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The Atheos app is intended to help you discuss your lack of belief with those who may find it hard to understand or sympathize with, and where things can go wrong. What’s an example from your own life of discussing atheism with a religious believer where things went right, where you reached out and built …

I get confronted by a ton of theists every day. Some of them are kind and genuinely curious, asking questions about atheism and how I discovered it. Others are outright rude, dismissive and really try to press on my last nerves. Admittedly, I don’t always respond the way I ought to. I try very hard …

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“Fundamentalists need truth to be absolute. They are extremely uncomfortable with uncertainty or estimates of truth. They think truth is an object. Jesus said, “I am the truth.” But a person cannot be the truth. Truth is not a thing. Truth is simply a measure of how well a statement matches reality. The only thing …

The Johnson Amendment is the law of the land prohibiting churches from endorsing political candidates from the pulpit, and it also keeps other tax-exempt nonprofits (such as the Richard Dawkins Foundation and the Center for Inquiry) from taking sides in elections. Do you think preachers and nonprofits should be allowed to explicitly endorse candidates? Why …

“And there are parts of the world where simply being an atheist and defying religion can result in your family beating you, personally imprisoning you, or worse – as atheist activist Amina discovered, when she posted a topless photo of herself with the slogan “my body belongs to me, and is not the source of …

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“There is a systemic problem that all religions face, no matter which policy they adopt: Somebody has to monitor the external world to decide what to let in and what to censor (if possible). Moreover, some of what gets in needs to be detoxified somehow, and doing this means that somebody has to attend carefully …

by Richard Dawkins   . . .  it is a well established principle of democracy that, in the case of major constitutional changes that are hard to undo, the bar should be set higher than 50%.  Amendments to the US constitution require a two thirds majority in both houses of Congress, ratified by three quarters …

by Benjamin Abelow In this article, I present evidence that an intimate and largely unrecognized connection exists between childhood trauma and religion. In particular, it appears that many of the world religions have been deeply shaped by historically widespread practices of childhood corporal punishment, abandonment, and neglect. These influences have long been hiding in plain …

Ken Ham’s Ark Encounter is a “life-size” attraction designed to promote the anti-scientific views of creationism, a monument to biblical literalism aimed directly at kids. If you could construct an attraction to counter the misinformation of Ark Encounter, and instead promote science and reason to kids, what would you build? Our winner will receive a …