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Posted on December 23, 2008 at 2:45pm 6 Comments

This time of year floods me with people who suddenly want to pray. If I hear another conjugation of the word pray, I definitely will explode. That word is grating on me like fingernails across a chalkboard. Prayer, to me, is actively doing nothing yet giving the false illusion of doing something. When someone says they will pray for me, I feel insulted. Why can't the person take action and do something rather than copping-out, passing the buck, and hoping someone else takes… Continue

Hello and Merry Solstice

Posted on December 20, 2008 at 2:20pm 5 Comments

Hi everyone! It is good to be here with like-minded people. As an atheist for 25 years, I am finally becoming increasingly active in this cause. I believe in the advancement of humanity. Religion, I feel, suppresses this.



This time of year, outside of "easter," truly concerns me. The hypocrisy, commercialism, consumerism, and religious thumping bring out the worst and most annoying of even the slightest religious. Why does "charity" increase only during this holiday? Doesn't these… Continue

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At 4:37am on December 19, 2008, Dr. Terence Meaden said…
Welcome to the group ORIGINS that is forever enquiring into the origins of everything,
which is what science and commonsense do so well in contrast to the useless "goddidit" dogma of the indoctrinated religionists.
 
 
 

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