Why should we believe in God? Because God said so? What if God doesn't exist? What shall we believe in then?
This is a place to promote the vision of a humanist society. A society that places the value of all human life as...
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Why should we believe in God? Because God said so? What if God doesn't exist? What shall we believe in then?
This is a place to promote the vision of a humanist society. A society that places the value of all human life as the central value and concern, higher than money or institutions. A society that promotes non-violence as the only way to achieve results, fighting discrimination in all its forms; racism, sexism, ageism, homophobia, etc. A society that encourages the continuous development and free distribution of human knowledge and allows freedom of beliefs and ideas
Today’s article was written by Luis Dias, a blog subscriber.
Christians and other religious people often use the moral argument not only as evidence of a deity, but also as a philosophical weapon against atheism, and the argument, though never made explicit, implicitly goes as follows:
God is...
Several months ago, I started reading Sam Norton's blog because he promised he would show that, contrary to what most freethinkers would expect, Christianity is rational while atheism is not only irrational but harmful. A great deal of verbiage later, I finally managed to find what Rev. Sam...
CBS Outdoor: Keep Atheism Away from Schools, Churches
Advertising companies that rent space on billboards may often have rules about not allowing certain ads (like those promoting alcohol) in the vicinity of schools. Who knew, though, that education about atheism, freethought, and church-state...
See, there's your problem, George: "I see atheism as a subjective judgment of the kind "there is no God".
Atheism is the lack of belief in god(s). The strong atheist will declare there is no god(s), but I've met very few of those. Most of us are weak atheists, FYI.
So there's the definition of...
Rev. Samuel Krouse, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Colusa, California, has written a revealing article on the "new atheism." In it, he acknowledges several pivotal points long denied by most religious leaders and apologists:
Atheism is far more predominant among the intellectual elite...
I've often been envious of Canadians, and this gives me another reason to do so. According to this article in the Guelph Mercury about Christopher diCarlo, Statistics Canada reports that atheism is now the second-largest belief system (after Catholicism) in Canada. Evidently, the percent of...
Hats off to the blogger in charge of Heresy Corner for injecting a bit of common sense into the row over Birmingham City Council's new web filter, which was last week reported to be blocking websites associated with atheism. Digging deeper into the story, the blogger points out that sites were...
What is the definition of atheism? How do atheists define atheism? How do dictionaries define atheism? A common theme throughout the definitions here is the primary use of 'disbelieve' when defining atheism.
To retain the will to live, I’ve bunched up the alphabetical-order challenged members of the Atheist Blogroll all in one final burst of links.
Sorry if your blog is called “Zeebedee’s Journal.” This blog, starting as it does with an unappealing W, feels your pain.
P! PA Nonbelievers...
YouTube - Magical Atheism >> Posted by: Mutainia 3 minutes ago 1.0 Scale of 1 to 10 Read: 3 Propped: 1 Prop it A Creationist puts on a video called "Magical Atheism", then questions atheists who try to defend ...
This month's issue of Psychology Today has an interesting piece that reminded me of everybody's dear friend, Vox Day. He asserts in his blog and his book on many occasions that atheists are more likely to suffer from what he terms "social autism"--disorders such as Asperger's Syndrome or mild...
In my last entry, I discussed a pair of destructive amendments to the state constitution on the November ballot here in Florida. This morning I heard some good news: the Florida Supreme Court has removed three education-related amendments to the state constitution, including one that I mentioned...