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The Iron Chariots Wiki, a wonderful site for research on atheism and Christian apologetics.
An awesome atheist discussion board
Forum of the famous author of “The God Delusion.”
A web site dedicated to exposing Creationaism.
The Free Inquiry Group, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 dedicated to skepticism and seeking the truth. Any open-minded person is welcome.
A fantastic source of discussion and formal debate. Probably the best on-line archive of atheist/free-thought material in the Internet
One of the largest atheist groups in America.
The homepage of one of my Twitter friends. This is one of the best debaters I have ever seen. A champion of atheism
A web site dedicated to recovering fundamentalists, with resources and support.
A site created by former Christians with a lot of material to combat Christian apologetics.
A group fighting to protect Church/State separation.
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This news source will publish a lot of stories you will not hear from the American Corporate media.
This source delivers surprisingly unbiased reporting in spite of the religious name.
Actual news with real liberal bias, the way news should be.
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Progressive programming directly from the web. On-line video as well as podcasts.
Another really good podcast that lets you hear what progressives are saying from all over the place.
Good reporting similar to Time or Newsweek without the Right-Wing bias.
Champions of the Constitution fighting for everyone’s rights, whether they agree with them or not. These people deserve all the praise we can give them.
Good people working to protect women’s health and their reproductive freedom.
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A site dedicated to protecting Internet neutrality and freedom of speech on the web.
A web site for fre-thinkers of all types.
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My Rant: April 15, 2011
Science is NOT my religion!
As a vocal atheist I often exchange heated emails, posts on Facebook and discussions on Twitter with religious apologists. One of the most common reactions I get from them is that science is my religion. This annoys me to no end, which may be the whole reason they say such a thing.
However, science is NOT my religion; in fact I was an atheist long before I came to accept science’s explanation for the origin of the universe. It did not in any way influence my conclusion that the Christian God was a lie; I came to that conclusion based solely on inadequacies of the Bible and the failure of Jehovah to follow through on promises made therein. Anyone thinking that disproving any scientific theory would somehow cause me to turn to religion is badly mistaken. The only way to cure me of my atheism is to prove to me that your god exists.
What I have (that religious people mistake for a religion) is a philosophical view. I believe that all statements can be divided into testable and non-testable claims. Statements that can be verified become facts while those that cannot are irrelevant. So far I have never seen a religious claim that is both testable and verifiable; until I do I am justified to remain a skeptic.
Strangely, I came to this position from a scripture my mother quoted many, many times,
“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.”
(1 Thessalonians 5:21)
She often would tell me to study, not to prove my ideas right, but to prove them wrong; if they were correct I would be unable to do so. The more I studied the Bible, the more I realized that it did not reflect reality.
The religious person often counters this argument by saying, “God is a mystery that you must accept by faith, and he will not allow himself to be tested!” Even worse, they almost always back this up with a threat about eternal tortured for anyone who doesn’t accept this claim as fact.
I view this claim as being like someone trying to sell me a cat in a box, but telling me that I cannot look inside to verify that I’m getting a cat instead of a skunk. And being told I’m going to hell for being skeptical is like holding a gun to my head and threatening to shoot if I dare look for myself. This is exactly like the line a con man would say as he steals everything you have.
So, it should be plain to anyone that I in fact do NOT have any religion; I have no “faith” in science and no dogma of evolution. If you want to say anything to me, prove it!
