we criticize his advocacy of slavery, rape, child sex abuse and genocide…

imagine if all your heroes,

all your idols, all your

“spiritual leaders,” who

have supposedly written books

(or had books written for them/

by them), whose “lives” have

been depicted as such by those

who never lived when they lived,

who never saw what these

people were supposed to look like,

who tell us that they themselves

never had even an iota of

ulterior motive

in the making of these…

Have been compiling the list of ideas to make the world a better place. Here are some of them 

• Result oriented education give people freedom to learn what they want, double down on teaching how to…

If there was real separation of church and state there would be: 

1. No crosses on public roads and public highways
2. No "In God We Trust" on the currency
3. No "Under God" in pledge of allegiance
4. No "Acts of God" in the books of law
5. No taking oath to public office in name of god, or on the bible
6. No adding of god to the party agendas
7. No "In God We Trust" license plates issued for free on tax payers dime
8. No laws banning…

The Fall of Jerusalem

Second Kings 8:1 to 24:1



8:1 The woman whose son Elisha had revived from illness was sent by that holy man to Philistinia to survive a famine. She eventually returned and the king was nice enough to give her back the land he had taken from her earlier. Things…

Prior to science, superstition conquered. Aristotle believed that objects in motion slowed because they simply became "tired." God was reason for all, and all was reason for God.

Due to brilliant minds we have emerged from these opaque ages of knowledge. Newton enlightened us with mathematical logic in the 17th century. He also enlightened us with knowledge of optics,…