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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a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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God is real.
Brother, watch this video and review it's contents with an open mind.
https://youtu.be/WCfbS4k1KNc
Your brother, Christopher Stowe, did what he did not because he believed in God, but because of his mental state
"Video unavailable." I'm not signed in to YouTube on my phone.
I am an atheist because I see no reason to believe the baseless claim that any god exists.
Did you watch any of my videos with an open mind? Here is one explicitly about why I don't believe in god: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgC2juc3Rx4
Non YouTube version: https://snoopsqueak.com/videos/disproving-god
You're so close. Connect the dots. Who ruined his mental state and why? It was our christian parents doing what the bible explicitly commands. Hitting their children before we were old enough to understand anything. Lying to us every day about god, heaven, hell, and christ.
It's a death cult. Stop defending child abuse.
the Bible does not command the senseless beating of children
Just sensible utter destruction of children:
"Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."
How much child-beating do you believe is sensible?
Are you saying they should never be stoned to death in the public square? The bible says otherwise.
Are you saying children shouldn't be hit with a rod? The bible says otherwise.
And before you say something like "it's actually a shepherd's rod used to guide-" Nope, it's explicitly for striking children:
I called my mom a bitch because she made excuses for abusing us instead of admitting it was wrong. Should I be put to death?
People like you are the reason my parents are getting away with child abuse.
can I have the verses? And the old testament was fulfilled by Christ. That's why we can mix fabrics and eat shellfish
You lack a functioning search engine? Fine, I'll do your goddam homework for you.
That's Deuteronomy 21:18-21.
Proverbs 13:24.
Proverbs 22:15.
Proverbs 23:13.
Exodus 21:17.
He "fulfilled" commands to take slaves and rape them? What do you think "fulfilled" means?
If you believe Jesus is god, then you believe Jesus commanded those things. Even if he later changed his mind and/or the law, he still commanded heinous abuse. You cannot excuse that.
Also, his entire pitch is "submit completely to me or be punished for all time."
There ain't no hate like christian love.
https://youtu.be/W6dC2eKQBFc
Stop defending child abuse.
Stop defending baseless death cults.
Deuteronomy 21:20 And they shall say to them: ‘This our son is reckless and disobedient. He shows contempt when listening to our admonitions. He occupies himself with carousing, and self-indulgence, and feasting.’
this verse is focused more on the sin of gluttony
Fulfilled means that those precepts were written in preparation of Christ, and Christ has come, and suffered on the Cross and rose again.
Exodus 21, again, has been fulfilled.
Can I have the slaves and rape verses?
Mark 10:5 But Jesus responded by saying: “It was due to the hardness of your heart that he wrote that precept for you.
That verse advocates for stoning a child to death. Stop ignoring the point.
God needed slave rape to prepare for christ?
Hey fuckass, stop ignoring my points. Address this:
You can find slave rape multiple times throughout the bible. Abram and his wife's slave in Genesis. Moses's army taking the virgins for themselves in Numbers. David's wives being raped in 2 Samuel.
Do some reading for yourself. Stop cherry picking and stop ignoring how blatantly abusive your god is.
Fortunately for us, he is not real. Unfortunately for us, you are real, and other real people are DYING for the bullshit you refuse to stop spouting.
Be more honest. There is no reason to believe this deadly nonsense. Stop being selfish. No one is going to hell, no one is going to heaven, focus on on real life.
I watched your videos but it's full of absurd takes like "Jod". God can't be created as he would rely on his creator and thus not be God.
"God would be subject to the same limitations as everyone else" ??? He isn't, he's God. Our omnipotent creator is of a different nature than us.
It works for me, I'm not signed in too
You believe god is all-powerful? So you must also believe he does not love us. Why else would he create suffering?
Before you try to use "free will" as an excuse, there is no free will with an omnipotent god. He could create anything any way, he knew what would happen, and he chose to give children cancer. That is psychotic.
https://www.regnumchristi.com/en/ask-a-priest-why-does-god-allow-so-much-pain-and-suffering/
The existence of suffering absolutely disproves any god that is both loving and powerful.
If god is all-powerful, literally everything that happens is his choice, including free will and what we do with it.
I personally don't believe in free will, exactly like I don't believe in god. There is no evidence for it.
Stop defending death cults. Real people are dying for your fake god.
did you read what I sent you?
And an omnipotent God gave us free will, but chooses not to take it away. Free will is a beautiful miracle.
Yes, and you ignored the counterargument.
Your version of god knew what we would do with our free will, including all the suffering that comes with it, and still chose to create us. Your god chose suffering. That is not love.
Probably my VPN. Thank you for at least taking a look at what I have to say. I am angry because others have it even worse than I do, and it's completely unnecessary. Stupid, selfish people believe in magic and treat their own children like property as a direct result.
That's the special pleading fallacy. You can't define god into existence. If you can, I can define jod into existence. Play fair, people are dying for this shit.
It's not special pleading if it's actually special.
Do you actually think an omnipotent creator would be bound by the same constraints as us?
Prove that it's actually special.
You can't.
You're making a deadly assertion with zero evidence.
He created us, right? He is thus of a different nature than us as our nature had not existed before he created it
Wrong. Why do you keep pretending this is a fact?
Weird use of "nature". So who or what created god?
Maybe the universe is of a different "nature" to us and always existed. We don't know, so stop pretending.
Jod is even specialer.
You're right, jod is above all. Praise jod.
Well, again, God can't be created as then he wouldn't be God
Same with jod. Also, jod created god.
Since we're all just making shit up here. You haven't proven anything you are saying. My baseless claims are just as valid as yours.
You better not disrespect jod. You don't want to go to turbohell, do you?