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Religion’s Great Failure

JH Chrestos
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Religion dooms itself to failure by the exclamation that a god has created the universe and all in it to be as it is understood at the time of the creation of that religion. They have locked themselves into a view that must eventually be exposed by the…

N. B.
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Non-Religious Minority Largest of Them All Trump signed an executive order for the ‘faith-based initiative’ during the ‘National Day of Prayer’ event May 3rd, 2018 designed to bolster the influence of faith groups in government going further than ever before giving special treatment towards Evangelical Christians, which is entirely unconstitutional…

Ex-Muslim: ‘Fear of hell and the death penalty for apostasy kept me from leaving Islam’

N. B.
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(Editor: The following is from a young Pakistani ex-Muslim who wishes to remain anonymous. It is reprinted here with his permission.) I just wanted to reach out and say thank you for the work you are doing. I’m an ex-Muslim atheist, meaning I read the Quran and hadith and left…

Moses discussion with Aron Ra of American Atheists-TX

N. B.
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UPDATE: Aron has promoted my book at the beginning of his video discussing the 10 Commandments and Christian commentator Dennis Prager: Here’s the Youtube video of my discussion on November 20, 2014 with Aron Ra of American Atheists-TX and Mark Nebo of BeSecular.com. In the caption on the video, Aron…

A skeptical life raft in a sea of supernaturalism

N. B.
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If there’s one thing we can say about Michael Sherlock, it’s that he is quotable–and he loves to make “meme” images with his quotes, which others enjoy sharing. His book The Gospel of Atheism and Free Thought According to Sherlock is no less quotable. When I first heard the title,…

Petition to the UN to protect freedom from religion and barbaric blasphemy laws

N. B.
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If you haven’t signed this petition started by Michael Sherlock to ensure freedom FROM religion and barbaric blasphemy laws, please do so and share it. Note that I edited the letter that will be delivered to the United Nations high commissioner for Human Rights, and my name is appended to…

New Saudi law defines atheism as terrorism against the state

N. B.
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While many nonbelievers are constantly stumping for Islam, HERE is what devout Muslims feel about them in return. You might want rethink enabling this mentality to spread. We won’t say we told you so, but… Saudi Arabia: New Law Sees Atheism As Terrorism Saudi Arabia has passed a new terrorism…

Blasphemy laws around the world

N. B.
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Anti-blasphemy legislation still exists in many countries around the world, including those dominated not only by Islam but also by Christianity. You’d be surprised at how many countries have blasphemy laws, even supposedly civilized “Western” nations! Americans, count yourselves lucky to have the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and…

What does the Koran say about nonbelievers?

Acharya S
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Ah, the peace, love and tolerance! Here are some delightful sentiments that we should encourage spreading around the world! Why, oh why, are there violent religious fanatics attacking nonbelievers all over the globe?? [/sarc] “About sixty-one percent of the contents of the Koran are found to speak ill of the…

Help free Egyptian atheist activist jailed in Kuwait on blasphemy charges!

Acharya S
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The least we can do for this poor man is to sign the petition, which I’ve done. If nothing else, the attention is giving him hope. http://www.change.org/petitions/government-of-kuwait-free-humanist-atheist-activist-abdel-aziz-mohamed-albaz Blasphemy laws are the mark of a barbaric culture. No one should be imprisoned for questioning religious doctrine. The West has already been…

Defining the concept of God as energy

Murali Chemuturi
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Adherents of most religions believe that God is all-pervasive, omniscient and omnipotent. Islam seems to specify that God exists only at one place, and that is in the Kaabah at Mecca. Perhaps that idea is why all Muslims are directed to face the direction of Mecca while praying, wherever they…

Nonbelievers in religion persecuted, executed worldwide under barbaric blasphemy laws

Acharya S
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Welcome to the Planet of the Apes. “Nearly half (47%) of the countries and territories in the world have laws or policies that penalize blasphemy, apostasy (abandoning one’s faith) or defamation.” 47% – Laws Against Blasphemy, Apostasy and Defamation of Religion Are Widespread …Laws against defamation of religion were far…

Atheists to put up ‘Jesus Myth’ billboards in U.S.

Acharya S
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“American Atheists are planning to put up more holiday ‘Myth’ billboards… this year, the group’s planning to erect signs featuring images of Santa, Jesus, Poseidon and the devil next to the message: ’37 Million Americans know MYTHS when they see them.’” Thirty-seven million Americans agree with me? So, why have…

Dawkins: Islam is ‘one of the great evils in the world’

Acharya S
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Richard Dawkins says it outright. One wonders why so few other atheists are speaking out in the same way. Note that he does not hasten to qualify his comment by saying, “Islamic extremism” or “radical Islam.” Dawkins: “I’m reasonably optimistic in America and Europe. I’m pessimistic about the Islamic world.…

Were Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot atheists?

Acharya S
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In debunking atheism and using the tu quoque or “you too!” argument to point fingers in the opposite direction whenever religious atrocities are raised, defenders of theism often bring up the notion that some of the most destructive and genocidal ideologies in history, Communism, Nazism and “Pol Potery,” were “atheistic,”…

Prejudice against non-believers

Acharya S
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I have always known that if I didn’t belong to the cult, my social life would suffer. Of course, living in a big city for two decades mitigated that problem to some extent. Then and there the snootiness came from the direction of the monied, rather than the religious. Having…

Was Hitler Christian, Pagan or Atheist?

Acharya S
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For years it has been debated whether Adolf Hitler was a Christian, atheist or Pagan. I briefly jumped into the fray in the “Introduction” to my book The Christ Conspiracy (2-4), in which I related that Hitler proclaimed himself a “Christian” and fighter for “his Lord and Savior,” using the…

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Irish atheists test blasphemy law

Acharya S
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Months ago when the new and controversial Irish anti-blasphemy law was being passed, it made headlines around the world. Now that it has gone into effect, the fracas has really begun, with a group of Irish atheists immediately putting up a challenge. The atheists claim the law is unenforceable and…

More than one in four Americans believe religion “outdated”

Acharya S
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Overall, this is good news, as it indicates that, rather than blindly believing in unfounded concepts which have created an often spectacular amount of divisiveness and horror, people are beginning to develop the courage and insight to look more closely and with greater scientific thinking into humankind’s most important issues.…

JH Chrestos
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The sheeple goose-step with precision conformity carefully dodging reason and integrity minds numb to critical thought they seek acceptance and absolution from invisible men and mimicry of superstition By graceful deflection their faith is kept heads in sand logic bereft living to die yet not knowing why indoctrined in ignorance…

JH Chrestos
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The more unbelievable a thing is to be believed the more believed it will be. How awful. From “I can’t find my socks” being total bullshit to “an Invisible pink unicorn just ran his pointy horn through my buttocks” – hmm, I can see that one happening – is so…

JH Chrestos
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Continued from The ‘God Question’ Answered part 2 of 3 (Homocentric) The final centricity that we need to get over is chronocentricity. The concept that time exists. The concept that there is a beginning and an ending to everything. The concept of time is nearly a universally accepted tenet. The problem is…

JH Chrestos
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Here are some thoughts on why people come to the conclusion that there must be a God. It is a product of my own deductive reasoning and I certainly invite all informed critique. But be advised, you better do your homework. We humans have an arrogance that stems from three…

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