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Get to know your YouTube atheists! Who am I missing that’s good? Richard Dawkins
Get to Know Your YouTube Atheists
A list of famous dead people who have rejected God and religion. These are people throughout history who have advocated living life without deference to a transcendent power. The list is in order of birth date. The purposes of this list are to combat the pervasive myth that atheists are terrible, immoral people and to convince the undecided that it is OK to be an atheist.
Famous Dead Nontheists
Watch Daniel Dennett’s ‘How to Tell You’re an Atheist’ speech
This past year at the Global Atheist Convention in Melbourne, famed American cognitive scientist, philosopher and atheist, Daniel Dennett, delivered a speech entitled “How to Tell You’re an Atheist.” Dennett, along with Richard Dawkins and the late Christopher Hitchens, might best be described as the Holy Trinity of atheism. Where Hitchens was a brilliant, militant and supremely eloquent orator, able to logically eviscerate believers left and right, and Dawkins was the scientist provocateur of the three, Dennett has been the more subtle tactician, combining the best of Hitchens and Dawkins without as much attention. Dennett looks rather like a hybrid of a college philosophy professor and Santa Claus dressed in business-casual attire, which works to his favor: his grandfatherly, non-confrontational approach might be better able to convince the faithful to entertain atheism than Dawkins and Hitchens’ militancy.
Losing faith « The Gospel According to the Romans
If which religion you follow is a matter of choice, then having any religion at all is also a matter of choice. You don’t have to have one. Breaking free – it’s just a choice What you choose to believe will be based on a combination of reason and emotion.
After my sister was born, my mom was told she couldn’t have any more kids. Six years later, I was her miracle. She always told me I wouldn’t be here if God hadn’t intervened. So I guess it’s kind of ironic that I no longer believe in God. The writer Christopher Hitchens passed away last week. In Vanity Fair he openly shared his struggle with cancer over the last year in his column.
Why I Stopped Believing in God - Lauren J Barnhart
logic « The Godless Paladin
I consider myself a very open minded person. If someone is able to present me with enough evidence in favor of their position I will believe them, even if it means I must admit the position I previously held was wrong. I get the feeling very few people are actually willing to do this. So what about god(s)?Yesterday, I found myself in a discussion about the anti-abortion people. The reason: It's just incomprehensible to us that people get so zealous about that issue that they'll go as far as to murder doctors who perform abortions and bomb abortion clinics. The conversation then took its natural turn to selective, self-serving interpretations of the Bible... finding a few verses that you can use to justify a position that lets you impose your morality on someone, and riding those verses hard and fast for the rest of your life. So I thought it'd be a good time to find a bunch of stuff that the Bible bans... stuff that's a lot LESS convenient.
11 Things The Bible Bans, But You Do Anyway
“Can’t You Atheists Keep Your Opinions To Yourselves?”—No I Cannot. | Reason Being
Reasons Why I am Vocal about my Atheism The other day I received an email asking me why I am so vocal in my atheist and general anti-religion commentary. It was a well meant email, in that it was not full of hate speech, religious rage, etc.
Bradyns Blog: Curve Ball #1 - Morality
Curve Ball For Christians Next time you're in a healthy discussion with a theist. Throw them this, and see how they react. [If they have children] Is there anything your child could do that would make you torture them forever? [If they don't have children] If, when you have children, Is there anything your child could do that would make you torture them forever? You probably see where i am going here.
Why Atheism?
Just about everyone is an atheist when it comes to other gods — the gods that other people believe in or that nobody believes in anymore. I’m an atheist about all gods because there's no reliable evidence for any god, or even for Jesus. There is also extensive evidence that Jesus and all gods are fictional characters — myths created mainly by primitive people who had little understanding of how our universe operates. We all like myths and other stories, but we don't have to believe them. Let’s start with a quick experiment. You can grab three coins and actually do the experiment, or just do a thought experiment.October 2002 Dr. Laura Schlessinger is a radio personality who dispenses advice to people who call in to her radio show.
Why Can't I Own a Canadian?
This February 24th (2013) is going to be a Day of Solidarity for Black Nonbelievers. For an explanation of what that means and how you can participate, read the great piece by its organizer, Kimberley Veal (writing as a guest on Greta Christina’s blog): “ Come Out and Join in .” I’d also love it if you scheduled yourself to throw some financial support to the educational charity drive run by our own Black Skeptics Los Angeles, who are providing scholarships to poor families sending their first generation to college: see Secular Community Steps Up for South L.A.