Below is a quote from “The Atheist Camel” weblog. The man has a very keen wit and writes wonderfully…check him out
“THANK YOU women, moderate/liberal Christians, gays, freethinkers, Latinos, and Americans of intellect, reason, modernity, equality, civility and humanity for once again reminding me that this nation is better than I had given it credit for.”
Mark my word; if and when those preachers get control of the (Republican) party, and they’re sure trying to do so, it’s going to be a terrible damn problem. Frankly those people frighten me. Politics and governing demand compromise. But these Christians believe they are acting in the name of God, so they can’t and won’t compromise. I know. I’ve tried to deal with them.
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Those who seek absolute power, even though they seek it to do what they regard as good, are simply demanding the right to enforce their own version of heaven on earth. And let me remind you, they are the very ones who always create the most hellish tyrannies. Absolute power does corrupt, and those who seek it must be suspect and must be opposed.
Arizona Republican Senator Barry Goldwater (1909-1998)
Hey all you Catholics out there…I’m a lonely atheist and I want to be adopted by one of the Catholic followers of Bill Donohue. Come get me!!!
Bill, I tried your website and all methods of contacting you seem to be down 😦 so you’ll have to come here to get me.
To those of you who are wondering whats going on…Bill Donohue, Catholic apologist extraordinaire, and writer for the ‘Catholic League’ has challenged his followers to ‘adopt an atheists‘ so that they can make us ‘see the light’–so to speak. To let us know what we are missing by denying God.
One of the Pew Poll’s on religion in America said that there are 18% non-believers in ANY religion in this country. That’s about 54,000,000 + — people…it’s time we spoke up and not take anymore crap from Christians. NO empirical evidence exists to justify the truth of the Christian faith, or any other religion.
Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.
~Jeff Burroughs
I predict the continued growth of atheism in America is going to make for some very interesting times. The putative leaders of the Christian Right in America have spent years trying to cast themselves as the victims in a secular society, the facts behind this assertion are kinda slim though. It’s been my experience and observation that the only way that secularism/atheism bothers religion is when it has to fight them (metaphorically) to keep religion where it belongs…out of people’s faces and out of our government.
Atheists are well-behaved and we seem to play well with others overall.
Atheists are not in the news, like the Christian right, for getting caught doing things they tell others not to do. You know…those nasty little sexual things. 🙂
Atheists almost always co-exist peacefully with religious believing family and friends.
Atheists pay taxes just like the religious believers do.
Atheists are waaay under represented in jails and prisons…we’re actually pretty moral people.
Atheists don’t start wars on behalf of atheism…unlike religion
They do join the military however, and contrary to clichéd belief, they are found in foxholes.
Atheists believe strongly in America and the whole American Constitution, but particularly the First Amendment that separates church and state.
Atheists are secularists who support a government free from influence by any religion. We are not anti-religious, we are Non-Religious.
Atheists don’t take up a lot of space. The non-religious/atheist/agnostic members of American society only add up to a little less than 18% of the whole population…but we are growing. 🙂
Atheists make good neighbors. Chances are, if you live next door, or work with an atheist, you will never know it.
Atheists in general, are much more supportive of women’s rights and for their right to control their own bodies and lives without church or state interference.
Unlike the religious right people, atheists don’t like to get into other peoples business and dictate how they should live….what they should do or not do. You know…like who you should marry.
Atheists are not known for going door-to-door to convert people to our way of thinking. We are however, known to help our friends and neighbors with no thought of there being a heavenly reward in it for us.
Unlike many of the present Republican presidential candidates and the religious right in general Atheists do not advocate or align themselves with groups who want to take over our government and reshape America into a religiously ruled theocracy…you know, kinda’ like the Middle Eastern Islamic states.
Atheists, unlike the Republican Right, the Tea-Party, and the religious right, do not go around with guns in meetings and say the President will never take their guns away, or wishing the president would fail and generally disrespecting the President and the office. Or call him ni_ger behind his back
Atheists mostly do know a lot about religion, as many were raised in a religious family, and they tend to research and know their positions really well. In recent national polling about religious knowledge, atheists knew more than any religious sub-group.
Hmmm…could it be…could the atheists actually be better citizens and better people to know than theists??? I know I never disrespect, with malice, someone for believing the ‘wrong thing’…I just like to get into friendly arguments/debates with them.
The scary part is that the Republicans Party is controlled by evangelical fundamentalists, who are anxiously awaiting the Rapture. We know that some of them are even willing to egg it on…if they could somehow…
The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
“I’ll tell you what you did with Atheists for about 1500 years. You outlawed them from universities or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy. You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were women, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burnt them alive. And you have nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you.” Dr. Madalyn M. O’Hair My emphasis
In case you haven’t guessed Ms. O’Hare is talking to Christians. People who don’t buy into the Christian mythical construct have been, and are now, treated like dirt or worse.
I think now is a good time to turn the tables on the religious folk. They still tend to treat us badly and many many of them threaten (and sometimes follow through) violence. Revenge would be sweet. 🙂
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The often repeated theme that atheists have no reason to be moral without a god is probably the most popular and repeated myth made about atheism. The claims come in a variety of forms but they are all based on the assumption that the ONLY source of morality is from a God on high, a religion…and preferably only the Christian one. Therefore, without Christianity humans cannot live moral lives. This of course automatically deprecates all other religions on this planet.
The thing I find most amazing is that Christians, Muslims, Jews, Hindu’s, and the myriad other denominations, sects, and cults in the world have been trying for maybe three plus millennia to prove that there IS a God…and they have ALL totally, completely, entirely failed. They all have stories that depend on magic…that envisions demons, devils, ghosts, angels, etc., and they all were formed a few thousand years ago when mankind was going through a huge god-making period in our history…conveniently forgetting that humans have been roaming around the earth for 200,000 years or so without a need for really invasive gods.
So anyway, there is no god or gods, therefore all this morality the Christians talk about is just made up by some goat herder desert dwellers a few thousand years ago. In other words morals come from mankind. Wars and kindness comes from man. Good and evil comes from man. We are ultimately responsible for ALL that goes on in our history, culture, and civilizations…a non-existent god cannot be blamed for our shortcomings or our triumphs.
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“The Religious Right in America is lavishly funded and politically well connected. These groups raise more than three-quarters of a billiondollars (that’s 750 million bucks) annually,mostly tax-exempt.” My emphasis.
We atheists, agnostics, and skeptics have a long way to go in organization…something that is critically needed in the fight against the evil and immoral Christian Evangelical Fundamentalist Right. Their ultimate goal is command and control of the American government (in many ways they already have this)…and they’re way out in front
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Following Greta Christina’s lead in getting out the names of prominent atheists of color I am repeating a list that she compiled and graciously gave up copyright of so that others may distribute the information. The atheist community profits greatly from associations with others of the same bent and we need to network whenever possible to solidify community…and hey, who doesn’t need some more friends?
As Greta mentions in her own post, I realize that a white guy like me is probably not the best person to keep or present a list of “atheists of color” (I really need another phrase for this), but the information needs to get “out there” and I am just a messenger so to speak. Without further ado…
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