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- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
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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a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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I was raised in a religious family, went to church every Sunday.
When I realized I had actual questions that they refused to acknowledge, I walked away. I was eight.
Example question:
Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 offer two different creation myths. Why? Is one "right" and the other "wrong"?
Genesis one: Animals created first, then people (man and woman created at the same time.) 7 day creation.
Genesis two: Man created first, then animals for man to name, then woman from the rib when god realizes he made a mistake and none of the animals are a fit companion for man. Not a 7 day creation.
Answer:
The reason for it is plain in the original Hebrew. Genesis 1 is the Elohist tradition (the Gods are referred to, in PLURAL, as Elohim.) Genesis 2 is the Jawist tradition where God is referred to as YHWH or JHVH.
Early editors took two different creation myths and mashed them together.
If you can't, or won't explain that to an eight year old... well... doesn't speak well for your faith.
Most churches won't even employ someone who knows the answer to this.
It's not even a "Won't tell you." thing; more of a "Why would anyone question the good book?" thing.
Whenever I looked too closely, I began to be black-listed and got the, "It's too bad that's where you are, because we hoped you would be a great leader."
Not defending stupidity at all, btw, just further emphasizing the blissful ignorance that is largely exonerated in religious circles.
Which just kills me because the actual answers ARE out there.
For example - What's the deal with the "begats" chapter and how were people living for hundreds of years?
Answer: They aren't individuals, they are family lines. Such and such family came from so and so family and lasted 140 years before dying out.
Makes way, way more sense when you read it that way.
Amazing what you can learn by reading Asimov's Guide to the Bible. ;)
https://a.co/d/5RmDI4h