1. 'Growing Up in the Universe' now available free online

Comment #87949 by lukerazor on November 13, 2007 at 7:51 pm

What age group are these aimed at?

2. Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc. were atheists, and they were terrible! Answer that!

Comment #81554 by lukerazor on October 24, 2007 at 10:42 pm

Paine

"4. Im not sure about this one, but I cant think of a single person killed by any of the above(or anyone else) because they were not atheists. Yet I can think of thousands killed because they were not Christians/Muslims/etc."

I beleive that Stalin and China have both persecuted theists in their time. Of course this was probably because they stood as alternatives to their authoririy rather than thesis vs atheist

3. Science can answer how questions but only religion can answer why questions

Comment #81545 by lukerazor on October 24, 2007 at 10:26 pm

Before I answer this question you will first have to prove to me the question is even valid.

My assumption would be that life has no "meaning" other than what we invest in it.

4. If you don't accept the supernatural, you obviously think life is depressing, meaningless and cold

Comment #81542 by lukerazor on October 24, 2007 at 10:22 pm

We, as atheists, need to choose our own values in life, because there is no universal arbiter.

We can still choose to create a world where beauty is valued, or not. There is not nessecity that it is dark, cold and valueless.

See Satre's existential humanism for examples of how it could work.

5. The greatest debate

Comment #80481 by lukerazor on October 22, 2007 at 12:31 am

"Adams concurs, and from personal experience. "I was an atheist before I could read, but I read much later in life Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and I just didn't feel lonely all of a sudden," he says."

Ah, me too, that was a great little book

6. A Table for One

Comment #70800 by lukerazor on September 17, 2007 at 12:21 am

I couldn't get this link to work.

In case anyone else is having problems I found a copy here
http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/67899/detail/