Atheism

Atheism

A community portal about Atheism with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Atheism is the state of disbelief or non-belief in the existence of a deity or deities. It is commonly defined as the positive denial of theism... [more]

A community portal about Atheism with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Atheism is the state of disbelief or non-belief in the existence of a deity or deities. It is commonly defined as the positive denial of theism, or the deliberate rejection of theism. However, others—including most atheistic philosophers and groups—define atheism as the simple absence of belief in deities , thereby designating many agnostics, and people who have never heard of gods, such as the unchurched or newborn children, as atheists as well. In recent years, some atheists have adopted the terms strong and weak atheism to clarify whether they consider their stance one of positive belief that no gods exist, or of mere absense of belief that gods exist.

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The Skeptical Attitude in Atheism

From:  atheistrev.com
Image by Colin Purrington via Flickr This is the second post in a multi-part series. The first part was " The Skeptical Attitude in Science ." If I was pushed to give only one reason why I am an atheist, the reason I would give would indeed reflect the skeptical attitude: There is insufficient evidence to support the theistic claim that god(s) exist. Believing such an extraordinary claim without sufficient evidence would be undeniably irrational. Thus, reasoned skepticism leads - at least in... Read Full Story

Atheism in the USA

From:  atheistrev.com
A recently released report from the American Religious Identification Survey (ARIS) continues to be big news across the atheist blogosphere (see .pdf file of the report ). Considering that the report suggests that the number of Americans who report no religious affiliation or preference is increasing, interest in the report is no surprise. It also appears that Christianity is experiencing a period of decline. Granted, when one starts from a position of near absolute dominance, even a... Read Full Story

Deficient Dipshit Dinesh D’souza Disses Dawkins, Dennett

This is a repost from Happy Jihad’s House of Pancakes Insignificant barf-belch and former White House policy analyst Dinesh D’Sousa continues to rail against my people. No, not the Polish—the atheists. He’s promoting a shitty book that I won’t name here. Nothing I have read about it suggests that it raises a single new issue, but somehow the conservative blogosphere thinks it is some sort of marvelous work of staggering genius. Of course, conservatives don’t score points by being... Read Full Story

PZ Myers is a Frackin' Genius!

From:  atheistrev.com
Image via Wikipedia Most of us have good ideas from time to time, but truly great ideas are rare. That is what makes them so influential. PZ Myers ( Pharyngula ) deserves credit for his latest great idea. He has provided atheist bloggers with the best idea I've ever heard for dealing with Christian trolls who annoy our readers: Christian Troll Survivor ! After identifying several Christian trolls on his blog, PZ plans to let readers vote them of the blog one-by-one. Naturally, an immunity... Read Full Story

Religion is Just Another Superstition

From:  atheistrev.com
Image via Wikipedia You may not have even noticed, but today is Friday the 13th . Despite the fact that it is 2009 and not 1809, there are still people around who treat this date as if it is somehow different from any other day. They regard the number 13 as unlucky and seek to avoid it. We call this "superstition," and we are right to do so. But even in 2009, atheist blogs and books by atheist authors are among the few places where one can expect to see the same label applied to religious... Read Full Story

Promoting Atheism on Facebook

From:  atheistrev.com
Image via Wikipedia I am posting the following announcement at the request of a reader, Neil. He is organizing a Facebook event this Friday (March 20, 2009), "I am an Atheist." It seems like it might be an effective way to do some consciousness raising for those who are open abut their atheism on Facebook. I'll just let him tell you about it: This virtual event is titled "I am an Atheist", and it's goal is to function as a sort of online "Pride Day" for nonbelievers. All day on March 20th... Read Full Story

Atheism, atheists and false religion.

Christian: to be more precise, only false religions promote discrimination... A religion guided by the HolySpirit will never hone discrimination to sinners but to sin alone. In our religion, once a believer/follower committed a sin, he should ask for penance/reconciliation. If not, the sin is still taking hold of his spirit, therefore making him miles apart from the ever-merciful God. John the Atheist: The word "religion" is too vague . Are you talking about Christianity, since Christianity... Read Full Story

Metro State Atheists: Making noise, making a difference in Denver

Metro State Atheists: Making noise, making a difference in Denver by Joel Guttormson , Metro State Atheists at MSCD Many things happen during a college semester: mid-terms, finals, work and…activism?  Yes, activism!  That is the case for us, Metro State Atheists (MSA), an affiliate of the Center for Inquiry.  Besides the classes, work, and other academic responsibilities that we endure, we participated in some secular activist activity that put me in the spotlight both locally and... Read Full Story

Giving Tumblr a Try

From:  msatheists.org
Image by _Hadock_ via Flickr I am in the process of creating a new tumblog ( Tumblr page) called Atheist in Mississippi as a way of raising awareness that there are in fact atheists in Mississippi. I am still not 100% sure what I am going to do with it, but it seems like a good way to promote blogs and other material addressing atheism or by atheists in our state. It may morph into something else as I learn Tumblr's capabilities and limitations. Anyway, you are invited to check it out and... Read Full Story

Joe Nickell-December 3rd at Auraria Campus!

Posted in atheism, Christianity, god, Paranormal, Pseudoscience, science, Skepticism, UCD Atheists Tagged: atheism, Atheist, Atheists, Auraria Campus, Center For Inquiry, Center for Inquiry On-Campus, CFI, Crypto Science, Crypto Science Society, god, Joe Nickell, Joel Guttormson, MSCD, Paranormal, UCD Atheists Read Full Story
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