Category Archives: Atheism

FFRF blasts USPS for its plans to issue Mother Teresa stamp

By thecodepounder | Published January 28, 2010

Even putting aside the FFRF’s complaint that the move violates postal regulations prohibiting the honoring of “individuals whose principal achievements are associated with religious undertakings”, you just gotta ask yourself why Mother Teresa?
No really. Let’s just say that Mother Teresa was no saint! You do your own research and your own thinking on this [...]

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What is an atheist? Fuck if I know, but everyone else seems to know perfectly well!

By thecodepounder | Published January 22, 2010

Allow me a simple rant… I really just can’t stand it when a Christian*–or anyone else for that matter–tells me “what an atheist believes”.
Judging by the frequency that the “atheist blogosphere” writes about this topic, I’ll go ahead and venture a guess that I’m not alone in my frustration; there have been some very [...]

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Who knew? Brad Pitt really “gets” it

By thecodepounder | Published August 29, 2009

The Perplexed Observer last week linked to two YouTube clips of Brad Pitt appearing on Bill Maher’s Real Time.  I just got the chance to view the clips and must say I’m completely impressed.  Brad Pitt truly “gets” it.  In response to Maher’s question “What is it about religion you don’t like?”, Pitt succinctly stated:
You [...]

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Atheists sue to keep ‘In God We Trust’ off Capitol Visitor Center

By thecodepounder | Published July 27, 2009

I missed this a couple weeks ago (when my wife was in the hospital), but the Freedom From Religion Foundation is suing to stop the government from engraving the words “In God We Trust” in prominent spots at the Capitol Visitor Center in Washington.
For those of you who just can’t get your head wrapped around [...]

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Atheism is not a religion

By thecodepounder | Published June 30, 2009

Truly excellent piece at Skeptico:
This is a refrain I’m hearing a lot from religious apologists – atheism is a religion. Also its equally fallacious siblings, science is a religion and evolution is a religion. It’s a sign of their desperation that the best argument they have is not that atheism is wrong, or that god [...]

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Atheists and other freethinkers are coming out and speaking out

By thecodepounder | Published April 27, 2009

Excellent piece by Laurie Goodstein, writing in yesterdays New York Times, More Atheists Shout It From the Rooftops:
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Two months after the local atheist organization here put up a billboard saying “Don’t Believe in God? You Are Not Alone,” the group’s 13 board members met in Laura and Alex Kasman’s living room to [...]

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Just discovered a new blog: TN-Atheist.com

By thecodepounder | Published April 10, 2009

I just came across an excellent new blog: tn-atheist.com.  While it’s pretty new, the author is off to a great start. And, it’s always nice to find another resource for atheists and non-believers in middle Tennessee.  Don’t get me wrong, there are several–but it’s always nice to find another.
From what I’ve read, ‘The TN Atheist’ [...]

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Tennessean newspaper profiles Middle Tennessee nonbelievers

By thecodepounder | Published March 21, 2009

The Tennessean today has a good article profiling nonbelievers in Middle Tennessee, as well as drawing attention to Secular Life, a Nashville-based Meetup group.  Meetup is an interesting concept (and also sports a Nashville Atheists group) as it is a social networking site that actually has a social aspect to it–social in the non-Internet sense.
Nonbelievers’ [...]

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What a quote!

By thecodepounder | Published January 5, 2009

On the evening of December 25th, I managed to get completely caught up on my web reading via my RSS Reader, a circumstance so unprecedented that I actually tweeted to that effect.  Since then, however, I’ve fallen behind again, so it’s no surprise that I missed this last week.  vjack of Atheist Revolution, Welcome to New Readers:
If some [...]

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It’s a double-edged sword, you know

By thecodepounder | Published December 25, 2008

This excellent post by David Silverman at the NoGodBlog: Not Just Christmas really nails the issue:
OK Folks one more time: Christmas is secularizing BECAUSE it was made a national holiday. This is ONLY happening to Christmas because it is the ONLY religious holiday that has been nationalized — e.g, made mandatory for all Americans. I [...]

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The truth about the “war on xmas”

By thecodepounder | Published December 24, 2008

vjack of Atheist Revolution, War on Christmas Over, Christians Victorious:
In fact, it turns out that the only combatant in this bitter dispute, a handful of dimwitted Christians, have finally achieved victory over themselves. They have made a thorough mockery of the very holiday they were allegedly defending from imagined threats.
I’ll just bet Bill O’Reilly is thrilled [...]

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I believe…the Constitution: govenment can’t endorse religion

By thecodepounder | Published December 12, 2008

Hell yeah! Americans United for Separation of Church and State yesterday announced:
A federal judge today ruled that the state of South Carolina may not issue a special “Christian” license plate featuring a cross, a stained-glass window and the words “I Believe.”
Americans United for Separation of Church and State, which sponsored the litigation to stop [...]

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