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The Tea Party’s general thrust is complaints against the Federal government; the 99% folks seem to be focusing on corporations, particularly...

“The Bible claims that Jesus Christ was his own father, his own son, and a metaphysically nondescript substance called the Holy Spirit, all ...

Would you want to spend your weekend hanging out with someone who tortured animals in his basement? Spend a year living with a guy who tortu...

What can we atheists offer to the world in joyful appreciation? A huge question, an important question. We cannot offer Santa Claus for ad...

“First of all, what the fuck is objective morality? Second, if it comes from SOMEONE else (god) it is still subjective. We just do what the...

I wonder how many Christians pray to their God to douse the flames of hell and how many are just glad they’re not going to burn?

On the virgin birth of Jesus, in Isaiah 7:14, Isaiah used the word almah to describe the mother of a child Christianity says was the messiah...

In my many conversations with Christians the notion that “humanity is wicked” has been asserted on numerous occasions. This of course jives ...

"Which passages of Scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating ...

From the GOSPEL OF THOMAS “Jesus at five years clears pools of water. On the Sabbath makes 12 clay sparrows. Jesus claps his hands and the ...

"The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite...

“Where knowledge ends, religion begins.” ~Benjamin Disraeli

Faith is a virtue in religion, a vice in science.

Science helps us assess which answers are better than others — at least for now.

PZ's food for thought Category: Culture Wars • Policy and Politics Posted on: February 1, 2011 3:04 PM, by Josh Rosenau PZ has deci...

“Discovery and invention are often greeted as unwelcome intruders because they inaugurate new truth through new explanations of causality. A...

“The fundamental defect of Christian ethics consists in the fact that it labels certain classes of acts 'sins' and others 'virtu...

Before Jesus was given precious gifts, was hunted by a wicked king, received the Holy Spirit at the Jordan River, spent 40 days in the wilde...

Santa is God to children as God is Santa to adults. We communicate with both Santa and God, sending Santa literal letters and God mental o...

Geiger: Does a moral hierarchy exist on religions today? Are some a greater force for good in the world than others or are they essentially ...

Two thousand years ago, people worshiped Osiris, Glycon, Simon, Apollonius of Tyana, Pythagoras, Orpheus, Dionysus, Zalmoxis, Kore, Samothra...

Did a teacher named Jesus walk the streets of Jerusalem 2,000 years ago? Almost certainly. There were countless roaming teachers/healers/rel...

Religion won’t die until our fear of death does.

Quick thoughts on Atheism, Agnosticism and Theism These observations presuppose the idea that for a proposition to be reasonable, it must ...

If prayer worked, we wouldn’t need doctors.

“While the Hebrew, Christian, and Muslim scriptures contain some excellent moral teachings, they are not original with those writings. For e...

If the idea of the “supernatural” is valid then so is the idea of the “superdupernatural” which is infinitely more super than the “supernatu...

Allan says God is love. Betty says God hates fags. Colleen says she knows God is real because he healed her dog. Diane says her God is the o...

Don’t look at the glass as half full nor half empty but as it is.

Honesty demands we accept or reject propositions based on evidence or lack thereof not on whether they make us comfortable or uncomfortable.

a cycling truth: From pain, joy.

Thought this was pretty cool: "It doesn't interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache for, and if you dare...

Jesus is worshiped for the same reason people have worshiped all gods—there is a benefit to it. In the case of Jesus, the ultimate benefit i...

“You” will never “be” dead because “you” ceases to exist with your last breath and the non-existent can’t “be” anything.

A government’s endorsement of religion is incompatible with the idea of freedom of — and freedom from — religion. Those who support having “...

The problem has never been gays serving openly in the military. The problem is the knuckleheads that have a problem with it.

Just as youth is wasted on the young, omnipotence has clearly been wasted on the big guy in the sky. Omni-impotent seems a better descriptio...

There is no single chosen one or chosen group. We are all chosen ones. “Chosen” by chance and all those before us who managed to survive lon...

Not only do we share a common ancestor with chimpanzees, but also reptiles, amphibians, fish, fungi, and bacteria with which we share over 2...

It would seem silly to ask what the meaning of an atom, an ant, or a tree is, so isn’t it just as nonsensical to wonder what the meaning of ...

The Logical Impossibility of Godhood “Can a god build a wall so strong that god cannot tear its wall down? If yes, then it failed. If no, ...

There’s no past and no future — only an ongoing present.

The Good News isn’t that Jesus died to save us from hell; the Good News is that there is no hell.

Calling Jesus a Savior is like calling a fireman a hero for saving kids from a house he set ablaze.

“Being more consciously attentive to our moment-to-moment experience enhances our ability to see the world accurately...if we are being atte...

“To live sustainably, we must live efficiently--not misdirecting or squandering the earth's precious resources. To live efficiently, we ...

We’re all born atheists so to be “born again” is to come full circle.

Rather than responding to theistic terminology, it seems better that atheists consider themselves naturalists and theists, a-naturalists.

An atheist may want to believe God exists but doesn’t based on the lack of evidence whereas a Christian may doubt the existence of God but b...

The Magic Blue Monkey Would you believe me if I told you there was a Magic Blue Monkey that made the world, loves us and has a plan for us...

“Pretending to be someone or something else is just another alienating message to your soul, your psyche, your essence. Every time you deny ...

Christians praise a God who had a plan for every child throughout the Bible. The children of Noah’s time? Drown them. The children of Sodom ...

Evidence Christianity Warps Common Sense/ Child Slavery Christians worship a God who thought so little of children that he allowed them to...

Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Religious Terrorism Christians praise a God who demanded a man bash in the skull of his be...

Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Violence Against Women Christians praise a God who promised to have pregnant women ripped ...

Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Animal Sacrifice It was asked, “Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with...

Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Disease Christians praise a God who promised to torture children with horrible diseases an...

Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Cannibalism Christians praise a God who’s idea of a good punishment is to starve people to...

Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Killing Children Christians praise a God whose “holy” book demands that parents stone, bur...

Evidence that Christianity Warps Common Sense / Human Sacrifice Christians praise a god who ordered a child sacrifice, accepted a child sa...

Wanting to keep abreast of the latest nonsense spewed by the enemy, I tuned my car radio to one of the conservative Christian radio stations...

Following the Argument Wherever it Leads Excerpt from a tribute about Antony Flew, 1923–2010 “As a species our hunger for answers is ins...

Christians I have spoken with have suggested atheism leads to Stalinesque mass murder. That it requires belief in God to be good. But unlike...

“There is not sufficient love and goodness in the world to permit us to give some of it away to imaginary beings.” ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

While conversing about the believer’s trauma of abandoning the practice of praying to a deity, my friend Stephen Marley noted the benefits o...

Cool thoughts from my forum and fb friend, David L. Allen: “I took me awhile, but I have come to a place where I feel the presence of a no...

Evidence that Jesus is a Myth, Part 1: The Elijah/Elisha Connection (Revised 3/21/10) Two thousand years ago, people worshiped Osiris, Gl...

Toxic Power of Christianity “Sadly I can not express my true religious beliefs on Facebook as I would lose 75% of my clients, [it] makes m...

Reason is a “Whore”? "Reason should be destroyed in all Christians." — Martin Luther "Whoever wants to be a Christian sh...

Lying for Jesus "And often it is necessary to deceive, and to do the greatest benefits by means of this device, whereas he who has go...

Perhaps the most noble, and at the same time, most empty sentence ever penned... "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all m...

“I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.” ~ Susan ...

The Myth of One Man, One Woman Christians who like to thump the bible as proof that their God designed marriage to be between one man and ...

Religion was born of morality as the gods were born of man.

“We” are clearly more than our bodies. If we lose our limbs for instance, “we” are not diminished in any mental capacity. So it is natural t...

“If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt an...

Tertullian, said it is “shameful” to reason that the Son of God was born, “monstrously absurd” to think he died and “manifestly impossible” ...

“You must be the change you seek in the world.” ~ Mohandas K. Gandhi

Certainty is born of small minds.

Studying my bible this morning I come across a gem in Mark that made me laugh. Seems a cloud suddenly appears which covers the disciples wit...

“The four Gospels that eventually made it into the New Testament...are all anonymous, written in the third person about Jesus and his compan...

“One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things t...

3 Problems with Jesus’ Sacrifice 1. HELL According to Christian doctrine, Jesus died to save humanity from hell. Of course he created hel...

HATE AND IGNORANCE ALERT Paraphrasing: “Homosexual behavior should be made illegal. Employers should be able to refuse to hire homosexuals...

“Elements that were common in Pagan mystery religions include much of the religious content of Christianity. All elements of Jesus' life...

One of the many poorly conceived thoughts found in the bible concerns the commanding of respect for parents. Respect can’t be commanded, on...

'If God does not exist, everything is permitted' so say many Christians. Really? Maybe they know themselves and are admitting that w...

Jesus was not a flesh and blood person but a creation of writers. Almost every single aspect of the Jesus character’s story is found in the ...

Ricky Gervais speaking about his godless movie, The Invention of Lying: "One reviewer said that ‘I don’t know why Ricky Gervais feels...

Good to remember how little we really know.

"There is an anaesthetic of familiarity, a sedative of ordinariness which dulls the senses and hides the wonder of existence. For those...

All natural occurrences—from an earthquake to an exploding star in a distant galaxy— are completely meaningless. All human actions in and of...

So many gods... Abassi, Abeona, Abgal, Abuk, Abundantia, Ac Yanto, Acan, Acat, Achelois, Achelous, Acolmiztli, Acolnahuacatl, Adamanthea, ...