Here’s some statistics about atheists to brighten your day:
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I got a nice surprise this morning. Judith Hayes has reopened her site after being absent these last couple of years and will once again be writing her excellent columns. You can check out some of her older columns here .
An excerpt from her new column “What’s Your Favorite Bible Verse“:
… we are definitely heading toward a theocracy—a Protestant, Christian one naturally. If I’m wrong about that, how can the above quotes exist?
Making it all the more ominous is the fact that Mike Huckabee won in the Iowa Caucus.
The numbers are frightening because of what Huckabee stands for. To say he’s a Christian fundamentalist is not news. Evangelical? Same. Insane? Possibly. When you read the following keep in mind that as a citizen Huckabee certainly has the right to believe anything he wants to believe. But to think that so many American citizens believe that a man with his brand of faith should be the Leader of the Free World is astonishing and scary.
Read the rest over at Judith’s place.
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I’ve been an “out” atheist since I was a teenager when I was put on the spot about the truthfulness of the Bible. Having grown up in the backwater areas of the United States the only other atheists I knew were my brothers and my dad. I was in my early twenties and half way around the world before I met another atheist.
I’ve met other atheists (real life, not online) since then, but the pendulum remained squarely on the theistic side for the most part. Then September 11, 2001 rolled around and Muslim extremists finally succeeded in their attempts to bring the World Trade Center down. Since then atheists have been coming out of the wood work, especially here in America.
Sam Harris’s The End of Faith, published in August of 2005, became a rallying point and a best seller. Before long he was joined by others and in what seems like a blink of an eye, the atheist movement had arrived and has been growing ever since.
I, for one, am sick of the movement. It seems to me that it is populated by assholes. No, I am not talking about Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins or the other horsemen. I’m talking about the people who’ve decided that there are two kinds of atheists. The “good” kind of atheist they just happen to be and everybody else.
The ‘everybody else’ group is populated by atheists the “good” atheists have deemed unacceptable for a variety of reasons. They’re described as hostile, irrational, unreasonable, dogmatic, ignorant, “just like the [favorite disliked group of theists]” and so on and so forth.
In the real world, such shit is, at the very least, extremely rude, but in the “movement” this good vs. bad atheist mentality is the golden rule. Why? Because I’ve gotten several comments/emails about how “atheist whoever” and/or “atheistic whatever” is an affront to the “movement”.
I expect this from theists as it’s the old ‘divide & conquer’ tactic and dismiss it on the spot. With other atheists though, I’ve decided to see where this comes from and it’s my firm opinion that the problem is the “movement”.
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