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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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- 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a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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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.