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. An Atheist Manifesto Somewhere in the world a man has abducted a little girl. No. Continued: The Nature of Belief
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]
Recovering from Religion 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. The act of betting on this particular outcome affects the price of the foods in question. Then we get to the current trend in America for creationism to be taken seriously. Secondly; Grow the fuck up. And if you want your child to turn out as narrow minded and ignorant as you then take him to a fucking church! 1. 2. 3. 4. Everything is fucked up.
Atheists Love Christians 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. Love, sex, a soulmate, an argument, whatever you're looking for, we'll show you the polite questions to find it. 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. If you were to be eaten by cannibal, how would you like to be prepaired? do u own 3 or more dildos in your room? Do you hsve a desent job? I would go fucking insane. So, instead of judging each question's first-date appropriateness subjectively, I turned to statistics. That blue rectangle is our highest-quality, least-invasive questions, and we next examined each of them for interesting correlations. Now let's get right to the results. Okay, if you want to know... Will my date have sex on the first date? Ask... Because...
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. 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. My boy was eight years old when he started in with the classic interrogation: How does Santa get to all those houses in one night? This is the moment, at the threshold of the question, that the natural inquiry of a child can be primed or choked off. “Gee,” the child can say to either of them. I for one chose door number three. “What do you think?” Comments
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