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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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Can they impose their supposed morality on themselves first?
Yeah, let’s legislate being like Christ… let’s see our leaders show us how it’s done (done, done — sorry but really not). They can’t.
I’m curious.
Which of the following teachings of Jesus do you actually approve of?
And those are just off the top of my head.
Remember: Jesus was an iron age man teaching Bronze Age morality as a sort of fundamentalist who believed that the Roman occupation of Israel/Jerusalem was because god was punishing them for leaving the written law of Moses (as well as the commands delivered by the prophets.)
Also remember that the messiah was literally supposed to lead all of Israel into a golden age of world domination in which everyone would be brought- violently- to the worship of their god; and subsequently serve them (as slaves).
I’m sorry that you read a few verses severely out of cultural context and think Jesus was a swell dude, but he was absolutely not a good person by our standards. He was your typical Iron Age man, complete with all the awful morals you’d expect of any other man in that time and place- and that’s before you get into whether or not he was a charlatan literally scamming money and other goods from his “neighbors”.
His teachings should be left in the past.
They don't care.
For them, there's forgiveness. For you, only the worst part of the Bible.
I remember something about a speck and a beam… It’s funny how ignorant these people are to their own religion. They simply use it as an instrument to seize power and control.
I'm convinced this is why the try so hard to confuse people between socialism and communism. In their book, Jesus is teaching socialism. But socialism bad, it leads to the Red Terror... but empathy is evil, fear thy neighbor, reject the foreigner... break your back and get yours, as long as the landowner gets his 99% cut.
Rules for thee...