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Statement of Purpose
- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
- Superstition hucksters have no reason to subscribe or post here at all.
- If you are looking to debate or proselytize, options will be linked lower in the sidebar.
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- Discussions on parenting or advice.
- Struggles, frustrations, coming out.
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- Anything against site rules.
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Connect with Atheists
- Matrix: #atheism:envs.net
Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- The Secular Therapy Project
- Secular Students Alliance
- Black Nonbelievers
- The Clergy Project
- Atheist Alliance International
- Sunday Assembly
- Atheist Ireland
- Atheism UK
- Atheists United
Streaming Media
This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.
- Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
- Rationality Rules
- Friendly Atheist
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Cosmic Skeptic
- Genetically Modified Skeptic
- Street Epistemology
- Armored Skeptic
- NonStampCollector
Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
- Humanists International
- Atheist Republic
- The Brights
- The Angry Atheist
- History for Atheists
- Rationalist International
- Atheist Revolution
- Debunking Christianity
- Godless Mom
- Atheist Freethinkers
Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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Depends. I'd say giving identity to a group of people applies to the whole bible. Other than that, the bible consists of various books from different times. Especially the New and Old Testament have been written in widely different environments, for different purposes (and they're both collections and not written consecutively by one person).
The Old testament is telling history and heritage of a tribe. (Sometimes with made up stories. Because the point was to hand down a good story so people "know" where they come from and how ther relate to other things in the world.) Giving them identity as a group. A lot of that has to do with tribalism. At the same time being god's favorite justifies slaughtering and robbing other tribes. (Still applies as of today, by the way...)
The New testament is a bit more complicated. The world was more complex at the time of the Romans. And it's been written by several different people who did not even live at the same time. I mean there are lots of things in there. It's about salvation, ideas about ethics, it's a collection of nice/random stories, sometimes someone retold them or put their own spin on things... And it's also not factual or anything like that. Though I think some of it mimicks telling the tale of some figures of history. But it wasn't ever a book about history. It's always mixed with fiction. We have proper records because the Romans kept records. While all of the bible hasn't been written at the time of the events, but it's more writing down stories that have been handed down and retold several times to the point where they don't really depict reality. Or they're straight made up for some motivation. Or continuing some narration from earlier authors.