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Ingersoll: Crumbling Creeds…

From ROBERT INGERSOLL (1890) There is a desire in each brain to harmonize the knowledge that it has. If a man knows, or thinks he knows, a few facts, he will naturally use those facts for the purpose...

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Theocracy Watch: Bangladesh Bloggers Face Constant Death Threats Since...

From HuffPost Even though Rasel Parvez is out of prison, he isn’t out of danger. “They have pushed my life to a state in which I cannot walk free. I remain in self-confinement day after day, and my...

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9 Questions That Atheists Might Find Insulting (And the Answers)…

From AlterNet Some questions make atheists feel second-class — and make you look like a jerk for asking them. Asked of Hispanic-Americans: “Are you in this country legally?” Asked of gays and lesbians...

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My students are completely surprised to learn about Lilith, Adam’s first wife…

  From Teach Not Preach When I start my unit on Judaism I bring into the classroom my framed print of John Collier’s, Lilith. My students have no idea who she is, but many are familiar with Lilith...

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Native American Atheist…

From NOAH NEZ Native Skeptic Generally speaking, life on a Native American reservation isn’t easy. There are many hardships that are rarely mentioned in our society, which heavily impact the lives of...

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The Devil, Part Two…

From ROBERT INGERSOLL (1899) Part One here The Atlas of Christianity is the Devil The religion known as “Christianity” was invented by God himself to repair in part the wreck and ruin that had resulted...

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A Brief Letter to Richard Dawkins Regarding “Religion”…

From TENZAN EAGHIL Religion Bulletin Thanks to Ron Epstein Dear Richard Dawkins, Would you please, for the love of all things intellectual and academic, read a book on the study of religion, preferably...

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The Emptiness of Atheism…

  From ATHEIST REVOLUTION Atheism is an answer to a very specific question (i.e., the question of whether one believes in gods). As such, it tends to be a rather limited portion of what we might call a...

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What Has Atheism Done For Me?

From godlessindixie A friend once asked me whether or not my life is better now that I no longer believe in invisible spirits or the supernatural. My answer is that it’s a mixed bag. On the negative...

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What Atheists Wish Christians Knew About Them…

[For those of you who were not raised in Fundamentalist Christianity as I was, this may be completely irrelevant. But I was... and in recently discovering this gentleman's blog and video, I found...

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Humanism and its Aspirations…

Humanist Manifesto III, a successor to the Humanist Manifesto of 1933* Humanism is a progressive philosophy of life that, without supernaturalism, affirms our ability and responsibility to lead ethical...

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The Devil, Part Three…

From ROBERT INGERSOLL (1899) Parts | One | Two | Three | Take the Devil From the Drama of Christianity and the Plot is Gone. The next question is: Does the New Testament teach the existence of the...

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The Devil, Part Four…

From ROBERT INGERSOLL (1899) Parts | One | Two | Three | Four | Five | The Evidence of the Church All the fathers of the church believed in devils. All the saints won their crowns by overcoming devils....

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How Christian Myth Overinflates the Religious Right’s Sense of Self Importance…

From PoliticusUSA We have been seeing a lot lately of the fundamentalist Christian self-identity of being a persecuted minority despite their own religion’s long history of persecuting every...

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Texas Governor Dumber Misconstrues Religious Liberty…

From ROB BOSTON Wall of Separation Whenever I hear someone – especially a politician – say that the First Amendment protects freedom of religion, not freedom from religion, I just want to start...

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The Devil, Part Five…

From ROBERT INGERSOLL (1899) Parts | One | Two | Three | Four | Five | Personifications of Evil The Orthodox Ostrich Thrusts His Head into The Sand. Many of the clergy are now ashamed to say that they...

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Religion: Not Just Parishioners Are Running Away…

From CEPHUS Bitchspot I post a lot about how badly religion is in decline worldwide, how much the Southern Baptists are hurting for members, how Catholic private schools are closing because nobody...

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Religion: Happy Atheists — A Thorn for Believers…

From The A-Unicordist I saw this comment on a rather insipid blog in which the author suggested that God gave Christopher Hitchens cancer to humble him into conversion: “The very existence of...

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Religion: After Nearly Being Killed for His Atheism, Bangladeshi Blogger...

Asif Mohiuddin From HEMANT MEHTA Patheos Earlier this year, I posted about Asif Mohiuddin, a 29-year-old Bangladeshi man who was attacked for blogging about his atheism. Of course, this being...

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Religion: Atheists unveil monument in Florida and promise to build 50 more…

From DAVID FERGUSON The Raw Story At the unveiling of the first-ever atheist monument erected on government public property Saturday, the organization American Atheists announced that they plan to...

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