Atheism
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Statement of Purpose
- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
- Superstition hucksters have no reason to subscribe or post here at all.
- If you are looking to debate or proselytize, options will be linked lower in the sidebar.
Acceptable
- Honest questions or conversations.
- Discussions on parenting or advice.
- Struggles, frustrations, coming out.
- Atheist memes. We can have fun!
- News headlines relevant to atheism.
Unacceptable
Depending on severity, you might be warned before adverse action is taken.
- Anything against site rules.
- Illegal and/or NSFW material.
- Troll posts and comments. There will be no attempt to explain what that means.
- Leading questions, agenda pushing, or disingenuous attempts to bait members.
- Personal attacks or flaming.
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- Self promotion or upvote farming.
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Connect with Atheists
- Matrix: #atheism:envs.net
Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- The Secular Therapy Project
- Secular Students Alliance
- Black Nonbelievers
- The Clergy Project
- Atheist Alliance International
- Sunday Assembly
- Atheist Ireland
- Atheism UK
- Atheists United
Streaming Media
This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.
- Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
- Rationality Rules
- Friendly Atheist
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Cosmic Skeptic
- Genetically Modified Skeptic
- Street Epistemology
- Armored Skeptic
- NonStampCollector
Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
- Humanists International
- Atheist Republic
- The Brights
- The Angry Atheist
- History for Atheists
- Rationalist International
- Atheist Revolution
- Debunking Christianity
- Godless Mom
- Atheist Freethinkers
Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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Many atheists are technically actually just agnostics, including me. Agnosticism is essentially the belief of "I dont know for sure either way".
I can't give definite proof that there is no god like entity/ies out there who have designed reality, the cosmos, our planet and human form. However I do know that if they exist they made me with all these doubts and disbelief in established religious systems, and they sure as shit don't need my veneration during my lifetime.
Technically, atheists are mostly agnostic atheists. They are not mutually exclusive. One is about knowledge (hence the 'gnostic' part of 'agnostic,' 'gnosis' means knowledge) and one is about belief (theism is a belief, atheism is the lack of that belief).
I do not believe in any gods, therefore I am an atheist.
I do not claim to know there are no gods, because I do not think that is something it is possible for me to know- I could be a Boltzmann Brain after all, therefore, I am an agnostic.
Being agnostic atheist makes sense to me. I just think the real atheists REALLY believe that there is no god, that the idea of God is false in every sense.
An agnostic atheist is a real atheist.
OK then just "atheists" without the agnostic aspect.
Those would be gnostic atheists.
Yeah, those are the ones I think take an extreme position about stuff we don't really know. Even having any type of belief seems extreme to me, even if it is rooted in reason. Human reason is just too immature to have opinions about the origins of the universe of the existence of a god.
I think the humble thing is to say "I don't know" without any belief. I don't say religions are wrong, I just dismiss them because they have opinions about things they have no idea about, the same way I dismiss anyone with a belief regarding this matter.
Someone said "... so Santa Claus and Leprechauns, do you also think they can exist? ... ". It's obviously not the same, the origin of the universe is something very deep and ancient. Having any type of opinion about it seems so arrogant. Let's limit ourselves to what we can measure without opinions or beliefs.
Lacking belief is atheism. If you mean 'neither believing nor disbelieving,' that is not possible.