We STILL can’t even admit as a country that the civil war was about slavery. I was on Giz and one of the old articles was about CSA statutes and people still wanted to trot out the whole state’s right argument. Yes, it was about state’s rights, the motherfucking right to own slaves!!

Seriously: TIRED OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS.

Burn it all down.

“I don’t see how we can ever repair this country.”

They were beating the shit out of counter-protesters last night and the police weren’t doing shit.

Am I the only one who sees this crap and thinks “un biodegradable plastic lasts forever”. Also I think of the girls who are told this shit is amazing only to be told the following week that the next kit is even better with better brushes, colors, packaging. Poor little girls.

The shark thing is absolutely disgusting and horrible but since he wasn’t actually there this seems like the bigger story! He’s a racist, misogynist, stupid piece of shit! Why am I not surprised?

Side note: I need to stop reading stories like these because it seriously makes me tear up a little when I see human garbage…

Sure, people need stories. I prefer humanism and science, as most atheists do, but I’m aware that some people need fulfillment through spirituality. My objection to religion is less that people believe anything, and more the specific hateful and backwards beliefs held by most of the current menu of religions. I also…

But see, what I reject to is characterizing most atheists as “smug” and proclaiming themselves “superior.” Just speaking as an atheist gets you labeled those things, pretty much no matter what you say or do, unless you fall all over yourself in an apologist fashion.

My husband and I are both atheists (though he is of the school of Who Gives A Shit and I am a proponent of Thinking I’m Smarter Than You) while his family is Catholic and mine Methodist. No one gives us any shit except my younger sister who is just baffled that we don’t celebrate Christmas with our 5 year old son. She…

I dated a Catholic person and the last 10 years of our 20 year relationship were very serious. (Yes, I’m an old). I have never had quite the connection, intellectually, emotionally and sexually, with anyone else that I had with him. We broke up 5 years ago and I still miss him and think and dream about him…

Nostalgia is the enemy of progression. Because people make excuses and keep attending (“I don’t agree with my church on XYZ, but it’s where I grew up and my parents still go there!”) these institutions — the Catholic Church especially — will never change. Remember that, above all, churches go where the money is. If…

This, I’m a very stern atheist, and my fiance is Christian, not practicing but still a believer, and we are having a kid, our deal is that just like porn and alcohol religion shouldn’t be a thing until the baby is 18. He can then make a choice of believing and practicing any nonsense he wants then.

We agreed to frame…

So...an atheist commenting on the internet who is a little more harsh than some people might feel comfortable with. Ok. *shrug* The minute an atheist says something someone doesn’t like, they morph into the dreaded “Internet Atheist.” Meanwhile, I should feel completely comfortable with people who tell me anyone like…

I’m using the word correctly. You are not. There is no reason for me to use a different word.

“But my compatibility fears weren’t unfounded. His background could hardly have diverged more from mine, religiously speaking: His father spent his career in aerospace, and his mother was a science teacher. Like Jeff, they remain confirmed atheists.”

I can’t imagine dating a theist again, especially if children are gonna be involved. I wouldn’t want to teach my children that any of those Bible stories are true, and wouldn’t want to tell them that the Jesus/God character is a moral one. I wouldn’t want to lie to them about basic scientific or historical facts. I…

Why “Internet Atheists,” which has a negative connotation? Are the Catholics commenting not “Internet Catholics?” This is a good example of how people often talk about atheists in a negative way, while theists are just “normal.”

I think it can work if the atheist lets the Catholic indoctrinate the kids. I don’t see how else.

I’m aware of your point and perhaps I oversimplified or painted with an overly broad brush. This is certainly true. However, thinking back through history, there was not much of an opportunity for nonreligious people to even exist, let alone become published scholars. Religion was the default position, and remains…