This awesome sign was spotted in the DC Metro. (source)
This pretty much speaks for itself.
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How Godlessness Is Increasing With Each New Generation -
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
“Circumstances predict religiousness. Difficult circumstances lead more strongly to people being religious. And in religious societies and in difficult circumstances, religious people are happier than nonreligious people. But in nonreligious societies or more benign societies where many people’s needs are met, religious people aren’t happier — everyone’s happier.” —
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 solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders, we are not going to be judged.” —
Czeslaw Milosz
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Why we’re skipping church, according to The Onion.
The biggest reason for most of us non-believers (i.e., it’s all a load of bunk) isn’t represented, but it’s The Onion, so I’ll let it slide.
Neil deGrasse Tyson to host sequel to Carl Sagan's Cosmos -
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 on FOX, which is pretty much unprecedented for a science documentary series, with encore airings on the National Geographic Channel, which will help produce the series.
There’s only one downside to this story, though: you’ll have to wait ‘til 2013 to see it.
It’s time again, to spend time with your atheist loved-ones, drink, carouse, or just finally come out to your parents.
Because nothing warms my heart like a good story about evolution :)