The Ongoing Attempt To Stifle Atheists
I guess when you’re afraid you can’t win a fair debate, these are the sorts of things you resort to:
Atheist Billboard Vandalized California (Matthew Keys/Fox40 News; Feb 16)
SACRAMENTO, California: At least one of several atheist billboards erected in the Sacramento area has been vandalized.
A billboard that reads “Are you good without God?” erected [...]
Jake Johnson Speaks Out!
Atheist Students Silenced (Jake Johnson/The Concordian; Jan 14)
Concordia College is in a period of modernization. In the two and a half years I have called myself a Cobber, it seems like just about everything at the school has changed. The college has advanced technologically by adopting the new Banner system for everything from account [...]
Atheists Can Be Stupid Too…
I received the following e-mail today. Just a small reminder that even atheists can be really stupid sometimes.
Hello,
Our organization is suing the bible and the koran for sexism, homophobia, call for murder etc. To support our legal action, we have put two petitions online (http://atheists-in-action.com/184/English.html). One is to support our legal action in France. [...]
Request for Articles on the Experiences of Atheists Worldwide
This post is on behalf of Jennifer Thorson-Jabr:
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Dear Friends,
I am working to compile for publication a book of essays/articles about the experiences of atheists around the world.
I am from the United States, where religion is usually a personal matter and one’s beliefs or non-beliefs do not necessarily affect their public lives. I live in the middle-east, where a [...]
Roger Ebert on Death and the Afterlife
I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear. I hope to be spared as much pain as possible on the approach path. I was perfectly content before I was born, and I think of death as the same [...]
Not the Most Cogent of Arguments
James Carroll Speaks Out!
Political Prayer Breakfasts Are Bad Religion (James Carroll/The Boston Globe; Feb 8)
There are only three things wrong with the National Prayer Breakfast: the past, the present, and the future. Last week, President Obama presided at the annual Washington event before what the New York Times called “a bipartisan array’’ of national and international [...]
So Who is the Idiot?
My news tweeting service @anatheistnews tweeted the following story today which a follower thought was probably not newsworthy. I don’t think so either, but it does offer a small amount of grist for my mill over here:
Calvinist-turned-Catholic touts interfaith respect
Author Peter Kreeft packed the house at Newman’s Bookshoppe on a recent Friday night, offering his [...]
George and the Secularists
George Pitcher, an Anglican priest and Religion Editor for the British Telegraph, is complaining about ’secularists’:
Religious people do have a clearer moral code than secularists
It’s come to this. The secularists have got me sticking up for Cherie Blair. Those barrels of laughs, the British Humanist Association and National Secular Society, have complained, apparently with straight faces, [...]
Shriram Lagoo Speaks Out!
Belief In God Is Superstition: Lagoo (Sakaal Times; Jan 2)
PUNE, India: “Believing existence of the God is itself a kind of superstition. Young people should not waste power of reasoning and thinking under such belief,” said veteran actor and known atheist Shriram Lagoo.
He was speaking at ‘Viveki Yuva-Shakti Sankalp Parishad,’ organised by Andhashraddha Nirmulan Samiti [...]
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