Atheism

Carnival Alerts – Oct

by Karen on October 6, 2008

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Just a quick hit to let ya know that the 26th Humanist Symposium is up at Terahertz and that the 101st Carnival of the Godless is up at The Lay Scientist.

The 96th Skeptics Circle is also up at EndCycle and the 74th Carnival of the Liberals is up at XXBN as well.

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Motivational poster for Atheists

by Karen on April 8, 2008

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If you liked that one, here’s one on faith, gravity and Jesus. Others can be found here.

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Atheist father sues Catholic mother

by Karen on April 7, 2008

Here’s something to chew on. An atheist man has sued his Catholic ex-wife. At issue is the school their 14 year old son will attend. Mom and the son have chosen a Catholic school, but Dad wants him to attend a public school:

As a practicing Catholic whose eighth-grade son, Michael, has always attended parochial schools, Susan Bisig says it would be best for him to attend St. Xavier High School.

The 144-year-old Catholic secondary school also happens to be Michael’s first choice.

But Bisig’s ex-husband, David Ryan, an atheist who has joint custody of their 14-year-old son, wants Michael to attend a nonreligious high school.

And he says the Kentucky Constitution is on his side because it says no one shall be “compelled to send his child to any school to which he may be conscientiously opposed.”

The battle between Ryan and Bisig, both commercial pilots, has landed in Oldham County Family Court, where Judge Tim Feeley has said he will decide within the next couple of weeks where 14-year-old Michael Ryan will attend high school next year.

Whichever parent wins will pay Michael’s tuition, Feeley said.

As the mother of a five year old, I’m quite grateful her father and my husband is also an atheist. I can’t see either of us ever converting to any religious belief short of a lobotomy so I doubt we’ll ever have to walk that tightrope.

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The best damned statement by an atheist ever

January 15, 2008

There are 49 more over at Left of Zen, but here’s the best of the best if I may be so bold: If we go back to the beginning, we shall find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that fancy, enthusiasm, or deceit adorned them; that weakness worships them; that credulity preserves them and [...]

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Carnival Alerts – June

June 10, 2007

Some reading for your Sunday afternoon: The Humanist Symposium at Black Sun Journal The Carnival of the Godless at Action Skeptics The Skeptics Circle at Polite Company The Carnival of Feminists at Laurelin in the Rain The Carnival of the Liberals at Doc Biobrain’s That should keep you busy for a bit.

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Kids of atheists flunk obedience school

May 7, 2007

A new study is out and purports that religion is good for children because, amongst other things, it tends to make them bark on command. On the other hand, it was discovered that children raised without the threat of eternal damnation for failing to bark on command tended to have perfected their eye rolling technique [...]

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Carnival Alerts – April

April 29, 2007

The first issue of The Humanist Symposium is up at Daylight Atheism. I haven’t had time to read much as I’m preoccupied with restoring posts here, but from what I have read – it looks like this is going to be a great carnival. I’ll be hosting it in early September and will post more [...]

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Answering the questions

April 8, 2007

I hear the HNN wants to know what we less-than-polite atheists should be called due to Epstein’s power play. My answers: Do you think it’s OK to refer to certain atheists as being atheist fundamentalists? No, I don’t. The use of this word in this context is wrong. It is not an epithet and anyone [...]

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Raising Kids without Religion

March 20, 2007

As a parent from a fundamentalist background where everything came to be centered around and explained by God, I am really looking forward to the release of Parenting Beyond Belief. It’s the first of it’s kind to specifically address us godfree parents and is a collection of essays from a variety of people. I am [...]

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Won’t do that again

August 24, 2006

Know what happens when you install a Microsoft beta under “what could happen” thinking? I’ll tell you. Your computer won’t reboot properly after a crash, forcing you to reinstall the OS just to find out you can’t activate it and the support folks don’t know what the f’ went wrong. So, you have to find [...]

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