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Statement of Purpose
- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
- Superstition hucksters have no reason to subscribe or post here at all.
- If you are looking to debate or proselytize, options will be linked lower in the sidebar.
Acceptable
- Honest questions or conversations.
- Discussions on parenting or advice.
- Struggles, frustrations, coming out.
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- Anything against site rules.
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Connect with Atheists
- Matrix: #atheism:envs.net
Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- The Secular Therapy Project
- Secular Students Alliance
- Black Nonbelievers
- The Clergy Project
- Atheist Alliance International
- Sunday Assembly
- Atheist Ireland
- Atheism UK
- Atheists United
Streaming Media
This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.
- Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
- Rationality Rules
- Friendly Atheist
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Cosmic Skeptic
- Genetically Modified Skeptic
- Street Epistemology
- Armored Skeptic
- NonStampCollector
Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
- Humanists International
- Atheist Republic
- The Brights
- The Angry Atheist
- History for Atheists
- Rationalist International
- Atheist Revolution
- Debunking Christianity
- Godless Mom
- Atheist Freethinkers
Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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You answered your own question: all the "evidence" is provided by the church itself. You haven't found any independent, peer-reviewed evidence.
I can say I opened a can of tomato sauce and tests showed it to be type AB blood. Doesn't mean you should believe me, even if I spread it to lots of websites.
Yes but some of the scientists they got to study it were atheists (though one later converted) and they'd have to go along with the lie.
If it were the church saying they studied it themselves that'd be one thing. But the scientists they hired were not of the vatican.
If you believe that they were in fact atheists. Or they even studied it.
They’ll cite a vague WHO report, and decry it as some sort of persecution or conspiracy when you point out the WHO has no record of such a study. (Specifically of the Lanciano miracle.)
Alternatively, the atheists published their findings- like that they found human dna on the Buenas Aires miracle (that happened under pope Francis when he was there.)
And then promptly ignore the part of the report that says that DNA is most consistent with contamination from some one touching it.
Did the information that they were atheists come from the church? Also, did the experiments carefully make sure that the wine was not switched out for blood in the test? You gotta think like James Randi here.
The blood came from a living heart and was the rarest blood type, AB Positive. This was consistent in every "miracle", so unless the Vatican had blood from that overly specific criteria in large amounts just sitting around a switch seems unlikely.
If it wasn't the same blood type each time and from a very specific region of the body, that might be more obvious an answer.
And I'd rather not think like a guy with high school education who got Kicked out of a skeptical organization he helped found for being bad at the scientific method
Seriously Randi is overrated and he served as the science advisor on the False Memory Foundation.... which was an organization that gaslit rape victims into thinking they suffered a fake syndrome that causes them to form false traumatic memories.
Susan Blackmore is a much better person to look up to
Bacteria contaminating samples produce AB antigens.
It’s not unsurprising.
Again: I can say a can of tomato sauce tested as AB positive blood.
There was no actual study and wine did not actually turn into blood.
And the Vatican had nothing to do with it.
Ordinary people spread lies in order to convince others to believe in their church. That's all this is.