“What do atheists actually have in common? What’s the agenda for an atheist political movement? Here’s a proposal for the issues we can unite around.”
Article: “6 Ways Atheists Can Band Together to Fight Religious Fundamentalism”
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Blog Post: “Gay Atheist Hero and Genius Alan Turing Honoured by the Queen”
“[…] celebrated gay codebreaker and founder of the modern computer Alan Turing, who was driven to suicide by homophobic bigotry.”
Essay: “A Critical Analysis of Sigmund Freud’s “Totem and Taboo” (1913); “The Future of an Illusion” (1927)”
By Madison S. Hughes (09.09.2009)
Between 1912 and 1913 Sigmund Freud (May 6, 1856 – September 23, 1939) wrote four essays, later compiled in the book (Totem and Taboo (TT), W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1950) in an attempt to apply psychoanalysis—which he founded—to discover the origins of civilized life. Initially it was not well received from the anthropological community, but in later years it came to be more accepted.
Quote: Noam Chomsky
… Jingoism, racism, fear, religious fundamentalism: these are the ways of appealing to people if you’re trying to organize a mass base of support for policies that are really intended to crush them.
Cartoon: Doonesbury, “Creationism”
Article: “How Atheism Can Make the World Better by Tearing Down Religious Irrationality”
Quote: Madalyn Murray-O’Hair
From whence do you derive your authority; and why should I be obedient to you?
Quote: Robert Heinlein
Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Quote: John Kenneth Galbraith
The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
Always Question Authority 