The guitar was created by Steve Duerr (right) with help from Craig Gosling (left). Craig is also at writer and has a blog at graygoosegosling.com.

Disclaimer: I'm a former Christian who is now an atheist. I have nothing against most theists and respect their beliefs - up to the point where they step on mine. However, even in my Christian days I would've been appalled by the hubris of this plan.

I'm overjoyed so many religious people are so protective of my soul that they insist upon preaching to me at every…

Hi Guys, thanks for the warm welcome. I tend to be a bit turned off by the implication that we "have it right" or are "the holders of the truth" or any of that stuff and so I am hesitant to join groups here just yet until I figure out the culture of said groups. I'm an atheist/agnostic, though I tend to hate to define myself in the theist terms of atheist. Indeed, I don't like to reference "God" or "gods", I feel like *for me* it is enough to just live a life mostly free of magical thinking…

Sure, God probably gets all of the jokes here. How about everyone's second favorite imaginary place?

Prelude to a Major Survey

by Dr. Tom Arcaro & Emily Wappes 

 

It is clear to many members of the atheist internet blogosphere that there is a noticeable gender disparity among participants in atheist activities (fora, blogs, comments, readership) online.  Two quick examples will illustrate. As of 6 May 2011 only 27% of Atheist Nexus (A|N) membership is…

So, yesterday I attended a convention for women that celebrated women leaders and is also used to inspire other women. Sounds good, does't it? I am sure that most of the ladies who attended it, did enjoy it, but the only thing that I enjoyed was the food - the whole thing felt like I was back in church. Women declaring their faith in god and how good he was to them - and the whole time I wanted to say to them: it was YOU! You did what was achieved. The 'glory' is yours, because you worked…

      Timothy Keller informs us that we can get that true happiness by acknowling that we are sinners! God would then take away that guilt of sin and make us truly happy. We must never tempt Him by sinning, but we'll sin and get that absolution. When bad things happen, we can still have happiness as knowing that He loves and protects us.

        As His own  son,  [amongst His others who had children by…

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A friend of mine has been blogging for a brief while and I thought some would enjoy his work. His ideas on philosophy are quite intriguing.

When it comes to morals it seems that Christians never get above the belt-buckle unless it is to peer behind a brassiere. Genes for sexual obsession passed down from the Catholic Church evidently have not mutated over the centuries as Christian leaders remain overly concerned with who's doing who, how they are doing it and if there are any naked people or pictures anywhere near.

To be sure there is a need for watchdog organizations and laws keeping dangerous sexual predators, perverts…

This week's news in skepticism:

Good evening, and welcome to Freethinking News.

This is the night of Sunday, August 28^th, 2011.

In our top story, the Arab spring has reached a new level of success for freedom and democracy in the Middle East when the regions most violent and oppressive dictator, Allah, was captured in a bloodless coup. The disposed deity was tried at The Hague for crimes against humanity.…

    Why  should one beieve or disbelieve in the supernatural?

     What counts as evidence for it? We naturalists-rationalists find none. Why, none can present it self, because that would go agianst our conservation of knowedge. Nature presents no divine intent as Lamberth's teleonomic argument notes and thus cannot affirm His very existence but can affirm that no divine intent presents itself…

Why Do People Believe Different Things?

Answers In Genesis aren't really answers at all.  I'd rather drink a gallon of boiled elephant diarrhea while having sex with a cactus than read another one of Ken Ham's logical disasters.

Kasese United Humanist Association in its school project is going to add P.7 Class at Kasese Humanist Primary school. A fund raising or material donation drive is currently in progress with an exercise aimed at renovating more rooms provided to the school by our landlords onbehalf of Uganda Railways Corporation. The units are rented to the school at a subsidized rate.

Well wishers and Friends of the school are requested to donate like they did in the first phase. The school project…