atheism

How Does A Person Go From Believer To Atheist?

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One day two young Mormon missionaries knock on performer Julia Sweeney’s door, and started her on a quest to completely rethink her own beliefs. In the end she made the transition from “believer” to “atheist”, so what happened and what was the thought process that carried her on this journey? Oh wait, before we go there, … Read more

Daft Claim Rebuttal: “The Atheist agenda”

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Jennifer LeClaire is a news editor at Charisma, a “Christian” magazine with a “Christian Agenda” … can I say that, or have they already trademarked the word “agenda” when used in scare quotes? Anyway, she has written an article about the “Athiest Agenda” that perhaps warrants a few comments. It is positively drenched in hostility and … Read more

Six types of atheists … some further thoughts.

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Back in July two researchers at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga considered the idea that atheists and agnostics fell into distinct categories, so they conducted a study to find out what those categories were. From this they identified six different types (yes, I blogged about it before). It attracted rather a lot of attention at … Read more

Moving beyond “Smut for Smut”

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In years gone by (since 2005), the students group known as “Atheist Agenda” at the University of Texas at San Antonio has offered to exchange bibles and qurans for free porn in the student free speech area on campus – their point being that religions are more damaging than Hustler magazine. In once sense it worked, in that it … Read more

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