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Meet the New Atheist Group That Promises to ‘Amplify the…Influence of Non-Religious Women’

June 29, 2012 at 1:55pm

In reply to charlanakelly.

I used to be of the mindset that if everyone could just keep religion as a private matter to themselves, we could all just get along. It doesn’t seem to work that way.

I don’t believe in unicorns, just as I don’t believe in gods. Therefore, I’m not angry at unicorns, and I spend no time thinking about them. The difference is that there aren’t any unicornists constantly in my face trying to tell me the Good News about the holy colt. I also don’t have unicornists fighting their way onto school boards so that they can lobby for 30 seconds of bowing to the One True Horn at the start of the school day, or wanting to revise history texts to show that our founding fathers were actually quite enamored with equines in general, but gave special placement to unicorns, in spite of the fact that the Constitution conspicuously omits any reference to unicorns (just like god/gods).

If there were unicornists behaving like this, I would move from an a-unicornist (which I am today) to an anti-unicornist, just like I am now an anti-theist.

The religious moderates have unwittingly provided cover for the anti-intellectuals and the fundamentalists – this has to be stamped out. It is retarding our society and culture. Religion must be opened to the same type of critical inspection and evidence-based reasoning as all other important facets of our lives, where it will not be able to withstand the scrutiny.
Meet the New Atheist Group That Promises to ‘Amplify the…Influence of Non-Religious Women’

June 29, 2012 at 1:38pm

In reply to epicwinofgod.

That is exactly how I’d frame if I were making something up to control people.
Hmmmm….
Meet the New Atheist Group That Promises to ‘Amplify the…Influence of Non-Religious Women’

June 28, 2012 at 12:01pm

In reply to charlanakelly.

Hi Char,

You should read some of the latest polling numbers. America is becoming more secular – it’s a generational thing. Organized religion and its associated bigotry has completely turned off the younger upcoming generations. So the velvet roping and hatred will die off with the older generations – it’s simply the unstoppable Zeitgeist. So no, America is not “turning towards prayer” – the stats do not support your position.
Meet the New Atheist Group That Promises to ‘Amplify the…Influence of Non-Religious Women’

June 28, 2012 at 11:56am

I admit that I often caricature xians, but this site is like a gathering place for the looniest wackjobs out there. It seems like some of you actually believe this nonsense. I’m still not convinced this isn’t a giant Poe.

Atheists actually worship Athena? Prophecy is coming to pass? Equal pay is a progressive idea?

I am gobsmacked – and that doesn’t happen often. Unreal.
American Atheist Leader Calls for the ‘Eradication’ of ‘Fundamentalist Christians’

September 22, 2011 at 8:39am

There is quite the gun-polishing xian love fest going on here, so let’s see if we can raise the intellectual level of the discussion.

It is beyond hilarious when god botherers use words like ‘religion’ and ‘faith’ to degrade atheism. What an admission of the vapid state of their own beliefs.

The word ‘eradicate’ seems to have spun everyone up, and judging from posts on this site, it seems most xians have a major case of fatwa-envy. What needs to be eradicated is the mind-numbing thinking that under girds a belief in a supernatural deity for which there is not a shred of evidence. This silly drooling over a magic book could be tolerated if it weren’t for the homophobia, misogyny, and the tiresome and incessant pushing of some narrow view of morality on others.
It’s a vain hope, I realize, but the best we can hope for is continued strengthening of that wall between church and state.
Pat Robertson: Crack in Washington Monument ‘Sign from the Lord?’

August 28, 2011 at 2:47am

In reply to .

How very christian of him.
Atheist Comedian Ricky Gervais Poses as Jesus in ‘Blasphemous’ Mag Cover

August 23, 2011 at 7:22pm

In reply to mdlwoods.

You are seriously going to go with Pascal’s Wager?
What if you choose the wrong god? After all there are thousands.

Also, don’t you think your all-powerful sky daddy would be able to tell that I was just saying
I was believing so I could get into heaven with all the other boring people?
Atheist Comedian Ricky Gervais Poses as Jesus in ‘Blasphemous’ Mag Cover

August 23, 2011 at 7:18pm

In reply to bobthruspace.

Ooooh, out and out fatwa envy. Poor xians…they want so bad to behead someone.
Atheist Comedian Ricky Gervais Poses as Jesus in ‘Blasphemous’ Mag Cover

August 23, 2011 at 12:30pm

In reply to Echelon.

Uh oh – is that fatwa envy that I’m sensing?
Piers Morgan and Penn Jillette Duel Over Atheism & Religion

August 19, 2011 at 12:45am

In reply to Iman.

Which part of the Bible trolltrainer? The part where god extols us to stone a woman to death who is raped in the city but does not cry out loud enough? Or the slavery instruction manual section where we’re taught to beat them but not hurt their eyes? Or perhaps it’s one of the more harmless but equally important stanzas describing the 30 shekels my neighbor owes me if his ox runs over my maidservant.

Do you admit that you pick and choose the verses in the bible that suit you?
Doesn’t that seem odd that the creator of the universe would leave that unsavory stuff in his magic book?