1 month ago
deusx : Cynical-C Blog - » Atheist Finds Nothing in His Toast - "I wasn’t that hungry tonight so I just thought I would make some toast when all of a sudden it popped up and I was staring at the face of NOBODY in the toast! NON-HOLY WHITE BREAD! What are the chances of an atheist getting a piece of toast that l
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1 month ago
deusx : Pharyngula: The Great Desecration - "By the way, I didn't want to single out just the cracker, so I nailed it to a few ripped-out pages from the Qur'an and The God Delusion. They are just paper. Nothing must be held sacred. Question everything. God is not great, Jesus is not
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2 month ago
deusx : Why are geeks often atheist? | Shuzak.com - "It might make sense to think that many such geeks simply find something as simple as a creator an overly simplistic explanation for something so elegant."
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4 month ago
deusx : Einstein writes of 'childish superstition' - "The word god is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) ch
Andy Baio : New Einstein letter elaborates on his views of religion - he rejects it as "childish superstition," but also disliked the hubris of atheism [via]
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deusx : Atheist sees image of big bang in piece of toast - "however the direction and splatter patterns of the crumbs as well as the changing shades emanating outwards from this black hole were very clearly similar to the chaotic-dynamic non-linear patterns that one would expect following the big bang"
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8 month ago
deusx : No ghosts: A Blunt Atheist FAQ - "There are already plenty of good FAQ’s about atheism out there, but I don’t think one more could do any damage"
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8 month ago
deusx : New Jersey Court Case: The Adoption Of E - "IN THE MATTER OF THE ADOPTION OF "E", A CHILD, BY JOHN P. BURKE AND CYNTHIA D. BURKE, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS "
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8 month ago
deusx : Can Atheists Be Parents? - TIME - "If they fail in their appeal, Eleanor Katherine may have to leave the only family she has ever known and await adoption by another couple whose religious convictions satisfy the State of New Jersey."
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9 month ago
plasticbag : The Archbishop of Wales has gone off on one about 'Atheistic fundamentalism' in which apparent lunatics declare religion to be 'superstitious nonsense' - Fascinated by how he could describe the following of a logical argument and a willingness to be proven incorrect a form of 'fundamentalism'. I suspect he's chosen his examples pretty carefully to illustrate a point too.
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9 month ago
philgyford : Wired 14.11: The Church of the Non-Believers - Dawkins, Dennett, Sam Harris. (via The Same River Twice)
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11 month ago
deusx : Greta Christina's Blog: Atheists and Anger - "This has been a hard piece to write, and it may be a hard one to read. I'm not going to be as polite and good-tempered as I usually am in this blog; this piece is about anger, and for once I'm going to fucking well let myself be angry."
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12 month ago
Ethan Marcotte : Richard Dawkins lays the cranial smack down. - ∞
deusx : Richard Dawkins responds to Jerry Falwell's students • videosift.com
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16 month ago
deusx : Those fanatical atheists - RichardDawkins.net - The Official Richard Dawkins Website - "Private, quiet faith is one thing. But when the guy holding the launch codes believes the end of the world could come any day and that's a good thing, those who believe lives are limited to one per customer have a problem."
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17 month ago
deusx : Daily Kos: Dinesh D'Souza, Atheism, Virginia Tech [Second Update] - "I am an atheist and a professor at Virginia Tech. Dinesh D’Souza says that I don’t exist, that I have nothing to say, that I am nowhere to be found."
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17 month ago
deusx : Boing Boing: People committing eternal sin on YouTube - "If you’re going to blaspheme, do it properly! This “I deny the Holy Spirit” stuff is for pansies."
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17 month ago
deusx : Pharyngula: Dinesh D'Souza is a contemptible ghoul - "Dinesh D'Souza has a truly awful opinion piece up in which he basically accuses atheists of being hateful robots."
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17 month ago
deusx : Atheist's Wager: First Post - "The atheist may find himself in hell for his disbelief, but at least he is not a traitor. Until God accepts that religion is His responsibility and can provide some real proof and guidance as to His plan, He is completely unworthy of our worship.&qu
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17 month ago
deusx : onegoodmove: Hey Mom I'm an Atheist - "last time i checked, presents weren't a reward for believing in god."
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18 month ago
jimray : Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) first national politician to publicly declare he doesn't believe in God - Officially a "Unitarian who doesn't believe in a supreme being" - I guess that's a start...
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plasticbag : The BBC's religion site includes a section on the religion of 'atheism'... - The best response I've seen was featured on cloudsoup.com, "If atheism is a religion then not collecting stamps is a hobby..."
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19 month ago
plasticbag : Alister McGrath is all over the place (including the Daily Mail) in an attempt to promote his book, a response to Dawkins' The God Delusion - The Dawkins book is, it has to be said, clumsy and yes, sure, Dawkins himself comes across as arrogant and rude. But while McGrath takes delight in picking apart some of Dawkins' strategies, he doesn't really counter his arguments...
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plasticbag : Another review of The God Delusion - this time from the Independent and by Murrough O'Brien, and full of extraordinarily bad argument and logical fallacies... - O'Brien cites Darwin's influence on Hitler as a bad thing. It is, but logic (unlike religion) does not require the use of knowledge to be positive. Similarly, it is not reasonable to argue that longevity of the religious idea constitutes any evidence to i
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Okay - only a few more of these to go - another review of The God Delusion, this time by Mary Wakefield of The Daily Telegraph, who again says that it won't convince anyone... - The assumption of these reviews is that an individual is either a Christian or an atheist. I disagree. I think there are a lot of people who call themselves Christians who when faced with the actuality of what they're supposed to believe look stunned and
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20 month ago
plasticbag : Joan Bakewell reviews Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion in glowing terms... - "Religions have the secular world running scared. This book is a clarion call to cower no longer. Primed by anger, redeemed by humour, it will, I trust, offend many."
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deusx : Beliefwatch: Blasphemy - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com - "Their intent was to encourage atheists to come forward and put their souls on the line, showing others that you don't have to be afraid of God."
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