atheism

Atheism is a broad term, atheists having the only thing in common: their lack of belief in a personal, supernatural deity. The etymology of the word itself is "a" – without, "theism" – belief in a god. It is not a religion or life philosophy, and therefore asserts no specific ideas or beliefs. Consequently, it is best to defer to those who consider themselves atheists when defining the term. Some are more active in their denial than others, but all are without belief.

There is a burgeoning atheist rights movement. Members of which have been dubbed with the controversial term, the "new atheists." Books such as Richard Dawkins'; The God Delusion and Sam Harris' The End of Faith are best sellers. Many of the "new atheists" are thriving in the blogosphere. In this vast atheist blogosphere, the most popular blogs include biologist P.Z. Myers' Pharyngula, Hemant Mehta's Friendly Atheist, and Rebecca Watson's Skepchick.

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Original Technorati articles tagged “atheism”

• in Lifestyle
  Are Atheists The Most Faithful Believers?
  Atheists… are Believers. That’s right! You heard it – Atheists are some of the world’s most faithful and fundamentalist believers. Why? How? Let me explain
  by annabrixthomsen / on May 25, 2011
• in Politics
  The New Religious Wars
  Why can’t we all just get along?
  by docentman / on Jan 18, 2011
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  What Do You Give an Atheist for Christmas?
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  by missbobetier / on Dec 14, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “atheism”

 

• Wednesday Link List

  
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  So let’s start with Ed Young’s Pastor Fashion blog . We’re being set up here, right? Mind you, the fashion blog and Ed’s regular blog contain the same spelling error:  Taking something to a whole other level, is w hole, not hole. And that  is him in the videos. So maybe this is serious. Besides, it’s ...
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• Evolving Evangelicalism (part 12): Beyond the Culture War (Openness + Stories)

  
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  The following series is based on my senior paper for Seminary. You may remember a video where I invited people to contribute their stories to help make my case. For the next couple weeks, I’ve decided to share my findings with you all. There will be a “thesis/problem” section, a “biblical theology” section, ...
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• Interview: Every Time I Die – Keith Buckley on Ex Lives, his singing and Jesus

  
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  When we interviewed the Buckley brothers at the tail end of 2009 in a dingy room backstage at Hammersmith Apollo, Every Time I Die had just released their fifth album, New Junk Aesthetic . We asked them to rate all their albums and they were remarkably honest. Despite looking back fondly on 2003’s Hot Damn! and ...
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• Ross Douthat: What Has Jerusalem To Do With Athens?

  
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  Ross Douthat at the NY Times : … the more purely secular liberalism has become, the more it has spent down its Christian inheritance—the more its ideals seem to hang from what Christopher Hitchens’ Calvinist sparring partner Douglas Wilson has called intellectual “skyhooks,” suspended halfway between our ...
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• Atheists and Agnostics Making a Difference in the World I: Bwambale Robert and The Kasese Humanist Primary School

  
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  Bwambale Robert is the founder of the Kasese United Humanist Association .  He recently founded the Kasese Humanist Primary School in Western Uganda. This is the first post in a new series of personal profiles of Atheists, Agnostics and Humanists who are helping to make the world a better place. Over ...
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• OH RAPTURE!

  
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  One of the major problems America faces is a large population of religious fundamentalists who have become as fanatical in their own way as any Middle Eastern Ayatollah. At present, they are caught up in their own version of the myth of the end of the world, and hope that by working to bring it about, theyll get to ...
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• Is 2013 the Real 2012?

  
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  Janet C. Phelan Activist Post Apocalyptic fever is running high. A friend in the Bible Belt, who recently became “born again,” called me excitedly to tell me she was leaving me her house. “In case I suddenly vanish,” she confided. Of course. She would be raptured up and I, a hardcore “One God” believer, ...
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• New Jersey Woman Says She Was Fired For Being Too Busty

  
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  A New Jersey woman says she was fired from her job after her manager told her to "tape her breasts" down, and now has filed suit against the company claiming religious and sexual discrimination. Former data entry worker Lauren Odes said that after two days with Native Intimates, a midtown Manhattan wholesale lingerie ...
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• Rabbi Yosef: Treating gentiles violates Sabbath

  
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  During a class on Sabbath halacha relating to religious physicians, the spiritual leader of Shas said that while doctors are expected to do everything in their power – even if it requires violating the Sabbath – in order to save Jews whose lives are in danger, the same does not apply for gentiles. "If a gentile ...
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• Stalin’s five-year-plan for atheism

  
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  Eighty years ago on this day, May 22, 1932, Josef Stalin began his program to eliminate the very memory of the name of God in the Soviet Union within 5 years.  The following account of Stalin’s “atheistic five-year plan” is from a Russian site and is clumsily translated into English, so I’ll edit it slightly: ...
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• Evolving Evangelicalism (part 11): Analysis and Implications of Genesis 1 and Adam

  
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  The following series is based on my senior paper for Seminary. You may remember a video where I invited people to contribute their stories to help make my case. For the next couple weeks, I’ve decided to share my findings with you all. There will be a “thesis/problem” section, a “biblical theology” section, ...
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• All Things to All Men

  
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  R. Joseph Hoffman over at the The New Oxonian has another entry in the “why are atheists so rude” genre. There’s not much to say about these types of posts as they tend to be substance-free, but there was one throw-away segment that wandered into historical territory and caught my attention: They could ...
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• Evolving Evangelicalism (part 10): Adam is Israel’s Loss of Wisdom and Exile

  
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  The following series is based on my senior paper for Seminary. You may remember a video where I invited people to contribute their stories to help make my case. For the next couple weeks, I’ve decided to share my findings with you all. There will be a “thesis/problem” section, a “biblical theology” section, ...
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• He said it: Defining the word “rational” so as to exclude most ways to acquire knowledge

  
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  In “Faith, logic can co-exist, UBC study contends” religion writer Douglas Todd, ( Times-Colonist May 19, 2012) comments on a recent study purported by some to show that “analytical thinking can be harmful to religious faith”: A common misunderstanding about religion comes from the way people define the ...
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• Atheists as an official opposition party?

  
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  In a recent debate on the existence of God in Kamloops, British Columbia (Canada), a proponent of atheism (DiCario) likened his position to the official opposition party in a parliament: “Atheism is basically the opposition party. You make the claims; we can demonstrate why your claims are not to be accepted. ...
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• Questions of the Day: Design.

  
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  According to some Christians, all life on Earth was designed by a perfect intelligence, and humanity is the pinnacle of that design process. This begs a couple of questions, so I’m going to go ahead and ask them: Theists: If you had to pick just one, what part or action of the human body would you say is the best ...
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• Atheist Funerals

  
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  Hey folks. I’m back. Give me a bit to get my feet under me, and posting will resume. One thing: it’s a truism that funerals are for the living. From my perspective, funerals exist to help the survivors come to grips with the gap that has opened up in their lives. Different people will need different things ...
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• For Record: a note on the significance of the Ben Carson incident at Emory University

  
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  On May 16, UD News reported on the Ben Carson speech at Emory, raising some significant issues on the tendency of some Darwinists to toss ad hominem rhetorical stink-bombs at those who question the ethical implications of their views. (And yes, I am pointing to the unanswered problem that evolutionary ...
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• GODLESS WEDNESDAY: A Primer on Religious Privilege

  
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  As I have become more energetic about expressing my skepticism about religion, one of the key ideas I have come across is the notion of religious privilege, i.e. the concept that religious belief is given preferential treatment, deference or favoritism over religious non-belief. About.com has a pretty good primer on ...
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• Christians and Secularists cobelligerent in fight to Reform Section 5 of the Public Order Act

  
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  Section 5 of the 1986 Public Order Act says a person is guilty of an offence if he: (a) uses threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour, or (b) displays any writing, sign or other visible representation which is threatening, abusive or insulting, within the hearing or sight of a ...
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