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14 hrs ago | News24

Is atheism morally bankrupt - a critical response

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Sun Jun 16, 2013

Examiner.com

Atheism 101: Atheism is not a worldview

Until recently, the number of organized atheists has been pretty small and so religious believers have more experience proselytizing to people of other religious or even those who are barely religious but still consider themselves believers.

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Ukiah Blog Live

Why atheism is powerless against the new barbarians

I love the remark made by one Oxford don about another: 'On the surface, he's profound, but deep down, he's superficial.'

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Fri Jun 14, 2013

Harry's Place

Barbarians at the gate? Lord Sacks on atheism

This article in the Spectator starts with a straw man - the atheist who acknowledges no middle ground between Biblical literalism and non-belief: Future intellectual historians will look back with wonder at the strange phenomenon of seemingly intelligent secularists in the 21st century believing that if they could show that the first chapters of ... (more)

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Thu Jun 13, 2013

Sun-Star

Uyboco: Belief, unbelief and that little comma in between

Ask a Muslim if he believes in God and he will say yes as well. Ask a Hindu if he believes in God and you still get a yes.

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Switched

Where Atheism Stops And Religion Begins

The New Atheists love proclaiming that religion is dying. It's a claim that is hard to argue with.

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The Spectator

Jonathan Sacks is right: the new atheists have opened a discussion

There is a superb piece in the magazine this week by the Chief Rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, titled 'Atheism has failed: only religion can defeat the barbarians.'

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Wed Jun 12, 2013

Free Republic

Christians have a Monument; Atheists, a Petulant Middle Finger

When I first saw the headline I admit being genuinely curious what sort of monument an atheist group would erect.

3 comments

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Tue Jun 11, 2013

Examiner.com

Secularism and America's 'atheist problem'

America has an atheist problem, but it's not the kind of problem you might imagine.

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State Press

Respect transcends religion

Thomas Jefferson wrote in an 1802 letter, "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State."

5 comments

Related Topix: Bradford County, FL, Religion

Northwest Florida Daily News

EDITORIAL: Atheism is getting benched

Pundits have long speculated that if local governments insist on mixing Christianity and politics - Bible classes in public schools, the Ten Commandments posted at courthouses, etc.

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Related Topix: Religion, Florida, Opinion

Mon Jun 10, 2013

Boing Boing

Maggie interviewing Curtis White, author of "The Science Delusion"

I'm going to be hosting a Q&A on Wednesday with Curtis White, essayist, novelist, and professional curmudgeon.

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Scientific Blogging

Uncommon Descent Uncommonly Decent On Relativistic Physics But What In God's Name

Dr. Sascha Vongehr [e Zae 'ae2TM] studied phil/math/chem/phys in Germany, obtained a BSc in theoretical physics & MSc ... Vincent J. Torley in " Bad science by Dr. Victor Stenger, arguing in the cause of atheism " argues well about quite difficult and controversial physics.

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Tuscon Citizen

Atheism vs Religion: In regards to death

Freethought Arizona is a blog for freethinkers in general and Arizona atheists, agnostics, skeptics, and secular humanists in particular.

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Related Topix: Arizona, Religion, Tucson, AZ

Fri Jun 07, 2013

Slate Magazine

The Case Against Reason

When Richard Dawkins was named the world's "Top Thinker" in a poll recently published by Prospect magazine , it was hard to avoid the suspicion that the world - or at least that part of it that votes in such polls - must have an impoverished sense of what constitutes a vital or transformative intellectual figure.

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News24

Is Atheism Morally Bankrupt?

Are there any objective moral values if atheism is true? Atheist philosophers Michael Ruse and Edward Wilson's don't think so.

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News24

A Letter to Civilized Atheists

Going to the Kings of Chaos concert tonight? Send Channel24 all your fan pics to music@channel24.co.za.

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Thu Jun 06, 2013

Elm Grove

"From Feminist Atheism to Biblical Truth" Tuesday, Sept. 23,

Author Kitty Foth-Regner is the featured speaker at the Creation Science Society of Milwaukee's September meeting.

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The Miami Herald

North Fla. county to allow atheist monument

This small county has reached a deal to let a national organization install a 1,500-pound granite bench near an existing Ten Commandments monument that prompted a lawsuit after it was installed last year.

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WebProNews

First Public Atheist Monument To Go Up In Florida

In a move that will generate absolutely no comments on the Internet whatsoever, a county in North Florida is going to allow the installation of a monument dedicated to atheism in front of the Bradford County Courthouse.

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