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Christianity repugnant? Dear Believer
Video: St. George Carlin on religion
Video: Christians are delusional
Video: 10 Questions for Christians
Cartoon: Christian v Atheist
Analysis: Religiosity as Neurosis
Story: The Dragon In My Garage
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Thu 9/11 7:30 pm, Brian Greene at Kepler's in Menlo Park
Sat 9/13 11 am, Bay Area Atheists Equinox Picnic, in SF
9/25-28, Atheist Alliance International Convention, Long Beach,CA
Sun 9/28 11 am, The Creationist Chameleon: Past, Present & Future
10/3-4, ORIGINS - The BIG Questions Conference, at Caltech
Fri 10/24 6:30 pm, Dale McGowan, Parenting Beyond Belief, in SF
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“I think there’s nothing wrong with teaching different schools of thought.”
- Sen. John McCain, 8/28/05, on teaching
evolution and intelligent design
“... the Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation.”
- Sen. John McCain, 9/29/07
“Our founding fathers were informed by the respect for human life and dignity that is the foundation of the Judeo-Christian tradition.”
- Sen. John McCain,
10/19/07
“I think the number one issue people should make [in the] selection of the President of the United States is,
'Will this person carry on in the Judeo-Christian principled tradition that has made this nation the greatest
experiment in the history of mankind?'"
- Sen. John McCain, Beliefnet interview
Watch here and
here as Sen. McCain explains his ideas about a Christian U.S.
Sen. McCain also supports a constitutional amendment banning
abortion.
* Headline: Rev. Louis Sheldon, head of the Traditional Values Coalition, warned Sen. McCain that
opposing torture may mean forfeiting the support of evangelical leaders in 2008. (Don't you just love
Christian values?)
“Teach both. You know, don't be afraid of education. Healthy debate is so important,
and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both.”
- Republican VP candidate Gov. Sarah Palin, on teaching evolution and creationism
“Our national leaders are sending [troops] out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that
we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan.”
- Gov. Sarah Palin, on
sending troops to Iraq
“I think God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that.”
- Gov. Sarah Palin, on a $30 billion gas pipeline for Alaska.
“On the issue of evolution, the verdict is still out on how God created the Earth.”
- Pres. George W. Bush
“Let’s, first of all, pray there’s no hurricanes. That would be, like, step one.”
- Pres. George W. Bush
“With respect to public acknowledgment of religious belief, it is entirely clear from our nation's historical
practices that the Establishment Clause permits this disregard of polytheists and believers in unconcerned
deities, just as it permits the disregard of devout atheists.”
- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 2005
“Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than
religion-specific, values. It requires that their proposals be subject to argument, and amenable to reason.
I may be opposed to abortion for religious reasons, but if I seek to pass a law banning the practice, I cannot
simply point to the teachings of my church or evoke God's will. I have to explain why abortion violates some
principle that is accessible to people of all faiths, including those with no faith at all.”
- Sen. Barack Obama, 6/28/06
“Whatever we once were, we're no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation,
a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of non-believers.”
- Sen. Barack Obama, 7/29/07
“The separation of church and state is critical and has caused our democracy and religious practices to thrive.”
- Sen. Barack Obama, Barack Obama on Faith
13% of registered voters think Obama is a Muslim, in a
Wall Street
Journal/NBC poll. 44% weren't sure or refused to answer.
Gods don't kill people; people with gods kill people!
Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you
symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil
force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat
from a magical tree. — unknown
"Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by
God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants
murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything — anything —
be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in."
— Sam Harris, The End of Faith
"Religion is the process of unconscious wish fulfillment, where, for certain people, if the process
did not take place it would put them in self-danger of coming to mental harm, being unable to cope
with the idea of a godless, purposeless life."
— Sigmund Freud
Pope Benedict XVI recently stated the Church had not imposed itself on the indigenous peoples of the
Americas. He said that the natives had welcomed the arrival of European priests at the time
of the conquest as they were "silently longing" for Christianity. [Right, and rape
victims "silently long" for rape.]
* Mark Thomas & Jerry Schwarz of (CFI/SF)
were on KGO radio's "God Talk" Listen to the archive of the hour
* Read Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete? - 13 essays
* Read A smuggled cracker,
insanity, and death threats
* Video The Naked Truth
* Read Science and religion seem as antagonistic
as ever
* Read Should 'Evolutionists' Be Allowed to Vote?
* Read July 1, 1858:
Darwin and Wallace Shift the Paradigm
* Read How Darwin won
the evolution race
* Read Origin
of Species by Charles Darwin (online)
* NEWS: Member David Mandell has published his book Atheist Acrimonious
* Read Rational Atheism by Michael Shermer
* Read An Atheist in the Pulpit
* Listen Bart
Ehrman on NPR, Questioning Religion on Why We Suffer
* Read Ditching
God
* Video Why we need the
Military Religious Freedom Foundation
* Read Death to Americans United
for Separation of Church and State! - Rev.Wiley Drake (an American Taliban?)
* Listen freethoughtradio.com
* Video Homer Simpson Converts to Catholicism
* Video Robin Williams on Biblical Miracles
* Read Atheists come out of the closet
(in the S.J. Mercury News)
* Watch Beyond Belief conference,
with Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and many more
» » Links for Richard Dawkins « «
» » Links for Sam Harris « «
* Read The Dawkins Delusion Is Dawkins insecure about Atheism?
* Read Pope: Other denominations not true churches
* Watch Debate: Darwin and Humanity: Should we rid the mind of God?
* Book: Parenting Beyond Belief: On Raising Ethical,
Caring Kids Without Religion
* Read FFRF goes to the Supreme Court
* Watch FFRF and Atheists on ABC news
* Read Religious Intolerance on Paula Zahn's Show, 01/31/07
* Join The First Amendmist Church of True Science
* Read Study Finds Brain Injury Changes Moral Judgment
* Read East Bay
Rep. Pete Stark says that he's a nontheist
* Watch Dave Kong (CA State Director for American
Atheists) on TV
* Read Christianists on the March
* Cartoon Virgin Mary With Child!
* Watch The Blasphemy Challenge, make a short video,
and get a free DVD of "The God Who Wasn't There"
* Watch Brian Flemming on Fox News
* Watch Jon Stewart on God, plus Republican Rep. Lynn Westmoreland
trys to remember the 10 Commandments
* Hear Mark on unchainedradio.com 12/06/06
* Read Debunking the Historical Jesus By Dan Barker
* Art! Atheist art from Luxembourg
* Read Atheists:
The New Gays (on the Dilbert Blog)
* Read Why Does God Hate Amputees?
* Read What makes us human? You don't have to be a biologist to see how
closely the great apes resemble us
* Read 3.3 Million Years Later, Skeleton of Girl Found
* Video The New American Theocracy
* Read The Psychology Behind Suicide Bombings
* Read Hitler
and Stalin were possessed by the Devil, says Vatican exorcist
* Read The Necessity of Atheism
- Why not to believe
* Read Furious
evolution debate hits Kenyan museum
* Read god is imaginary.com (with videos)
* Read The Republican War on Science, Chapter 11:
“Creation Science” 2.0
* Video "The Naked Truth"
* Video Atheism
* Read Is America a Christian Nation?
* Video The War On Christianity
* Read Pope Benedict XVI Christianizes the Holocaust
* Read Which Way
To The Apocalypse?
* Read Science and the First Amendment
* Read Richard Dawkins on Atheism
* Read Report Says Religion Course Promotes Religious Freedom
* Read Human Ancestors May Have Interbred With Chimpanzees
* Read The First Few Microseconds of the Universe
* Videos Is Prayer Just Comforting, Superstitious Behavior?
with Jon Stewart, & James Randi on Faith Healers
* Read Time to change
nation's mindset that Atheists shouldn't be elected
* Read Anti-abortion
crowd sets its sights on birth control
* Read Trying to Understand Angry Atheists
by Rabbi Marc Gellman
* Read Mark Thomas responds to Rabbi Gellman
* Listen Mark Thomas on Christian radio 4/26/06
* Video Intelligent Design vs Science: Starring Penn & Teller,
Bill Maher, Richard Dawkins, Duane Gish, and more
* Read Evidence of Common Descent between Man and Chimp
* Read Atheists Work Toward Better Understanding
- About SF Atheists
* Read Is the President's religion a cause of his untrustworthiness?
* Humor Critics Blast Bush For Not Praying Hard Enough
* Listen Debate between Dan Barker, of FFRF.org,
and Todd Friel, Christian
* Read The Flagellum Unspun:
The Collapse of "Irreducible Complexity"
* Read Fossil connects human evolution dots
* Read
Fossil Called Missing Link From Sea to Land Animals
* Cartoon Another New Religion
* Read Medical Study Questions the Power of Prayer
(DUH!)
* Read What the latest prayer study tells us about God
* Video Bill Maher on Evil, New Orleans, & The Boogeyman and MORE
* Video George Bush on the Apocalypse
* Video Jon Stewart interviews Bart Ehrman,
author of Misquoting Jesus
* Read Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority
* Read Atheists Put Their Faith
in Ethical Behavior
* Cartoon Opus on when the Universe will end
* Read
Agnostic Author Bart Ehrman Picks Apart the Gospels That Made a Disbeliever Out of Him
See: Islam is a Peaceful Religion
* Read Godless in Society:
How Can a Godless Person Make a Difference? by Austin Cline
* Read Atheist Foundations of Ethics by John B. Hodges
* Read SF Chronicle article on
the San Francisco Atheists and
Lori Lipman Brown,
our lobbyist in D.C.
* Read Scientists enlist clergy in evolution battle
* Read Interview
with the producer of the movie "The God Who Wasn't There"
* Visit The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
Read about it
* Read The Republican Party of Texas
affirms the United States of America is a Christian Nation
* Read Wayward Christian Soldiers about how Christians backed the Iraq war
* Video Terrorist Training Camp
* Video Jesus Sings and Dances!
* Listen NPR interview with author of
Misquoting Jesus
* Read What the 'Left Behind'
Series Really Means
* Read The Other I.D.
* Read "Why I'm an Atheist" (part 1)
* Read "Why I'm an Atheist" (part 2)
* Cartoon Non Sequitur on Alien Science and Theology
* Quotes from The
American Taliban
* Read about our San Francisco "All Atheist Weekend" in the AP and
in the SF Chron
* Read about the movie "The God Who Wasn't There"
and the upcoming movie "The Beast"
Email Pope Benedict XVI!
(former head of the Congregation on the Doctrine of the Faith, which gave us the Inquistion)
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In a 1999 poll, 48% of Americans said they would not consider voting for an Atheist. Some dictionaries offer
an alternate definition of Atheist as “wicked.” The Boy Scouts membership form says, “no member can grow into
the best kind of citizen without recognizing his obligation to God.”
How are people supposed to know that Atheists in fact do grow up to be the best kinds of American citizens every day
— if we aren't visible? Atheists of Silicon Valley is reclaiming the A-word in our community by encouraging local
Atheists to come out of the closet and be open with friends, co-workers, neighbors and family. We're standing up and
speaking out. 14% of Americans and
19% of Californians identify themselves as some kind of non-believer. We
may be a minority, but we're sizable and growing. According to the American Religious Identification Survey,
Americans who answered "none" when asked to identify their religion numbered 29.4 million in 2001, more than double
the 14.3 million in 1990.
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Virgin Mary seen in Chicago underpass
A recent Newsweek poll found that 26% of registered voters think that Atheists are inherently immoral,
only 29% would vote for an Atheist, and only 3% called themselves Atheists.
A recent Pew Forum poll found that 67% of Americans believe the false idea that America
was founded as a Christian nation.
Five evangelical Christian leaders signed the "Land Letter" to President Bush in 2002 affirming a
Christian theological basis to invade Iraq.
87% of all white evangelical Christians in the U.S. supported President Bush's decision
to go to war. Recent polls indicate that 68% of white evangelicals continue to support the war.
80% of white evangelical Christian voters voted for President Bush in 2004.
In the 2004 election, nearly 70% of Bush supporters believed the U.S. had "clear evidence"
that Saddam Hussein was working closely with al Qaeda; a third believed weapons of mass destruction were found
in Iraq; and more than a third that a substantial majority of world opinion supported the U.S.-led invasion.
A recent Gallup poll shows that 68% of Republicans still don't believe in the biological fact of evolution.
A Washington Post poll found that 80% of Katrina’s survivors said that the event strengthened their faith in
God. (With a god like that, who needs Satan?)
In the recent
Gallup Millennium Survey of religious attitudes, 49% of Danes, 52% of Norwegians, and 55% of Swedes said God
did not matter to them. 64% of Czechs regarded God as not mattering at all. While 82% of Americans say God
is very important to them, less than 20% of Europeans make such statements. Source:
Utne Reader, Sept-Oct 2004
Religion in Spain is mostly becoming
tradition.
A 2004 ICM poll found that 98% of Nigerians claimed always to have
believed in God, while 90% of Indonesians said they would die for their God or religious beliefs.
A govt. study in Ireland found that 87% of the population believe in God. 19% said tragedies such as
the Asian tsunami, which killed 300,000 people, bolstered their belief.
In Kuwait, doubting the existence of God or Islam is punishable by law.
Americans believe 58% to 40% that it is necessary to believe in God to be moral.
By contrast, only 13% of Europeans agree.
A recent world-wide
study shows that religion fosters bad behavior.
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