atheism

Hi all, At the risk of opening Pandora's Box, I have a high level question to put to you all. I am an atheist, and recently got a tattoo of a scarlet "A" to signify said atheism. A friend commented that she thought it was ill-advised to get a tattoo that signified atheism, as that was "a...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/25/atheists-please-read-heathen-manifesto I've read the rules and agree almost entirely with all of them. I also like the idea of reclaiming the word heathen (I've never liked 'bright') so from now on that's how I'll be describing myself.

Just finished God No! by Penn Jillette. Honestly I liked it but was a little disappointed. Penn tends to be self effacing to the point of annoyance. It comes off as narcisissistic when he name drops (which he chastises the Amazing Kresken for doing late in the book). Also, the book is set up...

OK, so Santorum made another outrageous fundamentalist claim: Colleges are turning theists into atheists: Rick Santorum Sounds 'Indoctrination' Warning Over Obama College Plan So I figured this was not his original idea and it was likely to be bouncing around Evangelical and other...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17112688 It seems that way to me. Makes me :mad: :mad: :(

How do you define "Atheist"? This may be a very educational thread.

GO7NYtZzX2Q Start to watch from 4:30. This guy should run as a third candidate!:D

If you are an atheist who is not sure whether or not there is a DEITY then you think it is possible for some form of God to exist even though you reject all the constructs currently available to humanity. If you also reject that final GAP for some sort of god.....what reasoning made you do so...

First of all: let me apologize for any mistakes I made in grammar or style (English is not my first language). The traditional atheistic worldview regarding personal identity: YOU are a distinct person. There might be some (unknown) unique property that constitutes YOU and clearly distinguishes...

My atheist journey still brings me to astonishing new things. I'd assumed primitive people were, by default, superstitious (religious, spiritual, whatever you want to call it). The Pirahã of the Amazon seem to live completely without imaginary friends, and for all intents and purposes appear...

My parents are fundamental Christians, my father being a retired minister. I was brought up the same and was "born again" in my teens. I slowly (and reluctantly) realised that it was all bunkem in my mid twenties. I am now 36 and would classify myself as a staunch atheist. My parents do not...

I have located a comprehensive resource which indexes and lists YouTube videos useful for several skeptical topics: Science and critical thinking How cosmological and biological evolution work The problems with creationism and intelligent design What the Bible and other religious scriptures...

Justinian2 has expressed his interest in a thread in which atheists explain what atheism means to them. So here it is. I do intend to participate when I have more time.

In another thread I asked why one Republican candidate would believe a Secular and Atheistic America would be dominated by Islamic radicals. And the opinion was eventually put forth that atheists do it unwittingly or as part of a desire to be anti-Christian. So what do you think? Have you ever...

Back a bit Newt gave a talk where he alleged that secular Americans were actively trying to let Muslim terrorists win and take over the USA. At the time he wasn't even running for President so no one much took it up with him at the time. But now he is running for President and since the...

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/story/2011-12-10/religion-atheism/51777612/1

Small sample sizes for sure, but still. http://life.nationalpost.com/2011/11/30/religious-people-do-not-believe-in-atheists-study/ Well, DUH. Religion is morality, and without religious belief, you're basically just a rapist. :rolleyes:

Congressional hate for atheism: Isn't it ironic that they claim that atheism is barbaric when they spew this kind of hateful rhetoric, especially when it's kept permanently in the congressional records. Quote, article, and video. I've read in other threads here that atheists have no respect for...

The San Antonio Express-News published this article in the Saturday, October 29, "Religion and Spirituality" section: "Faith is just another illusion to magician." Featuring Penn Jillette, it discusses how magicians are often led to skepticism and atheism by studying their craft. There is also...

I have spent half my week end on youtube looking for video on critical thinking. And then it hits me like a ton of bricks : all the video I was watching were from atheist or skeptic ! I tried to search more but found none. This is surprising to me. I would have expected a lot more video from...

Spiritualists and Materialists I still do not know what can be done to eliminate endless conflicts between materialists and spiritualists. But comments collected at several websites prompted me to compose a short on-line paper at: http://pages.csam.montclair.edu/~kowalski/theo_sci.html It...

If there's no god and there's no rules or consequences to life what does it matter what you do in life? If good and bad are merely subjective terms why don't Atheists do whatever they want whenever they want? Do Atheists live by morals and ethics they have inherited from Theists? In...

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I'm back, for a short time anyway, and surprise, surprise, I'm talking about Norman Geisler and Frank Turek's book "I Don't Have Enough Faith to be an Atheist". That is the book I mention in my New Testament Evidence thread in the History forum and in the Materialism thread now in the Religion...

As the Grand Archdruid of the Ancient Order of Druids in America, John Michael Greer says, Source Given this piece of reality, can atheism truly be societal productive, and if not, should we not discourage it's proliferation and encourage a return to spirituality instead?

Atheists are right-- there is no scientific proof of God. But they forget that Theology is outside of the realm of Science. Science doesn't tell us what is moral, or ethical, or anything else that may happen to be outside the realm of what science is capable of telling us. Science is a...

An atheist I know said recently, "people who volunteer for service in armed forces are too stupid to be atheists anyway". Sounds like a myth I've heard somewhere. :oldroll: It was in a thread about the US army teaching "spiritual fitness" to its forces. I know of a number of "atheists in...

Vincent Bugliosi wrote an article recently for the Huffington Post. Here's what caught my attention: I could be wrong, doesn't it seem like Bugliosi is misrepresenting atheists here?

I searched, to the best of my limited ability and the limited tools of the Forums, for this topic and was astonished not to fiind a discussion on one of the most important books ever printed on the philosophy of science: "What We Believe But Cannot Prove; Today's Leading Thinkers on Science in...

http://redd.it/hed7y PZ's take on this: http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/05/standard_small_town_saga.php The graduation is tonight. Here's an update from the student's brother: http://www.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/hed7y/threatened_to_contact_aclu_for_prayer_at/c1uut0n