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Atheism

German Bishop blames atheists for Nazism

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 [...]

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E-Harmony: Atheists are Cheaters

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 [...]

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Rise of the Godless

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 [...]

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Atheists up, everyone else down

March 9, 2009

Nearly every religious group in America has lost members, but the number of atheists has increased in the last 20 years from 8 to 15 percent of the population (source):
So many Americans claim no religion at all (15%, up from 8% in 1990), that this category now outranks every other major U.S. religious group except [...]

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Evangelism 101 for Atheists

March 8, 2009

Here’s part one of an interesting series on how atheists can be effective evangelists by the Atheist Experience:

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Dole staffer explains Godless ad

March 5, 2009

Back in October of last year then senator of North Carolina Elizabeth Dole was behind in the polls and did what any Republican politician would do in her spot.  She went on the attack.
Her method of attack was to ‘expose’ the fact that she had caught her challenger Kay Hagan not just associating with atheists, [...]

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Obama’s talk is good, but his walk is crooked

March 4, 2009

Much ado was made about President Obama’s mentioning of non-believers in his inaugural speech, but now that the rubber has hit the road, Obama has decided to accept the title of Honorary President of the Boy Scouts:
Obama was meeting with a delegation of the Boy Scouts in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon, at which [...]

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Ray Comfort says atheists doctored video

February 26, 2009

Ray Comfort is still trying to harass Dawkins into either debating him or chewing his ass out.  And par for the course, Comfort has decided to lie. This time it’s about the banana video. Comfort is now stating that “atheists” doctored the video in order to misrepresent him and his argument:
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Who called dibs on “coward”?

February 25, 2009

Last Saturday I posted about Ray Comfort offering Richard Dawkins $10K to ‘debate’ him. Dawkins has since responded by saying that he would do it – if the banana king made a $100K donation to his foundation.
Comfort’s response to the counteroffer?  Why to claim that Dawkins is a coward as well as an embarrassment to [...]

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Lock up your Mastercard, the atheists are coming!

February 18, 2009

We atheists get accused of a lot of things. Usually it’s just the same tripe repeated over and over again ad nauseum.  Every now and then though a religious group has an original thought.  It’s a stupid thought, but it is original.
The religious group this time is the Free Market Foundation here in Texas. [...]

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