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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.

Personal validation comes from paying attention to one another, giving more than you get. Everyone respects you and themselves, despite our amazing range of personal tastes and interests. They'll tell you they don't agree with an idea or behavior without implying you're a bad person or somehow deficient. It's an "I'm OK, You're OK" kind of fellowship, where nobody tries to make himself look better by picking on somebody else.

Nobody here is into mind games. A discussion started with a loaded guilt-throwing question will be deleted.

This group is not intended to compete with other groups on topics they cover but to "fill in the cracks." Whenever a discussion dwells at length on a topic for which there's an existing group, we urge you to provide members a link to that group to continue along their tangent.

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

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Bertold Brautigan 8 hours ago. 34 Replies 5 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

punishing doubt (TheraminTrees)

Started by Loren Miller Sep 6. 0 Replies 2 Likes

If you are associated with religion and especially a fundamentalist religion, doubt is intolerable. Certainty, however it may be achieved or imposed, becomes a necessary element, especially considering the utter dearth of any form of evidence or…Continue

Tags: religion, TheraminTrees, punish, doubt

Morally Bankrupt Christian Sex Hang-Ups Turned Zika into a Brain Damage Crisis

Started by Joan Denoo. Last reply by Chris G Sep 5. 11 Replies 0 Likes

Morally Bankrupt Christian Sex Hang-Ups Turned Zika into a Brain Damage CrisisGod may have created the…Continue

We Don't Want Your (Atheist) Money! (The Thinking Atheist)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Idaho Spud Sep 2. 17 Replies 5 Likes

I suppose I've heard stories like this before:Conscientious atheist donates money to worthy cause.Worthy cause initially accepts money.Worthy cause discovers source of donation.Worthy cause rejects donation.Swell, eh? Well Matt Willbourne of…Continue

Tags: American Baptist Churches Association, Murrow Indian Children's Home, The Thinking Atheist, Seth Andrews

The Whole Bible in 30 Seconds (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Randy Hatly Sep 2. 3 Replies 3 Likes

Ever decide that you wanted to read the whole bible, cover to cover, only to realize half-way through Deuteronomy that the darn thing is industrial-strength BORING?!? Well, never fear! America's Best Christian, Betty Bowers, has done the Cliff's…Continue

Tags: bible, America's Best Christian, Betty Bowers

Are You a Patriot? (Betty Bowers)

Started by Loren Miller. Last reply by Chris G Aug 29. 22 Replies 1 Like

You might think that Betty Bowers, America's Best Christian, would be stepping outside of her comfort zone in tackling the concept of patriotism. As it turns out, not only does she have a proper handle on the term and its implications, she also…Continue

Tags: patriot, America's Best Christian, Betty Bowers

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Comment by The Flying Atheist on January 1, 2014 at 11:34am: Thanks, everyone, for all your caring comments. I really don't "feel" sick, and my sinuses already seem to be clearing up. I had a good nights sleep......in bed at 11:15pm and up this morning about 8:30am.

Love the Star Trek and the imaginary Christ memes.

Comment by Idaho Spud on January 1, 2014 at 10:36am: Mindy, good one! Too all, a good new year.

Comment by Ian Mason on January 1, 2014 at 3:45am: The captain speaks!

Comment by Ian Mason on January 1, 2014 at 3:27am: Happy New Year, one and all.

Get well soon, Carl.

Comment by Plinius on January 1, 2014 at 12:07am: Get better soon, Carl!

Comment by The Flying Atheist on December 31, 2013 at 9:07pm: Happy New Year to all my friends here.

I was supposed to attend a small party tonight but I came home from work exhausted and with nasal drip causing my voice to be horse. I've been up since 5:45 this morning and flew to Seattle and back today. I hate disappointing my friends, but I'm just too beat and under the weather to go out. I was looking forward to a few cocktails tonight, some homemade chili and then a taxi ride home. Well.......maybe next year.

We are in the process of getting several inches of snow here right now.

Comment by Steph S. on December 31, 2013 at 8:50pm: Happy New Year everyone !! I am not doing much myself either. Just staying out of trouble - good thing you don't have to worry about the kids Mindy.

Comment by Steph S. on December 31, 2013 at 7:24pm

Comment by Plinius on December 31, 2013 at 5:41pm: And Happy New Year to you all too! The new year is not yet an hour old, the fireworks are going up, the fumes are rising and the first casualties are in the hospitals and mortuaries - it's really not my idea of a celebration. All the best to you! I'm off to sleep.

Comment by Plinius on December 30, 2013 at 12:52am: I love the item about DNA, Ian. But the real fundies among them would die first than admit it.

I always looked at the Noah's Ark story as a blow-up of a local thing. Bronze Age farmers didn't travel very far - so if your small valley flooded and you escaped with the family, the goats and a few chickens on a raft...