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Guest poster Libby is a Tacoma Atheists member. I grew up in an extremely religious home, attended an ultra conservative school and college, worked in the ministry for several years, and now I’m an atheist. Why? I hear this question from almost every person who find out that I no longer believe like I used [...]
From Greta Cristina’s blog: What evidence do religious believers have for their beliefs? And when they’re asked what evidence they have, how do believers respond? In my conversations with religious believers, I’ll often ask, “Why do you think God or the supernatural exists? What makes you think this is true? What evidence do you have [...]
From the Naked Pastor who poses some interesting questions about unity. Do I truly believe that everyone has the right to their own beliefs or lack thereof? Can I respect the person, even though I may not respect their ideas? Do I have the capacity to recognize my own fallacies? Will it kill me if [...]
From his Chicago Sun-Times blog: New Age beliefs are the Creationism of the Progressives. I move in circles where most people would find it absurd to believe that humans didn’t evolve from prehistoric ancestors, yet many of these same people quite happily believe in astrology, psychics, reincarnation, the Tarot deck, the i Ching, and sooth-saying. [...]
From Killing the Buddha: That said… the evangelical/fundamentalists—and hence, from the early 1980s until the election of President Obama in 2008, the Religious Right as it informed U.S. policy through the then dominant Republican Party—are in the grip of an apocalyptic Rapture cult centered on revenge and vindication. This End Times death wish is built [...]
I sometimes wonder what goes through the heads of some op-ed page editors of major newspapers. The LA Times has blown my mind a couple of times, running Charlotte Allen’s horrifically bad anti-atheist bigotry bonanza and then weirdly defending it. TheWashington Post thought Sarah Palin’s treatise on energy policy was something worth the time and neurons to read it [...]
From Unreasonable Faith: A Guide for Doubting Theists Shortly after I became a Christian, I saw a book about Jesus at the library. I couldn’t get enough of Jesus, so I brought it home and began reading. Excitement turned to horror as I realized it was arguing there was hardly any evidence that Jesus even [...]
Hemant, over at the Friendly Atheist, has done some great social networking research on this topic, for all the dudes out there who can’t seem to find a fellow atheist lady to pal around with. He says: 1. Know where to look 2. Try the dating websites 3. Be social. But don’t pounce 4. Looking [...]
This is just brilliant. Some questions are less well-thought out than others (it’ll make you look uninformed to ask them), while others adeptly point out how ridiculous it is. 1. Explain why your god’s only son had to die so we can go to magic happy land when we croak. 4. Explain why your sect (whether [...]
In some black communities it’s akin to donning a white sheet and a Confederate flag. In others, it’s ostensibly tolerated yet whispered about, branded culturally incorrect and bad form, if not outright sacrilege. For black atheists like myself, proclaiming one’s non-belief amidst genial wishes to “have a blessed day” is never easy in the seemingly [...]