Blogs
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Turning Point: Embracing Skepticism
by Jessica Mokrzycki, guest contributorOne needs only to scroll down the titles and peruse the content of my recent posts to know that I have been really struggling to make sense of things lately. Battling between mind and heart and trying to find clarity amidst two different paths that seem to…
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Is believing in god wrong?
Most theists and their apologists most often write that without the belief in god, life is meaningless and they go ahead and ask people to surrender everything to their supposed gods.You are likely to find a theist writeWhen we surrender our lives to God and decide to follow Jesus we give up our…
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Weekly Overdose
Wait – What just happened? A roundup of the week in news, May 12, 2013by Sheila Blackadder…
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I Call Bollocks: "Contraception: A Psychological Prostitution"
Oh, Catholics... Some of you never fail to entertain disgust me.Made aware of its existence by bigots on Twitter, I recently came across an article at 'catholicstand.com' entitled '…
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National Day of What? Part II
An internet conversation about “reason” (is that already an oxymoron?)by Ron Millam, Guest Contributor In my last post, I discussed a thread from on my congressional representative’s Facebook…
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National Day of What?
by Ron Millam, Guest ContributorPosted yesterday on her Facebook page by the congressional representative from my district in Missouri, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler:“Today is the National Day of Prayer. Join me in praying for our great nation.”And a comment posted by someone very near and dear to…
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Pro-Life? Not Really.
by Sheila Blackadder“Pro-Life.” What a wonderful…
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'Atheism is for white people'
"My friends joke that I am a coconut: brown on the outside, but white on the inside." - Alom Shaha, The Young Atheist's Handbook.I wrote a post fairly recently for the…
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Effective Altruism
Last Tuesday was a good day. Peter Singer gave a lecture.I'd been looking forward to it for some time, early on securing a place on the Facebook first-come-first-served waiting list just to…
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The Atheist and the Scientist
While I think any opposition towards religion is great, it can be like "shoving" non-belief or anti-belief down someones throat just as good as the religious ones are doing it.Any non-believers may post anything from contradictions in books to scientific quotations but there is in fact a…
