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 Some other interesting sites featuring Freethought, Humanist , Atheist and genral interest treats.
The focus is on reading and discussing quality nonfiction texts from a wide range of topics including atheism and agnosticism, freethought, comparative religion, religion and politics, humanism, philosophy, history, ethics, biblical criticism, psychology, contemporary issues, creationism vs. evolution, popular science, the paranormal, social science and current events, and much more.
Their main purposes are to promote positive atheism through education and to maintain the separation of church and state.
Atheists of Northern Colorado (ANC) is dedicated to the separation of Church and State and to presenting a positive view of atheism to our local community and to the world.
http://www.evolvefish.com/related.html

  
 Wayne's Favorite Atheism-Oriented Links
Our focus is on reading and discussing quality nonfiction texts from a wide range of topics including atheism and agnosticism, freethought, comparative religion, religion and politics, humanism, philosophy, history, ethics, biblical criticism, contemporary issues, creationism vs. evolution, popular science, the paranormal, social science and current events, and much more.
Strengthening your Atheism - the Psychological Explanation of Religion - Website of Dr. Cornelius Mondt, discusses the psychological effects of religion and the meaning of doubts that freethinkers may have
The War on Faith- Info & arguments against religious faith, with plenty of examples of absurdities, cruelties, and atrocities commited in the name of Gawd
http://htomc.dns2go.com/atheism/atheist.html

  
 CheapestBookPrice.com – 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haught (ISBN 1573920673)
Its very obvious that the modern American attitude towards religious criticism and atheism is a product of the Cold War and of the association between Marxism and atheism.
The book is good for highlighting many people who were not religious, or were critical of religion, but it certainly does not provide a full understanding of the social movements related to religious criticism and their importance in western civilization.
Not acknowledging this or understanding it leaves both atheists and religious minded people without the primary basis for understanding the history of modern society and the position of religious criticism in modern society.
http://www.cheapestbookprice.com/reviews/1573920673.html   (720 words)

  
 CheapestBookPrice.com – 2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People With the Courage to Doubt by James A. Haught (ISBN 1573920673)
Its very obvious that the modern American attitude towards religious criticism and atheism is a product of the Cold War and of the association between Marxism and atheism.
The book is good for highlighting many people who were not religious, or were critical of religion, but it certainly does not provide a full understanding of the social movements related to religious criticism and their importance in western civilization.
Not acknowledging this or understanding it leaves both atheists and religious minded people without the primary basis for understanding the history of modern society and the position of religious criticism in modern society.
http://www.cheapestbookprice.com/reviews/1573920673.html   (720 words)

  
 'Marxism and the Bible'
The third aim is to read crucial texts and debates in biblical criticism -- the quests for the historical Israel and Jesus, the constructions of gender and sexuality, the referential function of the text and so on -- in light of Marxist literary criticism.
The power of this argument lies in the phrase, "atheism in Christianity", that the strains he identifies must conclude in atheism, in an atheistic religion in which revolutionary hopes are borne.
Second, it will argue that biblical criticism has a distinct contribution to make to Marxist literary theory, not least of which is a reconsideration of its own emergence and continued existence.
http://www.uow.edu.au/arts/joscci/boer.html   (4697 words)

  
 What Is PAM's Position On Agnosticism? John Polifronio (Reply) (5-01)
The original Darwin-era agnostics exploited this unfair definition of atheism in the transition away from Deism (although they tended to be as vicious in their criticism of orthodox Christianity as any atheist has ever been).
This allows agnostics who don't know if gods exist to be called atheists, or specifically, atheistic agnostics, seeing atheistic agnosticism as a subset of atheism.
My agnosticism, therefore, is as close to pure atheism as it can be; and is strictly academic, in the sense that I cannot absolutely exclude the possibility of a "higher" power in the world.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9064.htm   (2220 words)

  
 Atheism Questions and Answers
Atheism does not stop with the mere criticism of religion or with the exposure of some superstitions.
Gora devoted all his life for the Propagation of atheism.
As Atheism is a positive way of life, Gora covered a wide spectrum of topics.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/india/gora31.htm   (17555 words)

  
 If My Cat Is God, Then I Believe In God
The weak atheist view is not a religion, which puts it outside of Hal's specific criticism.
For more word play, the fundamental weakness of his proof is his definition of God &; that's the real trick here, folks.
Weak atheists just claim that there is as of yet no evidence to that effect.
http://www.useless-knowledge.com/1234/nov/article126.html   (2075 words)

  
 Ralph Cudworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As Bolingbroke said, Cudworth "read too much to think enough, and admired too much to think freely." It is no calamity that natural procrastination, or the clamour caused by his candid treatment of atheism and by certain heretical tendencies detected by orthodox criticism in his view of the Trinity, made Cudworth leave the work unfinished.
Cudworth criticizes two main forms of materialistic atheism, the atomic, adopted by Democritus, Epicurus and Hobbes; and the hylozoic, attributed to Strato of Lampsacus, which explains everything by the supposition of an inward self-organizing life in matter.
Cudworth's ideas, like Plato's, have "a constant and never-failing entity of their own," such as we see in geometrical figures; but, unlike Plato's, they exist in the mind of God, whence they are communicated to finite understandings.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Cudworth   (1281 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Thomas Browne
Brown wrote a criticism of ~arwins Zoonoinia (1798), and was one of the first contributors to the Edinburgh Review, in the second number of which he published a criticism of the Kantian philosophy, based entirely on Villerss French account of it.
Brown’s purpose is to show that, contrary to received opinion, there is no tendency to atheism in Hume’s claim that experience shows us, not the operation of causal powers, but only regular successions of types of event.
Sir Thomas Browne, engraving from an eighteenth century frontispiece This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years or more.
http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Thomas-Browne   (845 words)

  
 Bufe Goof by by Bob Black
That was quite enough to blind Bufe to the totalitarian reeducation of the “forum,” a Maoist-style criticism/self-criticism control mechanism.
Bufe, emulating his demented mentor Fred Woodworth, has long and stridently affirmed his atheism and rationalism, although his careful readers have often regarded him as more rationalist than rational.
ZEGG peddles its several crackpot concepts through a dozen front groups with such names as the Erotic Academy, House of 1000 Possibilities, Sex Peace, and the Transformatory Bordello.
http://www.inspiracy.com/black/bufegoof.html   (1095 words)

  
 Atheists Criticize LDS Bigotry
Two Atheist organizations criticized the bigoted and hate-filed comments made by the President of the Mormon Church (LDS) in a talk delivered September 1 before the National Convention of the American Legion, which included criticism of non-belief and the old canard that "As you know, there are not Atheists in foxholes."
Representatives of Atheist groups this morning called upon the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS) to retract statements he made over the weekend against non-believers, and to call off his "new battle" against Atheism.
While Atheists and non-believer ethicists may disagree with how Lund extrapolates his conclusions, it is easy to miss his central thesis and interpretation of Korihor -- namely, than manifestations of doubt (and certainly Atheism) are not legitimate intellectual predispositions, but merely reflections of "deception" and "trickery" by god's supernatural counterpart and bad-guy rival, satan.
http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/ldsbigot.htm   (2892 words)

  
 Michael Martin
It is a common criticism of atheism that it cannot account for morality; this is the thought that underpins the moral argument for GodÂ’s existence.
The first part of the book is a defence of negative (or “weak”) atheism, the absence of belief in God.
The arguments are categorised as definitional, deductive evil, doctrinal, multiple attribute, and single attribute disproofs.
http://www.philosophyofreligion.info/michaelmartin.html   (619 words)

  
 Reviewing the Reviewers - Peter S. Williams
Pigliucci et al misconstrue my criticism and incorrectly ‘take it that William’s intended target of criticism is the move from modern science’s discoveries to the philosophical position of atheism.
Moreover, Dembski has degrees in mathematics and philosophy, Woodward teaches theology at a fundamentalist Christian school for ministers, and Wells has a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology.  None of them are qualified to comment on evolution for the simple reason that their degrees are not in any of the organismal biological sciences.
As an aside, Pigliucci et al ‘point out that William’s statement that there is “a large body of scientific evidence against” a naturalistic theory of the origin of life is simply false (see, for example, The Emergence of Life on Earth: a Historical and Scientific Overview.
http://www.arn.org/docs/williams/pw_pigliucci_reviewingreviewers.htm   (5565 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: The Age of Reason: Books
Buy The Age of Reason with Atheism: The Case Against God today!
There is no finer introduction to Biblical criticism than Paine's Age of Reason.
Based on years of study and reflection by the author, the work is written from the deist point of view and questions Christian beliefs and the role of religion in society.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0486433935   (748 words)

  
 Ralph Cudworth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As Bolingbroke said, Cudworth "read too much to think enough, and admired too much to think freely." It is no calamity that natural procrastination, or the clamour caused by his candid treatment of atheism and by certain heretical tendencies detected by orthodox criticism in his view of the Trinity, made Cudworth leave the work unfinished.
Cudworth criticizes two main forms of materialistic atheism, the atomic, adopted by Democritus, Epicurus and Hobbes; and the hylozoic, attributed to Strato of Lampsacus, which explains everything by the supposition of an inward self-organizing life in matter.
It arises out of the combination of two principles, neither of which is atheistic taken separately, i.e.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Cudworth   (1307 words)

  
 Critical.txt
CRITICAL RATIONALISM IN ATHEISM The purpose of this essay is to briefly review the philosophy of Critical Rationalism and present some of its implications for atheism.
The atheist can reasonably say that he rejects belief in God because that belief cannot effectively answer the best criticism.
The goal of rationalism may be taken as the building of a system of thought founded on premises that cannot be doubted.
http://www.angelfire.com/art/megathink/articles/Critical.txt   (969 words)

  
 Deism and Reason
In England, it was critically concerned with the origins of religion, but positive in moral and religious affirmation; in France it was anti-Catholic, shading into skepticism, atheism, and materialism; in Germany it was championed alongside nationalist metaphysics and historical criticism; in America it embraced a revolutionary creed...
During the second revolution and reign of terror in France in 1791-1792, the radical revolutionists...renamed Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, "The Temple of Reason," and went about the countryside attempting to transform Catholic churches into churches of the "Supreme Being." (They) were attempting to remake French society from the ground up...
From changing the calendar and the names of the days to rebuilding the church into a Deistic church, most of the constructive activities of the radical leaders of the second revolution and the terror aimed at this goal of rebuilding society on rational principles.
http://www.sullivan-county.com/deism.htm   (6902 words)

  
 Adherents.com
In England, it was critically concerned with the origins of religion, but positive in moral and religious affirmation; in France it was anti-Catholic, shading into skepticism, atheism, and materialism; in Germany it was championed alongside nationalist metaphysics and historical criticism; in America it embraced a revolutionary creed...
A large number of the group defected, and the rest have become Feqara (those who accept poverty) under the leadership of Yahya Abdul Karim.
"Of the nearly 1,200 different religions in the United States, none has had a more turbulent history than that of the Mormons.
http://www.adherents.com/Na/Na_255.html   (6902 words)

  
 proclamation.html
The leading values of communism are identical with those of liberal democracy: communism also preaches the economic meaning of life, the supremacy of the individual, the sublimity of "happiness", the doctrine of heaven-on-earth, the superiority of the lowest type of man, materialism, criticism, atheism, intellectualism, hatred of authority, race suicide, feminism, and pacifism.
The Liberation Front does not allow Europe to be distracted by the situation of the moment, in which the two crude Bolshevisms of Washington and Moscow are preparing a Third World War.
Therefore the representative adherents of the Front, from all, the former nations of Europe, have gathered together in London for the purpose of documenting their outlook, their aim, and their position in the world.
http://www.alphalink.com.au/~radnat/fpyockey/proclamation.html   (6902 words)

  
 Glurge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Glurge may also be thinly veiled social criticism of the religious persecution some American Christians perceive, though some argue that this is not true glurge, lacking as it does the cloying sentimentality that characterizes pure glurge.
While most glurge is of a Christian nature, glurge may also be associated with other religions, atheism, patriotism or nostalgia.
Glurge often has a religious theme and is most commonly circulated via e-mail in the form of a chain letter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glurge   (6902 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Free-Thinkers
Both were in consequence condemned; but the spirit of excess in criticism and the reliance on the sufficiency of human reason are as typical of the free thought of the medieval times as that of the twentieth century.
On this latter frequently follows the negation of, or suspension of judgement with regard to, the existence of God (atheism and agnosticism), and the denial of the immortality of the soul or of its truth being susceptible of proof, and the rejection of freedom of the will.
The early heretics were free-thinkers in their rejection of the regulating authority of the Church upon points connected with their heresies, which they elaborated frequently upon rationalistic lines; and the pantheists and others of the schools criticized and syllogized revelation away in true free-thought style.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06258b.htm   (701 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Free-Thinkers
Both were in consequence condemned; but the spirit of excess in criticism and the reliance on the sufficiency of human reason are as typical of the free thought of the medieval times as that of the twentieth century.
On this latter frequently follows the negation of, or suspension of judgement with regard to, the existence of God ( atheism and agnosticism), and the denial of the immortality of the soul or of its truth being susceptible of proof, and the rejection of freedom of the will.
But since the persuasion of having proved (or of being able to prove) even the doctrines of natural religion by reason alone varies infinitely with the individual, it is difficult, save on the most general lines, to class free thinkers together.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/06258b.htm   (701 words)

  
 Arts & Humanities : Religion : Atheists & Agnostics
The Freethought Web, maintained by the Internet Infidels, contains an extensive set of links to documents and writings concerning atheism and skepticism of religion and the Bible.
Visitors will find links to topical magazines, organizations and newsgroups here, along with criticism and debate.
Visitors can follow links to magazines and organizations covering the three topic areas.
http://www.internet-work.com/a2z/links/director/discrete/arts/95.htm   (207 words)

  
 Strong agnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One criticism of strong agnosticism is that it denies the ability of gods to prove their existence, but of course, this presupposes that there are gods to prove their existence, or that it is even logically plausible whether there are or not, that they (or we)could prove their existence.
Weak agnosticism often overlaps with, and is often confused with, weak atheism, as both are a lack of belief rather than a belief in lack (of either existence or knowledge).
One argument for strong agnosticism is that since we live in time and space, with knowledge derived from the natural world alone, we can only know about the world in which we live and cannot be sure about hypothetically supernatural worlds/powers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_agnosticism   (207 words)

  
 Independent Publisher Feature Article
Prometheus is now established in several original niche subjects: applied philosophy, religious criticism, skepticism of the paranormal, atheism and humanism.
Paul Kurtz founded Prometheus Books in 1969 while a professor of philosophy at the State University of New York at Buffalo, "to offer an alternative." From the beginning, Prometheus Books were written from a rationalistic, naturalistic and scientifically oriented perspective, examining the intersection of science and religion.
"I tell all new employees who join us that they are contributing mightily to culture, because of all the great pillars of civilization, books are perhaps the most important, for they preserve the best of human culture of the past for the present and of the present for he future.
http://www.independentpublisher.com/index.lasso?-database=18news.fp3&-layout=iparticle&-response=art.lasso&-recordID=38949&-search   (824 words)

  
 HERE-NOW4U :Bosch, Lourens Peter van den :Theosophy or Pantheism?
This thoroughly anthropological position in the Gifford lectures led to charges of atheism by his opponents, but Max Müller dismissed them, because he regarded the history, and especially the history of religions, as the place of divine revelation.
Moreover, in order to stand the test of criticism before the forum of sciences, he wanted to build the foundation of his Natural Religion on the epistemological views of Kant.
The philosophy of religion as taught by Max Müller in his Gifford lectures belongs to the most neglected part of his work.
http://www.here-now4u.de/eng/theosophy_or_pantheism__friedr.htm   (824 words)

  
 Copin' with Copan: The Defense of Zacharias that Fails
Zacharias' use of Hitler as an example of the consequences of atheism remains unsupported, and Copan's curious approach of agreeing with the criticism while defending Zacharias' claims fails.
Zacharias said he would provide a framework of arguments and he didn't deliver, so Copan's appeal to accepted theological concepts does little to redeem the lack of arguments, and thus the lack of substance, in Zacharias' work.
Zacharias spends an entire chapter in his book bemoaning the fact that if there is no god then relationships end at death, how, without god and an afterlife, some people may not get what's coming to them if they die before being brought to justice, and so on.
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/doug_krueger/copin.html   (20029 words)

  
 The KLI Theory Lab - keywords - religion
Frank, P. The logical and sociological aspects of science.
Boyer, P. The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion.
Shafer, R. Christianity and Naturalism: Essays in Criticism, Second Series.
http://www.kli.ac.at/theorylab/Keyword/R/religion.html   (20029 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: Blind, Mathilde
She was subsequently expelled from school for atheism and later she followed her hero George Eliot in her commitment to the work of David Friedrich Strauss, author of Das Leben Jesu and part of the Higher Criticism of the Bible movement.
Blind's developing feminist consciousness was clearly reflected in her attraction to strong women as subjects of her critical and biographical works.
Mathilde's radical politics – which would eventually be felt in her strong feminist and socialist works – helped to engender a considerable independence of mind which was evident as early as her school years.
http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=446   (20029 words)

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