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Spiritual safety tips

August 31st, 2010
What Should You Do If You Find an Atheist In Your Neighborhood?. Via Buzz Feed
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Pete Enns wants to also try his hand at the “Atheism requires faith!” game

August 16th, 2010
Pete Enns, Ph.D., has a novel idea! He thinks that maybe not believing in God takes as much faith as believing in God! No one can know that God exists in the sense of proof or logical demonstration. Rather, people of faith believe God exists for all sorts of reasons that can’t be laid out [...]
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Opponent of infant baptism’s son went Christian — not ironic

July 26th, 2010
From a Fox News story about atheists “de-baptizing” themselves with hair dryers Kagin believes parents are wrong to baptize their children before they are able to make their own choices, even slamming some religious education as “child abuse.” He said the blast of hot air was a way for adults to undo what their parents [...]
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Julian Sanchez v. Ron Rosenbaum

July 4th, 2010
Julian Sanchez offers a thoughtful response to Ron Rosenbaum’s horrible Agnostic’s Manifesto. But when I say that I think there is no God, I don’t mean anything so grandiose. I mean just that I see no good reason to think that there is, and that all the various stories told about deities appear to me [...]
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Ron Rosenbaum doesn’t know

June 28th, 2010
Ron Rosenbaum has written a manifesto for agnostics in Slate. I tried to read it all, but could only bring myself to skim after this part (which appears very early): Atheists display a credulous and childlike faith, worship a certainty as yet unsupported by evidence—the certainty that they can or will be able to explain [...]
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The WWII atheism boom in Britain

June 1st, 2010
Epiphenom looks at some data from WWII Britain and theorizes that greater social mobility led to a sudden rise in atheism. Women helping out with the war effort often ended up in unfamiliar areas of the country. One result of this freedom was that women born between 1914-1924 were twice as likely to have had [...]
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Religion makes little difference in your sex life

April 28th, 2010
Recent study: Religious identification doesn’t have much affect on the sex lives of college students. Though there is a bit of a difference when actual beliefs are considered rather than just self-identification as christian or whatever. There are lots of other good nuggets in the story, like: Atheists and agnostics do fantasize more than religious [...]
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National day of blasphemy?

April 16th, 2010
So, a federal judge has ruled that the national day of prayer is unconstitutional. There is no way in hell that this ruling will survive, so it’s not that big a deal. Daniel at Unreasonable Faith has an excellent suggestion though: A national day of blasphemy! I’m always a fan of fixing problems with more [...]
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I’ll take care of your dog after you’ve vanished, like a jerk

August 17th, 2009
When all the Christian fundies are raptured into their celestial paradise, and all of us evil unbelievers are left on the earth to be destroyed, what will happen to all the believer’s pets? Just think — millions of homeless pets left to starve to d...
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Christians Disappearing

March 9th, 2009
The survey of more than 54,000 people conducted between February and November of last year showed that the percentage of Americans identifying as Christians has dropped to 76 percent of the population, down from 86 percent in 1990. Those who do call themselves Christian are more frequently describing themselves as “nondenominational” “evangelical” or “born again,” [...]
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