April 2011
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RT @ex_muslim: RT @Jihadikiller: @ex_muslim @MuslimAlert The moon is also made of cheese & Islam is a civilised relig… http://tmi.me/9iTpD
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RT @BibleAlsoSays: Religion is the equivalent of an “urban myth”
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A Twenty Year Journey to Enlightenment
Stan’s full story can be found in written form at: http://www.exmormon.org/whylft79.htm Hear the story of a young teenager indoctrinated into the Mormon church and culture, growing into a man who would one day reject everything he’d been taught to believe:
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Spain Bans Anti-Easter Atheist March →
In handing down its ruling, the court said the march could provoke clashes between the protestors and Christians observing their faith on one of the most sacred times of the year in Christianity
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Religious Right Alert →
The website states it is run by a group of volunteers who are soliciting donations which are not tax deductible. That means this is not a charity. But what I’m not clear about is why they need to solicit funds for a grassroots get out the vote web page.
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Age of Reason: Confession of a Buddhist Atheist →
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By Grant Lawrence
Buddhism is different from nearly any other religion in that it doesn’t require a belief in God.
Buddhism is different from nearly any other religion in that it doesn’t require a belief in God.
Many Buddhists do believe in God. But the Buddha never answered the question on whether there was a God or not. When asked such questions, the Buddha maintained the...
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Watch "Godless in America" (2006) Free - Watch... →
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Idaho Rejects Rape Exception In Abortion Bill... →
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State Rep. Shannon McMillan (R) argued that women who were impregnated under “violent circumstances” should have no choice because it’s not the fetus’s fault. State Rep. Brent Crane, the bill’s sponsor, took it a step further. Believing that “tragic, horrific” acts of rape or incest are the “hand of the Almighty,” Crane said women should trust God to turn the consequences of...
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ATHEIST WEDDING VOW FROM 1862. « LawReader →
LawReader CEO Gwen Billingsley
My mother is getting on in years, and as mothers do, she passed on some family papers to me recently. I found this interesting article from a Nashville newspaper from 1862.
“NASHVILLE DAILY UNION, November 20,1862. p. 3, c 3
A singular couple got married in Chester County, Penn., the other day, merely making the following declaration in the presence of...
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Today in "Creepy as Hell" News... →
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Poland (90% Catholic) is constructing the world’s largest Christ statue…. and it is creepy as hell:
The giant statue of a crowned Jesus Christ being erected in Swiebodzin, Poland. Photograph: Lech Muszynski/EPA
My favorite quote is by the priest responsible:
“Previously when asked why he decided to erect the gargantuan saviour, he said, “It was Jesus’s idea: I was just the...
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God In The Box →
God in the Box is a documentary film, which explores the mystery and controversy behind what God looks like and means to us as Americans in the 21st century. In the midst of today’s fractured and confusing claims on God, the film asserts two basic questions: What does God mean to you? What does God look like, to you?
The filmmakers embark on a cross-country journey with their small, mobile...
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RT @SRP: Wonderful beat poetry from Tim Minchin. Now with added animation. http://t.co/c0ZVcA5
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Bart D. Ehrman: Who Wrote The Bible and Why It... →
Apart from the most rabid fundamentalists among us, nearly everyone admits that the Bible might contain errors — a faulty creation story here, a historical mistake there, a contradiction or two in some other place. But is it possible that the problem is worse than that — that the Bible actually contains lies?
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Female protesters in Egypt tortured, subjected to... →
“20-year-old Salwa Hosseini told Amnesty International that after she was arrested and taken to a military prison in Heikstep, she was made, with the other women, to take off all her clothes to be searched by a female prison guard, in a room with two open doors and a window,” the group explained. “During the strip search, Salwa Hosseini said male soldiers were looking into the...
The ‘Invisible’ Black Atheist « Bodhi Thunder →
When you picture an atheist, what color are they? How many other cultures feel the pressure of their parent’s religion, mainly Xtianity? How many people of color sit in church with their families wondering about other invisible atheists sitting in the same room, thinking the same thoughts like themselves? Are there groups around the world or in your own city where First Nations,...
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“The foundation, he said, would only be interested in “noble atheism or...”
– Vatican reaches out to atheists – but not you, Richard Dawkins - Europe, World - The Independent
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CSI | Skeptical Inquirer Index →
Skeptical Inquirer is the official journal of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Six times per year Skeptical Inquirer publishes critical scientific evaluations of all manner of controversial and extraordinary claims, including but not limited to paranormal and fringe-science matters, and informed discussion of all relevant issues.
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YouTube - Godless In America: Madalyn Murray... →
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Madalyn Murray O'Hair
An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god.
An Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy.
An Atheist thinks that he can get no help through prayer but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to grapple with it, to subdue, and enjoy it. An Atheist thinks that only in...
Is being an intellectual a bad word? http://bit.ly/dVJmRx
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Atheist transit ads in Kamloops a first in B.C. -... →
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