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Sam Harris & Objective Morality
Sam Harris argues that morality has to do with happiness and well-being of humans and other conscious beings. This is objective and can be quantified.
We can also determine what changes this happiness. Actions that increase this happiness are moral. Actions that decrease this happiness are immoral.
For coming up with objective moral truths, I trust Sam far more than any gods or religious people. Science and philosophy can advance, while religions are stuck with old "holy" books often filled with torture and killing by the gods or in the name of the gods, and rules that decrease the happiness and
well-being of many people.
Questions of good and evil, right and wrong are commonly thought unanswerable by science. But Sam argues that science can — and should — be an authority on moral issues, shaping human values and setting out what constitutes a good life. See his talk and article
"Moral confusion in the name of `science'"
Recent videos:
ABC NEWS profiles Harvard Chaplain - and godless Humanist - Greg Epstein
Inside a school for suicide bombers
The Internet: Where Religions Come to Die
Is Satan A Catholic? Pat Condell rails against the church and its abuses.
Does God Have a Future? Sam Harris & Michael Shermer debate Deepak Chopra & Jean Houston
Richard Dawkins interviewed,
on the arrogance of religious believers
Richard Dawkins: Darwin and the case for 'militant atheism'
Sam Harris on Real Time with Bill Maher There is no god, and Sam Harris is his prophet.
New Study Links Religion to Immoral Behavior
Andy Thomson: Why We Believe in Gods
Latest Video Humor:
The Invention of Lying
Ultimate Praying Championship
God Cites 'Moving In Mysterious Ways' as Motive for Killing of 3,000 Papua New Guineans
Atheist Video Pulled by YouTube
Betty Bowers (America's Best Christian) on prayer
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In the news:
"It would be wise of us to start seeking some divine intervention again in this country, so that we can be safe and secure and prosperous again."
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Sarah Palin at the Tea Party convention, 2/6/10
"I think we should keep this clean, keep it simple, go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They’re quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the Ten Commandments."
- Sarah Palin on "The O'Reilly Factor" 5/06/10
Is The Bible More Violent Than The Quran?
SF Atheists had a Rally against the Pope. See the article in their newsletter.
Texas schools board rewrites US history with lessons promoting
God and guns
Islamic Figurative Art and Depictions of Muhammad
The real reason atheists have higher IQs
Vatican: Simply Moving People Around Not Punishment Enough (The irony is astounding!)
Editorial: Cross in the Desert
Editorial: High court displays hypocrisy in Mojave cross case
Paul Kurtz has written the "Neo-Humanist Statement of Secular Values and Principles." It's available at paulkurtz.net
Teacher Sued for Bashing Christianity
(creationism is "religious superstitious nonsense."
Pledging Allegiance to God - on the Pledge ruling
Bay Area Atheists Protest Court Ruling
Preachers who are not Believers by Daniel Dennett & Linda LaScola
Is the Bible More Violent than the Quran?
U.K. "Militant Atheist" found guilty of religious harassment
Republicans v secular America
"We cannot let the pen be mightier than the sword." - at a Tea Party protest
Prayer Warriors and Palin
Organizing Spiritual Warfare to Take Over America
Do Kinder People Have an Evolutionary Advantage?
Mark and a Lutheran minister were interviewed about what they consider sacred.
Between God and a Hard Place by James Wood
An Atheist Holiday by Patty Fisher - on SVCor, the Humanists, and ASV
In the Name of God: The Neuron Bomb of Terrorism
by Michael Shermer
Iran Parliament Passes 'Death Penalty
for Apostasy' Bill
Audio: Greg Epstein on NPR:
Defending the Faith, and Morality, of NonBelievers
Blasphemy Battles Continue at the UN
Silicon Valley Coalition of Reason has been created as a community of atheists,
agnostics, humanists, and freethinkers in general.
The Angry Evolutionist by Richard Dawkins
Geography of No Religion 40% - 114 million people - claim no religious affiliation
New Study Links Religion to Immoral Behavior
Is Belief in God Hurting America?
Prosperity is highest in societies where religion is practiced least
New study of the brain shows that facts and beliefs are processed in exactly the same way
Godless advertise their goodness in Chicago
Man vs. God: Richard Dawkins vs. Karen Armstrong
Interview with Richard Carrier:
The Future of Christianity and Religion
Ireland's new blasphemy law labeled return to Middle Ages
W. invaded Iraq to thwart Gog & Magog,
biblical satanic agents of the Apocalypse
God and Science Don't Mix by Lawrence Krauss
Born believers: How your brain creates God
40 Million
Nonbelievers in America by Ronald Aronson
Non-religious on the Rise in all Regions of the Country
Most religious groups in USA have lost ground, survey finds
Research Finds that Atheists are Most Despised, Most Distrusted
Minority
"You don’t have to believe in God to be a moral and ethical person."
A British atheist group has a bus ad campaign:
The American Humanist Association also has bus ad campaign:
“Why believe in a god? Just be good for goodness' sake.”
Who wants a similar campaign here? Email Mark.
“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,
06/2005
“We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers.”
- President Barack Obama,
in his Inaugural Address
“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
“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
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 stated in May, 2007 that 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.]
* Useful Articles *
Guess Who Doesn't Believe In God?
(10% of Protestants, 21% of Roman Catholics, and 52% of Jews)
Does Science Make Belief in God Obsolete? - 13 essays
Science and religion seem as antagonistic as ever
Pope: Other denominations not true churches
The Psychology Behind Suicide Bombings
The Necessity of Atheism - Why not to believe
Is America a Christian Nation?
Science and the First Amendment
Richard Dawkins on Atheism
Atheists identified as America’s most distrusted minority
Godless in Society: How Can a Godless Person Make a Difference?
by Austin Cline
* Videos *
The Naked Truth
Why we need the Military Religious Freedom Foundation
Beyond Belief '06 conference,
with Sam Harris, Richard Dawkins, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and many more
The New American Theocracy
Atheism
The War On Christianity
Remember: Islam is a Peaceful Religion
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