This awesome sign was spotted in the DC Metro. (source)
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This pretty much speaks for itself.
Straylight Run - “With God on Our Side”
The reason for fighting
I never got straight
But I learned to accept it
Accept it with pride
For you don’t count the dead
When God’s on your side
I just discovered this song the other day, although it’s 5 years old (and, what’s more, it’s a cover of a Bob Dylan song from 1963), but it’s a good tune about the dangers of using religion to justify warfare. The full lyrics are in the video’s description on youtube if you click through.
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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.
Hundreds of gay and lesbian couples across New York State to marry this weekend
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 celebration of the occasion, while some couples are being wed there at midnight. Anyone who’s non-religious should care about this, since it represents a step forward in the larger battle to move past the antiquated, progress-stifling moral values of Christianity and other religions.
How to Start a Cult
Here’s an entertaining and satirical video. Some of the things it mentions are pretty legit persuasion techniques, too.
