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Degrees of Doubt: The Claims and Credentials of Ravi Zacharias (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Chris May 17. 1 Reply 2 Likes

Anyone here ever run onto an apologist by the name of Ravi Zacharias? I've seen his name dropped multiple times on YouTube as supposedly being THE ONE APOLOGIST that no atheist wants to cross swords with, because of his facility with christian…Continue

Tags: Ravi Zacharias, Steve Baughman, The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews

The Most Hated Woman in America (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Gary S Apr 19. 7 Replies 3 Likes

Before Aron Ra and Matt Dillahunty, before Dawkins or Dennett or Harris or even Hitchens, there was Madalyn Murray O'Hair. In the midst of an America where Christianity was being flaunted as a defense against the godless communists of the Soviet…Continue

Tags: Frank Zindler, The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews, Madalyn Murray O'Hair

Proud Dad is REALLY Proud Now!

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Todd Williams Apr 12. 16 Replies 6 Likes

As some of you may or may not know, my daughter is a television news producer, currently working in Nashville, Tennessee. Her assignment is the morning news, which means she blasts herself up at umpti-ump in the morning to organize and prepare a…Continue

Tags: Emmy, news, television, daughter, dad

attacking ideas (TheraminTrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Grinning Cat Apr 4. 1 Reply 4 Likes

Attacking ideas is a considerable portion of what we as atheists do. Why attack ideas? Ideas earn attack when they don't serve people, not just us but those who adopt said ideas, mistakenly thinking that they have value when they don't. Our…Continue

Tags: ideas, Islam, TheraminTrees

bending truth, or "We Can All Be Manipulated" (TheraminTrees)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Grinning Cat Apr 4. 40 Replies 6 Likes

The following is one of TheraminTrees' most thorough-going pieces, wherein he looks at the process and techniques whereby a "religious" organization (which will sound VERY familiar to most of us, once introductions are made!) takes a person who…Continue

Tags: indoctrination, truth, manipulation, TheraminTrees

The Playboy Interview: Richard Dawkins

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Loren Miller Mar 28. 16 Replies 5 Likes

I suppose it was the news that Playboy magazine was returning nudes to its pages after a year's hiatus that sufficiently perked my curiosity to check them out again. I hadn't looked at Playboy since perhaps 2008, when I began to recognize that I…Continue

Tags: Richard Dawkins, Playboy

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Comment by sk8eycat on October 18, 2014 at 3:48pm: PS: http://www.npr.org/2012/03/25/149352905/was-promise-of-pet-care-aft...

I forgot to add that link, Sorry.

Comment by sk8eycat on October 18, 2014 at 3:41pm: Mindy, where do you find those? Super!

I wonder what those rapture-belivers think or feel about the fate of their pets in such a situation. Domestic animals have NO survival skills, and would suffer horribly and die, and since xians have been taught that animals have no souls (no matter what those "Rainbow Bridge" cards say), they would never be reunited in some imaginary afterlife.

One of my friends had the guts to walk out of Sunday school much earlier than I did because her dogs and cats were, and still are, the center of her life.

It all comes back to the fact that those people really don't give a rat's a$$ about anything but themselves. It's very self-centered, arrogant way of life.

Comment by Randall Smith on October 18, 2014 at 7:46am: Felaine, I can relate. I was forced to go to church and Sunday School. My mother was choir director and I was her leading bass. (Dad sang tenor). Of course, I was a member and eventual president of the MYF (Methodist Youth Fellowship). I pretty much faked piety.

Comment by Plinius on October 18, 2014 at 2:25am: What a happy baby Brooklyn is! What does her name mean to you? All I can find is Brooklyn, New York or, older, Breukelen, the Netherlands. I think I miss something here.

Comment by sk8eycat on October 18, 2014 at 1:10am: Dear Flyer, about that frog cartoon....Gahhhh! I'm glad I was on the college prep track in HS...I had a choice of sciences instead of just biology, I didn't want to cut up any animals, even if they were already dead.

I did make one really stupid mistakr when I was in 8th or 9th grade, I started going to the Baptwit church...mostly because a lot of cute guys went to that one. I also joined YOUNG LIFE because of the good-looking boys....and became a Jobie because my dad was a Mason, and we had a lot of social events with the DeMolay guys in addition to the boring meetings.

What I was really doing was trying to pray my father out of his vodka bottle. I didn't know that "Nothing fails like prayer."

I later learned that Young Life was (and still is) a subsidiary of The Family Fellowship, one of the most subversive organizations in the USA.

Sometimes I still feel like I was a damfool, and a pain in the ass to my classmates back then.

Comment by The Flying Atheist on October 17, 2014 at 11:25pm

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Comment by The Flying Atheist on October 17, 2014 at 11:04pm: A beautiful baby, Joan! Lovely photo.

Comment by Ian Mason on October 17, 2014 at 10:00pm: Children are often very perceptive and can see through the lies.

A happy baby always causes smiles. Thanks, Joan.