By: BillyBob Do you want to interact with fellow atheists but are reluctant to do so because you live in Bangladesh or a similar theocratic country, or do you want to blow the whistle on corporate malfeasance? Recently, in the news are stories about atheists and activists being persecuted in … Continue reading
An Atheist in the Christian’s Den
By: Justin Trottier While it’s always enjoyable to interact with fellow freethinkers and skeptics, there’s no better test of the validity of your point of view or the quickness of your wits than to be surrounded by an audience not already committed to your worldview. This week I had the … Continue reading
Howard Stern vs Kirk Cameron
By: BillyBob One of my favourite YouTube critiques of the religious right is Howard Stern taking on Kirk Cameron’s claim that religious rights are being curtailed in the United States. Richard Dawkins or Jerry Coyne could present logical and reasoned arguments to refute Kirk Cameron’s claims, but I prefer Stern’s … Continue reading
A Reason to Celebrate
by Eschaton 2012 The World Is Probably Not Ending. So Stop Worrying and Celebrate Reason @ Eschaton2012! Thanks to a generous donation, CFI Canada has been able to reduce the price for the full conference (for a limited time, while supplies last) to just $250 ($200 for CFI members). This … Continue reading
The Most Perverse Religious Rite?
By Billybob Religious practices run the gambit of weird: eating bits of your god and drinking his blood, cutting the heads off chickens, wearing hair shits, sitting on the top of a pole and a plethora of other strange rites. But there is one ritual that rules over all the … Continue reading
The Facts Don’t Matter
By Billybob The stupid it hurts. I don’t think it is possible for an idea to directly cause physical pain, but the creationists are working to prove otherwise. The following quote comes from an Answers in Genesis article entitled “A Tour of the Creation Museum: Starting Points”: Creationists and evolutionists … Continue reading
Atheism + Dogma = Religion
By Billybob I want my word back! Atheism is the lack of belief in a god or gods, not a social or philosophical statement of belief. The people who want to conflate social issues with atheism should find their own word. Leave atheism alone, no atheism+, latter day atheists or … Continue reading
Awesome Job Canadians!
By Godless Poutine @ My Secret Atheist Blog Canada, a country covered with snows and ices eight months of the year, inhabited by barbarians, bears and beavers. – Voltaire (1753) Celebrated eighteenth-century French Freethinker Voltaire had many choice words about the Canada of his age. I’ll grant that he’s right … Continue reading
Irish Catholics Reject Church Teachings on Sexuality
By Sigmund April 13th saw the release of a new poll: Contemporary Catholic Perspectives. Commissioned by the Association of Catholic Priests in Ireland, the survey examined the churchgoing habits of Irish Catholics but also included questions about the attitudes towards modern Church teachings such as those involving sexuality as well … Continue reading
Roman Catholicism on the Decline in Ireland
By Sigmund The physicist Max Planck, in his autobiography, suggested that new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. In other words orthodox ideas, … Continue reading