Bill Nye Video Riles Creationists
Really? Are we having this discussion?
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Atheists Ignore Islamophobia at their Peril
There’s been a lot of talk in the American atheist movement about social justice, but why doesn’t it include justice for religious minorities like Muslims and Sikhs?
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The Faith that Faith Produced
“I was washing dishes in the kitchen when I stopped believing in God. Years later, I’m often unsettled at how much of my life I’d spent in that kitchen and how little of it I can recall, except for that one moment. Overwhelmed by constant desperation, I turned suddenly courageous, pondered what might happen if He didn’t exist, decided that He didn’t, and then He was gone. I think the rapid departure hit me the hardest. How had I been so easily taken in?”
—An excerpt from Haroon Moghul’s essay in All American: 45 American Men on Being Muslim
Is the Internet the End of Religion?
Dawkins and Dennett hold a “conversation” on the evolution of religion.
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Can Atheist Billboards Kill Religion?
Billboards, rallies, biting commentary—all this is meant to deconstruct the cultural worlds framing sacred texts and ideas, and to do deep damage to the stronghold religion has on life in the United States. I’m in favor of billboards, as well as other organized efforts to advance progressive values and life-affirming ethics. Why should theists alone be allowed to present their ideas in grand ways? The anger coming from theists when confronted with the absurdity behind some of their own faith commitments shouldn’t silence non-theists, and it doesn’t require special handling by public figures.
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Does Analytic Thinking Erode Religious Belief?
If three wacky experiments and a host of assumptions makes it so.
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‘Religious Freedom’ for Atheists
A state that attempts to use the force of law to stop blasphemy must select certain identities for protection to the exclusion of others.
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‘Heretics’ or ‘Atheists’? A Response
Should nonbelievers adopt a new label or take it back from the orthodox in their ranks?
Read MoreReligion for Atheists for The Rest of Us
I was excited to read Religion for Atheists—really I was. Here’s a confessed atheist, pop philosopher Alain de Botton, who nonetheless actually believes that religion is worth looking at, unlike his more militant friends in the New Atheist camp. .
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Coming Out As a Heretic
For folks who are unorthodox but aren’t atheists, who care about metaphysics but who aren’t mystics, perhaps the good old-fashioned term “heretic” will satisfy.
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