Atheists Are Diseased – How To Prevent Atheism From Infecting Your Child. February 4, 2010 by root2squared. Contrary to popular belief and despite their claims, atheists ‘ lack of belief in God is not a result of rational and logical …
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The Self Taught Atheist : Atheism Is Not A Belief System | Atheism And Agnosticism – How to be Atheist What is Atheism Agnosticism Agnostic Atheology Godlessness Disbelief Antichrist Godless Jesus.
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The Self Taught <b>Atheist</b>: <b>Atheism</b> Is Not A Belief …
#6 as we’ve covered in detail here on Slog, there are at least two distinct types of atheism . One is a lack of belief in god. The other, which is what this video is presumably about, is an active belief that there is no god.
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The Limits of Atheism | Slog | The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
In this pertinent and engaging volume leading Christian philosophers, theologians, and writers from all over the denominational map explode the black-and-white binaries that characterize both sides of the New Atheism debate. …
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Atheism is Dead: “GOD IS DEAD” and I Don't Feel So Good Myself
Why do I get the feeling that Sippy Cupp is not even really an atheist ? Without knowing much about her, I suspect she is pretending to be an atheist so that her criticisms of atheism and liberalism (not that the two necessarily go hand …
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Daylight Atheism > In Which I Am Not Filled With Optimism
On the one hand, if all theists were liberal, I may never have thought to become active in atheism . I might have thought it’s as benign as believing in Big Foot. But as long as there are conservative theists bent on undermining freedoms …
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Comment of the Week: Liberal Faith Insulating Fundamentalist Faith
This historic man-snake-nose image is meant to serve as an eye-pleasing placekeeper while I am off to better places for a few days. I might chip in a few brief posts using the text messaging thingy, but then again, I might not so chip, if only because I am uncertain of cell reception where I’m going. Hint: it’s not here.
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Bye Bye Snakey
In the dark days of yore, not only Bush and Cheney themselves, but members of the cabinet and assorted flacks reporting to them were shielded from accountability for authorizing torture (among other things).
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Honor and Change
As is known to every TriMet commuter with the ability to read, poems are posted inside trains and buses amid the advertisements for regional vocational schools and against letting yourself get run over by a TriMet train. Just when I was ready to start tearing down these poems from despair at seeing the same ones for so very many years, we may now vote on new poems .
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New Lines on MAX
Now and then, justice prevails : A jury took less than 40 minutes Friday to find Scott Roeder guilty of first-degree murder in the shooting of abortion provider George Tiller in a church here last May. A jury of clear-headed people in south central Kansas have seen a terrorist thug for what he is.
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Murderer Guilty of Murder
Installment One : I have little to add to the brief words of praise for J.D. Salinger at Obscene Desserts , and even if I did have something to add, it would not be as good as The Onion’s remembrance : In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D
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Loss in Two Installments
Installment One : volunteering that President Obama’s speech last night made him forget that the president is black — if only for a charmed hour — Chris Matthews revealed a great deal about himself, most of it too obvious and too dispiriting to belabor here. Beyond that, he revealed his ignorance of the long-running bit in which Stephen Colbert portrays a boorish, elitist political pundit who cannot perceive race
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Idiocy in Two Installments
I wonder if this exemplifies one of those inescapable parts of the human condition that appeal to millions of human beings across the globe sunnily recounted by renowned scholars? Slather on the SPF-75 sunscreen and feel the rays : A 16-year-old girl who was raped in Bangladesh has been given 101 lashes for conceiving during the assault … Her rape emerged after her pregnancy test and Muslim elders in the village issued a fatwa insisting that the girl be kept in isolation until her family agreed to corporal punishment
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Experts Agree
Atheism is Not a Religion « Without Apology | Atheism And … | Atheism And Agnosticism – How to be Atheist What is Atheism Agnosticism Agnostic Atheology Godlessness Disbelief Antichrist Godless Jesus.
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<b><b>Atheism</b></b> is Not a Religion « Without Apology | <b …
In a Very Special Election yesterday, Oregon voters passed two tax increases, and the votes weren’t even terribly close as these things go: measure 66 passed 54% – 46% and measure 67 passed 53% – 47% , meaning the wealthiest households and businesses (respectively) will henceforth pay a little more to the state, and, more importantly, that Oregon will continue to have a functional public sector. It’s good to know that somewhere, not far from here, a road might be repaired, a school might remain open for five days a week, and that someone will be there to answer 911 calls (and the someone won’t be a contractor for Halliburton charging by the minute).
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Concessions Being Drafted Now
Maybe it’s just the fish oil* supplements talking — Sorry, fish! I hope the wringing-out didn’t do any permanent damage! — or maybe it’s just that Matt Yglesias is not a complete asshole, but I think there’s something to consider in these remarks : I think the right way to interpret the news that most Americans think the stimulus money has been wasted rather than helping them is pretty obvious. Most people don’t know a lot of macroeconomic theory, most people don’t pay a lot of attention to politics, and most people recognize that the unemployment rate is ridiculously high. Ergo, they’ve decided the money was wasted
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Geek Out, Tune Out, Tune Back In
It appears as if as atheists increasingly, and refreshingly, get tire of the New Atheism prompted definition of atheism as a “lack of belief in god(s)” and come right out and affirm a positive affirmation of God’s non-existence they …
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Atheism is Dead: Another Atheist Gives Up the Ghost – On the …
If the expectation is that greater religious devotion will be welcomed, then the expectation is that religion and religious theism are looked upon favorably — and, by implication, that secular atheism is rejected. …
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Sexy, Stressful Religion: Sex and Stress Drive Religious Behavior …
There is justice in the world, just not very much: notwithstanding its absence of useless three-dee visuals and merchandising-friendly battle dragons, Mad Men won well-deserved SAG awards for best drama and best performance by an ensemble. Call it quaint , but I much prefer to see extra dimension where Mad Men ’s creators put it. And thus the terrorists have lost — this time
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The Dimensions Reside Chiefly in the Acting and Storytelling
I really need to be clear that as an atheist , I don’t pretend to “know” that there are no supernatural entities. I agree with those who label themselves as agnostics that there is no way to ever know the unknowable with an absolute …
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Atheism, Agnosticism and Teenage Rebellion : Greg Laden's Blog
O heavens. It appears that Sam Harris and company are now defiling the very grave of Socrates by making definite claims about the shortcomings of faith as a truth-finding mechanism and the really existing consequences of religious enthusiasm — so unlike wiser men writing in gentler times . Look away if you have a weak stomach: many of the claims are expressed with a bluntness that doesn’t seem crafted to flatter a worldwide majority of religious believers.
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The Truth Pressed Flat
Here is an odd beast recently found in the vicinity of Salem, Oregon: The odds for a male kitten to have the three distinct colors of orange, white and black are only about 1 in 3,000 … The reason that tri-color cats are almost always female is because two X chromosomes are required to produce the orange, black and white color pattern … What next
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Unobtainium as Cat-Flesh
Take Sean Carroll, for example. He prizes comity, but he prizes truth more: If science and religion are truly incompatible, then it would be dishonest and irresponsible to pretend otherwise, even if doing so would soothe a few worried souls
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Memo to Getting Along with Others: It’s Not You, It’s Us
If President Obama does not use his power to aggressively investigate and pursue this matter to the full extent of the law, he should be impeached and removed. Visit msnbc.com for breaking news , world news , and news about the economy It has been a year since Barack Obama was sworn in as president, so it is no longer adequate to point vaguely in the direction of Bush, Cheney, Gonzales, Mukasey and the rest of the despicable clowns who oversaw the previous junta. Or rather: we have an established method for assessing and assigning blame (and its absence) under our system — a legal system with long-established rules of evidence and standards of due process.
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End of Excuses Long Overdue
Surely you’re making a funny , United States of America Today dot com: Having secured its first major best-picture award this weekend, Avatar ignites an Oscar race that has had no clear front-runner. And, depending on whom you ask, it still doesn’t
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The Golden Globe Award: Now Worth Its Weight in Unobtainium
Dear US companies not observing Martin Luther King Jr. Day tomorrow, While dreading tomorrow’s confinement in a dull workplace cubicle, I came across the realization that I shouldn’t have to bother dreading it since tomorrow is a national holiday. This prompts me to think of all the companies that are open tomorrow without needing to be, and to ask them a few gentle questions, namely, why do you despise black people?
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Letter from a Puddle-Town Cubicle
Just as attributing the suffering in Haiti to a deal with the devil reveals the speaker as insipid and depraved (even if granted a hemming, hawing defense by people who should know better), so too does applying the word miracle to instances in which human efforts save a life. The fate of Haiti’s people rests — today, yesterday, and tomorrow — on the concrete, everyday, individual and collective choices of really-existing human beings. Supernaturalism-laced just-so stories, whatever interesting emotions they succceed in inspiring, can only distort the truth of cause and effect.
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Now Happening in Haiti: Reality