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- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
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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
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this is not strictly speaking true. hebrew uses a system where numbers are written using hebrew letters rather than arabic numerals. context in the writing would clue you in it was a number and not a word, but 1-9 would be represented by the first 9 letters in the alphabet, the tenth letter would be 10, the elevent was 20, etc.
this is just Gematria- a form of numerology that uses hebrew to do... fancy math.
It's still very unconvincing, however, since you could do the same thing with with any sufficiently long text. Lord of the rings. Mobby dick. the script for twilight. or a password generator turning out pseudorandom alphanumeric strings.
but the numerical values are not arbitrary; even if the rest of it is bullshit.
Sometimes, though, Gematria was a way of speaking in code. For example. the Book of Revelation, and the mark of the beast. 'Nero Cesar', transliterated into hebrew adds up to 666. Interestingly, Revelation was first written in greek, and used the greek version of Nero- that is Neron Ceasar- which totals to 616. 666 comes from the latin translation, which the translator knew The Beast was nero.
why was the author of the Book of Revelation speaking in code? Because speaking openly about a fucking dictator who was persecuting your people was a great way to get offed, so the author used 'prophetic' literature to spread current news about what was happening. (For example, the beast's reign of persucution lasted 42 months, which was how long nero's campaign of persecution against christians lasted.)