September 2011
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August 2011
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How Godlessness Is Increasing With Each New... →
In the generation born since 1982, variously referred to as Generation Y, the Millennials, or Generation Next, one in five people identify as nonreligious, atheist, or agnostic. In the youngest cohort, the trend is even more dramatic: as many as 30% of those born since 1990 are nonbelievers
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“Circumstances predict religiousness. Difficult circumstances lead more strongly...”
– psychologist Ed Diener, on findings from a recent Gallup World Poll
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“A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death—the huge...”
– Czeslaw Milosz
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Neil deGrasse Tyson to host sequel to Carl Sagan's... →
This should be pretty exciting news to any Carl Sagan fans and/or science nerds out there. Astrophysicist (and non-believer) Neil deGrasse Tyson is signed on to host Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which will be developed by Ann Druyan and Steve Soter, both of whom worked on the original Cosmos, along with Family Guy creator (and fellow atheist) Seth McFarlane. The new Cosmos will air in primetime...
July 2011
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Second Annual A-Day →
It’s time again, to spend time with your atheist loved-ones, drink, carouse, or just finally come out to your parents.
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Urban Evolution →
Because nothing warms my heart like a good story about evolution :)
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Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples across New... →
I haven’t gotten around to posting anything about gay marriage becoming legal in New York State yet, and now’s a good time to do so. Here’s a recent article from the New York Times about the hundreds of couples who are planning on getting married this Sunday, the first day that gay marriage will be legal in the state. Niagara Falls is lighting up in rainbow colors tonight in...
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“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep...”
– Carl Sagan
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June 2011
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“Many Christians today may think that the canon of the New Testament simply...”
– Bart Ehrman, in Misquoting Jesus
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There Are 10 Times As Many Atheists as Mormons:... →
Here’s a good article on the politics of religious belief (and non-belief) by Adam Lee at alternet.
American politics clearly has a “stained-glass ceiling,” a de facto barrier to atheists running for office. Despite the many great Americans who’ve been nonbelievers, despite the guarantees of secularism written into our Constitution, outspoken atheism is still seen as...
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"Secular" is Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day →
Here’s an interesting tidbit from the Rock Beyond Belief website. Merriam-Webster sends out daily “word of the day” emails, and today’s entry is “secular.” What’s more interesting is that they include a quote from a NYT article about the Rock Beyond Belief and its organizer, Sgt. Justin Griffith, as an example of how to use the word:
“In...
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“I am going to give you the truth about the afterlife. Pay attention because...”
– Todd B. Kashdan, here
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Ah, the joys of summertime
Sorry for not being very active on here over the past couple weeks. Since my semester ended and the summer started, I haven’t done much of anything, except hang out, eat, sleep, and play video games (L.A. Noire and Demon’s Souls, mainly). I’ve realized that over the last academic year, posting on here had become my form of relaxing/escaping/procrastinating, and for some reason...
May 2011
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Dear Religious People... →
You wonder the difference between religion and science? You say they’re both based on “belief”? That may be true - but there is one monumental difference: a scientific theory collapses under disproof (evolution would fail if rabbits were found in the precambrian) - religion never collapses because it can change at any moment. That is, of course, because it isn’t true....
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When Did It Become Cool To Be Atheist? →
7akash:
Damon Fowler graduated from high school on Friday the 20th, and it was anything but a joyous occasion. Fowler is an atheist, living directly in the heart of the Bible Belt, Louisiana. It was widely known that a moment of prayer would be held during the ceremony. Well, Bastrop High School is a public school, making such actions illegal. Fowler felt uncomfortable with this, and went to...
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“In our case, as the distinguished astronomer and former president of the Royal...”
– Richard Dawkins, here
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“I got brought up being told things were God’s way, and when things...”
– Brad Pitt, here
(relevant: Celebrity Atheist List)
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“I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components...”
– Stephen Hawking, here
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WatchDr. Andy Thomson, who gave this excellent talk at a past AAI convention, has recently written a book, Why We Believe in God(s), about the psychological and neurological reasons for humans’ religious tendencies. In this short video, he describes the book, his reasons for writing it, and his hopes for what readers will take away from it. You can also get the book from RichardDawkins.net.
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“The SCOTUS rulings have firmly stated that the government can’t promote religion...”
– Sgt. Justin Griffith, here
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“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.”
– Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
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WatchHere’s the Daily Show interview of revisionist historian David Barton that I mentioned in my last post (you can find the rest of the interview in these clips: 1, 2, 3).
This scumbag continues to have a significant negative impact on the quality, accuracy, and honesty of historical knowledge and education in our country. I’m glad that Jon Stewart did his best to call him out on some...
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“There has always been some homosexuality in the world, of course, but now it is...”
– Harold Camping, the fundamentalist responsible for the prediction that judgment day will be May 21, in this interesting Washington Post article
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