Iran has been in a state of civil unrest since Mahsa Amini’s death sparked acts of protest in which Iranian people have given free rein to Islamophobia.
Category Atheism
Now that it’s all hands on deck to defend abortion, facts matter again and, would you look at that? The call to arms has a lot of mind-numbingly statistics on how atheists are consistently and reliably pro-women’s rights… which was already pretty common knowledge some 10 years ago:
We don’t need atheists like Ed Brayton, who think it’s OK for children to be brainwashed before they know how to spell their name
I would like to think that CFI has now learned its lesson, and won’t even touch an SJW with a ten-foot pole — with Melody Hensley and Kavin Senapathy they have had enough dragging their name through the mud.
Atheist Day goes to show our fellow heathens that they are not alone — if this initiative or this post helps even just one atheist anywhere in the world to feel more at ease or that not all is lost, that makes it worthwhile enough for me
If a family don’t respect their atheist members enough to have gatherings in places and settings where everyone feels welcome, what all the kids will pick up on, then, is that’t is OK to treat atheist relatives (and atheists in general) with less amount of respect and love than that afforded to everyone else
Nada Peratovic claims humanism has to do with making decisions based on science, reason, critical thinking, yet fails miserably to dismiss a demonstrably anti-scientific doctrine as critical theory.
Gee, it must be a day ending in Y, for there’s a new deliberate misrepresentation of something Richard Dawkins said…
I fail to see why people with religious deeply held beliefs would get a pass on behaviors that are definitely not allowed for people with non-religious deeply held beliefs.
Maybe American Atheists is courting a new target audience? It would be nice if they were upfront about it, instead of just spreading their newfound faith in magical thinking pretending they are still committed to critical reasoning
If you no longer believe in imaginary friends, heavens dictators and the absurd fables created to milk the fear of death, this is as a perfectly good date to come out.
Christopher Hitchens pointed out that the fatwa against Salman Rushdie was the opening shot in a culture war against freedom. The state of the world seems to agree with him.
The Four Horsemen, a souvenir of a time when reason and science dominated the conversation
I believe Coyne. His respect for the truth and facts (what BuzzFeed ‘journalists’ decry as “rejecting all kinds of faith“), and his ability to keep his own biases in check grant him the credibility to make allegations against Lawrence Krauss regarding sexual misconduct.
They got wrong each and every account of the episodes that I am familiar with, and we’re supposed to believe they got the Krauss story and everything else right? I’m sorry, I can’t do that — they blew up their credibility
What’s the evidence that there is sexism in the atheist community? Is the disproportionately low number of women in the atheist community due to misogyny? Anecdotal evidence is not enough.
For some atheists it is standard practice to just say someone is male and/or white, and/or cis-gendered to have a list of insults ensue and consider that a post. What about their money and support? Is American Atheists taking money from this people?
Before commenting about the atheist rift, or claiming there is sexism/racism within the atheist community, educate yourself about Elevatorgate by reading this factually-accurate satirical epic
KPFA deplatformed Richard Dawkins. This was entirely predictable and, actually, we know very well who has been paving the way for this.
Mehta failed epically to hold accountable three public servants who are hindering the efforts to fight Muslim terrorism, and made up a shitty excuse for their behavior (with no supporting evidence whatsoever), throwing two fellow secularists under the bus in the process