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Atheist Revolution
Atheist Revolution
The Freedom to Insult
Plenty of Blame to Go Around for Quality of American Education
Words of Wisdom: Thomas Jefferson
California Planned Parenthood Clinic Firebombed
When Hate Fails
Idiot of the Week: Jan Brewer
Meet Dr. Wynne LeGrow
We Promote Knowledge and Tolerance
An Atheist Blogger Apologizes
Is Michael Stopa a Bigot?
If It Makes You Feel Better...
Many Promises Unfulfilled Five Years After Hurricane Katrina
Idiot of the Week: South Carolina Gas Station Owner
I Get Christian Email
More Thoughts on Secular Community Resource Centers
Words of Wisdom: Barry Goldwater
Why Some Atheists Are Offended By Prayer
Back to the Manhattan Islamic Center
Some Biblical Prophecies Have Come True
Idiot of the Week: Dr. Laura Schlessinger
Lots of People Believe Dumb Things
Same-Sex Marriage and Atheist Community
Will Anti-Islam Sentiment Help or Hurt Church-State Separation?
Promoting Atheism One Blog at a Time
Does Opposing Religion Entail Anti-Semitism?
God is for Suckers
God is for Suckers!
THIS BLOG IS NO LONGER ACTIVE. We've retired this blog, but the GifS gang is now active at Atheist Oasis (atheistoasis.wordpress.com). Visit us there!
We have a new website with a new name!
After discussing the idea of a new website off and on for a couple of years now, we finally decided amongst ourselves that it was time to retire the old God is for Suckers! and start anew with a new name. The name of the new website is Atheist Oasis – A Rational Refuge. [...]
Muslims want to add holidays on NY school calendar
The Muslim religion seems to be in the news a lot these days. Now, again in New York City, “Muslim parents, students and civic groups are campaigning to add two of their religious holidays to the New York City public school calendar, pinning their hopes on state lawmakers after failing to win over Mayor [...]
Christianity’s message to its children
Chilling video from the Thinking Atheist. What children are being taught in the name of God. And it is all true and not an exaggeration. Those of us who were born into and raised in Christian homes were all told these things and had them drilled into us again and again, week after week in [...]
Banning The Burka – Big Brother Micromanaging, Or A Common Sense Precaution?
I’ve made it abundantly clear in the past that of the Big Three of Abraham, Islam is perhaps the most backwards and barbaric of them. True, there was once upon a time when the Muslims had a ‘Golden Age’ of sorts, where the Middle East was an oasis of culture in the Middle Ages, but [...]
FYI – “Stealth evanglism” in public schools
“Stealth evangelizing”, (fundamentalist proselytizing) groups are forming all around the country intending to sneak “under the radar” at public school events with the intention of evangelizing to the children once they get in the door.
Stealth Evangelism And The Public Schools by Rob Boston
These groups share common tactics: They approach school officials with an offer [...]
Mosque near ground zero?
Most of you are probably aware of the battle going on in New York City over whether a mosque and Muslim community center should be allowed to be built at Ground Zero.
Opponents pack hearing on mosque near ground zero
NEW YORK – Dozens of opponents and some supporters of a mosque planned near ground zero [...]
Tea party scare tactics
While driving back home from Key West, amongst the numerous anti-abortion billboards, and the “you are going to Hell if you don’t love Jesus” billboards, and the sex toys and nude-girls-at-next-stop billboards, my husband and I also saw a few anti-Obama and anti-liberal billboards. I should have had my camera ready to snap a [...]
Welcome To America, Where The Woo Runs Deep…Even Unto The Military
It is no secret to the informed, that even the US Armed Forces, those stoic warriors of the crew cut, polished shoes and bounce-a-quarter-off-the-made-bed are privy to superstition just as much as the rest of the populace.
Recently, I watched the very funny The Men Who Stare At Goats. The movie touts itself as being [...]
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Forum Discussion: Terrible Christian Songs / Hymns
Music is supposed to be good, right? Obviously not all music is good, but the point of music is that it's supposed to be good, even if the creator failed. Sometimes, though, one gets the impression that this wasn't one of the goals of some religious music or hymns. Some of it appears to have been created with other goals in mind -- indoctrination, propaganda, etc. -- without any consideration for the music or lyrics being any good in any musical or poetic sense.
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Forum Discussion: Terrible Christian Songs / Hymns originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Wednesday, September 8th, 2010 at 08:00:00.
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Religious Populism & Democracy: Should Democrats Appeal to Religious Populism?
Populism is defined as a concern with the interests of the common people; democracy is a political system in which the people rule. So, populism and democracy should go well ...
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Phillip Christmas: Can't Be an American Without Believing in God
The link in some people's minds between their religion and their nation is so strong that they simply can't imagine one without the other -- they can't imagine being a Christian without also being an American (at heart) or an American without being a Christian. Or, at a bare minimum, some sort of religious theist.
Especially disturbing about this is that the same people will typically list "freedom" as an important American value but they don't seem to recognize that demanding theism in order to be an American contradicts the principle of freedom. Then again, maybe they do recognize the contradiction but don't care because they don't really care about freedom -- imposing religion on others is their real interest.
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Phillip Christmas: Can't Be an American Without Believing in God originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 12:00:14.
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Comment of the Week: Religion Impeding Morality
Believers frequently insist that religion generally, and perhaps their religion in particular, are at least helpful for moral behavior and may even be necessary for moral behavior. Not only is this not true, but it's not that hard to come up with situations where religion can get in the way of morality -- at least where "morality" involves helping other human beings get by. Unfortunately, some religious believers see "morality" as nothing more than "do what God orders regardless of the harm or suffering it causes".
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Comment of the Week: Religion Impeding Morality originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 at 08:00:07.
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Adolf Hitler: Compromises with Atheism Destroy Religious, Ethical Values
What did Adolf Hitler think about Christianity vs. atheism? Hitler said: 'By its decision to carry out the political and moral cleansing of our public life, the Government is creating ...
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Tony Blair Calls for All Religions to Unite Against Secularism
When Tony Blair came to Georgetown University to speak at a conference of Muslim and Christian scholars, he seems to have thought that the best way for Christians and Muslims to get past their differences is to find a common enemy to hate jointly. So if they can just find some group they both despise, then they can unite in hatred of this enemy and stop attacking each other. And which enemy did Tony Blair offer them? Secularists.
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Tony Blair Calls for All Religions to Unite Against Secularism originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Monday, September 6th, 2010 at 12:00:09.
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Book of the Week: The Philosopher's Toolkit: Philosophical Concepts and Methods
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If you spend much time discussing religion, politics, and philosophy, you'll quickly find that if you want to get anywhere you'll need to acquire some skill when it comes to analyzing, understanding, and refuting basic arguments -- and that's all before you learn how to properly construct your own. But just where do you go to get such skills?
Book of the Week: The Philosopher's Toolkit: Philosophical Concepts and Methods
Tenth Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Covet
Of all the commandments, the Tenth Commandment has a tendency to be ...
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Assassinating Terrorist Leaders
One of the basic counter-terrorism tools seems to be assassinating terrorist leaders. It's not hard to understand why: cut off the head and the body will at least be weakened, if not wither and die. Right? Well, those assumptions don't always hold true and it's not hard to see why, at least when it comes to religious terrorism and religiously-motivated terrorist groups.
After all, when people believe that their god is directing the action, the martyrdom of a leader or two isn't going to slow them down much. Assassinating leaders doesn't even always work on more secular terrorist groups, depending on factors like size and age. That's why it's important to recognize and accept that some terrorist violence really is religious motivated -- not simply motivated by politics with a religious overlay -- and deal with it accordingly.
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Assassinating Terrorist Leaders originally appeared on About.com Agnosticism / Atheism on Sunday, September 5th, 2010 at 12:00:43.
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Mailbag: Atheism & Hypocrisy, Part 2
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Subject: Hypocrisy Among Many
Regardless of their infantile notion of Christianity or theism, they fail to realize that the jokes in their signitures... could be regarded as prejudice, whether indirect or direct. Also, many of the agnostic/atheists seemingly like to represent their feelings in their context; e.g. comparing God to something fantastical or miraculous, like santa claus. Many analogies and feelings like these that are expressed, could be interpreted as unacceptable and obviously bigoted from a theistic standpoint.
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Ain't No God!
God Not Found
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Re: Arguments Creationists shouldn't use: AiG
Welcome Cristine27!
Yes, indeed, and faulty thinking can easily lead to faulty decisions and counterproductive behaviour. I wish our schools would teach better thinking skills, we'd be much better off as a nation and as people.
Re: Arguments Creationists shouldn't use: AiG
I have follow your article entitled "Arguments we think creationists should not use". Your article are true, the final reason for avoiding flawed arguments is that it leads to faulty thinking.
Re: Realm Argument.
I have read an article entitled "Does God Exist?". It is really hard to have an argument about it, right? But if you really believe in Him, you don't have to doubt if God does exist. For me, there is no shortage of good arguments for God's existence.
Humanism?
My commentary on Humanism, if you are interested.
Humanism in American Politics
My personal mistake was to assume The United States of America was based on a Constitution barring the government from involvement in the lives of her Citizens. The 10th ...
Re: Ethics Classes vs Christian Education
Theists win
Complaints put brakes on ethics class trial
VERITY FIRTH is refusing to guarantee a 10-week trial for secular ethics classes will start next week in state primary schools as expected, after a flurry of complaints from religious lead...
No God Blog
No God Blog
A Blog of Atheist Thought
Why Burning a Koran is Different
Why burning the Koran is different from burning a Bible or drawing a picture of Muhammad
Happy Labor Day
A lot of us are on vacation this week, so blog entries will be rare until we get back. In the mean time, the board may elect a new president in the next few weeks, so please take this as a suggestion box. What would you like to say to the next president of American [...]
LOTS of FAQs
These will be parsed and loaded separately in the coming days, but for now this bunch of Q&As are online for your perusal.
Atheists Allow more “Death With Dignity”
Another reason to support church and state separation
Burning the Koran– What’s Next?
The last words you hear before a religious war are "My god can beat up your god"
Utah Case WIN! UPDATE – Video on Fox News Added
Crosses are NOT Secular!
Des Moines 2011
Come to our 2011 Convention!
Atheist Gives to Catholic Schools
High-money, low impact.
Placate the Angry By Ignoring the Constitution? Nope.
Give the Muslims state land to move away from Ground Zero? I want to move to Ground Zero too!
More Progress: My day at Six Flags
Progress is a wonderful thing to witness.
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