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Hitchens on Mother Theresa, Hitler, and Immortality

Few of those left on the planet can say this much this true this well, in just 7 minutes: His documentary take down of Mother Theresa can be seen here.

An Atheist’s Reply To Rick Perry

James Kotecki responds to this. Friendly Atheist has a reply of their own up too. Your Thoughts?

Dan Barker Makes Sense of the Gospel Message

I know Dan Barker claims to be only a former Christian minister but he still has a gift for bringing the Gospel message alive in a fresh, new way that makes powerful sense of it. It’s weird it would take an atheist’s description to make me see angles in the story of salvation which I [...]

Greta Deftly and Thoroughly Explains Atheist Anger To The Bewildered

Greta’s talk at Skepticon IV hits the nail on the head about the nature and justification of atheist anger: Her blog post on atheists and anger from 2007 is a definitive go-to piece for me when I am asked about atheist anger. Your Thoughts?

Learning About Love From The Bible

Using the “New Comprehensive Self-Referencing, Taking The Words on the Page To Mean What They Actually Say Version” of the Bible (that’s the NCSRTTWOTPTMWTASV), NonStampCollector shows us how the biblical God of love (the God who is love) models and illuminates for us all the virtues of love described in 1 Corinthians 13: Your Thoughts?

Sam Singleton’s Revival Act That Began Gelatogate

Andy Drennen saw a portion of this act and had this response: Once the store slowed down, I decided to walk down the street to learn more about the convention, fully thinking it was something involving UFOs (“skeptics”). What I saw instead was a man conducting a mock sermon, reading the bible and cursing it. [...]

The Injustice of the Universe and Christianity

Matt Dillahunty has a nice five minute reply to someone who believes in Christianity in order to believe justice will be meted out even to those escape worldly justice. He weaves several important considerations about the irrationality of basing a belief on such a desire and about the problems with Christianity’s views on justice: Your [...]

Dawkins: “Somebody As Intelligent As Jesus Would Have Been An Atheist”

“To the extent that a religious person believes an obvious falsehood like the world is only 6,000 years old, I’m going to have an argument with them,” Dawkins explained. “Your tea-drinking vicar who doesn’t believe that… I mean, of course those people are very different and I would have a very different kind of argument [...]

Documentary with Stephen Hawking about Whether God Created the Universe

Your Thoughts?

Penn and PZ on Libertarianism and Atheism

Adam Lee of Daylight Atheism has had a much deserved opportunity to move his blog to the site of Big Think, which features video interviews from the most popular and cutting edge public intellectuals of our time. Adam got the chance to lob the first question asked of Penn Jillette in a new interview at the site. [...]

Ray Comfort on Atheist Experience

Last spring, for the first time I watched an episode of The Atheist Experience as it premiered. The episode was this one in which Ray Comfort was the special guest: It was a fast hour. If you have not yet visited the The Atheist Experience at their new home on Freethought Blogs, get to it. [...]

The Atheist Experience, Now On Freethought Blogs

Freethought Blogs is now hosting the blog of the atheist community’s signature call-in show, The Atheist Experience. If you want to know why this show is such a phenomenon in the atheist blogosphere, just watch the 15 minute video below on the vice of faith and how it tears apart relationships unnecessarily: Keep tabs on [...]

Parrot (A Short Atheist Film)

A 20 minute Australian short film about a closeted atheist wants to be the atheist’s Philadelphia or In the Heat of the Night. Here is the trailer: Parrot Short Film Trailer from Myrtle Street Pictures on Vimeo. It looks interesting, but I admit that I am squeamish about the whole idea of self-consciously atheistic filmmaking. So [...]

20 Christian Academics Speaking About God

So many religious believers I encounter want to cite the existence of smart religious people as proof enough that their beliefs are rational. Below is a video just demonstrating how unintelligible, contradictory, or explicitly anti-reason many otherwise brilliant and highly credentialed scholars sound when they start actually explaining the religious beliefs that laypeople want to [...]

Scientists Examine Evidence For Scientology

The results are shocking: Your Thoughts?

Bill Maher's Challenge To Those Expecting Jesus To Return May 21

Your Thoughts?

Hitchens On The Inappropriateness Of Asking Dying Atheists If They've Changed Their Mind

Glorious righteous indignation from a master of righteous indignation: Your Thoughts?

Einstein On God And Religion

A nice set of quotes setting the record straight: I’m not crazy about his NOMA-like tacit approval of religion having a say in values. Your Thoughts?

"Atheists Kill People"

A cathartic remix of so many of the most memorable demonizations of atheists from the last few years: Your Thoughts?

How Do You Know It's A Miracle?

Tracie Harris does an exemplary job of getting a caller to focus on, and eventually concede, a key philosophical distinction. Take notes because this is how you make a point: Debate isn’t futile, you just need to be good at it. Your Thoughts?

Support Rock Beyond Belief

An important message from an atheist who wants equal treatment in the military: Your Thoughts?

Double Standards in Assessing Christians and Atheists

Your Thoughts?

Lionel Tiger on the Neurochemical Incentives of Religion

Illuminating: Your Thoughts?

Tyson On How We Can Tell Nature Was Not Designed For Us

A really nice rundown from Neil deGrasse Tyson: Your Thoughts?

On God And The Japanese Earthquake

Edward Tarte says everything that shouldn’t need to be said on the topic, but sadly does: The word poison is a bit unnecessarily strong, but the rest is spot on. Your Thoughts?