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Statement of Purpose
- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
- Superstition hucksters have no reason to subscribe or post here at all.
- If you are looking to debate or proselytize, options will be linked lower in the sidebar.
Acceptable
- Honest questions or conversations.
- Discussions on parenting or advice.
- Struggles, frustrations, coming out.
- Atheist memes. We can have fun!
- News headlines relevant to atheism.
Unacceptable
Depending on severity, you might be warned before adverse action is taken.
- Anything against site rules.
- Illegal and/or NSFW material.
- Troll posts and comments. There will be no attempt to explain what that means.
- Leading questions, agenda pushing, or disingenuous attempts to bait members.
- Personal attacks or flaming.
Inadvisable
- Self promotion or upvote farming.
- Excessive shitposting or off-topic discussion.
Application of warnings or bans will be subject to moderator discretion. Feel free to appeal. If changes to the guidelines are necessary, they will be adjusted.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a group that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of any other group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you you will be banned on sight.
Provable means able to provide proof to the moderation, and, if necessary, to the community.
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Connect with Atheists
- Matrix: #atheism:envs.net
Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- The Secular Therapy Project
- Secular Students Alliance
- Black Nonbelievers
- The Clergy Project
- Atheist Alliance International
- Sunday Assembly
- Atheist Ireland
- Atheism UK
- Atheists United
Streaming Media
This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.
- Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
- Rationality Rules
- Friendly Atheist
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Cosmic Skeptic
- Genetically Modified Skeptic
- Street Epistemology
- Armored Skeptic
- NonStampCollector
Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
- Humanists International
- Atheist Republic
- The Brights
- The Angry Atheist
- History for Atheists
- Rationalist International
- Atheist Revolution
- Debunking Christianity
- Godless Mom
- Atheist Freethinkers
Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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Avoiding discussion of politics is the privilege of those who benefit from oppression.
There are dozens of churches in my town. There are religious messages everywhere, from billboards to plaques. There are Christian radio stations people play music from when I go into their businesses. Religious people knock on my door trying to convert me.
Of course I spend a lot of time thinking about it. You people shove it down my throat every chance you get.
Amen
Best pun in the thread, and the edgy teenagers missed it :)
God, I hope not.
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Mate, we got rid of our religious nutjobs in the late 15th/early 16th century.
Here's the secret - stick them all on a boat, send them off to some distant western continent (we found that 3500 miles was the bare minimum) and let them create the most fucked up country on the entire planet while the rest of us slowly forget about their weirdo religion π
I can't help but note that you don't say where you live. And I have a feeling that it's because there are, in fact, religious extremists in your country.
Yeah but they tend to be the "blowy-uppy" type so they tend not to push their agenda either
Once again, you aren't saying where you live and it's becoming more and more obvious that it's because there are crazy Christians there and you don't want us to know that.
Religious people sure spend a lot of time thing about getting little girls pregnant and marrying them.
Kindly fuck off with the unsolicited, worthless criticism, Hugh.
I'm curious of what your definition of "a civilized country" is.
I expect the answer is going to be prejudice AF.
What an amazing display of privilege. It must be nice to live in a society where religious belief isn't being injected into the public and our government.
There is an irony that atheism becomes a religion to a lot of atheists.
It reminds me of how some liberals have transformed into the people they disliked when they just want to own the MAGA crowd instead of actually rallying behind progressive policies and ideals
Is it really a religion when it doesn't follow deities?
Shhhhh, let's not give them ammunition against TST.
Sorry
Define religion for us please.
A circle jerk around the meaning of life
Atheism has nothing to say about the meaning of life. Atheism is the lack of belief in gods.
So either religion is "a circle jerk around the meaning of life," and therefore atheism is not a religion "to a lot of atheists" or your definition is wrong.
Which is it?
A cult?
Religion is a cult or atheism is a cult?
Both
Okay, then please define 'cult' in such a way that describes both religion and atheism. You could start by telling us who the atheism cult's leader is, because I sure don't follow whoever that is.
Theism in its purest form is similarly devoid of religion. My point is that as a practicing atheist, I do not identify with the ways that many of you practice atheism.
Look at the recently-created threads: "everyone, here's a Christian pedophile", "everyone here are stupid Christians" etc. there are ways to actualize your perspective on atheism without always punching down on religion. If we reduce ourselves to only comparing ourselves to the other, we lose who we are as individuals in the process.
The approach that this board has is disappointing and mirrors religion in a way that seems obvious to those that are not taking part of the circle jerk
So by 'practice atheism,' you mean talk about it. And that's what makes a religion. Talking about something.
So I guess discussing the weather is a religion.
If my main reference of weather was "why my weather forecast is better than your weather forecast", then yes, weather becomes a religion
I don't think you understand the argument atheists are making if you think that's all there is to it.
Itβs an opinion on religion, not a belief. It is the lack of belief.