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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
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The default in 'Murica is to be Christian
I had people assuming that because I'm white and speak English, that I was religious
People would cordially invite me to their churches, like it's a social event
Religion is everywhere there
It's bizarre to me, but most yanks are indoctrinated from birth into all sorts of stupid shit
It’s not like that everywhere here but there’s definitely a lot of it.
Um you know African Americans and Latinos are also Christian...
So yeah it's not that.
watch a doco called "god forbid"
it's been a 40ish year long corruption
i just wonder what will happen when this regime crumbles now they've had a taste of real power
Oh, I'm old
I've been watching it happen
It's genius, unfortunately
Very carefully and successfully engineered
The civilised world has always sneered at 'Murica, with good reason
It was born of cruelty, ignorance and hate. It has never changed, but the PR campaign got better.
I was as well. You likely were too. Ask yourself why it didn't stick.
I wasn't
I was lucky enough to be born in a country where the poison of religion doesn't have the same stranglehold
That's good and very fortunate.
Some of us had to mask for a bit but ultimately, even the people that "believe" still do everything they can to 'circumvent' god.
It's insanity.
god is an all powerful all knowing all loving vengeful god, but you can fool him out of eternal damnation by utilizing simple logical failings of human language
Uh, what? Try as I might, I cannot make sense of this statement. The implication being: other races or cultures are not religious? Precisely the opposite of what's closer to truth.
They assumed that I was a part of their particular cult
I'm American. People who assume my religion are weirdos and I rarely interact with someone like that. I'm pretty sure your assertion about it being related to your race is just a random ass assumption.
Depends what part of the country of they were in.
In the north east, there aren’t many mega churches, and the small old churches are often pretty empty or have closed. But down in the Bible Belt, Texas lower Midwest, it’s fucking different and very prominent and very culty.
On the coasts it looks more like granola churches for networking and much more humanist/unitarian. There are still Lutheran, Catholic and Baptist churches around, but not like the south.
Even in the south what they described is weird.