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Bookmark Godless grifters: How the New Atheists merged with the far right |…
It was inspiring — really inspiring.

June 18 2021, 6:55am | Comments
Bookmark Why humans find it hard to do away with religion
The new atheists decry religion as a poisonous set of lies. But what if a belief in the supernatural is natural?

January 27 2016, 11:02am | Comments
Bookmark Where Memes Really Come From
Though history will probably remember Richard Dawkins as the activist who spearheaded a new atheist movement, there is something far more famous and important that he invented — and few people…

January 29 2013, 3:08pm | Comments
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Atheists as "Other": Moral Boundaries and Cultural Membership - http://t.co/ePMMKhgW #PDF via @3qd

March 30 2012, 7:00am | Comments
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Does It Matter Whether God Exists?

March 23 2012, 1:51am | Comments
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The Enlightenment, Naturalism, And The Secularization Of Values

March 20 2012, 11:20am | Comments
Bookmark The God wars
Atheism is just one-third of this exotic ideological cocktail. Secularism, the political wing of the movement, is another third. Neo-atheists often assume that the two are the same thing; in fact,…

March 7 2012, 2:42pm | Comments
Bookmark Does Pinker’s “Better Angels” Undermine Religious Morality?
It is often argued that religion makes individuals and the world more just and moral, that it builds character and provides a foundation from which we understand right from wrong, good…

November 2 2011, 6:58am | Comments
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Atheists, theists, and gnostics, oh my!

October 24 2011, 4:36pm | Comments
Metafilter F**k Statistics Statistical analysis of OKCupid profiles exposes some sexually fascinating revelations: Herbivores like giving oral more than omnivores Twitter users are more likely to masturbate today Christians and Atheists are just as likely to claim they have never masturbated The correlation between men who…

August 31 2011, 6:05am | Comments
Bookmark Secularism and Its Discontents
These are theological questions without theological answers, and, if the atheist is not supposed to entertain them, then, for slightly different reasons, neither is the religious believer. Religion assumes that they…

August 9 2011, 3:57pm | Comments
Bookmark Chain World Videogame Was Supposed to be a Religion
How do you make a videogame that, in some sense, is a religion, especially if you’re an atheist? Rohrer began by defining the sort of spiritual practice that interested him, which…

July 24 2011, 4:03am | Comments
Bookmark Heaven for Atheists
It’s human nature, I suppose, to want to survive, to resist succumbing to the same fate all living things do. It’s the reason we write books, create art, have children—we’re hardwired…

July 4 2011, 9:01am | Comments
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'Atheist Extremism' is a strange phrase. The Pope scolding those of us who would have seen his Holy ass arrested gu.com/p/2jmjy/ip

September 16 2010, 4:25pm | Comments
Bookmark The rise of the new agnostics
Let's get one thing straight: Agnosticism is not some kind of weak-tea atheism. Agnosticism is not atheism or theism. It is radical skepticism, doubt in the possibility of certainty, opposition to…

July 30 2010, 4:38am | Comments
Bookmark The Struggle for the (Possible) Soul of David Eagleman
There’s a struggle inside the brain of David Eagleman for the soul of David Eagleman. That is, there might be such a struggle if Eagleman’s brain believed that Eagleman had a…

July 25 2010, 7:36am | Comments
Bookmark UK government acts to prevent arrest of Pope
The UK government is said to have set in motion a law change that will prevent the Pope from being arrested when he visits the country in September. Officials in Whitehall…

July 25 2010, 7:14am | Comments
Bookmark Believe it or Not
I think I am very close to concluding that this whole “New Atheism” movement is only a passing fad—not the cultural watershed its purveyors imagine it to be, but simply one…

May 16 2010, 4:19pm | Comments
Bookmark Conceiving God: the Cognitive Origin and Evolution of Religion
Atheists like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens confront the faithful head-on, but there may be another way to dispel religious beliefs. I am not so sure about this. In my experience,…

April 4 2010, 6:56am | Comments
Bookmark The new Buddhist atheism
In God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens writes of Buddhism as the sleep of reason, and of Buddhists as discarding their minds as well as their sandals. His passionate diatribe appeared…

March 21 2010, 12:52pm | Comments
Bookmark Theology for atheists
Theology lets us talk about deep and irrational urges. This is seen by some atheists as weakness. But maybe it's a strength as well James Wood, a writer who himself has…

January 8 2010, 2:29am | Comments
Bookmark Atheism: class is a distraction
For some reasons it seems to be anathema to say that there might be an intrinsic reason for the correlation between educational level and the rejection of religion: atheism takes training,…

October 15 2009, 8:14am | Comments
Bookmark Must science declare a holy war on religion?
This fall, evolutionary biologist and bestselling author Richard Dawkins -- most recently famous for his public exhortation to atheism, "The God Delusion" -- returns to writing about science. Dawkins' new book,…

September 17 2009, 2:32am | Comments
Metafilter Ask MeFi: Atheism definition aka Philosophy 101 Is atheism the belief that there are no gods or the lack of belief in existence of gods? This is philosophy 101 but I honestly keep finding different definitions claimed by atheists. Can someone clarify? (and if my question is phrased poorly, please…

May 26 2009, 8:58am | Comments
Writing from 3quarksdaily Obama’s Address to the State of Non-belief

May 5 2009, 8:31am | Comments
Bookmark If Atheists Ruled the World | Youtube
Dramatised reading of message-board posts about atheism from Christian fundamentalist message boards

April 2 2009, 6:59am | Comments
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March 23 2009, 1:42am | Comments
Wikipedia How to Persuade an Atheist to Become Christian - wikiHow Dealing with a friend that has different beliefs than you can be frustrating for both yourself and the non-believer. Learning how to deal with it can be extremely difficult and you might want to convert them.

November 13 2007, 2:39am | Comments

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