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Comment by doone on Wednesday

She mentions being an Atheist after the 1:40 mark

Comment by doone on Wednesday

Quote For The Day

MAY 22 2013 @ 11:43AM

“This ‘closing off’ that imagines that those outside, everyone, cannot do good is a wall that leads to war and also to what some people throughout history have conceived of: killing in the name of God. That we can kill in the name of God. And that, simply, is blasphemy. To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy … The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‘Father, the atheists?’ Even the atheists. Everyone! …

Comment by Don on Tuesday

We worked hard here in Vermont to get this legislation passed, but it was a tough go all the way. even in the country's least religious state.  You'd think all we'd have to do is look at Oregon and Washington, where it's worked just fine for 15 years, wouldn't you?

Comment by Neal on Tuesday

This should go well with the religious:

Vermont Is 4th State to Legalize Assisted Suicide

By WILSON RING Associated Press
MONTPELIER, Vt. May 21, 2013 (AP)

After years of debate, Vermont became the fourth state in the country Monday to allow doctors to prescribe lethal doses of medicine to terminally ill patients seeking to end their lives.

Gov. Peter Shumlin signed the bill into law at a Statehouse ceremony even as opponents vowed to push for its repeal.

The End of Life Choices law was effective immediately, although it could be weeks before the state Health Department develops regulations in accordance with the new measure.

Vermont Health Commissioner Dr. Harry Chen said he expects doctors to write between 10 and 20 lethal prescriptions a year, with a smaller number of patients actually using the drugs.

He based his figures on the experience in Oregon, the first state to legalize assisted suicide in 1997. Washington state and Montana followed later, with Montana's coming by way of a court order.

"It's used by a very small number, but it brings comfort to a much greater number knowing it's there," Chen said.

During emotionally charged discussion of the bill, proponents said Vermonters of sound mind who are suffering from terminal conditions should be able to choose when to end their lives. But opponents said the law could be abused and vulnerable people, especially the elderly, could be forced to end their lives.

Shumlin offered reassurances before signing the bill.

"This bill does not compel anyone to do anything that they don't choose in sound mind to do," he said. "All it does is give those who are facing terminal illness, are facing excruciating pain, a choice in a very carefully regulated way."

ABC

Comment by Neal on Tuesday

9/11 did bring out the theocrat, but his piety was only a cover for unchecked greed.

Comment by Don on Tuesday

I had always been an undeclared, laidback atheist, too (neither of my parents followed any religious tradition, and my mother's father was an admirer of Robert Ingersoll), but what really galvanized me, as it did Sam Harris and many others, I'm sure, was the 9/11 attack. 

Comment by Neal on Tuesday

There is a possibility that the Bush years accelerated the atheist movement. I have always been an atheist, yet I wasn't irritated with religion until Bush took office. Then it was time to fight. 

Comment by Onyango Makagutu on Tuesday

So, I'll out myself. I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don't believe in life after death, channeled chat rooms with the dead, reincarnation, telekinesis or any miracles but the miracle of life and consciousness, which again strike me as miracles in nearly obscene abundance. I believe that the universe abides by the laws of physics, some of which are known, others of which will surely be discovered, but even if they aren't, that will simply be a result, as my colleague George Johnson put it, of our brains having evolved for life on this one little planet and thus being inevitably limited. I'm convinced that the world as we see it was shaped by the again genuinely miraculous, let's even say transcendent, hand of evolution through natural selection.

Confessions of a lonely atheist

Comment by Neal on Monday

It is good news Hope. =)

Comment by Hope on Sunday

Good news :-)

Confessions of an ex-Muslim

Over 100,000 people in Britain converted to Islam between 2001-2011, yet it is believed that up to 75 per cent may have since lost their faith. Who are they - and how do they feel about the way of life they embraced then quickly abandoned?

Islam is often perceived as a religion antithetical to British, secular values. But between 2001-2011, more than 100,000 British people converted to Islam. This may come as a surprise, especially considering the virulent climate of Islamophobia supposedly pervading the country in the shadow of 9/11. Yet, while Muslims may rejoice at the news of many British people flocking to Islam, little is known about the large proportion of converts who later become apostates.

“Many converts leave the faith. We don't have exact statistics but some stats say 50 per cent will leave within a few years,” says Usama Hasan, a part-time Imam and a senior researcher at the counter extremism think-tank, the Quilliam Foundation.

The internet, in particular, Twitter, provides ex-Muslims, often with pseudonymous accounts, a safe haven to challenge, criticise and mock Islam. The Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain (CEMB), founded six years ago, was set up by a group of non-believers and acts as a community for those who have renounced their faith.

http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2013/05/confessions-ex-muslim

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