Islam Debate: Is Islam a Religion of Peace?

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Bertrand Russell's "China Teapot"

Dealing with the Christian who made me cool with being an atheist...

Quirinius, where art thou?

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When WAS Jesus Born?

ProfMTH explores the contradictions and inaccuracies of the date of Jesus' birth.

If Only...

Tarte--Follow-up to Woodridge Bapt. Church video

Brazos Valley Atheist Vuvuzela Band, Followup

Scientology - THE BROADWAY MUSICAL!!!

Is Christian Persecution New?

AronRa's afterthoughts of the Hitchens VS Dembski Debate

Atheist Self Defense

Religion -- The Bad Parent

Rant: Idiots Who Flip (NSFW)

Skeptic Michael Shermer on Atheism, Happiness, and the Free Market

Richard Dawkins Speaking at Duke University

Christians Hire Stalker-Truck for Atheist Bus Ads

http://atheism.about.com/b/2010/12/07/christians-hire-stalker-truck-for-atheist-bus-ads.htm

Why Does A Loving God Send People To Hell?

Discovering Religion

Stockholm Syndrome - Greydon Square

An awesome atheist rap song.

The Empty Cross: Why Jesus Didn't Exist

THERE IS NO PROOF JESUS EVER EXISTED. Who really wrote the New Testament? Why do the gospels conflict on basic elements of the Jesus tale? Why does the Jesus tale have so much in common with previous savior gods we know are mythical? Who created the mythical Jesus, and who decided to turn Jesus into an "Historical Figure?" Based on the most contemporary research, "The Empty Cross: Why Jesus Didn't Exist" answers all these questions and more.

No Historical Evidence

Just a sampling of the many historical errors and incredibilities contained in the New Testament.

The Real Jesus

Reveals both the true origin of Christianity and how the Jesus Tale was derived from earlier myths.

Many Gods in Israel

Despite what the Bible and religious authorities prefer us to believe, the people of Israel originally worshipped a pantheon of gods. The evolution to monotheism (singling out one of these gods, Yahweh, for sole worship) is traced from its inception.

Timeline To a Historical Jesus

How the emerging "Christ Schools" were affected by the Diaspora and a conflict between two Jewish sects over which of them would produce the Messiah, leading to the creation of a mythical Jesus. . . and, finally, revealing the secret of who decided to change Jesus into an historical figure!

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"God is better than the book!" - The Atheist Experience #668

Hitchens: Get Ready

TheOtherSide100 explains how some Christians show their true colors when shit happens to atheists, especially with the recent news of Christopher Hitchens being treated with esophageal cancer. The truth is that these types of Christians are the most selfish, vile, vindictive, assholes of all.

Theists who claim they were atheists. Yeah right....

What Genesis Got Wrong by brettppalmer

An awesome series created by Youtube user brettppalmer.
http://www.youtube.com/user/brettppalmer

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Final Thoughts on Kalam

A thought about Noah's Flood

Urban Legends episode 2: Einstein proves God

VoodooSixxx takes a stab at the assertion that Albert Einstein proves "god".

What Atheists Can Learn from the LGBT Movement :: 2010 Secular Student Alliance Annual Conference

Keynote Speaker Greta Christina discusses what the atheist movement learn from the LGBT movement? The atheist movement is already modeling itself on the LGBT movement in many ways: most obviously with its focus on coming out of the closet. What else can the Atheist movement learn from the LGBT movement both from its successes and its failures? For those who have heard Greta Christina speak at SSA conferences in the past: this is a longer, significantly more fleshed-out version of the talk she gave at both Stanford and Harvard. In this talk, Greta discusses coming out; making atheism a safe place to come out into; defusing the ongoing battles between the firebrands and the diplomats in our movement; avoiding squabbles about language and self-definition; making our movement more diverse; preparing for success and the mainstreaming that will almost certainly accompany it; and other lessons that can be learned from the history of the LGBT movement.

Why Do Atheists "Witness"?

The faith of idiots

Pat Condell goes in on Christianity once again. ^__^

Three Things About Islam (Mirror)

This is a video I mirrored a while ago to help others understand what they're getting into when they debate Muslims.

Do YOU Know Your Bible? (Part 15)

Muslims in Switzerland. Wife beating and sex in Islam,veil, sharia law, brainwashing of children

Top 10 Qu'ran Quotes Every Woman Must See

http://infidelsarecool.com/2008/01/11/top-10-quran-quotes-every-woman-must-see/

If a Muslim apologist tries to tell you that Islam supports women's rights, they're lying. Plain and simple.

Proof that Atheism is True

Coughlan666 answers the question asked by a Christian Youtuber named Shockofgod.

Do You Know Your Bible? (Part 14)

The Nephilimfree Challenge!

Jack on Corinthians

Christian Apologists Are Not Historians-Robert M Price

Penn & Teller: Bullshit - Boy Scouts of America

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Science Is A Religion?

Jesus Has Left the Building, Part 4 (Celsus, Lucian, and Thallus)

The fourth episode in a series examining the historicity of Jesus Christ.

"Thallus: An Analysis" by Richard Carrier: http://www.infidels.org/library/moder...

TA1: ego states & basic transactions

First in a series on TA. This first video looks at the Parent, Adult and Child states, and basic transactions.
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Recommended TA texts:
1) Ian Stewart & Vann Joines: 'TA Today: A New Introduction To Transactional Analysis'
2) Thomas A Harris: 'I'm OK, You're OK'
3) Eric Berne: 'Games People Play'

Empire State Building Refuses To Honor Mother Teresa

Mother Teresa was a heartless bitch, who stole money that was supposed to help the poor, and got off on their suffering. I'm glad that the Empire State Building refused to honor this evil bitch.

Kalam vs Age of the Earth?

In Your Word Part 2

Evolution and Souls

Heaven and Hell

Does It Matter What's Real?

On Speaking In Tongues

Get Off the Cross!

It's Not Just The Catholics!

http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/its_not_just_the_catholics.php

Bill Donohue will be so relieved. Here's a story about a youn girl being raped, her assailant protected by the church, and the girl herself getting all the blame…and it's the Baptists! Tina Anderson was raped by Ernest Willis, a Trinity Baptist Church member, when she was 15, and got pregnant. She accused Willis in the church, and here's what happened:

When the pastor heard Anderson's allegations, he told her that if she had "lived in the Old Testament," she would have been stoned to death for not reporting the attack sooner.

"He also said I had 'allowed myself to be put in a compromising situation,' Anderson said. The pastor decided she needed to be "church-disciplined."

"I was completely humiliated," Anderson said, her voice quavering at the memory. "I hoped it was a nightmare I'd wake up from, and it wouldn't be true anymore."

"Church discipline" apparently means sending the victim out of state and asking all church members silent, not bringing the matter to secular authorities. They stayed quiet for 13 years.

Meanwhile, Tina Anderson went on with her life, got married, had kids, and took a job as a music teacher at a Baptist college. When she was contacted by investigators tracking down the case, though, she did something remarkable: she woke up to how she'd been abused.

"I was kind of in shock, but I just answered his questions," Anderson said. "Everything is changing because I'm seeing the things I was taught for so many years are not necessarily correct. It's almost like I had blinders on, believing all of this was my fault."

This is beautiful; this is what it is like to free yourself of religion.

"If they're not dealt with, the cycle will continue," said Anderson, who resigned from the Baptist college the day before Willis was arrested. "I do not, anymore, unquestioningly obey authority, which is what they would teach."

You Are Not Special II - The Revenge

Police Your Own

Teachers Suspended for Sprinkling 'Holy' Water on Atheist Colleague

Blind Belief Does Cause Harm (& Update)

Is Adultry Really A Crime/Sharia Law

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The Importance of Unbelief

Words of wisdom from Stephen Fry:

Question: What philosophers influenced you?

Stephen Fry: Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech you know you sometimes hear it hilariously. They say, “Oh, it’s never good to be late.” “That’s my philosophy.” You think that’s a generous description of that rather dull precept to call it a philosophy, but it’s odd how philosophers generally speaking, at least the ones I’ve read or the ones I you know value, don’t have in that sense a philosophy. There is no particular Socratic or Dimechian or Kantian way to live your life. They don’t offer ethical codes and standards by which to live your life. They don’t offer a philosophy to follow. They just simply raise an enormous number of questions mostly, so in the sense that you put the question is there a philosopher that’s important to me. Well I me I loved really the sort of the Bertrand Russell grand sort of tour of philosophy, the history of philosophy from the pre Socratics as they’re called, Zeno and so on through to Socrates and Plato and Aristotle. I never quite liked Aristotle. I think that’s partly… Although he was obviously a genius and brilliant and he invented logic, so what’s not to like. I think it was his influence on the medieval mind was probably rather pernicious and unfortunate and all those categories and things, but when it opened up with I suppose Spinoza and them, but then Kant and the enlightenment era. Oh and actually Locke. I did like Locke. He was a fine philosopher, but they don’t… I mean what is so great about them is that they just… They’re quite scary when you think of the word philosopher and especially if it’s logic and symbolic logic and it gets onto Hegelian philosophies, incredibly difficult to read I find and you follow it for about… Well it’s like trying to grab a salmon. You know the harder you clutch at it the more it springs, slips out of your hand and whoa, it’s gone and you chase it again and what was that and you feel very stupid, but the… I think the beauty of questioning and simplicity that you get from Kant in particular I think is just amazing because it’s like they say of simple mathematical laws that make fractals, the tiniest little elegant observation about or question about something just spins out these immensely complex things that make you rethink everything. So yes, I think philosophy is a really important dimension, but I think in our age we tend to be rather sloppy about it. We either think Buddhism is philosophy, which you know or some sort of eastern thing about being nice and spiritual and that will do, which it’s fine. I mean you know obviously I believe in kindness and niceness and lots of spiritual things, but the real intellectual rigor and quest of logic is something that I’m afraid takes incredibly hard work and we live in an age in which hard work is if not actively deprecated or denigrated it is run away from or ignored. It’s sort of people frown at you and say, “Well, that’s a bit dull and stupid. Why can’t we just short circuit it and talk about like spirit?” Well yeah, you can say spirit, but if you think that’s philosophy and if you think that’s good enough.

The most important philosophy I think is that even if it isn’t true you must absolutely assume there is no afterlife. You cannot for one second I think, abbragate the responsibility of believing that this is it because if you think you’re going to have an eternity in which you can talk to Mozart and Chopin and Schopenhauer on a cloud and learn stuff and you know really get to grips with knowledge and understanding and so you won’t bother now. I think it’s a terrible, a terrible mistake. It may be that there is an afterlife and I’ll look incredibly stupid, but at least I will have had a crammed pre afterlife, a crammed life, so to me the most important thing is you know as Kipling put it, to fill every 60 seconds with you know what is it? To fill every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run. You know absolutely, so that’s all I’m saying I suppose. Is that there is no point wasting time being lazy, though of course indolence in a divine way, actually has its advantages. Oh, shut up Steve. Okay, next one.

Question: What do you believe?

Stephen Fry: It’s interesting. Atheism comes into rather a bad press and I suppose I’d rather describe myself as a humanist, who human… I don’t believe in God. I don’t believe there is a God. If I were to believe in a god l would believe in gods. I think monotheism is the really ghastly thing. That is the absolutely staggering to me misapprehension. I can perfectly see why anybody might imagine that each thing, each thing that grows, each phenomenon that we… that accompanies us on our journey through life, the sky, the mountains, spirits of nature. I can imagine why man would wish to endow them with an inner something, an inner animus that they would call the god of that thing. I can see that. It’s a beautiful and charming way of looking at it and I can understand the Greek idea that there are these you know these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense, but to say that there is one only god who made it all and who is… Yeah, that is just… What? Why? Who said? Where? Come on. And I love how when people watch I don’t know, David Attenborough or Discovery Planet type thing you know where you see the absolute phenomenal majesty and complexity and bewildering beauty of nature and you stare at it and then… and somebody next to you goes, “And how can you say there is no God?” “Look at that.” And then five minutes later you’re looking at the lifecycle of a parasitic worm whose job is to bury itself in the eyeball of a little lamb and eat the eyeball from inside while the lamb dies in horrible agony and then you turn to them and say, “Yeah, where is your God now?” You know I mean you got… You can’t just say there is a God because well, the world I beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the fact that almost all animals in the wild live under stress with not enough to eat and will die violent and bloody deaths. There is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is. The wonder of nature must be taken in its totality and it is a wonderful thing. It is absolutely marvelous and the idea that an atheist or a humanist if you want to put it that way, doesn’t marvel and wonder at reality, at the way things are, is nonsensical. The point is we wonder all the way. We don’t just stop and say that which I cannot understand I will call God, which is what mankind has done historically. That’s to say God was absolutely everything a thousand or two thousand years ago because we understood almost nothing about the natural world, so it could all be God and then as we understood more God receded and receded and receded, so suddenly now he is barely anywhere. He is just in those things we don’t understand, which are important, but I think it just is such an insult to humanity and the Greeks got it right. The Greeks understood perfectly that if there were divine beings they are capricious, unkind, malicious mostly, temperamental, envious and mostly deeply unpleasant because that you can say well yes, all right, if there is going to be god or gods then you have to admit that they’re very at the very least capricious. They’re certainly not consistent. They’re certainly not all loving. I mean really it’s just not good enough.

You know if we empower ourselves with responsibility over our actions, responsibility over our destinies and responsibility for directing and maintaining and creating our own ethical and moral frameworks, which is the most important thing really isn’t it because perhaps the greatest insult to humanism is this idea that mankind needs a god in order to have a moral framework. There is a very clear way of demonstrating logically how absurd that is because the warrant for that logical framework, for that moral framework that comes from God is always tested against man’s own morals and it’s a complicated argument, but I mean that’s you know it’s the standard one which is pretty unanswerable, but the idea that we don’t know right from wrong, but we have to take it from words put down in a book two, three, four, five, six thousand years ago and dictated to rather hotheaded neurotic desert tribes is just insulting. It’s just no, I mean you know if there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything. Wouldn’t he? If he gave us free will would he really want us to say, “No, I have to abide by everything that’s written in this book, all the laws of circumcision and of eating and of… and what to do with menstruating women?” I mean, “I’m going to obey those written down there.” “I won’t think for myself because that’s not required of me.” Come on. It’s just not good enough and you know I have no quarrel with individuals who wish… who are devout and who have faith. I don’t want to mock them. I really don’t, but damned if I’m going to be told by them what to do with my body or damned if I’m going to have the extraordinary battles won by enlightenment over the past 400 years, to have those battles abdicated by a new dark ages. It’s you know. The battle lines must be drawn.

Question: What is religion good for?

Stephen Fry: Music in its time, but I mean that’s a function of history you know. The fact is that composers always write for the power because… or power and money and it so happened that in the period when polyphony all the way through to the classical and early romantic era all the power and the money was with the church, so some great masses and some great choir music and some great oratories were written from obviously the Baroque age being the sort of pinnacle of that, but all the way through to Mozart’s final works and his requiem and Beethoven’s "Missa solemnis" and Mendelssohn and so on. There have been some marvelous religious works and in paintings similarly, but that’s because these were princes. They were princes of the church. They were prince arch bishops who employed Mozart. These were not spiritual beings who inculcated these composers with a sense of the divine that makes the music divine. The glory of Verde’s Requiem or Mozart’s Requiem or Bach’s pieces is that they are fantastic, incredibly human and like all great human’s thing they reach for the infinite. They reach for beauty. A religious person would call that the divine. You could call it the humanist. You could call it anything else, but certainly is that. Religion has been good for that and good for architecture because it is required that enormous… It required enormous buildings for the shepherding of people in, in order to do the services and they spend a lot of money on it and so they are rather glorious buildings. You’ve got to hand them that. Do they make the trains run on time? No, they didn’t do that. That’s about it really. And there are some kind individual people. I mean very kind people who give to the poor and look after the sick and so on, but it’s not necessary and sufficient as a justification for religion because there are plenty of people who are not religious who are also kind to the sick and good to the poor and care about people’s well-being.

Question: Are there religious leaders you admire?

Stephen Fry: Yes, very much so. I mean Trevor Huddleston and Archbishop Tutu from South Africa are two good examples who were both genuine men of their church, or let me see -- Huddleston is dead, but Tutu is still alive -- and who both fought a terrible injustice and used all the authority of their position amongst their believers and but very bravely spoke out and sometimes against the wishes of the church hierarchies. Some liberation theologist who are from, you know, some of them mad Communists, some of them just decent liberals who fought against the hideous doctrines of the Roman Catholic church for example, and there are individual voices who are raised in conscience against the bureaucracy and the dogma and the doctrine of the churches, and you know certainly of course individuals in, you know, Bonheoffer for example in Germany, the Lutheran minister who spoke out against Hitler. There are… Of course there have been good and fine religious people and the Dalai Lama seems rather charming. I don’t know. It’s terrible. I don’t want to come over as some terrible anti-ecclesiastical figure, but.

Recorded December 8, 2009

http://bigthink.com/ideas/17864

Jesus Has Left the Building, Part 2 (Josephus and the Talmud)

The second episode in a series examining the historicity of Jesus Christ.

Fuck The Fred Phelps Klan (Dio Tribute)

It seems the folks of the Westboro Baptist Church aren't satisfied with pissing on the families of American Soldiers and on homosexuals. Now, they're going after us, who are heavy metal fans, by planning to picked Ronnie James Dio's funeral.

Here's the news article:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Religious-extr..

An Atheist Carol

A hilarious atheist adaptation of "A Christmas Carol."

Jacob Marley - coughlan666
Ghost of Atheist Science/Ghost of Christmas Past - Rhymemaiden
Ghost of Atheist Hedonism/Ghost of Christmas Present - Dudewheresmynapalm
Ghost of Biblical Errancy/Ghost of Christmas Future - ProfMTH

Scientology - The Circus of the Stars

Abolish Religious Exemptions from the Law?

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In the United States and other countries, religious institutions have traditionally enjoyed a privileged position, i.e., they have been granted exemptions from compliance with certain laws (including, without limitation, laws against discrimination in employment and laws requiring the payment of taxes). Is it appropriate or even useful for religion to have this privileged status?

Links:

1. Regarding Christian Legal Society v. Martinez--

--the decision of the federal district court in favor of the law school

http://www.alliancealert.org/2006/200...

--the decision of the 9th Circuit affirming the trial court's ruling

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp-content/...

--SCOTUS WIKI's entry on the case (lots of information and material)

http://www.scotuswiki.com/index.php?t...

2. Archbishop Donald Wuerl's talk entitled "Religious Freedom and Marriage"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwN7RL...

3. Washington D.C.'s marriage equality and nondiscrimination law and related material

http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us...

http://www.dccouncil.washington.dc.us...

4. Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/tit...

5. McClure v. The Salvation Army (the first federal appeals court decision to recognize a "ministerial exception" to Title VII)

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_cas...

1. Wisconsin Supreme Court's use of the "ministerial exception" to dismiss an age discrimination case against a Catholic school system

http://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/Di...

2. New York Court of Appeals decision in Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Albany v. Serio

http://www.law.cornell.edu/nyctap/I06...

3. California Supreme Court's decision in Catholic Charities of Sacramento v. Superior Court (Unfortunately, I can't find a generally accessible URL for this decision. The citation is 85 P.3d 67 (2004).)

4. Jonathan Turley's Op-Ed piece entitled "When it comes to religious groups, who's really facing discrimination?"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/...

5. Employment Division v. Smith

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html...

6. Bob Jones University v. United States

http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html...

7. New York Times article on the Ocean Grove Camp Meeting Association case

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/nyr...

8. Part 1 of this video series

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5TBxC...

Texas Textbooks Headed For Rewrite

Carbon dating doesn't work -- debunked 3.WMV

My Open Letter to Thunderf00t and The Youtube Atheist Fanboys

Although I don't support religions and I strongly support human rights (freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom from religion, etc.), I feel that it's time that Thunderf00t stopped preaching to the choir and got back to making educational videos again. We have folks within the "rational thinking community", who have been sending death threats, false flaggings, and false DMCA's against other Youtube atheists for disagreeing with Pat Condell and Thunderf00t. The people doing this are being dicks and their fanboy mannerisms are hurting the atheist "community" of Youtube.

Remember The Sabbath

Are You Frickin' Serious???

Atheism makes you mentally old?

My Official "Draw Muhammad Day" Entry

Edward Tarte, former catholic priest, speaks about the sacraments

An atheist, who used to be a Roman Catholic priest (and one that doesn't sexually abuse children).

The Creepiest Christian Argument Against Abortion

Here's one of the most vile, and inhumane arguments I've ever seen against abortion:

"Atheists always use rape as an argument for justifying killing because they want to justify abortion. But is rape really that bad? It's a horrible experience but you get over it with time. If you use it to justify murder you're never going to get over it. Imagine you have a painful divorce. Would you murder your children after because they remind you of your ex husband? Of course not. I think any woman would easily tell you that a painful divorce is worse than rape but it's not an excuse to kill your baby, so why is rape?

Christian women can also take a lot more than atheist women. Maybe this is part of the reason that atheists get so hung up about this. Christian women can turn to Christ or worship God in their hearts and endure great suffering. I'm not belittling it but think about it, no amount of suffering from rape is as great as the suffering our Lord suffered on the cross for our sins. You are the one who has to ask more true Christian women about this. You're out of touch and trying to make a big deal out of something just for shock value."
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This person is absolutely disgusting, and luckily, there are folks with enough empathy to see what's wrong with this person.

Here are the following comments that give me hope for humanity:

"Yeah, I mean, getting forcibly penetrated is a little inconvenient...but being forced to endure 9 months of medical risk, severe discomfort, stretch marks, lost wages, possibly lost job, 24+ of excruciating labor, 18 years of struggle and sacrifice, difficulty finding a partner who wants to help raise your kids, plus a lifetime of responsibility? That's bliss. It's what every real woman wants.

FACE-DESK.

You'd think people who pretend to think fetuses are babies with rights just like an adult would be more aware of the risks involved in a high-stress pregnancy- say, one where the mother has PTSD because she's just been traumatized by a psychopath. There've been all sorts of studies that show the worst thing you can do for a fetus epigenetically is to gestate through severe stress, especially PTSD. It raises fetal cortisol levels, which continues through birth and for years to come. Elevated cortisol is associated with high risk for anxiety disorders later on.

Just more proof that it's not about the fetus at all. It's about the idea that men own and can take control of the means of human reproduction with impugnity."

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"Yeah, I mean, getting forcibly penetrated is a little inconvenient...but being forced to endure 9 months of medical risk, severe discomfort, stretch marks, lost wages, possibly lost job, 24+ of excruciating labor, 18 years of struggle and sacrifice, difficulty finding a partner who wants to help raise your kids, plus a lifetime of responsibility? That's bliss. It's what every real woman wants.

Sorry but this isn't quite right.

You left out the social disgrace, opprobium, and criticism for being yet again...another unwed mother. Much of which would come from your good xian family, friends, and relatives. A slut.

As xians always remind us, it is the woman's fault for getting raped anyway. If she didn't have a vagina and could bench press 250 pounds, it wouldn't have happened.

What if the rapist had an STD? What if he was HIV+?"

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"Aren't these the same people who then shun a girl who has been raped because she is "unclean" and "used"? And the ones who call her a irredeemable slut if she didn't fight back hard enough to risk death rather than being raped? And yet it's "no big deal"??? The cognitive dissonance is sickening.

This is the kind of person you don't argue with…just walk away.

I am not a violent person, but I would be sorely tempted to spit on him first."

"And another thing:

"It's a horrible experience but you get over it with time."

I know women who have gone through terrible, painful divorces, and ones that have been raped. Let me tell you - the divorcees are able to "get over" their "horrible experience" far more easily. Most of the women I know who have been raped have never gotten over it, and continue to have issues trusting men, especially sexually, even decades after. Most of the divorcees, on the other hand, are happily dating if not remarried. To even imply that divorce is somehow worse than rape is not only ignorant but revolting."

Here are comments from actual rape victims:

"You think that's a good point, do you? I was whacked on the back of the head in a dark parking lot, dragged off, beaten, threatened, tied up and raped at knife point. I was one of the lucky ones, I got out of it with my life. A lot of women don't. If you think a divorce, no matter how acrimonious, is somehow worse, you've got a bit of problem with perspective. Thinking this way, you're also a huge part of the problem. Jesus fuckin' Christ."

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"But is rape really that bad?"

"As someone who has been raped, I can answer this: Yes, it is.

This is the kind of person you don't argue with…just walk away.

This is the kind of person I give a good, swift kick inna fork to then walk away. Crispy fried Christ, what is wrong with some people?"

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"Jenn,

You're a creepy person. As other people have pointed out, his underlying premises are creepy. Of course, never being raped, and not understanding how damaging it can be warps your thinking.

naddyfive,

I think stranger rape is unbelievably horrifying, but most women are raped by someone they know.

We've had the rape discussion before with the misogynist fuckwits who think that any manner of things are worse than rape, who have called rape a "temporary inconvenience," who just don't get being physically violated in such a way that what should be the best of human experience becomes an object of dread and anxiety. For the pitiful comparison of a divorce to being raped, I have to say that I would rather get divorced any day than be raped again."

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"I want to puke. Rape is by far the worst thing I have experienced. I've never wanted to punch someone in the face so badly."

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"I want to puke. Rape is by far the worst thing I have experienced. I've never wanted to punch someone in the face so badly."

"I'm with you, Sister. I was raped by another man, once. Even considering the relative lack of violence during my incident (mostly because I was psychologically manipulating him into letting me go), the lasting feelings of violation are still having effects on me many years later. I hope I never learn who this asshat is or where he lives because I may then have means, motive, and opportunity for a violent crime."

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To undermine the pain of rape victims in such a disgusting and disturbing way is insanity to me. I've never been raped, and I don't ever want the experience. A woman should have the right to an abortion, whether she's a rape victim, her health is in danger, or if she's unprepared for motherhood in any way.

FOX: Atheists Want Their Version of Religion Taught in Texas

Texans for Truthful Textbooks

The Value of Atheism (Response to Jack)

Comparing Jesus and Santa

This video answers the question...what is the difference between belief in Jesus Christ and belief in Santa Claus?

Kissing Hank's Ass

A hilarious correlation between the cult of Hank and theistic religions.

William Lane Craig: The Artful Dodger

The first premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument is that "Everything which begins to exist has a cause".

We are left wondering on what ground its proponents extend our concepts of the origin of existence of "things" to the Universe as a whole. Even if our physical realm in a larger multiverse has an origin, we get nowhere with this argument. Craig would have us believe that physical reality has some beginning, and that beginning obeys a common sense form of causality. Even in our own universe there are reasons to doubt our notions of causality.

The KCA is overly presumptuous and typical of religious arrogance. In the next WttU video, I will be discussing some of the weaknesses with jumping to conclusions about the origin of the Universe.

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Your Children Will Be Tortured

Al Stefanelli

The Rantings of a Professionally Charming Curmudgeon

Your Children Will Be Tortured – Guaranteed

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I’ve been to hell. It’s in Alabama. In fact, it’s in all fifty states and probably in other countries, as well. But, here in the United States, we do hell like it’s nobody’s business. Well, OK, maybe not the REAL hell because everyone knows that the REAL hell is forever and ever and ever and it is REAL fire, torture and a place where there is constant weeping, gnashing of teeth and a place where the worm never stops turning. But, hey, we come damned close, if you will forgive the pun. We can actually SHOW you what hell is REALLY like and then explain to you how Satan is after your children, and how he wants to torture them for all eternity.

Satan wants your children to burn, so if you are the Christian parent of a rebellious child, then there is only one real choice to straighten your kids out. Scare the living shit out of them. And what better way to impress upon a young mind the love of god than a guided tour of hell.

This is the agenda that is behind the Christian “Hell Houses”. I’ve been to and hosted several of these while I was a minister and the theatrics and effort that are put into some of these rival modern horror movies. They are there to serve one purpose. If you don’t straighten up and accept Jesus into your life before you die, which can happen at ANY moment, then you are going to end up living on the Christian version of Elm Street. But Freddy Kruger is a wuss compared to Satan, of course.

Usually set up on the grounds of a larger church due to it’s many torture chambers….er…Sunday school rooms, as well as the availability of several other large rooms and a parking lot big enough to set up mock car accidents, some of these Hell Houses are really an awesome spectacle. Generally, there are five parts to a Hell House. Part one, guilt. Your child enters through a seemingly benign front door, but once inside, the fun begins. Christian ‘actors’ portray, in very realistic method, a variety of mortal sins such as drug use, prostitution, listening to secular music, sex of almost any kind and, of course, Atheism. These sins are acted out first to give your child warning by guilt if they should happen to be engaging in any of these things.

With guilt fully in place, part two. Fear. This is usually when they are herded outside to view a mock car accident. The church hauls in a couple of wrecked cars and places their actors in various locations with a heightened aspect of gory reality. Dismembered bodies, gallons of fake blood, smoke and often there is one unrepentant actor who is on the verge of death when the tour group arrives, only to die right in front of them with last words to the effect of, “No.. I am only fourteen…” or some such other tear-jerking comment. Next stop may be a mock hospital emergency room where the actor has just died. Onward to another scene of equally grisly portrayal of human pain and suffering, where the victim has died without knowing Christ, which sets the scene for volley number three. Hell, itself.

This is where these people really SHINE! While the tour group is making their way to the auditorium, gym or whatever large room the church has, the actors who have just died in the previous room scurry behind the scenes to take their places for their next role, which takes place in the church’s production of hell, complete with Satan and fallen angels. Satan, of course, is done up about as scary as he can be and the angels are not much better. Now, in my wry humor I would think it quite hilarious if a flash mob invaded this scene and broke out into Micheal Jackson’s.

But I digress…

The Hell Room is usually set up according to what the bible depicts hell to be. Plenty of shredded sheets soaked in fake blood, dry ice smoke, shrieks and moans emitting from high end sound systems, strobe lights and everything drenched in red lighting. The actors from the previous scenes of human misery on earth are now spotlighted here in hell, screaming and writhing in torture. One of them might look directly at your child with typical warnings about not receiving christ before you die, or right at the parent with an admonition for not yet making sure your kid is saved. Sometimes the now-dead-and-rotting-in-hell child actor will spout off something like, “Why didn’t my parents tell me about this place?! They could have told me about Jesus and I would not be suffering!”

Added in for effect are bodies lying on the ground close enough to the tour groups path so that occasionally an actor reaches out and grabs one of your kids legs and screams, “Help Meeeeee!” If this room does not cause a parent to take out a second mortgage to pay for the years of therapy that lie ahead, then the speech at the end of the Hell Room tour by Satan will. Basically, Satan pitches the usual evangelical shtick, but with a macabre twist. Statistics are sometimes cited about the rate of death amongst children and young teens, and how many of them died without knowing Jesus and how they are all down there with him, being tortured for fun and profit.

Just when the effects of the death, mutilation, sorrow, torture, lights, sound and speeches have got your kid scared shitless, it’s time for part four. The rescue. The group is ushered through a door into a room dark enough so that nothing in it can be discerned. Then, the lights come on. And they are really bright lights. White light everywhere. The set is made up to look like what the bible predicts heaven will look like, or as close as the budget will allow. Then, Jesus shows up. Usually a white guy with real long hair and a beard, flowing white robes and smile that would make a dentist have an orgasm. This is usually short, because the producers don’t want the group to forget about the shitstorm they just went through. Jesusdude explains that everything they just saw can be avoided if they just get to know him a little. Nothing complicated, just making him lord of your life and everything you do and accepting a life of credulous servility and joining him in brainwashing as many other kids as possible.

After a few minutes of this comes part five. The decision room. This is usually in the sanctuary where all the blissy stuff is. Huge cross, shiny chalices, candles and plush carpeting. Usually the youth minister oversees this, as the whole point of a youth minister is to attract as many youth as possible. He will probably be dressed in way that will be appealing to the youth. He will give a short sermon and ask if anyone wants to make a commitment or decision for Christ. At this point usually most, if not all, of the group are very enthusiastic about receiving Christ into their lives. Of course, at this point, most of them would eat a live insect covered in rhinoceros vomit if they thought it would keep them out of hell. Names are taken, information packets are given out and there are always ‘counselors’ on hand if anyone has any questions.

During Hell Week maybe a thousand people people go in the front door, eight hundred accept christ at the back door and the pastor tells the flock the following Sunday morning that they had an eight-percent success rate which just goes to show that a vast majority of our children are hungry for Christ. They are actually hungry for not dying in a horrific car accident and ending up in what amounts to be Tierra del Fuego in the middle of the summer wearing a ski jacket over thermal underwear and having Adloph Hitler as their host with the most.

Thus ends a week of church sanctioned child abuse that is supported by almost every adult in the church. Child abuse? Come on, Al, really? Well, yeah. Imagine this scene being portrayed in any other venue for any other reason other than evangelism and those who are responsible for it would be summarily arrested and parents would be calling lawyers so fast it would make your head spin. But this is religion, so it’s OK to poison your kids mental health.

These Hell Houses are horrifically damaging to a young mind and it is not the threat of torture that hurts them, but the actual torture of having to go through this, usually at the behest of their parents. Funny, Christian parents won’t let their kids go see an R-rated horror movie, but they allow them to participate in a theatrical presentation that would probably get an NC-17 rating. Just another example of how twisted the virus of religion is."

Al Stefanelli is the founder of the United Atheist Front and the author of the article above. As an atheist, this type of child abuse makes me glad that I never went to church and wasn't indoctrinated into any religion. If I were, I'd be seeking therapy from the time I step out of these Hell houses up until much of my adult life.

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Dear Atheist "Community"......

It's bad enough that we catch flack from the religious fundamentalists for not worshiping a deity, now we have to turn on each other just for disagreeing with each other? This is petty bullshit and the fact that there are other atheists, who do petty bullshit and have the nerve to call themselves "free thinkers" or "rationalists", when they're only trolls, is disgusting.

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Sources
Bart D. Ehrmmans book God's Problem
The New Revised Version of the Bible with Apocrypha
Jewish Study Bible (TANAKH) - Oxford Press
Encyclopedia Britannica (DVD Version)

Sheol
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheol
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Tartaroō/Tartaros/Tartarus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartarus

Greek Mythology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_my...

Olam ha-ba
http://www.jewfaq.org/olamhaba.htm
http://www.myjewishlearning.com/belie...
http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/vie...

Gehenna/Gehinnam/Gehinnom
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gehenna

Bosom of Abraham
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bosom_of...
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