By Skeptic on 6/17/2008 2:49 PM

Why am I an atheist?  Because I have seen no evidence of a god.

Why am I an activist?

 This is the more pertinent question. The first question has an obvious answer especially to fellow atheists. I do not believe in god for the same reason that I don not believe Elvis is alive. There is no evidence. Being an atheist is easy and frankly it is intellectually honest. It does require one thing that faith does not; it requires thought.  Faith does not require thought. Faith requires…well…faith.  The word itself is almost immoral and I would not take anything in my life on faith.  Sure, I have h Read More »

By Skeptic on 5/23/2008 9:35 AM

Ah... the the intellignet arguments presented by those annonymous email "debaters".  I am sure Amanda Mathis is not this persons real name and if it is I am certain its not the professional golfer. 

As usual these people leave me at a loss for words. Although it is only because they are too cowardly to allow me to respond.

Well said Amanda :

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from:  Amanda Mathis

date:   Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:07 AM

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By Skeptic on 5/22/2008 8:51 AM

I spent much of last Saturday with my wife and daughters (1 and 4) at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto.  I had not been there in probably 15 years and was looking forward to the opportunity for my 4 year old to see the dinosaurs. The ROM is not a one day activity unless you are running and it is even slower with kids in tow. At most I figured we would have a 4 or 5 hour window before the youngest completely lost it. We were there from about 11 to 3:30 so my estimate was bang on. What brought me out to the museum in the first place was the American Museum of Natural History’s Darwin Exhibit. Read More »

By Skeptic on 4/8/2008 1:52 PM

All honest people are agnostic.  This is the statement I am making. Whether you are a believer in god or not, if you are honest with yourself you are an agnostic.  The following is pulled from Dictionary.com:

By Skeptic on 3/27/2008 2:13 PM

Madeline Kara Neumann is dead beacause of of religion. This is the only reason.  I am disgusted when I hear stories like this. In the past it has been Johova's  Witnesses refusing blood transfusions on behalf of their children in the name of some imaginary friend.  These morons who this girl had the misfortune of being the daughter of chose to put their faith in...well, faith. Faith, what a stupid premise.

I do not have faith in anything. I do not have faith in science or in the love of my children or in the sun coming up tommorrow. For these things and all others happenings I have evidence. My children tell me they love me, that is my evidence. The sun has come up on roughly 24 hour intervals for billions of years, that is my evidence(it is repeatable). Insulin was discovered through science and it has saved thousands of lives over most of th Read More »

By Skeptic on 2/15/2008 2:17 PM

In the province I live the government is proposing to remove the Lord ’s Prayer from daily proceedings.  While this is a move which I fully support I cannot help but wonder why is is still being recited as it was removed from public schools 20 or 25 years ago. Of course this move has created much debate among the talk radio crowd and has further highlighted the blatant discriminatory position that many Christians who advocate for the status quo assume. 

Christians, in great numbers seem unable to mount a rational discussion on issues of faith. I guess if you don’t think rationally it would be hard to debate rationally as well.  As faith requires faith and by definition really means accepting something in spite of what anyone else says or contrary evidence it would therefore seem rather diff ... Read More »

By Skeptic on 10/26/2007 7:37 AM

I have a new cause. It may not seem overly important but it is becoming my pet project and it was in know way a conscious decision to take this on but it is a thing that has always kind of bugged me so I am going to mention it when it happens.

I always come across atheists who say things like I became an atheist at the age of 7 or 11 or 25 or even 40.  While this may seem like a valid statement and it correctly implies that the believer has likely given up on a faith based life because of rational thought; here is what bugs me.  This statement puts atheism in the position of choice; it implies that you have always believed because that is the natural state and after much time you have chosen to abandon those beliefs. You made a choice to be an atheist.  This is wrong, you made a choice to be a believer or in many cases the choice was made for you through indoctrination. The fact is atheism is the natural state. Atheist is how you w ... Read More »

By Skeptic on 10/24/2007 9:04 AM

Ben Stein talks nonsense on Bill O'Reilly.

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By Skeptic on 10/10/2007 9:06 AM

So, let me make my somewhat seditious proposal explicit: We should not call ourselves “atheists.” We should not call ourselves “secularists.” We should not call ourselves “humanists,” or “secular humanists,” or “naturalists,” or “skeptics,” or “anti-theists,” or “rationalists,” or “freethinkers,” or “brights.” We should not call ourselves anything. We should go under the radar—for the rest of our lives. And while there, we should be decent, responsible people who destroy bad ideas wherever we find them. -Sam Harris

Recent comments by Sam Harris have made for much discussion in the atheist bloging community. I am wondering what Secular Earth members position is on this.  Where I stand currently (and I am a Sam Harris fan) is against his position. I could be persuaded howev ... Read More »

By Skeptic on 9/28/2007 9:18 AM

defending Dawkins and atheism against an uniformed christian. Read More »