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So what's the goal with theism?
dapperdontastic - 15 May 2012 128 Comments
I'm a new member here. Been thinking about this lately... What do we consider the end goal in our interaction with theists as a group? Do we want to convert them? Do we want to just agree to...
Bobwundaye - 15 May 2012 49 Comments
I was reading my Facebook status updates and came across one of my Christian friends status updates that read: "Not only hold the truth, but have the truth hold us." Rowland Hill Now...
Mitt Romney's Mormon God was a lousy CEO
ariosito - 15 May 2012 22 Comments
Mitt Romney combines being a Mormon with being a management consultant. I wonder how he would evaluate the performance of his chosen God as a chief executive. For several thousand years Mr God...
Filip The Czech Teacher - 15 May 2012 32 Comments
I teach at a village primary school in Giant Mountains, Czech Republic. During lessons in narrating, we'd written a short movie script, which was to be filmed a week later. Children, aged 13, had...
Intelligent Design and the cruelty of nature
godzillatemple - 15 May 2012 125 Comments
I've recently had the chance to watch a number of excellent BBC documentaries ("Life", "Planet Earth", "Blue Planet", etc.) with my 7-year-old son, and if you haven't seen these yet I would strongly...
/Mike - 11 May 2012 80 Comments
I'm sure the kids are confused at the absurdity of the "adults". As the coach of the now state championship team said "I respect their views, but it's a bit out of the 18th century" . Many people...
pdw709 - 10 May 2012 73 Comments
My 11 year son has just returned from a week long Primary School trip (his first time away from home) at an outdoor activity centre run by the Abernethy Trust. After talking to my son it transpires...
Evolution-denying Commencement speaker stirs controversy at Emory University
sarchila - 07 May 2012 45 Comments
I am a PhD candidate in neuroscience at Emory University. Here at Emory we have been dealing with a wave of controversy regarding the university's selection for commencement speaker. Emory has...
BBC Radio 4 request for participants
jel - 07 May 2012 7 Comments
The BBC is recording a program & wants atheist input. Hello, My name is Elizabeth Ann Duffy, and I’m working for a new BBC Radio 4 technology series called ‘The Digital Human’. Presented...
God and logic: help with theist conversations
anakatwstras - 07 May 2012 212 Comments
As I try to converse with theists (classmates, relatives and professors - I am 16) I often find myself at the point where through logic and reason I have made them admit that god is not made out of...
comingout - 07 May 2012 5 Comments
I am lucky enough to have been in Melbourne at the time of the 2012 Global Atheist Convention. Afterwards I was inspired to attempt to launch a small conciousness-raising campaign with the goal of...
There appears to still be a Waco in Texas
Helga Vierich - 07 May 2012 23 Comments
My own feeling at first was that I had strayed back into the pages of the Onion. But I checked, and NO, I was actually browsing an account on Think Atheist of a recent debacle that happened in Waco,...
Housey1228 - 07 May 2012 18 Comments
Fellow Free Thinkers, I live in the United States. I moved to the town I live in four years ago largely because of the school district it was in. In the last few years, however, budget cuts...
Mathematics: stupid and clever questions for people who understand
Jos Gibbons - 07 May 2012 49 Comments
A few months ago we had two similarly named discussions on physics and biology which, in principle, could form part of a long series, limited only by our ingeniousness in thinking of pertinent...
Sjoerd Westenborg - 07 May 2012 11 Comments
We all like to think of ourselves as tolerant and compassionate. Except when it comes to mosquitoes. As soon as spring or, if you're extra lucky, summer arrives, we smash/squash/electrocute them...
Rhode Island cross controversy - legitimate or petty?
elisa_fdm - 27 April 2012 357 Comments
I was browsing the net and came across this Huffington Post article . Now, all the usual caveats apply - the Huff Post is a crappy rag of a paper and the story is not reported in a manner that I...
Religion as "comfort" to people in distress: fact or myth?
Richard123 - 24 April 2012 149 Comments
As a Samaritan volunteer for nearly a decade (but also a life-long humanist), it has struck me that among the large number of religious people in distress who contact us, far from giving them...
Admitting you're an atheist while travelling in the Middle East
Jon McGill - 24 April 2012 57 Comments
I know that Richard Dawkins has long been an advocate of atheists coming out, and personally, I am out, at least in my normal life in Europe & the USA. But recently I made a trip to Sana'a,...
Geoffrey Robertson vs the Catholic Church – some thoughts from the GAC
martinpribble - 24 April 2012 18 Comments
One of the most important and impactful talks given at the Global Atheist Convention was delivered by human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson QC, and focused on his case for bringing the catholic...
Atheism and Political Philosophy - Secularization
Bobwundaye - 23 April 2012 116 Comments
I was thinking over my recent opinions I've voiced recently on various threads, many of which were interpreted as being heavily pro-religion, and I was wondering why I still defend something I...
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