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"The Constitution of Turkey establishes the Republic of Turkey as a secular state and provides for freedom of conscience, religious belief, and conviction, as well as freedom of expression and dissemination of thought".

Does freedom from religion count too, I wonder? Um, guess not:

In a nutshell: "Atheists are animals".

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Is it true that the death of SCOTUS justice Scalia has immensely raised the stakes of the presidential campaign, and is about to make it literally about the future of all three branches of government?

I mean, the latest GOP presidential debate seemed to indicate this, as most candidates were very eager to make it clear that Obama should not be ( Read more... )

We've often heard of the Evangelical segment of the electorate. Or the Mormon segment. Or the Jewish segment. But little is being told of the second-largest segment in America, and arguably the fastest-growing: atheists, or more broadly, non-believers. And they're rising worldwide. And surprisingly or not, being an open atheist may no longer be a ( Read more... )

Kind of on-topic, comes this piece, which I found very curious:

The growth of African-American atheism

"Christianity remains central to life in the Southern United States. But with non-belief growing, secular organisations are finding new ways of supporting those who are breaking with their faith."

I am wondering if this is part of a much wider, ( Read more... )

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So, I know, I know, atheism is just something that middle or upper-middle class white folks have the luxury of thinking about and it's really just a #firstworldproblem that we atheists should be all too happy to have, right ( Read more... )

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In this video Penn Jillet talks about the candidates from the perspective of an atheist.As he tends to do, he makes several very good observations. Though to be honest I actually think he gives some of front runners WAY too much credit on the "not a nut job" scale.

His comments about how "Christians" as we think of them today didn't really exist ( Read more... )