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The Dick Delusion
I’ve been getting slapped upside the head with this “dick” meme that’s roaring through the skeptic community lately, largely because it seems that any time someone makes a generic criticism of rude, abrasive, confrontational critics of foolishness, the audience all thinks of the life-size poster of PZ Myers they’ve got hanging on their bedroom door…
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The Satanic Temple Just Sued Missouri in Federal Court Over Its 72-Hour Abortion Waiting Period
The creation, distribution and enforcement of the Missouri Lectionary promotes the Missouri Tenets in violation of the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment because the State of Missouri is using its power to regulate abortion to promote some, but not all, religious beliefs that Human Tissue is, from conception, a separate and unique human being whose destruction is morally wrong.
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At Faith & Freedom, up is down, black is white, oppression is “liberty” and secularism is “fundamentalism”
Over the weekend, Ralph Reed’s Faith & Freedom Coalition had a “Road to Majority” event in D.C., where Republican candidates did the usual pandering to fundamentalist Christians on issues like gays and abortion. But this year also marked the year that conservative Christians have decided to go all-out on their new strategy of arguing that up is down and black is white.
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Not All Christians are Terrorists
“I know that not all Christians are right-wing extremist terrorists, but why are all right-wing extremist terrorists Christians?” This is the question I’m never asked. But as somebody who actually knows something about Islam and about the complex history of Muslim relations with Jews and Christians, I am often asked the following: “I know that not all Muslims are terrorists, but why are all terrorists Muslim?”
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How the Cross Is Like the Confederate Flag
You can make a bad argument in support of a good conclusion. That’s how I felt reading this column “The Cross and the Confederate Flag“, written by Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention in the aftermath of the Charleston massacre.
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Atheism and the "Shut Up, That's Why" Arguments
There’s something I’ve been noticing lately in theists’ arguments against atheists. When you start paying attention, you notice how many of them aren’t really arguments. And no, I’m not even talking about the “I feel it in my heart” or “‘Cause the Bible tells me so” non-arguments. I’m talking about the “Shut up, that’s why” arguments. I’m talking about the arguments that are meant to stop the discussion entirely.
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The Great Divide: The violent legacy of Indian Partition.
In August, 1947, when, after three hundred years in India, the British finally left, the subcontinent was partitioned into two independent nation states: Hindu-majority India and Muslim-majority Pakistan. Immediately, there began one of the greatest migrations in human history, as millions of Muslims trekked to West and East Pakistan (the latter now known as Bangladesh) while millions of Hindus and Sikhs headed in the opposite direction. Many hundreds of thousands never made it.
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This 3-Question Quiz Predicts Whether You Believe in God
According to a Harris Poll conducted last year, about three-quarters of Americans - 74 percent, to be precise - believe in God. That is a lot of people, but the figure is notably lower than it was in identical polls conducted over the past decade.
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Fundamentalists Think Science Is Atheism
Equating science with atheism is one of the most dangerous byproducts of America's culture wars. This strange polarization portends disaster, as the country divides into factions that cannot find common ground on the way the world operates.
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Giving Advice to Teens Wanting to Tell Their Parents of Their Atheism
We all want to support atheist youth, but have to be cautious about providing advice when we know little about someone's circumstances.
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Dress-code incidents threaten secular Constitution, says former judge
KUALA LUMPUR — The recent spate of incidents involving Malaysian government agencies and public buildings enforcing a conservative dress code should not be left unchecked, as these measures threaten the country’s secular Federal Constitution, said a former judge and member of a prominent group that has been vocal against Islamisation yesterday. Ms Noor Farida Ariffin, a former Sessions Court judge, told the Malay Mail Online that the enforcement of the dress codes at public institutions...
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New Poll Shows Americans Believe Faith (Specifically Christianity) is Necessary to be “Truly American”
In case you’re wondering why “atheist” ranks so low on the Presidential electability list, it helps to look at new polling results revealed yesterday by the Public Religion Research Institute.
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How to Avoid Indoctrination at the Hands of 'Your Liberal Professor'
But the best brochure of all was this one called “Indoctrination Prevention,” featuring a ‘90s-looking teen model with zombie eyes on the cover and the tagline “10 Ways College Professors Indoctrinate America’s Youth and How to Prevent It.” Its introduction states that it was written “so that college students can take charge of their education and remain steadfast in their beliefs of free markets, capitalism and the American dream.”
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Breaking free of arranged marriages
Arranged marriages are not common in the US where women and men have many opportunities to meet one another in co-educational schools, workplaces, and social settings. This creates, from the point of view of highly traditional families, a ‘problem’ in that when allowed to mix freely in cosmopolitan settings, people might well fall in love with those who do not share their own ethnic or racial or religious backgrounds.
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Guest Post: Atheism in Zambia
This is a guest post from my friend Leo Igwe, a tireless fighter for human rights and secularism in Africa. This post is about developments in Zambia, a Christian theocracy in many ways but where atheists are beginning to organize and work together.
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Atheist Debates - Morality
Matt Dillahunty goes over the topic of morality and how it often gets addressed in debates with believers.
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ACLU: Why we can no longer support the federal ‘religious freedom’ law
For more than 15 years, we have been concerned about how the RFRA could be used to discriminate against others. As the events of the past couple of years amply illustrate, our fears were well-founded. While the RFRA may serve as a shield to protect Singh, it is now often used as a sword to discriminate against women, gay and transgender people and others.
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The Theist’s Guide to Converting Atheists
Thus, in the spirit of proving that atheists’ minds are not closed, I’ve assembled below a list of everything I can think of that I would accept as proof that a given religion is true. Also included are things that I would accept as circumstantial evidence of a particular religion’s truth and things that would not be acceptable to me as proof of anything. While I do not claim to speak for all atheists...
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Texas Pastor Now Says He Didn't Mean He'd Really Set Himself Aflame
He threatened to become a human torch if the Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality. Now Pastor Rick Scarborough is clarifying his remarks.
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Christian Persecution
An Atheist Eve comic from 2006.
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