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Why the Communist Argument Fails

by OneSTDV
Over at Friendly Atheist, Hemant posted this video featuring a dialogue about atheism. The religious participants offer trite arguments concerning atheism’s supposed intolerance. At 1:57, a religious think tank commenter drudges up Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao as evidence for the purported terror associated with atheism. This exceedingly simplistic and reductionist argument belies the [...]

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Fight Dogma, Not Religion

by Teleprompter
As the number and visibility of atheists and other freethinkers increases, some spectators have questioned whether atheists are becoming more fundamentalist.
Let chaos ensue: how does one judge who is fundamentalist and who is not? What does it mean to be a fundamentalist — are vegetarians, environmental activists or gun rights supporters fundamentalists, too? Where [...]

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I’m a Bigoted Atheist

by Custador
I, Custador, am a bigoted atheist.
I had an email from my cousin this morning. He’s a born-again UK Baptist. And, as I now know, he’s an IDiot — hisis new email sign-off is a Ben Stein quote from “Intelligence Not Allowed” about how flawed Darwinism is.
What scares me silly is that he’s a teacher [...]

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Thoughts from an Abortion Doctor

This is a guest post by an abortion doctor. Her name has been removed to protect her and her family.
I’d like to share some of my thoughts with you regarding abortion. I’m a doctor who does both 1st and 2nd trimester abortions.
Although most of my practice is general OB/GYN, I’m something of an abortion “specialist” [...]

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Losing My Faith: David and the Sai Baba Conglomerate

by Ernst Hayim
Early in 2005, I found out that god was in fact, a pedophile. Curiously, this discovery occurred through an expose on the Internet by a British pianist I had met in India several years ago.
David was a staunch devotee then and we had both belonged to the Sai Baba cult. He had grown [...]

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I Needed A Job, And Xenu Was Hiring

by Shéa Bennett

I recently had a job interview for an IT position with the Church of Scientology.
Let me explain. I wasn’t aware of my potential employer going in. The company in the advertisement was Narconon, who bill themselves as “the world’s most successful drug rehab,” and apparently have been in the business of narcotic rehabilitation [...]

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Why Are So Few Christians Vegetarian?

by VJ
Why are so few Christians vegetarian?
I meet vegetarians from all walks of life except this one. In my three teenage years in the Church of Christ, I never saw anyone eating vegetarian. (Except by the happenstance that homemade ice cream and desserts usually contain no meat.) Christians claim to care about life (leaving out [...]

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Morality Without Invisible Support

by Lukeprog
“Without God, how can you have objective moral values?”
Many atheists roll their eyes at this. Of course moral values can exist without God. We don’t need God to tell us that rape and murder are wrong.
But when atheists are pressed to explain precisely how objective moral values exist, they have a hard time with [...]

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