Of course, science is not the enemy of religious faith. Sanity is. (ichbindaswortistich)

Over the ages, all religious pretensions, regardless of the respective faith of which they may have originated, have been disproved beyond any reasonable doubt. The earth is not flat but a sphere. The earth revolves about the sun, not vice versa. The earth is not the centre of the universe but a tiny planet in only one of myriads…

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Warning: Most of these links contain material considered in some places to be unsuitable for children.

Well, admittedly I was not expecting to make a sequel to my original post, but this story that…

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first of all, im new at this, i have never worked a blog before so, i really dont know how this works, sorry in advance.

i have some trouble trying to help people understand my reasons for being an atheist, i try and try to explain it with scientific facts, books, writers, just to let them know that its not a whim or an intempt to be different as i've been told many times! but people dont even try to comprehend, its not easy to be an atheist when everyone else thinks you are joking!…

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is the genetic fallacy necessarily still a fallacy when it comes to religious belief anymore?

 

is it about time to recognize that mitochondria are bacteria? (…

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I am an atheist, and that's it. I am the atheist. If you are also an atheist, awesome. If you are not, well that's cool too. I may think that religion is false, but that was my choice to make. Everyone has their own choice, and if you want to choose religion, I may not agree, but I can't complain that you made your own choice. I try to be nice about it. When in an argument with a theist, I try may hardest to not insult them, but to simply tell them…

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Is Civility Dead?

by Natalie Pompilio



I live in a city known for its brotherly love, but I didn’t see a lot of that one recent day while reading an on-line edition of the newspaper where I work. The public comment section contained some of the coldest, most vicious writing I’d ever seen.



Under an article about a woman’s murder and her boyfriend’s arrest, some one wrote, “So 2 pieces of trash are off the street…

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An old friend from HS and have gotten into a bit a message convo on FB. She had posted a Bible verse and I commented on it and this is the exchange between us.

Her: Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

Me: " Proverbs 31:3 Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyed kings."

So your saying then that God wants women to be weak, unpleasing in personality, ugly…

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While browsing ThinkAtheist, I encountered a blog post that called my attention; it was this one, called "Billy Mays... Dead. Four "Celebrities" in a week WTF". While the post itself had nothing wrong in it, the comments seemed more controversial, including jokes about Billy Mays that I considered to be bad tasted. Reggie Hammond replied: "Respect the dead? Why? Will they haunt me? No,… Continue