by Karen on April 13, 2009
The bishop of Augsburg had a special message to share with his flock this past Sunday. It was atheists who were behind the killing machine known to the world as Nazi Germany.
From Spiegel Online:
A Catholic German bishop has come under fire for his remarks condemning atheists. In a sermon given on Easter Sunday, the bishop of Augsburg, Walter Mixa, warned of rising atheism in Germany. “Wherever God is denied or fought against, there people and their dignity will soon be denied and held in disregard,” he said in the sermon. He also said that “a society without God is hell on earth” and quoted the Russian author Fyodor Dostoyevsky: “If God does not exist, everything is permitted.”
Most controversially, he linked the Nazi and Communist crimes to atheism. “In the last century, the godless regimes of Nazism and Communism, with their penal camps, their secret police and their mass murder, proved in a terrible way the inhumanity of atheism in practice.” Christians and the Church were always the subject of “special persecution” under these systems, he said.
This isn’t the first time the bishop has caused a ruckus. He’s went after the Jews (ironic, yes?) by comparing what Nazi Germany did to them to abortion and Palestine. He also appears to like calling anyone who criticizes him Nazis.
by Karen on March 17, 2009
According to an E-Harmony advice piece, these are the people most likely to cheat on their significant others:
Those who crave excitement
Those who are not religious
Those who have a history of divorce, sexual abuse or such psychological problems as depression or bipolar disorder.
I bore pretty easily and happen to be an atheist on my second marriage with a history of abuse dating back to early childhood. Yet, I’ve somehow managed to never cheat on any of my partners over the years.
I have, however, about laughed myself silly at a man who swore his pastor had given him permission to cheat on his wife after I dropped his ass upon discovering he was married.
by Karen on March 12, 2009
We various kinds of nontheists have went and garnered some great attention by the National Journal.
We’re not just written about in it, but appear on the cover itself.
The Secular Coalition has the entire article in PDF over at it’s site and you should really go read it.
I especially liked how the author of the piece wrote about the civil rights aspect of godless organizing. As he points out, despite our size as a group discrimination against us is accepted as normal by a large swath of Americans.
