Category Archives: Antitheism

Yes, life without God can be bleak. Atheism is about facing up to that.

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Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right. Can you really tell the parents who lost their child to a suicide after years of depression that they should stop worrying and enjoy life? Doesn’t the appropriate response to 4,000 children dying everyday as a direct result of poor sanitation involve despair at the relentless misery of the world as well as some effort to improve things? Sometimes life is shit and that’s all there is to it. Not much bright about that fact.

Stressing the jolly side of atheism not only glosses over its harsher truths, it also disguises its unique selling point. The reason to be an atheist is not that it makes us feel better or gives us a more rewarding life. The reason to be an atheist is simply that there is no God and we would prefer to live in full recognition of that, accepting the consequences, even if it makes us less happy. The more brutal facts of life are harsher for us than they are for those who have a story to tell in which it all works out right in the end and even the most horrible suffering is part of a mystifying divine plan. If we don’t freely admit this, then we’ve betrayed the commitment to the naked truth that atheism has traditionally embraced. . .

And so we [atheists] don’t just get on and enjoy life, we embark on our own intellectual pilgrimages [emphasis added], trying to make some progress in a universe on which no meaning has been writ. The journey can be wonderful but it can also be arduous and it may end horribly. But there is no other way, and anyone who urges you to follow a path that they promise leads to a bright future [i.e., salvation] is either gravely mistaken or a charlatan [emphasis added].

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Paul Krugman: Ignorance Is Streangth

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. . . So why are [Reactionaries] so eager to trash higher education?

It’s not hard to see what’s driving Mr. Santorum’s wing of the party. His specific claim that college attendance undermines faith is, it turns out, false. But he’s right to feel that our higher education system isn’t friendly ground for current [reactionary] ideology. And it’s not just liberal-arts professors: among scientists, self-identified Democrats outnumber self-identified Republicans nine to one.

I guess Mr. Santorum would see this as evidence of a liberal conspiracy. Others might suggest that scientists find it hard to support a party in which denial of climate change has become a political litmus test, and denial of the theory of evolution is well on its way to similar status.

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It’s Not Muslims Who Are Trying To Impose Their Religion On Everyone: It’s The [International Child Raping Organization That Is] The Catholic Church

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. . . [R]eligious [reactionaries] in the United States are trying to impose their values and doctrine on the rest of us.  No, they won’t try to achieve such objective by telling us that abortion, marriage equality and contraceptives are sinful and against the will of God; that sanctimonious strategy would backfire on them. They are doing it in a much more sinister and deceptive way: They are suggesting that by not legislating and implementing their beliefs the rest of us are guilty of denying them ‘religious [privilege].’ After all, the best defense is a good offense and the best offense is to claim to be “the victim.”

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How Christianity was Invented

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Emperor Constantine

Christianity is a copycat religion created by Emperor Constantine (for political purposes) based upon a myth (The Persian savior god Mithra, crucified 600 B.C. ?  400 B.C.?), which was based on other similar myths, all the way back to Chrishna of India (a mythical god that some claim was “crucified” around 1200 B.C.). There were 16 mythical crucifixions before Christ. The belief in the crucifixion of Gods was prevalent in various oriental or heathen countries long prior to the reported crucifixion of Christ.  Of the 16 crucifixions, most were born of a virgin and about half of them on December 25th.

There were too many religions in Rome in 325 A.D.  A Council was called in an endeavor to amalgamate the many religions of the Roman Empire into one.  Christianity plagiarized older myths and legends historicized to suit the Roman Catholic Church while combining the numerous religions existing at the time (Krishna, Horus, Mithraism, Osirian, Isis, and many other mystery religions).  For unity and to stop all the conflicts between the numerous religions…

Christianity was INVENTED.

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Saleem: Muslims putting “In Allah We Trust” on the Dollar

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Break Out the Sharpies — Let’s Unofficially Remove the Official National Motto from our Money

. . . I DON’T spend money with the motto on it. I cross out the motto with a Sharpie on every dollar that passes through my hands. I’ve been doing this for years, and have heard from quite a few other people who are doing the same thing. But we need EVERYBODY to do it!

So, I’m now asking everyone to get a Sharpie and start crossing out “In God We Trust” on every bill that they can! I also think it would be cool for us to write our zip codes on these bills so we can watch them spread across the country.

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Why we need college degrees more than we need faith

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In the comments following the short article titled above and linked here,

Carstonio
wrote:

Instead of thinking about religion in terms of faith, it would be far more sound and praactical to think about it in terms of morality. Since we have no evidence to support either the existence or non-existence of gods, and have no way to gauge the likelihood of either, we should simply put the question aside as speculative. This would mean religion could focus on how humans treat one another with the goal of reducing suffering. Just about every religion has some version of the Golden Rule, and even “rule” is misleading since morality isn’t a matter of following rules for its own sake. It’s worth considering what a religion would look like if it made no claims either way about the “metaphysical” or the “supernatural.”

AlwaysQuestionAuthority_wordpress_com
responded: 

Evidence to “support . . . [the] non-existence of gods,” has not been, is not now and will not ever be required! The philosophic burden of proof always lies with the one who makes the positive assertion, e.g., there is a god, to provide sufficient warrant for their position.

It is not incumbent upon the one that denies the positive assertion to provide evidence counter to the claim being asserted. To state that, “we have no evidence to support . . . non-existence of gods,” is an attempt to shift the philosophic burden of proof responsibility from the one making the assertion to the one denying the assertion. This is an argument from ignorance, a common fallacy in informal logic, and should be avoided.

The “metaphysical” and “supernatural” are of the same realm as opposed to the natural, i.e., physical (sensual) realm. The metaphysical realm falls in the analytical domain of logic and reason, as was discussed above, whereas, the physical realm falls in the observable domain of empirical evidence.

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What say you? 

Why Are You Atheists So Angry? The Cover! / Greta Christina Skepticon IV

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And now, the moment you’ve all been waiting for. Here, by the excellent and talentedCasimir Fornalski, is the book cover for Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things that Piss Off the Godless.

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Until Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things that Piss Off the Godless is released, enjoy Greta Christina speaking at Skepticon IV via YouTube below. I highly recommend that one watch this video, take a short break to digest, and then watch it again!