State of the Nation. Social media. Atheists Know More About Religion Than the Pious. Atheists Know More About Religion Than the Pious Posted on Sep 28, 2010 Well, this is awkward.
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life undertook a study in which nonbelievers correctly answered more religious knowledge questions than the devout. Mormons and Jews also scored well and, like atheists, know more about Christianity than Christians. Sex, Death and the Meaning of Life - 4oD. Why does an atheist bother to get up in the morning?
That's the question Richard Dawkins seeks to answer as he continues his exploration of the big questions of life in a world shaking off religious faith. In a journey that takes him from the casinos of Las Vegas to Buddhist monasteries in the foothills of the Himalayas, Richard Dawkins examines how both religious and non-religious people struggle to find meaning in their lives. He looks at how our existence is ruled by chance, meeting people whose fate was to be born into extreme poverty in India's slums and the survivors of a natural disaster in Joplin, Missouri, a city ripped apart in 2011 by a tornado on a random course.
In the face of what appears to be a blindly indifferent universe, Dawkins argues that we each have to forge our own sense of meaning. He meets the comedian Ricky Gervais, an atheist since the age of seven, for whom meaning comes through doing something creative. Richard Dawkins: if I met god when I die. Onepeopleoneworld. Eyewitness Accounts of Miracles (Sam Harris) Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins on Morality and Science. The God of Independent Minds. Sam Harris: lecture on religious faith - Part 01. A Better Life by Chris Johnson. Explore the meaning and joy of life with atheists in this book of photos and commentary.
A Better Life: 100 Atheists Speak Out on Joy and Meaning in a World Without God, is a 200+ page, hardcover photography book featuring subjects both famous and not, including well known atheist/agnostic speakers, writers, and celebrities. A few of the people who have agreed to be in the book: Dr. Believe It Or Not – Same Areas In The Brain « intellectual vanities… about close to everything. When it comes to religion, believers and nonbelievers appear to think very differently.
But at the level of the brain, is believing in God different from believing that the sun is a star or that 4 is an even number? While religious faith remains one of the most significant features of human life, little is known about its relationship to ordinary belief. The New Atheism. Atheist, Gnostic, Theist, Agnostic. Too many times I have informed someone that I am an atheist, only to have them reply, “Oh, but how could you know that God doesn’t exist?
You’re taking a faith position!” Many headaches later, we finally come to an agreement over the definitions of these words. This arrangement is an attempt to clarify and classify these words, so that their rogue meanings no longer confuse and muddle religious debate. To begin with, here are the four key terms arranged on a graph with their opposites across from them. The Intelligence² Debate - Christopher Hitchens (Unedited) - a F. Religion has nothing to do with science – and vice versa. Are religion and science incompatible?
Some scientists assert that valid knowledge can only come from science. They hold that religious beliefs are the remains of pre-scientific explanations of the world and amount to nothing more than superstition. On the other side, some people of faith believe that science conveys a materialistic view of the world that denies the existence of any reality outside the material world. Science, they think, is incompatible with their religious faith. I contend that both – scientists denying religion and believers rejecting science – are wrong. Confession of a Buddhist Atheist « Bodhi Thunder. Confession of a Buddhist Atheist Image via Wikipedia By Grant Lawrence Bodhi Thunder Buddhism is different from nearly any other religion in that it doesn’t require a belief in God. Many Buddhists do believe in God. Atheists Outdo Some Believers in Survey on Religion. 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 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. Drop one coin and watch it fall. State of the Nation. What it feels like to be an Atheist I've always been an atheist, I know nothing else.
From my earliest memory of considering the question, I'm talking maybe age three or four, I was skeptical as hell. The God stories just didn't add up. SOCIALIQLADY.COM. Alain de Botton: Atheism 2.0 - TED. Disbelief Is Not a Choice. When the contemporary secular movement is compared to the gay rights movement, objections are sometimes raised by those who distinguish between the two on biological grounds.
Whereas sexual orientation is not a choice, the argument goes, one's religious outlook is. The great weight of science indicates that the first part of that argument is correct (i.e., one's sexual orientation is determined by biology), but the latter part is somewhat misleading and merits scrutiny. After all, though we can choose our religious affiliation, none of us can ultimately choose what we truly believe or don't believe. Curiosity: the questions of life, episode 1.
Michael Shermer: The Believing Brain (Lecture) “I’m not going to quit until I absolutely have to”: videos of Hitchens in Texas « Why Evolution Is True. As you know, Christopher Hitchens took time off from his chemotherapy to attend the Atheist Alliance of America convention in Houston, Texas to receive the Richard Dawkins Award for promoting freethought and atheism.
Here, hot off YouTube, are the three videos of Richard announcing the award and Hitchens’s response. ABC Nightline: The Atheist and Her Brain. Will Atheism Replace Religion? Tool Time: Good Christians Threaten Atheist. Το κανάλι του χρήστη 108morris108 Why is religion stronger in economically unequal societies? If, like many of us, you’d like to work toward weakening religion’s grip on the world, it behooves you to know why people are religious in the first place. Increasing evidence suggests that religion is promoted by personal insecurity, including economic inequalities in one’s country, the availability of health care and welfare systems, the dysfunction of one’s society (e.g, the amount of crime), and so on. Christopher Hitchens - Why Christianity is False - a Ταινιες video. Why do Americans still dislike atheists? Is this knee-jerk dislike of atheists warranted? Not even close. A growing body of social science research reveals that atheists, and non-religious people in general, are far from the unsavory beings many assume them to be.
Bad Science and Bad Religion. The Blog : Morality Without “Free Will” From the Free Press: A belief in free will touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of remorse or personal achievement—without first imagining that every person is the true source of his or her thoughts and actions. And yet the facts tell us that free will is an illusion. Mustafa Akyol: Faith versus tradition in Islam. Cheating and God: Study ties willingness to cheat, viewpoint on what God is like - latimes.com. A new study on the link between one's view of God and willingness to cheat on a test is the latest example of social scientists wading into the highly charged field of religion and morality.
The study, titled "Mean Gods Make Good People: Different Views of God Predict Cheating Behavior" was peer reviewed and published earlier this month in the International Journal for the Psychology of Religion. In line with many previous studies, it found no difference between the ethical behavior of believers and nonbelievers. BibleContradictions-ReasonProject.png (PNG εικόνα, 3327x4418 εικονοστοιχεία) Daniel C. Dennett on What Should Replace Religions? Why Atheists Are More Intelligent Than the Religious. It is natural to believe in God, so more intelligent individuals are more likely to be atheists. The 25 Most Influential Living Atheists. The Four Horsemen HD: Hour 1 of 2 - Discussions with Richard Dawkins, Ep 1. AJU God Debate: Sam Harris vs. Rabbi David Wolpe, pt. 1. Modern Enlightenment. Σαρμίν Ομπάιντ-Τσινόι: Σε ένα σχολείο βομβιστών αυτοκτονίας.
Debates: Religion: Statements. Sam Harris: Πίστη vs Λογικής, GREEK SUBS (ASPEN, 2007)