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I’ll take care of your dog after you’ve vanished, like a jerk

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

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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Big Tent Atheism?

Boing Boing guest blogger Paul Spinrad has issued something of a challenge to activist atheists. Firstly, he offers up this insight: In politics, I think there are two competing motivations for voters to support a cause publicly. One is to influence the majority to agree, to make changes that you believe in, and the other is to distinguish [...]
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Scott Dikkers of The Onion

Turns out that editor-in-chief of The Onion is a thoughtful, well-spoken atheist. Not surprising, really. Here’s a talk he gave about atheism. The best line in it is this: People now have the option to just believe whatever they want–just make something up–it doesn’t matter if it’s not substantiated. And that hurts the rest of us. IMO, [...]
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Positive Positions

Readers of Andrew Sullivan make the point I tried to make in my last post much more articulately. But then other readers of his come back to make confounding statements like this one: You gotta live somewhere, and you gotta believe in something, because your beliefs are being expressed every day in how you live your [...]
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Ross Douthat Tries to Rebut the Teapot Analogy

Ross Douthat offers a counter-argument to the Teapot Analogy and the Flying Spaghetti Monster. The story of our civilization, in particular, is a story in which an extremely large circle of non-insane human beings have perceived themselves to be experiencing an interaction with a being who seems recognizable as the Judeo-Christian God here I do feel [...]
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Why Aren’t American Atheists Nice?

Why are American atheists unhappy and mean? Suprise! It might be religion’s fault. American atheists, by contrast, are often left out of community life. The studies that Brooks cites in Gross National Happiness, which find that the religious are happier and more generous then the secular, do not define religious and secular in terms of belief. [...]
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There’s Probably No God. Relax.

via Andrew Sullivan
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