Monthly Archives: August 2011

Catholic Terrorist Arrested in Spain

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A Mexican student was arrested in Madrid on Tuesday after posting his intention to attack anti-papal protestors with toxic gases, including sarin, on the internet . . . A staunch Catholic, the man said that he could not allow protests against the pope . . . So it’s secularists and atheists who are “militant” and “fundamentalist,” but they are the ones targeted for terrorist attacks and police brutality. You don’t see any atheists trying to launch poison gas attacks on Catholic events. You don’t see atheist police bashing Catholic heads at World Youth Day.
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Quote: Sam Harris

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Sam Harris, Ph.D. (born 1967)
Neuroscientist, Author, and Outspoken Atheist

 . . . truth has nothing, in principle, to do with consensus: one person can be right, and everyone else can be wrong. Consensus is a guide to discovering what is going on in the world, but that is all that it is. Its presence or absence in no way constrains what may or may not be true.

Quote: Bertrand Russell

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Bertrand Arthur William Russell (18 May 1872 – 2 February 1970)
Nobel Prize in Literature, British Philosopher, Logician, Mathematician,
Historian, Social Critic, Anti-War Activist, and Anti-Imperialist

None of the higher mental processes are required for conservatism. The advocate of change, on the contrary, must have a certain degree of imagination in order to be able to conceive of anything different from what exists . . . Both intelligence and sympathy, therefore, tend to be less repressed by an education hostile to the status quo than by one which is friendly to it . . . Orthodoxy is the grave of intelligence, no matter what orthodoxy it may be. And in this respect the orthodoxy of the radical is no better than that of the reactionary.

Military Atheists Seeking the Rights and Benefits Offered to Religious Groups

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As [the Department of Defense’s] “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy enters its final weeks, another mostly closeted military group is stepping into the open this summer. [Atheists of Meade] and nearly 20 other unofficial atheist fellowship groups have sprung up in recent months on U.S. military installations in the United States and around the world. In addition, students at all three service academies have started officially recognized groups of nonbelievers at their institutions. The ultimate goal would be the appointment of atheists as military chaplains in each service. Supporters say it will help ensure atheists’ fellowship needs are met, and their religious freedoms — including freedom from the imposition of religion — are protected. Read more . . . 

Making Creationism Extinct: New Film Explores Dangers Of Anti-Evolutionism

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Americans United opposes creationism in public school science classes because it is based on a fundamentalist interpretation of the Bible . . . A new documentary with the provocative title “No Dinosaurs in Heaven” explores these issues . . . ‘No Dinosaurs in Heaven’ intelligently argues that public education must steadfastly resist the encroachment of religion in the form of creationism, and that science literacy is essential to a healthy democracy.” Read more . . . 

Quote: Harriet Tubman

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Harriet Tubman, born Araminta Ross (c. March 1822 – March 10, 1913)
African-American Abolitionist, Humanitarian, and Union Spy during the American Civil War

I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other. I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.