March 2011
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“No man has ever sat down calmly unbiased to reason out his religion, and not...”
– Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
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Anonymous asked: I find that many atheists have become atheists because of the death of a loved one. It seems that their view of a just or fair world, or the fact that they believe God should give them what they want but didn't, leads to general anger, which leads to wanting to lash out at the idea of him. I wonder what the exact correlation between losing loved ones and becoming an atheist is? Perhaps...
Anonymous asked: What was it that made you want to leave the church? Was there some sort of incident?
The answer "I came to my senses!" is not an answer by the way...
The answer "I came to my senses!" is not an answer by the way...
Anonymous asked: Does it piss you off that the vast majority of Christians are nonviolent?
Anonymous asked: What's your view on this?
Why did God knock up a poor unsuspecting virgin, when he could have just made Jesus from dirt?
Why did God knock up a poor unsuspecting virgin, when he could have just made Jesus from dirt?
Anonymous asked: feel free to criticize what i tell you about me.
i believe that there is a god. he's wherever, and he's watching out for you.
i hope i did not offend you too much.
i believe that there is a god. he's wherever, and he's watching out for you.
i hope i did not offend you too much.
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Anonymous asked: Thoughts on this Einstein quote? "The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. It should transcend personal God and avoid dogma and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religious sense arising from the experience of all things natural and spiritual as a meaningful unity. Buddhism answers this description. If there is any religion that could...
Anonymous asked: So what are 'The Evils of Religion' in your eyes anyways?
Anonymous asked: "You’re at least close on one thing, the only option is secularism. It doesn’t have to be Atheism but we do have to remain secular."
For someone who claims to have an open mind that's a ridiculously close minded opinion to have...We don't have to remain secular that's your opinion.
For someone who claims to have an open mind that's a ridiculously close minded opinion to have...We don't have to remain secular that's your opinion.
Anonymous asked: Are you hateful because the idea of someone else being so happy with their religious beliefs that it irritates you due to some sort of jealousy because you haven't been able to understand it?
autumn-and-eve-deactivated20120 asked: But is it right to weight someone's life based on how much money it costs to kill them versus how much it costs to accommodate them?
Anonymous asked: What are your views on the death penalty, since so many "whole-hearted" & "pro-life" Christians support it?
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“I could not do otherwise without transcending the limits prescribed by the...”
– Andrew Jackson, Statement refusing to proclaim a national day of fasting and prayer.
mollierosie asked: Hello! Love your blog.
I'm a fellow atheist, but I have a much more forgiving viewpoint on religion than you do, and I just want to know what you have to say about this viewpoint..
I consider religion to be a part of human nature...well, the believing-in-a-higher- power part. Most humans like to believe in an all-powerful being for their own moral and mental support. I...
I'm a fellow atheist, but I have a much more forgiving viewpoint on religion than you do, and I just want to know what you have to say about this viewpoint..
I consider religion to be a part of human nature...well, the believing-in-a-higher- power part. Most humans like to believe in an all-powerful being for their own moral and mental support. I...
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22 Ways Religion Promotes Crime →
Some are better than others and some seem to be a restating of others but it is an interesting list. We we look at the huge number of believers currently incarcerated compared to the extremely small number of non-believers there must be a reason. I think this list might give a bit of insight to at least some possible reasons.
Anonymous asked: "Chances are I probably know more than you about Catholicism"
Wow, please make more false baseless assumptions? No, I'm sorry, if you slipped up with something as large as the Eucharist, a very central part of Catholicism, you don't know more than I by default. But I don't really need to reiterate this, looking at your other posts about the Catholic...
Wow, please make more false baseless assumptions? No, I'm sorry, if you slipped up with something as large as the Eucharist, a very central part of Catholicism, you don't know more than I by default. But I don't really need to reiterate this, looking at your other posts about the Catholic...
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Anonymous asked: I don't know if you've answered this already but what are your views on Wicca and Wiccan studies?
Anonymous asked: You talk a lot about Catholicism & Christianity. What's your opinion on Buddhism?
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Anonymous asked: For someone who claims they hate Catholicism so much, you sure don't know much about it. Like the very core beliefs.
ignatius-m asked: Anon is also assuming a lot by saying the billboards do nothing. The good ones ("There probably is no god, now stop worrying ..." "Millions are good without god" etc.) improve the atmosphere for atheists and make it possible for us to come out of the closet.
Also, it's a mistake to assume that any money we collect which isn't being spent on humanitarian...
Also, it's a mistake to assume that any money we collect which isn't being spent on humanitarian...
Anonymous asked: You left out the "All Religions Are Fairy Tails" one. I'd say that is meant to offend.
Either way, it's still spending money on something that won't help anyone, when that money could be used to actually help people.
And "You KNOW it’s a myth?" No; I may be an atheist, but I'm pretty sure no one on Earth KNOWS if it is...
Either way, it's still spending money on something that won't help anyone, when that money could be used to actually help people.
And "You KNOW it’s a myth?" No; I may be an atheist, but I'm pretty sure no one on Earth KNOWS if it is...
Anonymous asked: As an atheist, I still have to object to the spending of money in order to promote atheism. It makes atheists no better than Christians in desperately trying to convert people to their cause and ultimately spend money on something that doesn't exist. And honestly, what person is really going to be convinced of either side over a BILLBOARD?
Anonymous asked: "Billboards may not be the best use of funds but it serves a purpose. People need to be reminded of the fact that it’s okay to not be religious." that would be okay but most of the time the message isn't it's okay but GOD DOESN'T EXIST deal with it. They state facts and through things in your face. They don't say atheism is another option...they're more...
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Anonymous asked: You know somethings fucking messed up when most Americans think public service workers should have their wages cut and taxes increased. All while big corporate big shots like GE pay next to nothing in taxes. I don't understand how people can be so blind.
Tax the fuck out of the rich. Its that simple.
Sorry I know this is a bit off topic. I was reading your blog...
Tax the fuck out of the rich. Its that simple.
Sorry I know this is a bit off topic. I was reading your blog...
Anonymous asked: I'm struggling with an overwhelming feeling of sadness.
I'm a very liberal atheist, but I deal with conservatives and religious people all the time. I'm also a psychology and english major at a large, engineering fueled school. My majors are seen as 'easy' even though I do so much more work than most of my friends in other 'harder' majors....
I'm a very liberal atheist, but I deal with conservatives and religious people all the time. I'm also a psychology and english major at a large, engineering fueled school. My majors are seen as 'easy' even though I do so much more work than most of my friends in other 'harder' majors....
Relion directory on Tumblr - Please sign petition! →
girlagainstreligion:
I have grown tired of hearing the pleas of the community here at Tumblr be ignored by staff. We have emailed directly as individuals; we have reblogged requests in mass; we have done almost everything in an attempt to alert Tumblr to our small wish for a religion Directory on Tumblr, yet still we are offered nothing but silence.
While it is true that this isn’t exactly a...
Anonymous asked: I would rather live around the Christians that accept my lack of beliefs than live anywhere close to your, quite comically, intolerant self.
Anonymous asked: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFviDgyxaaI&feature=related Your thoughts?
solo1y asked: For Catholics, transubstantiation is emphatically NOT symbolic. They think it really happens. This was one of the dividing walls between Catholicism and the Protestant movement. St. Thomas Aquinas developed the "logical" framework that could make this work.
discoveringwhatyoualreadyknow asked: It was humorous when when I went to church (Church of Christ) with my ex-girlfriend last year and everyone looked so serious during communion. I mean, they ate a piece of stale bread that could really use some cheese or something on it and drank a plastic thingy of grape juice.
BLESS THIS PIECE OF BREAD AND CUPLET OF JUICE SO THAT IT MAY BE CLAIMED TO BE SOMEONE WHO DIED 2,000 YEARS AGO...
BLESS THIS PIECE OF BREAD AND CUPLET OF JUICE SO THAT IT MAY BE CLAIMED TO BE SOMEONE WHO DIED 2,000 YEARS AGO...
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Anonymous asked: Because Christian churches can make money when people who didn't believe in God begin to. There is no church of Atheism, so what is the incentive for people to make advertisements to try to convert people to Atheism?
Scientific materialism is just another belief system. They're all BS. :p
Scientific materialism is just another belief system. They're all BS. :p
Anonymous asked: Why do some Atheist groups spend money on Atheist billboards and advertising the idea that God isn't real when this money could be spent on bettering the world?
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dylanpellerin-deactivated201205 asked: I'm not sure if you've been asked this before, and if you have, I apologize.
But why do you think that America has become a "Christian" nation, when the founding fathers were secularists? It baffles me when people say that this nation is christian, and always has been, when the founding fathers found christianity to be a perverted system. Looking at the country...
But why do you think that America has become a "Christian" nation, when the founding fathers were secularists? It baffles me when people say that this nation is christian, and always has been, when the founding fathers found christianity to be a perverted system. Looking at the country...
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“I’ve never not been political, though religion tended to overshadow it in...”
– John Lennon
Anonymous asked: I'm wondering what your views are on porn, does this type of exploitation disgust you or is it nbd?
Anonymous asked: Are you a cynic as well as a skeptic?
Some people think that if you a skeptic then that means you are cynical, which I think is bollocks.
Some people think that if you a skeptic then that means you are cynical, which I think is bollocks.
tothebatzeppelin asked: So do you hate people who live by the creed or their religion or faith? Or do you just hate the church itself? Do you hate everything about religious people or people with faith or do you hate only what you don't agree with?
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Anonymous asked: "Don’t be so ridiculous to try and put forth an argument that a 12 week fetus and a two day old child could both survive the same."
So where do disabled people fit into your world? Some obviously can't survive the same as other people or without help. Should they be killed because of this?
So where do disabled people fit into your world? Some obviously can't survive the same as other people or without help. Should they be killed because of this?
Anonymous asked: Yes, you can kill cells. Is it murder though? No. Because these cells have no potential as humans. Masturbation is not murder as, without fertilization of an egg, it has no possible future. You can keep it in a jar and it won't become a human.
A human fetus, however, will. If left undisturbed, it will grow and become just like us. The right to live easily trumps the...
A human fetus, however, will. If left undisturbed, it will grow and become just like us. The right to live easily trumps the...
Anonymous asked: No, it doesn't make me happy to think that if abortions were made illegal there would be back alley abortions or abortions done with coat hangers, as the goal would be to have no abortions. Saying that it should be made legal since people will do it anyway is like handing an axe murderer a gun, because it would be more efficient and less messy.
