This month’s "Shout Out" goes out to Arkansas School Board member Clint McCance and his public Facebook rant about homosexuals on Spirit day.For those of you who don't know about Spirit Day, it was a day set aside for support of homosexuals who are victim to the bullying that leads to…See More
Afamily from Texas is racing to stop a woman from having her toesamputated, because they want to let the prayer have more time to work.Theystarted praying 5 heart attacks ago.The lack of circulation hasleft her toes black and doctors fear that if they don't act soon, hercondition may worsen. Still after all the needless sufferingthat her family and their beliefs have caused her, they are…See More
Yes Tom. This is a blog that was originally on my open atheist blog at atheist evolution. I know that there are no theists here.
Phil, well said
I don't respect nor tolerate any ideology that can't show why it is valid and actually…
Disagreement is not intolerance and being offended is no excuse.
Great line, J Burgoyne.
I would say that mocking religion is a sort of disrespect, but certainly not intolerance. (Mieu)
Mocking religion is disrespectful but since when do we have…
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I would say that mocking religion is a sort of disrespect, but certainly not intolerance.
We surely need and have to tolerate religious people and what they do, unless they put other people's rights at risk. But we should not have to…
Listenup theists, mocking or criticizing your religion is not "intolerance."You have never been shy about preaching to everyone howwrong/immoral/destructive it is to not believe in your God and yourreligion. I defend your right to hold those opinions, but don'tcry intolerance and victimization when we voice ours too.Disagreementis not intolerance and being offended is no excuse.You…See More
The words faith and belief are misused. Faith IS belief. The problem is that they use that term instead of superstition.
If your "beliefs" are not informed by evidence, then they aren't really beliefs. They are superstitions.
I think its pretty fucking pathetic that people need such obvious rules to live by. Someone needs to tell me I shouldn't kill people? (Bible rules)
I would like to say yours are an upgrade... But most dogs should live by your upgraded, much…
keep an open mind about your beliefs
I try to avoid the word belief and prefer 'convictions' instead -a trivial point but belief is to close to faith.
The 10 Secular "Guidelines" you posit are certainly preferable to the…
Hi and welcome to this great meeting place
where religion is recognised for the superstition and people-control fraud that it is and for its inexcusable 2000 years of oppressing women
--- and that God and gods are merely fictions inside human heads.
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