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About Me
I am a former fundamentalist minister who has seen the light of science and reason. I find inspiration in music, art, literature and our awe inspiring universe. I believe the next step in humanity's evolution is breaking the shackles of religious superstition.

I am secularly ordained and have dedicated myself to encouraging and inspiring others to "come out" of the religious closet.
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"The 'US' from Nexus doesn't make me think 'Atheist Nexus,' it makes me think 'US' like community, which is great, but also U.S.- thought A|N is international. Though I like the US in Atheist Nexus, as it could lead…"
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Carolyn R commented on Brother Richard's blog post We are wasting our time if we can't help these gay teens.
"This site & your podcast have given me so many hours of entertainment, enrichment, food for thought, and long-distance camaraderie; let me take a minute to say THANK YOU! You have done a great service to us freethinkers. Somehow people with…"
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At 8:07pm on May 12, 2012, Steph S. said…

I hope you are doing well today! Have a nice weekend.

At 1:29pm on March 22, 2012, Sentient Biped said…

Hey Richard, I hope you enjoy the Rally!  For those of us stuck in our own towns, please encourage people who you run into, or who you speak to, to "live blog" or post their experiences on Nexus!  That way we can be "almost there".  have fun and thanks!

At 4:55pm on February 24, 2012, Steph S. said…

I just wanted to thank you for your wonderful website! I spend a lot of time here!

Have a nice weekend!

At 5:29pm on February 20, 2012, Randall Quinn said…
Hello, thank you for creating this network. Great and needed. When I send a email from my iPod 4g, containing a pic to be a profile pic here on my atheist nexus page, it does not show up here, it's not received. I have tried changing the assigned email given by atheist nexus: none works. What can I do? 
At 8:07am on December 27, 2011, PODELEAN IOAN said…

Please, REAL atheists, NEVER use the dirty word Christmas, because 25 dec. has NOTHING to do with "christ"/the jewish tricky(Mat.27:63) and "god" for stupides, because his birthday Is UNKNOWED !!! The decembre's days for celebrate are ONLY 21(the Solstitum) and 31(the New Year). And, also, don't foulmouthed yours mouthes with the expressions: shit!, Jesus!, Oh, my god!, because this is a sign of non-civilisation, of a dirty society. "USA is beautifull from outside, and dirty from inside", as muslims sayes. Brothers atheists, makes a normal society, with beautiful words.

At 5:59am on December 25, 2011, EllenBeth said…

Guess, I am going to have to spend more time in the neighborhood!

At 10:28pm on October 1, 2011, beaux said…
At 8:37pm on September 6, 2011, Earther said…
I was told you are the person who is responsible for this website, is that true?  If it is I was wondering if you advertise the site, like, a billboard that says walk on reason, not water.  What do you think?
At 6:25pm on July 3, 2011, Marissa Torres Langseth said…
Thanks for the invite..Yes, PATAS will be delighted to be a member of Nexus international.
At 11:32pm on June 27, 2011, Ramachandran S said…

I feel it is not good for us to criticize those who talk of God, because they are brainwashed.  Those brainwashed people cannot be brought back to normal status.   Instead we in the atheist movement should change the tactics not attacking them and silently taking our view to world forum.   We should rename our movement to truereligionists/truthmovement.  Our aim should be promote the idea of understanding nature and living with it as long nature permits with whole ecology not just humans.   We should seriously putting across our views instead of fighting these insane religious people who think they are intelligent.

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We are wasting our time if we can't help these gay teens.

Posted on June 22, 2011 at 11:15pm 9 Comments

Often when I reflect upon my day, I am amazed how much of my time is wasted going through hate mail. No, I'm not talking about those "my god loves you and enjoy the fires of Hell" letters I get from those wacky and kooky theists. I'm speaking of the emails I get from other atheists. Yeah, I actually get more from our team.

 

The last four emails I have received could be boiled down to this:

 

"There is no such thing as a new atheist!"

"Once a…

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Weekly Rant: Frank Schaeffer and New Atheist Fundamentalists

Posted on November 5, 2009 at 12:27pm 6 Comments

As far as the religious go, you could say that Frank Schaeffer is one of the good guys. He is the son of one of the first televangelists, Francis Schaeffer, and in his book, Crazy for God, he did a great job explaining how he helped found the Religious Right, and why he now regretted it.



As being somewhat… Continue

When should nontheists complain?

Posted on November 3, 2009 at 4:30pm 9 Comments

It is no secret that we nontheists are continually bombarded with religious references. Most of the time, we simply smile and ignore them, knowing that our fellow primates mean us no harm. And when we do complain, no matter how polite and courteous we may be, it is always taken the wrong way. So, when should we speak up?



My friend Margaret Downey wrote this letter to American Airlines concerning her recent trip her to Hawaii:… Continue

Happy Anniversary Chariots of Iron!

Posted on September 2, 2009 at 11:09am 1 Comment

Happy first anniversary to “the three godlessteers,” Lamar, Eli, and Joe. Thanks guys for giving us a great year of podcasting. May you all be in Heaven ten minutes before the Devil knows your dead.



If you don’t yet listen to the Chariots of Iron podcast, you are missing out. Below is the info for episode that kicks off their second season. Their guest is PZ Myers, and if that is not reason enough to listen, you get to hear Joe say, “If the toupee had been invented like 3000 years… Continue

I am the guest on tonight's The Infidel Guy Show

Posted on August 27, 2009 at 9:30am 5 Comments

Tonight (Thursday, August, 27, 8:00 PM EST) I will be the guest on the Infidel Guy Show. I had promised Reggie that I would return to his show one year later, and tonights the night.

If possible listen to the show and call in to show your support. Hopefully we will get some new members out of this.

I put more info here: http://lifewithoutfaith.com/?p=2039
 
 
 

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