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Picture yourself spending some time with congenial friends, sharing your lives and pictures from your cell phones." They're curious about that cool game, song, movie, camping trip, art show, or other event that fascinated you. You talk about all kinds of stuff, poetry, styles, personal achievements, relationships, and bad days. You can share your inner child, and laugh together. They sympathetically listen to your feelings about serious topics like politics or climate change, even when they don't agree.

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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 Joan Denoo on July 1, 2014 at 1:42pm: Ian, an appropriate song to bring to mind. In 1915, mothers and fathers lamented sending sons to war, just as they do today.

"Verse 1

Ten million soldiers to the war have gone, Who may never return again. Ten million mother's hearts must break For the ones who died in vain. Head bowed down in sorrow In her lonely years, I heard a mother murmur thru' her tears:

"Verse 2

I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier, I brought him up to be my pride and joy. Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder, To shoot some other mother's darling boy? Let nations arbitrate their future troubles, It's time to lay the sword and gun away. There'd be no war today, If mothers all would say, "I didn't raise my boy to be a soldier."

"Verse 3

What victory can cheer a mother's heart, When she looks at her blighted home? What victory can bring her back All she cared to call her own? Let each mother answer In the years to be, Remember that my boy belongs to me!"

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Comment by Plinius on July 1, 2014 at 1:25pm: I'm trying to listen to that tomorrow, Ian - today my pc rattles like a coffeegrinder that is almost dying. Perhaps it will be silent for some time tomorrow.

Comment by Plinius on July 1, 2014 at 1:18pm: And I'm really glad that I don't have to be owner, boss or whatever. I hate to follow orders and I hate to give orders; possibly that's the reason I'm a cat person.

Comment by Ian Mason on July 1, 2014 at 9:24am: With the anniversary of the outbreak of WW1 on the way, I thought this might be appropriate. From 1915:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fhjT93Xa3U

Comment by Plinius on July 1, 2014 at 7:52am: Hahaha! I'm NOT unfriended, because I'm not a cat owner. According to Luna & Dido I just happen to live in the same apartment...

Comment by Randall Smith on June 29, 2014 at 7:24am: Nothing of significance to add, except to say I'm enjoying the discussions (and cartoon, Joan!).

Comment by sk8eycat on June 29, 2014 at 5:22am: Ingersoll loved two things in life more than anything else: intellectual liberty, and his family...not necessarily in that order.

With his two grandchildren:

Comment by The Flying Atheist on June 29, 2014 at 2:05am: Awesome, Joan! Thanks.

Comment by Joan Denoo on June 29, 2014 at 1:37am

Comment by k.h. ky on June 29, 2014 at 12:08am: Sk8ycat, Carlin was wonderful. Have you seen Ricky Gervais do his bit on christians? Jim Jeffries is also very good. I believe Sentient has his link on his home page.