School started back for my fourth grader last week, and I was taken aback when he came home and told me about a little playground debate he had with his classmates about the existence or nonexistence of God.

My son knows that I'm an atheist, while his mother is a God believer. We've had several, mostly, civil debates about God and religion, but I have never forced my views upon my children. And besides taking them to church on occasion, my wife doesn't push her beliefs onto them…

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It's really too bad that when Christine O'Donnell and other God-believing nuts die, that they won’t finally get realize that there is no God, heaven, or afterlife.

I mean it's one thing for them to have their own private personal convictions,…

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I was just reading this article about how to hold a Twitter chat and I'm wonder if something like this already exist for the topic of atheism on Twitter? I think it would be an interesting extension of this site.

What do other think?

I have been slowly reading a good but challenging book titled Atheism Advanced. Though I am only up to chapter 4, it seems that the author is trying to argue that we atheists are not effectively debating religion because we're debating god believers on their own terms.



Eller took on the difficult challenge of arguing that religion is not a real entity, but he goes on to explain how the concepts of gods, supernatural ideas, and other belief systems have evolved over time, as if… Continue

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One of the arguments against gods and religion that I have been mulling over in my head for the last several months is the fact that we as human beings didn't ask to come here. I put this question to a believer yesterday who tried to warn me that if I don't repent, I would go to hell. She said if I ever told a lie or did anything against God's will, I'd be punished for eternity if I didn't repent. I had heard it all before, and I usually don't take the time to debate people who come up and try… Continue