Major Branches Within Atheism?

Click for a larger version. Via LOL God.

Questions About Jesus

Science vs. Faith

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The God Simulator

This has to be the easiest game ever. It's when you play it badly that things start feeling strangely familiar...

A Sign from Athe?

The little counter at the bottom of this page just clicked over from 2008 to 2009, on today of all days. I take this as a sign from Athe that she is pleased with the blog.

The Atheist Commandment

Brian's Shoe

This is my favourite part of the movie The Life of Brian. It shows how quickly religions can arise... and divide:

Edward Current's Wisdom

Time for a little humour. Edward Current is one of the more prolific religious satirists on YouTube, and this is just one of many videos he's made that could so easily be mistaken for the real deal (see Poe's Law):

The Wisdom of Dougal McGuire

Reasons to Become an Atheist

Top ten reasons here. Number one is great:

1. No Christians after the Rapture! This is assuming that they are right, which is completely unlikely. But even so, could an atheist imagine a better world than one in which all the 'true believers' were suddenly whisked away to free the world of religious division and hatred and allow mankind to put our effort into improving the real world and this life for a change!

This page also offers some pretty convincing arguments. A couple of my favourites:

...you'll save money on funerals because you now know there's no point in getting all dressed up, since there's no place to go!

...you'll get to finally think for yourself, according to a recent scientific journal.

In truth no reasons are necessary to be an atheist (though they do exist!). Atheism is a default position, we are all born as atheists, starting out in life without any belief in deities. The burden of proof lays with the theists, it is they who must persuade us of the existence of their god and the validity of their religion.

George Carlin

Just woke up and heard the sad news that forward-thinking US comedian George Carlin has died, aged 71.

I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas.

George Carlin

RIP.

Stupid Design

Part of a lecture by Neil deGrasse Tyson, given at the Beyond Belief conference in 2006:



The entire conference was filmed and can be seen here:

http://thesciencenetwork.org/BeyondBelief/