Australian debate between Dr. Paul Willis and Dr. Carl Wieland

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Anyone can lose their religion if they open their minds.

Now it's an ex-priest.

I can't even be bothered to type it up! This is monotonous regularity.

Another Knox Gramma sex criminal.

Watch out for the ex-Uniting-Church-private-school-teachers, not the internet pornographers.

Hitchens on morality without god.

Nazi Catholic Priest

The Catholic church was all over the nine year old rape victim who aborted the twins that doctors thought she could never have carried to full term. However, when a priest greets his flock with a Nazi arm band on the Vatican is strangely silent.

Evangelicals promoting persecution of children in the Niger Delta.

Children are being denounced as witches or warlocks. The Niger Delta has lots of orphans as a result of the AIDES virus. These children are persecuted by church groups for their alledged witchcraft

This just makes me too cross to even read. This is being driven by dumb fundies both in the area and the ones who fund it via donations from the first world.

http://www.steppingstonesnigeria.org/node/18
There's a link to a flyer towards the bottom.

Channel 4 program on the topic.
I don't know who Channel 4 are.

Blog post:

Hindus are lovely peaceful theists, yes?

Grandfather beheads his granddaughter to use her blood to ensure a good harvest. This is a Hindu tradition. Is this religion teaching us how to be good?

Bumba the African Vomit God

He felt sick so he vomitted the sun, people, a leopard and an alligator. This seems as valid a creation story as any.

Wikipedia
God Checker

Stephen Hawking and the Theory of Everything

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'Why We Believe in Gods'

Andy Thomson gives his talk titled 'Why We Believe in Gods' at the American Atheist 2009 convention in Atlanta, Georgia.

Anglican minister admits to buggering the alter boy

Those Anglican scamps. They look so mild mannered. As it turns out, yet again, they've been buggering the alter boys. That's right, it wasn't the atheists, the pornographers or the out gay man who did the kiddy fiddling. Once again it was the hypocrite behind the pulpit.

One of the victims was looking for help and guidance after losing his father.

Brisbane Times article:

Paraguay's president:

As an ex-priest, one would think he had learnt how to be good almost as well as one could learn how to be good from religion and yet he is accused of fathering all and sundry.

BBC News

CNN News

Wanna protect children?

Keep them away from Sunday school teachers. It's not the atheists who will kill them and dump the body in an irrigation channel in a suitcase.

Is this religion teaching children how to be moral? It isn't working.

More coverage:

Jedi Church

Jedi Church says their numbers are growing.

UK numbers in the 2001 census:

The religious movement is not being taken seriously. Unfortunately Scientology is taken seriously... and it's just based on science fiction books.

Child abuse by fundies

This poor kid is applauded by fundies for behaving like a preacher. He talks about as much sence as a fundy.

WWJD Video

Islamic Fundies make "No" illegal for Shiite women

Arguments in favour of atheism don't get much stronger than Afghanistan's new law forbidding women from saying "no" to a demand for sex from their husband's. We have come to the nitty gritty of religion. Guys just want sex and religion gives them a way to demand it.

SMH article:

Skeptic action plan

Many people want to know what they can do to help. Skeptic.com have made a list of things you can do.

LOL

... what can I add?

They're at it again!

Fundies have the most fun:
This Focus on the Family Fundy was trying to solicite sex with a 15 year old... played by a police investigator.
And this fundy pastor was stealing church funds (more than USD84k) for plastic surgery and botox treatment. Did Jesus tell him to do it?? Voices in your head are never a good thing.

Christian film:

The only way this film could be made worse was to make it about god... so they did.

Mother drugged 13 year old to get her pregnant.

This report is not radically different to Genesis 30. This mother giving her daughter to her boyfriend to impregnate is pretty much parallel to Jacob shagging Rachel's servant to bear children... so, these people just got their morality from the bible.

Obviously, this report does not mention the religiosity of the mother but that doesn't stop christians from accusing atheists of creating this kind of mind set.

Churchies volunteering

They say that religious people volunteer more but this stat shows that few of them actually volunteer so they are just contributing to society by association... sorta like spiritual laundering. :)

It is true that fewer non-religious people volunteer. I'm not religious but I look out for the dude over the road. I have a cup of tea with him and listen to his stories. Stuff like this doesn't show up in their stats.

Volunteering that furthers the church shouldn't be counted either. If it is not of general benefit to society it isn't really social capital. Anyway, go have a look at the stats yourself. It's about halfway down the page.

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Finally the churches are being pushed out.

The churches are being pushed out of the employment services industry. This was just a way of slipping government funds to churches. This would have been exposing innocent people to christianity, a highly contagious mind disease.

The atheist bus generator.

The atheist bus generator lets you make your own slogans.

More sexual abuse.

Another week, another case of sexual abuse at the hands of religious leaders is uncovered. They're up the porn users while they are buggering the alter boys!

In depth report:

Harry Potter Proof

Proof that Harry Potter is real!