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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.
Acceptable
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Unacceptable
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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a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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Because he’s already a charlatan grifting the poor and desperate for cash.
Kinda fucked up to draw that conclusion from him telling a rich guy to give it all to the poor. Not to him, directly to the poor.
The problem isn't Christ's doctrine, it's the endless lineage of grifters twisting it to take the money for themselves.
Sorry, I side with the fig tree. Show me a christian church without massive sin.
On that we can agree. It is my understanding that the only true "church" is just the collective population of believers, and that establishments/organizations of religion are anathema to Christ's teachings.
Except I'm not drawing it exclusively from one verse.
I'm drawing that conclusion from an understanding of both his nature, and literally that of every other charlatan.
He was faking miracles in order to grift people out of their hard-earned money. Further more, it's quite clear by the same accounts in the gospels that Jesus did not in fact have any beef with rich people, per se, and often enjoyed the benefits wealth brought. (i.e. by staying in their homes.)
There's no reason to imagine Jesus was any better than any other faith-healing grifter.
And lets be perfectly clear here, those gospels also say he said he'd return and do the whole messiah thing, the final judgement, all that, before all of the disciples would have died. that clearly has not happened.
Ah, I can see how you'd interpret the situation that way, if you suppose fake miracles were involved. I'm not convinced there were any miracles, real or fake, rather than such things being added to the account later by charlatans to lend legitimacy to their claims.