Thursday, November 29, 2012

Atheist Sexual Morality

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beliefnet One of the reasons to side with the atheists in matters of sexual morality is that the atheist community is far superior to at ...
Monday, November 26, 2012

Why men are losing

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The war on men By Suzanne Venker Worth skimming to "Feminism serves men well: they can have sex ... with no responsibilities whatsoe...
Friday, October 26, 2012

Sports and Drugs. In re Lance Armstrong trashing.

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  When the option is to drug or drop out of the sport you love and are good at at the top level, Which was most sports in the 80s and 90s....
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Wednesday, October 24, 2012

Bigotry and Retards

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An Open Letter to Ann Coulter Posted on October 23, 2012 by Tim Shriver John Franklin Stephens The following is a gu...
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Saturday, October 20, 2012

Atheist Living

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Beliefnet It is almost impossible to not be moral and compassionate if you are an atheist as there is no alternative.  You have no choice...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

The Gish Gallop

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beliefnet As I demonstrated earlier in this thread, all the founders of the major branches of science were Christians, modern hospitals...
Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Retroactive Culture Change - Fail.

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September 30, 2012 The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture” 96 Comments Most of us are familiar with...
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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Free Will and Religion

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beliefnet Why am I misunderstanding freewill? Let's cut to the chase. People make choices. These choices have various levels of ...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012

From Bible-Belt Pastor to Atheist Leader

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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/26/magazine/from-bible-belt-pastor-to-atheist-leader.html?hpw After a few quick searches with the terms “pa...
Sunday, August 19, 2012

An Atheist on Woo-woo

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This atheist is immune to woo-woo as I have no need for a focus at all, within or without. My focus is to get from one day to the next in c...
Friday, August 17, 2012

Natural Spirituality

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Atheists know better, and recognize this sense of wonder and profound truth as a natural reaction of the mind/brain to reinforce critically ...
Friday, August 10, 2012

An Atheist on Tillich

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Tillich, op. cit., pp. 20-21 -- "Philosophy necessarily asks the question of reality as a whole, the question of the structure of being...
Friday, August 3, 2012

The Creator of the Universe!

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There is no creator, and even if there were there is no god that could be identified with it. I am the Creator of the Universe due to my...
Sunday, July 29, 2012

Social Humanism

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It is self-evident that atheism rejects a dualist worldview. But that is only the starting point for the worldview of an atheist. Material...
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Friday, July 27, 2012

Conditional Radical Respect

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beliefnet Atheists are frequently accused of having no moral standards because moral standards are more diffuse and driven by intelligent ...
Sunday, July 15, 2012

Why an Atheist

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beliefnet I was raised in a Unitarian family, and one of the features of UU RE is the study of other religions, ostensibly to broaden our s...
Friday, July 13, 2012

Spiritual but Not Religious

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beliefnet however, I believe "spiritual but not religious" will replace organized religion. Aka_me Spiritual but not religious...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Post enlightenment social values

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beliefnet post-"Enlightenment" (supposedly) Autnomous "Modern" Humans, who value The Individual SELF above almost anyo...
Monday, June 25, 2012

Miniver Cheevy: Consent

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Miniver Cheevy: Consent Thinking about the rules of the game of Lets Get Laid. The following comment appearing there is dependent on that ...
Saturday, June 23, 2012

Gender Inclusive Pronouns

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Back in the mid 20th Century the feminist movement tried with some success to ban the generic use of "men" and "man" as ...

A Buddhist on immortality

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beliefnet I didn't have a lot of words of comfort for my dad then, but if he were here now, I'd tell him: you are going to live ...
Monday, June 4, 2012

Reality

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beliefnet Funny thing is that reality has a "liberal bias". Steven Guy
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Christianity is not a Force for an Ideal Society

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Christianity (like most other religions) is used in two ways: to justify all the prejudices and power imbalances of society as it stands, or...
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Tuesday, April 24, 2012

The Nuns they are a changing

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Tony Auth
Monday, April 16, 2012

Pain and God

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beliefnet Pain is not necessarily bad, but pain caused by another human whether physical or mental is bad, in fact positively immoral for ...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Apolitical Atheists?

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beliefnet Yet I also think that atheists would do well to steer clear of American politics. American politics is corrupt, the gambolin...
Monday, April 2, 2012

On Prejudice

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Prejudice. During those years I came to understand that there is a difference between prejudice and bigotry. Prejudice is exactly what it s...
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Sunday, March 25, 2012

Is Homosexuality Natural in Late Adolescent Men?

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I LOVE PENIS! Facebook post of 17yo. male. The thought occurred to me that if 17yo males didn't love penis, we wouldn't have armies...
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Sunday, March 11, 2012

The Future of the Religious Right

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beliefnet As the religious right is systematically destroying the education and hence competitiveness of their children in the secular wor...
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Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Jesus, Theistic Humanist

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Beliefnet So what do you think was "out of the box"? Ken In the context of the time The Two Great Commandments were downrigh...
Saturday, March 3, 2012

On Apologies. Limbaugh Attempt.

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In this instance, I chose the wrong words in my analogy of the situation. I did not mean a personal attack on Ms. Fluke,” Too little, too l...
Thursday, March 1, 2012

Atheism Elevator Speech

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Atheism is simply figuring out a way to "Live a life worth dying for"* without supernatural help in the form of Gods or afterlife ...
Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Uncertainty in Unbelief.

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beliefnet I, a life-long, wholly dedicated believer in God and one who thinks he has a reasonable basis for that belief, do not think tha...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Cradle Atheists

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beliefnet I am not sure if I've really met any "cradle atheists." Larosser You probably wouldn't know it if you had. ...
Sunday, February 19, 2012

What is an Atheist?

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beliefnet An atheist is a person who does not believe in God, gods or goddesses. Some atheists have considered the reasons, such as th...
Saturday, February 18, 2012

Atheist Communities.

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beliefnet If we define community as "a free and voluntary gathering of individuals with shared goals and interests -- of persons who ...
Friday, February 17, 2012

On Nietzsche

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beliefnet I have never been a Nietzschean, atheist or otherwise. That said, Nietzsche was one of the first to articulate the fact that i...
Sunday, February 5, 2012

On Athiest Priests.

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beliefnet I was part of a Requiem sung for a good Catholic friend. There was no hypocrisy there, for the duration of the requiem I was a...
Saturday, February 4, 2012

Alex and Kevin Black - Amazing Grace

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Fantastic even for a proud papa and grandpa.

Moral Rules, Community Standards and Conscience.

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beliefnet If we are to make any sense of this topic, Morality, we must distinguish between moral behavior and moral rules. Moral behavi...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

Was Jesus Extraordinary?

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beliefnet As you know I use the Jefferson Bible as my main source for the details of the ministry of Jesus, mixed with my own analysis of ...
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Thursday, January 12, 2012

"The Book of Goddesses: Robert Paterson has arrived!!!

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Even more spectacular than I anticipated. The idiom of the Goddess believers in the unique idiom of Rob Paterson, is incredibly beautiful a...
Sunday, January 8, 2012

Atheists for Jesus

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Atheists for Jesus Of course Jesus was a theist, but that is the least interesting thing about him. He was a theist because, in his time, ...
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Sunday, January 1, 2012

Practical Atheism and Feminism.

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beliefnet Both Skep-Chick and Blag Hag are also feminist sites in addition to atheist sites. Perhaps as both claim, of necessity, but th...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

Atheism and Existentialism

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beliefnet Human Social Development ISN'T a deeply Existential Matter ... ??? teilhard Only for those whose God has failed them. If t...
Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Music on a Vuvuzela

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Vuvuzela Music FAQ When people first time try out a vuvuzela, they tend to look at the mouthpiece, see the hole, blow some air into it and ...
Wednesday, December 7, 2011

A Christian asks about Dying

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Beliefnet I hope you followed the link to legacy it should explain much. With nothing expected after death, you look backward, if you ha...
Monday, December 5, 2011

The Book of Goddesses: Robert Paterson

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The facinating background on the upcomming release of the new CD Dec 6 Use CDbaby it is more fun and better for the artists. My guess: it...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Absolute Moral Authority.

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beliefnet The Bible has indeed been RECEIVED ais "Authoritative" ... This is so not least because an entire Community has receiv...

Dogs and people.

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Afghans generally consider dogs filthy animals and will use them to guard their homes, but they don't treat them the way Americans treat...