Category: Atheism
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Defend South Park!
by Jason Stotts I am a big fan of South Park and have been since I started watching the show, over a decade ago. Unfortunately, now, the creators of South Park, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, have had an informal “fatwa” issued against them. While it’s not an “official threat,” I side with Ayaan Hirsi…
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Freedom From Religion
by Jason Stotts The Freedom from Religion Foundation has a scholarship contest running now about, you guessed it, freedom from religion. In case you’ve never heard of them, their “about FFRF” is: The history of Western civilization shows us that most social and moral progress has been brought about by persons free from religion. In…
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Mr. Deity and the Really Hard Time
by Jason Stotts If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Mr. Deity’s new video “Mr. Deity and the Really Hard Time.” I think it’s an amazingly funny video with problems stemming from both the epistemological and metaphysical problems associated with time, existence, and “creation” by a god.
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Religion Kills Over Sex Again
by Jason Stotts Unequivocally, the greatest and most harmful result of the irrationality of religion is its hatred, absolute and unmitigated, of sex. There is nothing religion hates more than our human nature, especially our sexual nature. Religion arises as an answer to fundamental psychological needs, among these needs are those for psychological continuity and…
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Say Justice
by Jason Stotts In case you haven’t seen it yet, Craig Biddle of The Objective Standard has a really nice little essay up about “saying grace” at Thanksgiving dinner called: “Don’t Say Grace, Say Justice.“ One thing I’d like to point out to my more rational readers is that if your family still doesn’t know that…
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The Truth about Christianity
by Jason Stotts I saw this poster on Tumblr (without attribution) and I couldn’t resist putting it up here. In case you can’t read the poster, it says: CHRISTIANITY: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as…
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Religulous
by Jason Stotts I have been meaning to see the movie Religulous for quite some time now, but I never got around to it. I was partly put off by so many people tell me that it wasn’t a good movie and that it didn’t have much content: that it was just Bill Maher making…
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The Christians are Burning Witches (Again)
by Jason Stotts It sometimes seems like we are doomed to repeat history. Everything from the complete failure of socialism in Russia, to the hyperinflation of Germany in the 1920’s, and now the Salem Witch Trials. The Associated Press is reporting in the LA Times that Christians are again burning witches, although this time it’s…