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My name is Abby and I'm an atheist. I happen to live in a very small, very religious town where I am somewhat notorious for my views. My family and I have been horribly harassed...
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Hey guys, I'm pretty new here. I apologize in advance for my lack of grammar (I'm Swedish...) I have a question for you, that I would be very glad if you could help me with....
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Hi all, I'm pretty new to religion and I have just recently shed my religious blindfold. I have a question that probably has been answered countlessly before but I couldn't find the...
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Presupposing the historical veracity of the Christ figure as a teacher, a religious leader, an iconoclast, and (most importantly) a human man, what evidence acutally exists for assuming the supernatural miracles ascribed to this one man based...
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Earlier this week, Richard Dawkins questioned whether a journalist could be taken seriously for believing in supernatural entities (specifically a winged horse capable of commuting between Heaven and Earth). ...
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I basically just need some quick references to some works on the NOT SO irreducibly complex bacterial flagellum.
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I have two children. One has declared herself a Humanist. The other has mixed beliefs in Christianity and Buddhism. Should I allow them to explore their beliefs or actively persuade them to become atheists?
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So, with a bit of time to kill, I thought I'd revive a demonstration I saw on The Blind Watch Maker documentary ... http://pastehtml.com/view/cyw0ntivg.html Reasonable minds can only come...
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Hi Everyone. I am a recent atheist, and at school we are basically forced to do religious scripture once a fortnight. I recognise that Atheism is not a religion, but the only...
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I am in the early stages of applying to be a foster carer. At an initial meeting with our assessor amongst all the things that were discussed, I was asked if I...
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There is a great new TV series titled "Conspiracy Road Trip". Comedian Andrew Maxwell presents his serious side as he takes 5 British "believers" on a road trip top confront their beliefs. The Conspiracy Road...
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My first post. I'm a recovering alcoholic & drug addict. 20 years of my life spent getting wasted. I've been to rehab 3 times & in group therapy I spent most of my time arguing...
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I was raised in a fundamentalist Christian church. In the 1940s when I was a teenager, I remember the preacher from time to time would make statements discrediting scientists. Two examples I still remember are:...
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In order to figure out anything, we need reason. Where did reason come from though? How can we prove the existence of reason? It seems we cannot prove reason with reason, which is circular...
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Hi, I was recently dragged to a screening of the film Life of Pi (in 3D). In an early scene the main character says he...
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Lately I have been wearing my scarlett letter "A" button in support of The Out Campaign and today one of my co-workers asked about it. Knowing he was a bible-believing christian fundamentalist, I knew it...
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I'm sure the title may have taken quite a few of you in. To explain a bit of the background as to why I'm writing, this, I have a couple of firends...
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Hello everyone! In light of today's misunderstood and pointless holiday (Easter), I was curious to see how many of us involved on these discussion boards came across this whole Ishtar Vs. Easter...
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According to the online version of the Skeptic's Annotated Bible, there are only 511 good verses or passages in the whole of the Bible, Old and New Testament inclusive. Given that there are about 1189...
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Hallo zusammen, I have always wondered why religions demonize sex and often depict women as subordinates. Any one who has visited ancient temples in India would have come across...
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Hi, guys !English is not my native language. I never made a class on this language. Thus, i know that this text is poor in grammar and vocabulary. I don't know if it is relevant...
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Before I start, I would like to say that I think that most of what Dr. Dawkins thinks about religion makes very good sense. I understand and agree with the idea of not believing in what there...
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No this isn't a discussion about George Bush and his McCarthyesque attempts to frame anyone who disagreed with him as a terrorist.Rather this is a disappointing, and yet hardly unsurprising, look at the divisive and...
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There's a new Pope in town, and even though most of us probably don't give a damn about his theological qualities, it might be of interest to us to know his views on scientific matters. The...
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I, as I am sure many other atheists do, always cite the lack of evidence for a god as one of the main reasons for my disbelief. However, I often wonder if that's sufficient enough...
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I was pointed to this article, by a friend, in an online discussion: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9920238/Queen-to-sign-new-charter-backing-gay-rights.htmlYou know, there's a certain irony in this. The U.S. was born partly due to discrimination felt by groups like the Pilgrims. They...
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Is it legal for an employer to ask you to sign a statement of faith?I recently started a new part time job whilst studying for my Bsc (Hons) Neuropsychology. Before being a student I was...
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The news.com.au web site posted an article about a new 5 part television series screening soon on The History Channel. The official web site is here: http://www.bibleseries.tv/From news.com.au: Introducing, The Bible: Ten hours of dramatic TV re-enactments of history’s most...
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Recently my parents have started taking me to a baptist church and forcing me to accept this new concept of an omniscient omnipotent being which cannot be proven to exist, and I'm not trying to...
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Hi RDF,I hope this is the correct place to let you know about the fantastic story behind the you tube videohttp://youtu.be/Zju5YwsP8GEI could not find anything on RDF about Daniel Everett and I'm sure everyone will...
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My entire 18 years of life I've never felt the "divine spirit" or the voice that everyone seems to go on about at congregations or any other things of the sort that uplifts people... I always found myself...
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When I say to a christian ,provide proof there is a god,the answer is often,provide proof there is no god.How do we prove that there is no god?.If we say that based on science I BELIEVE that...
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Hi,I was quite ambivalent about capital punishment before moving to England. But after listening to my colleague (gulping few pints at the pub) at the university where I was studying, I got convinced that...
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If I said to someone that I believe in Father Christmas or the tooth fairy for example, any right-minded person would laugh in my face. However if someone said that they believe in a God,...
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I have gotten into an on-going discussion with a Jehovah's Witness at the laundromat (me doing laundry, him handing out his tracts.) He seems to be a very nice young man, about half my age,...
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Many of the 6th graders at the the school where I teach now carry smart phones. Often times when I present them with information that they consider remarkable, or perhaps suspect, out comes the iPhone...
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I was watching a documentary of an interview of Professor Dawkins with Al Jazeera in Oxford University. (Here is the link for those interested: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=U0Xn60Zw03A#!)There was an interesting question in it which was the following:(with a bit of...
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As a homeless atheist, the Christian Shelters and Kitchens barred and banned me after objecting to hour long sermons in order to receive a meal or bed. There really is no help other than the...
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When you look at the properties of gods you will soon notice that the more gods you have in a pantheon the more fallable they are, the more gods, the more human the gods. The...
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Few have been quoting Gandhi & his views recently. I would like to shed some light on Gandhi's view on women. Mohandas Gandhi held India back when it came to women's rights – and...
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I have been in contact with a 16 year old (let’s call her Y) who is a member of the ultra orthodox and insular Jewish community “The Chassidim”. She is appealing for...
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Hey,i'm an atheist from India. While having a discussion with my muslim friend on religion,he told me that the qurran talks about the big bang theory and things about embryology and that the qurran even talks...
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Strangers, colleagues - I'm in a bit of a crisis. This past year I fell in love with a girl who happened to be a devout Christian. I am myself an agnostic, but because of how...
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I was wondering what other world religions, besides Christianity, has an end-time narrative? It doesn't have to be apocalyptic. It can be anything that is a course of events which culminates in the world as...
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Hi everyone.First off, I want to apoligize for my relatively weak english.I'm a 17-year-old female high school student in Finland. When it comes to religion, I'd say that out of all the young finnish people...
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Many of you may already be familiar with Usama Hasan, a UK Imam who received quite a negative response for suggesting to a Muslim audience that humans share a common ancestor with modern apes.Seemingly undeterred...
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One of many websites on this issue http://www.worldpopulationbalance.org/3_times_sustainable I have not seen much discussion here on RDFRS on the subject of sustainable population projections, ...
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I shall endeavour as much as possible to keep this topic on point, avoiding all unnecessarily heavy descriptions that seem to ask you to be 'free psychologists' (although I am fairly certain that some among here...
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Just this year a personally sad event caused me to acknowledge my absolute rejection of the fundamental Christianity of my parents, and to seek understanding and knowledge partly through forums like these. In the last eight months...
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Death, Funerals, Church, and Loss by Suicide.Experiencing the whole process of loss and death is quite different as an Atheist. The obvious difference is we do not believe in an "afterlife" whether it be good...
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I was wondering if Oxfam is a good charity to donate to. I am not sure of their affiliations to religious organisations. I have read some negative comments about their "Oxfam unwrapped" program ( http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/4180/ ). Do...
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Majority of people on this website seems to be well informed and pioneering, which drove me to ask a question thats burning inside of me... here goes.If you lived in a country were rejecting your...
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The majority of people on this website seem to be well informed and pioneering, which drove me to ask a question thats burning inside me. Here goes.If you lived in a country where rejecting your...
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Hi Everyone, I'm no huge fan of newspapers at the best of times, but surely it's the job of a local paper to report local news?Every week on the letters page, the Maidenhead Advertiser prints...
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I am an LDS medical student in my late twenties and for the past few years I have been doubting the beliefs that I have held for most of my life. I want to know...
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I am a South African citizen and an Atheist. I was baptized and accepted in a Christian Church as a child and young adult but "awoke" from the ...
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Obama has just won the presidential election and as expected many republicans are blaming hurricane Sandy.However by all accounts, including the republicans blaming the hurricane for the loss of the election, it was an "act of...
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Tom Holland is the author of In the shadow of the sword and producer of the recent Channel 4 documentary Islam - The untold story.Tom will be a guest panelist on The Jinn And Tonic...
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I live in the Netherlands and many many years ago I had a coworker who was deeply religious. I used to have long discussions with him about religion. One day I told him children should be...
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With pre-disaster fear, disasters taking place and post-disaster commentary (to name just a few reasons) the web seems full of comments such as 'we are praying for you', 'our thoughts and prayers are with you', and ' I will...