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- Debating Jehovah's Witnesses: 10 Things You Don't Know About Jehovah…Updated: 2008-09-02 @ 23:58:04 GMT
Some atheists enjoy debating religion with theists and have a lot of experience with traditional Christian doctrines, but they may find themselves unprepared for that Jehovah's Witness who comes kn… - Book Review - Can We Be Good Without God?: Biology, Behavior, and th…Created: 2008-09-01 @ 12:36:07 GMT
For much of human history, there has been the perception that morality is largely or wholly dependent upon religion. Thus, people have argued that a person simply cannot be good without a religious… - Book Review - Can We Be Good Without God?: Biology, Behavior, and th…Created: 2008-09-01 @ 12:35:32 GMT
For much of human history, there has been the perception that morality is largely or wholly dependent upon religion. Thus, people have argued that a person simply cannot be good without a religious… - Godless Science vs. Religion: Why Godless Science and Methodological…Updated: 2008-08-28 @ 12:55:56 GMT
The debate between science and religion goes on without resolve and without satisfaction for any involved. We might get somewhere if we narrowed the terms of debate a bit: on what grounds are we at… - Book Review: A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and…Updated: 2008-08-25 @ 18:02:00 GMT
The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion was a forged pamphlet, probably created by the secret police of Imperial Russia in the late 1890's. The goal was to get people to believe that it was act… - Fetus Love - The Christian Right's Abortion Politics Furthers Patria…Created: 2008-08-24 @ 16:57:22 GMT
Conservative Christians exhibit a strange obsession with fetuses. They seem willing to sacrifice any level of women's personal autonomy and civil rights in the 'interests' of the fetus, even though… - Faith-Based Politics - Kinship Between National Socialism, Roman Cat…Created: 2008-08-24 @ 16:17:39 GMT
It's common for Christians to assume that Christian churches resisted Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany. The truth is that not only did few even go so far as to voice criticism, much less overtly and pu… - Faith-Based Politics - Using Religion to Establish Power & Control o…Updated: 2008-08-24 @ 15:54:39 GMT
Ideally, democratic politics is the 'art of the possible' - the art of getting things done and governing a community in which diverse interests and perspectives exist. No one gets everything becau… - Pierce, Charles SandersUpdated: 2008-08-21 @ 11:08:06 GMT
Glossary of Religion and Philosophy - Short Biography of Charles Sanders Pierce… - Atheism & Foxholes: There Are No Atheists in Foxholes; Danger Causes…Updated: 2008-08-20 @ 14:10:42 GMT
The claim that there are no atheists in foxholes has been around for a long time, but it became especially popular after the terrorist attacks in America on September 11, 2001. This myth claims tha… - Book Review - How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for…Created: 2008-08-19 @ 14:34:11 GMT
Belief in paranormal, supernatural and mysterious claims have always been very popular, so how can skeptics best approach such claims to evaluate their credibility and offer a critical perspective?… - Word of God - Funny How Humans are Always Doing the Talking - God's …Created: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:53 GMT
The "word of God" is an important and often-used concept with apologists. They have texts they claim contain the words of their god and they justify their ideas by insisting that they ult… - Crusades & Faith-Based Violence - Kill them all; for God knows His O…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:52 GMT
There seems to be an inverse relationship between how vociferous believers are in claiming that their religion is peaceful and how peaceful their religion actually is. Perhaps a truly peaceful reli… - Chastity vs. Sexuality - Grant me Chastity and Continence, But Not Y…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:52 GMT
In a sense, chastity could be treated as an indicator of just how obsessed a religion is with sex. The more a religion emphasizes chastity, the more they are effectively talking about and referenci… - Eunuchs for the Kingdom of Heaven - Let He Who Can Accept This, Acce…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:51 GMT
If it's not bizarre enough that traditional, religious patriarchy reduces to little more than "God gave me a penis, so God wants me in charge," there have been some who have argued that i… - Patriarchy - Having a Penis Means a Male God Wants You in Charge of …Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:51 GMT
Apologists for patriarchy and male privilege are among the most ridiculous and absurd defenders of any sort of unjust privilege that you can find. When you get right down to it, all their arguments… - Social Darwinism - Darwinism is an Atheist Lie, Except in Politics -…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:50 GMT
A common argument used by conservative Christians against evolutionary theory is the idea that it reduces humanity to mere physical beings and morality to "survival of the fittest." They … - Pascal's Wager - Because Reducing Eternity to a Crapshoot is So Insp…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:49 GMT
Christian apologists who like to use Pascal's Wager will argue that we shouldn't gamble on our future, but if that's the case then why do they offer gambling as way of looking at what they are offe… - Omnipresence - God is Omnipresent & Everywhere, Even in the Bathroom…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:49 GMT
Have you ever had the feeling you were being watched? According to Christian theology, you are — Christians believe their god is omnipresent, which means that their god is in all places a… - Zombie Jesus - Only the Living Dead Can Give You Eternal Life - If Z…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:48 GMT
If Jesus died and was buried, but rose from the grave after three days, does that mean Jesus was an Original Zombie (OZ)? New Testament accounts describe him as having wounds you could stick your h… - Cannibalism - I'd Like My God Medium Rare, Please. With a Nice Chian…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:15:47 GMT
Even suggesting a connection between cannibalism and Christian mass may sound extreme to some, but just as the crucifixion of Jesus has a lot in common with older religious practices of human sacri… - Chosen People - God Liked My Ancient Illiterate Ancestors Better Tha…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:14:45 GMT
Which requires a bigger ego, believing that you personally have been singled out and chosen by God for some special purpose, or believing that your entire ethnic group (race, family, whatever) has … - Unapologetics: Countering Apologetics with Sarcasm, Laughter, and Hu…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:14:44 GMT
Unapologetics are sarcastic, critical posters that take popular theological beliefs and turn them on their heads to point out how absurd they are. Maybe it feels more intellectual to counter them w… - Unapologetics: Countering Apologetics with Sarcasm, Laughter, and Hu…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:14:44 GMT
Unapologetics are sarcastic, critical posters that take popular theological beliefs and turn them on their heads to point out how absurd they are. Maybe it feels more intellectual to counter them w… - Unapologetics: Countering Apologetics with Sarcasm, Laughter, and Hu…Updated: 2008-08-16 @ 11:14:44 GMT
Unapologetics are sarcastic, critical posters that take popular theological beliefs and turn them on their heads to point out how absurd they are. Maybe it feels more intellectual to counter them w… - Book Review - Southern Cross: The Beginnings of the Bible Belt, by C…Created: 2008-08-12 @ 13:13:28 GMT
What is the American 'Bible Belt' and how did it originate? Why did the most conservative strains of Christianity moved from New England down to the South? Much has been written about Southern evan…