atheist

An atheist is a person who does not believe in any god. In contrast, theists believe in a god and agnostics say that whether a deity exists is unknown or unknowable. Although atheism itself is centuries old, the development of so-called "new atheism" has made atheist a popular tag.

The new atheism movement is attributed in part to a variety of 21st-century books more outspoken and critical of religion than earlier atheist works. The authors included Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens.

While there are large numbers of atheist blogs, numerous blogs also critique and analyze atheism. The internet also hosts at least one campaign to organize atheists and encourage them to speak out.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “atheist”

 

• Mom

  
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  My Mom hated having pictures taken of her. Despite that, she gave cameras to people who would inevitably train them on her from time to time. I don’t believe in an immortal soul – when you’re dead, you’re dead. (If I’m wrong, I owe you a coke.) Still, I marvel at the immortality in photographs. Yes, she ...
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• David Bowie, The Catholic Church, And The Pearl Clutchers

  
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  David Bowie - The Next Day (Explicit) - YouTube Cross posted @ the Atheist Oasis After watching a very, very old movie with David Bowie in it ( The Hunger – and I suppose that it was a little bit of all right in 1983, but only gets an ‘eh’ and a horizontal palm shaking slightly), I googled Mr. ...
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• Heh, the original image made me giggle.  …

  
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  Heh, the original image made me giggle.  But then I saw the number of other people that clicked like a I totally busted up laughing! #Atheist   This update was automatically posted from Google+ courtesy of the Google+ Importer plugin!
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• Can God Ever Be Proven Scientifically?

  
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  As a science student i am constantly being bombarded in my studies by methods of planning experiments, testing hypotheses and figuring out results. This had me thinking, as an atheist i hold there is no god, but what exactly could prove me wrong? Firstly here are commonly put forward ‘proofs’ that are most ...
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• Utah Screen Printer Denies Service to Atheist Group

  
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  This week the owners of TIKI Printing in West Valley, Utah, refused service to Atheists of Utah based on their rejection of religious belief. Naturally, they didnt come out and say that, but they used the good old standby of pretending that their discrimination was warranted because they were "attacked." This is ...
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• Belief in the Pale Blue Dot…

  
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  I remember having an argument with a fellow preschooler over where Jesus lived. I naturally assumed Jesus lived somewhere close, specifically over the mountains just in view at the time. She was certain Jesus lived in Heaven, up in the clouds. It was around this time that I had taken a flight on a rainy day and saw ...
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• German Death Metallers SPHERON Reveal Cover Art and Release Date for Debut Album

  
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  On July 5, 2013 the long-awaited debut album  Ecstasy of God from Ludwigshafen, Germany-based technical death metallers SPHERON will be out on Apostasy Records. This challenging and absorbing album was produced together with Christoph Brandes at the Iguana Studios (e.g. Necrophagist, Deadborn, Imperium Dekadenz, ...
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• Merry Christmas Bill

  
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  Excitement is building over the Merry Christmas Bill , which passed the House this week in Texas. My fellow Texans think it will stop our state’s bully atheists in their tracks: this bill will allow teachers to put Christmas back in schools. HB 308, proposed by Rep. Dwayne Bohac , states that schools can ...
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• Religion’s Place in Science?

  
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  In 1633 one of history’s greatest scientists, Galileo Galilei, was found guilty of heresy and (under threat of torture), sent to be under house arrest where he remained for the rest of his life. His crime? ‘Merely’ suggesting that the Earth was not, as was the church’s approved theory, the center of the ...
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• Adventures in Education: Reducing Bias in Grading

  
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  Students taking a test at the University of Vienna at the end of the summer term 2005 (Saturday, June 25, 2005). (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) My final exam started at 8:00 am and took the full two and a half hours allotted by the university exam schedule. Most of the class finished after about two hours, but a few ...
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• Why organized Skeptics are nicer people

  
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  I know deep in my soul that there exists a magic pink unicorn with green ears, out there in the universe, you can’t exactly pinpoint it down because it’s kinda like everywhere at once and all-encompassing, but I just know … Continue reading →
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• Foundations for Atheist Morality: The Relativist View Part VI

  
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  In last week’s installment of “Foundations for Atheist Morality” , we discussed the difficulty which accompanies any attempt to positively determine the actual moral views of the majority within a given society.  But what if those views could be determined?  What then?  The difficulties for the moral ...
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• 2011 National Household Survey: Self-Identifying Canadian "Nones" At 23.9%. But Only 12.1% In Quebec?

  
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  St Josephs Oratory, Montreal. So the 2011 National Household Survey results are finally posted on the StatsCan website . The Conservatives ditched the old long-form census and replaced it with a survey - much to the concern of StatsCan and those who actually care about statistics, but thats a whole other issue. ...
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• News And Links For Ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses And Atheists: Operation E-Shunning – AAWA Goes After The Watchtower In New Campaign

  
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  VIDEO: Operation: e-Shunning – AAWA goes after Watchtower over its destructive practice Check out AAWA2013 – AAWA’s New YouTube Channel! Punished for Choosing to Live Twenty-two years ago a registered letter changed the course of my life. The letter stated that I had been judged guilty of “conduct ...
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• Freedom of Speech for Some

  
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  USFWS I must confess that sometimes discrimination against Conservatives, Christians and biblical creationists becomes a bit hard to bear. Facebook pretends to be a vehicle for free expression (within obvious limitations), but shuts down Pages and closes accounts. Nations that are bastions of traditional family ...
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• How Atheists Treat People

  
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  Would you look at how evil, angry, divisive atheists are treating waters and waitresses all over the country.  This must be stopped before they teach our children to act just like them.
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• Atheists and the Afterlife (Part 1)

  
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  I’ve recently found a couple atheist channels on YouTube that make compelling and clear atheistic points in artistic, beautiful ways. Some are done through cartoon, like the ones by DarkMatter2525 (with a fair amount of profanity for those of you concerned with that). Others are done by video cam exposition ...
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• Is Richard Dawkins really the world’s leading thinker?

  
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  Rabbi David Wolpe writes about it on the liberal Huffington Post. Excerpt: Prospect  magazine just named the 65 leading intellectuals in the world. First on the list was Richard Dawkins, known for his work in biology and for his polemics against religion. Dawkins on biology is an elegant, lucid and even ...
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• Serbian Heat: Rob Stewart and the Unlikely Odyssey of ‘Slaughter Nick’

  
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  Tweet Rob Stewart performing with Serbian punk band Atheist Rap in the documentary Slaughter Nick for President. To me, the early ’90s TV show Sweating Bullets – a sort of Baywatch-meets-Magnum PI knockoff about a detective in a beachfront town – was merely an adjunct to a David Letterman ...
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• Is Atheism Increasing in world Population?

  
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      .... There is another rash of statements about atheism increasing world wide, but most of them by atheists. Atheists are notorious for trying to inflate their figures. Ive seen them try to claim all Buddhists as atheists, I even saw one try to claim all Hindus as atheists! Now they have a couple of impressive ...
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