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P: Modern progressivism is indistinguishable in its political program from the acknowledged main stream of American Protestantism circa 1942.1S: What you call yourself doesn't determine what you are; what you do, does. 'A rose by any other name would smell as sweet ( Read more... )

You know how some Christians believe that we atheists spend all our time drinking, fornicating, taking drugs, and murdering?

Does it ever seem to you that they sound a little bit jealous when they talk about our imagined lifestyle?

The recent North Carolina vote started off a new wave of anti-gay sentiment, all of it bible- and faith-based.  I get into so many arguments with the religionists in the various online communities I am a part of.   I'm sick of having my arguments called "straw men" and "logical fallacies" all the while they pray to their invisible magical ( Read more... )

Welcome to This World | TheThinkingAtheist | YouTube -- [What are we teaching our children in the name of God?]

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Analytic thinking can decrease religious belief: UBC study | UBC Public Affairs -- [The study, which will appear in tomorrow's issue of Science, finds that thinking analytically increases disbelief among believers and skeptics alike, shedding important new light on the psychology of religious belief.]

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