Caesars Messiah - The roman Conspiracy to invent Jesus. Bill Nye Debates Ken Ham - HD. Why Can't You Leave Religion Alone? The Meming of Life » Santa Claus — the ultimate dry run Parenting Beyond Belief on secular parenting and other natural wonders. The annual reposting of my take on Santa, which first appeared in Parenting Beyond Belief.
This year is our first fully Santa-less Krismas, as Delaney declared her akringlism in February (described here). IT’S HARD TO even consider the possibility that Santa isn’t real. Everyone seems to believe he is. As a kid, I heard his name in songs and stories and saw him in movies with very high production values. My mom and dad seemed to believe, batted down my doubts, told me he wanted me to be good and that he always knew if I wasn’t. Now go back and read that paragraph again, changing the ninth word from Santa to God. Santa Claus, my secular friends, is the greatest gift a rational worldview ever had. I’ll admit to having stumbled backward into the issue as a parent. But as our son Connor began to exhibit the incipient inklings of Kringledoubt, it occurred to me that something powerful was going on. “Gee,” the child can say to either of them.
I for one chose door number three. The Best Questions For A First Date. First dates are awkward.
There is so much you want to know about the person across the table from you, and yet so little you can directly ask. This post is our attempt to end the mystery. We took OkCupid's database of 275,294 match questions—probably the biggest collection of relationship concerns on earth—and the 776 million answers people have given us, and we asked: Love, sex, a soulmate, an argument, whatever you're looking for, we'll show you the polite questions to find it. We hope they'll be useful to you in the real world. First—define "easy to bring up" Before we could go looking for correlations to deeper stuff, our first task was to decide which questions were even first-date appropriate. Secular Parenting. BibViz Project - Bible Contradictions, Misogyny, Violence, Inaccuracies. What Percentage of Prisoners are Atheists? It’s a Lot Smaller Than We Ever Imagined. I Do Not Want My Daughter to Be 'Nice'
Atheists Love Christians. Love the Sinner / Hate the Sin - John Corvino. Why Would Any Woman Be A Christian?
Arguments. Books. Bible. Recovering from Religion. An Atheist Manifesto. Update: (2/08/2006 1:35 p.m.
EST) Read Sam Harris’ additional arguments about The Reality of Islam Editor’s Note: At a time when fundamentalist religion has an unparalleled influence in the highest government levels in the United States, and religion-based terror dominates the world stage, Sam Harris argues that progressive tolerance of faith-based unreason is as great a menace as religion itself. Harris, a philosophy graduate of Stanford who has studied eastern and western religions, won the 2005 PEN Award for nonfiction for The End of Faith, which powerfully examines and explodes the absurdities of organized religion. Truthdig asked Harris to write a charter document for his thesis that belief in God, and appeasement of religious extremists of all faiths by moderates, has been and continues to be the greatest threat to world peace and a sustained assault on reason.
Cerebral Outpourings at 5am « saintdavetheathiest. Why is this world so fucked up?
Why do people have to be such constant pricks about everything? From the Muslims who think it is acceptable to kill people for something so petty as drawing a fucking cartoon of their prophet, despite the fact that its apparently OK for them to regularly mock Jews in their publications, to companies like Apple who treat their workers in China so badly they have the highest rate of suicides in ANY of the major corporations factories. Today I read about big companies like Barclays who put wagers on what the price of food will be in certain third world countries at the end of, for example, the financial year.
I Am An Atheist. Invisible Pink Unicorn. The Invisible Pink Unicorn (IPU) is the goddess of a parody religion used to satirize theistic beliefs, taking the form of a unicorn that is paradoxically both invisible and pink.[1] She is a rhetorical illustration used by atheists and other religious skeptics as a contemporary version of Russell's teapot, sometimes mentioned in conjunction with the Flying Spaghetti Monster.[2] The IPU is used to argue that supernatural beliefs are arbitrary by, for example, replacing the word God in any theistic statement with Invisible Pink Unicorn.[3] The mutually exclusive attributes of pinkness and invisibility, coupled with the inability to disprove the IPU's existence, satirize properties that some theists attribute to a theistic deity.[4] History[edit] The Invisible Pink Unicorn logo used to depict atheism The concept was further developed by a group of college students from 1994 to 1995 on the ISCA Telnet-based BBS.
Invisible Pink Unicorns are beings of great spiritual power. Concepts[edit] Cult Leaders vs The Pope. God: Impotent, Evil, or Imaginary.