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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.
- Atheist memes. We can have fun!
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- Anything against site rules.
- Illegal and/or NSFW material.
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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a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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Every last word of that could be true and it still doesn't make any difference in how right or wrong the spiritual lessons are. Do unto others as you'd have them do unto you, love your neighbor as you love yourself, worship in spirit and truth instead of following religious dogma, watch out for hypocrites and the predatory leaders of religious institutions, etc etc. Those are far more important to me than the nonsense religious sects quibble over like whether Christ actually did miracles, how a man or woman should keep their hair, baptism, and other superstitions.
You mean, charlatans, liars and cheats? Like. You know. Jesus?
Whether or not Jesus did any miracles (or indeed faked them) is actually the essential question here. Miracles are how he demonstrates he has divine authority- which directly translates into "moral" or "spiritual" authority. without the divine authority, he's just another dude, right? taking that a step further, and going beyond simply not doing them, but actually faking them... yeah. That's even worse.
But in any case, you need to actually look at what Jesus actually taught. He was a jewish fundamentalist, insisting on the supremacy of, and a strict adherence to the torah and the commands of prophets. and there is a lot- and I mean a truly astonishing amount- of horrific shit in there.
Let me explain this another way. I'm sure we could find a few times Hitler said a few nice things. Do you worship Hitler? of course not. Hitler was a fucking monster. Or Stalin? Mao? Trump? All of them have almost certainly said a few things that are "nice"... but mostly they're just monsters. (with a critical difference that all of them were actually world leaders rather than presumed wannabes.)
Just because Jesus seems to have said some things that sound nice and stuff, doesn't make him a moral or spiritual authority any more than it would any one else. and it certainly doesn't make him someone or something to be worshiped.
Big yikes. It's clear you have a huge chip on your shoulder about all this. You're insisting on your own interpretation because it gives you justification to look down on believers no matter how reasonable their faith. Because of that dependency you're unlikely to accept any other viewpoint, so I'm going to put this "conversation" out of its misery. Toodle-oo.