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.
Inadvisable
- Self promotion or upvote farming.
- Excessive shitposting or off-topic discussion.
Application of warnings or bans will be subject to moderator discretion. Feel free to appeal. If changes to the guidelines are necessary, they will be adjusted.
If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.
Likewise, if you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a group that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of any other group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you you will be banned on sight.
Provable means able to provide proof to the moderation, and, if necessary, to the community.
~ /c/nostupidquestions
If you want your space listed in this sidebar and it is especially relevant to the atheist or skeptic communities, PM DancingPickle and we'll have a look!
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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As Hitchens said, atheism isn't a real thing. Like creating a word for those who don't believe in unicorns.
Exactly. Atheism is the label cults use to pretend not believing in bullshit is just “another belief” like their believing in bullshit
not explicitly? Atheism is a root derived term. Theism, or theists, are religious movements/people in that order. Theology is the study of religion, etc... Atheism is just someone who isn't a theist, it's just a generic term. You can do this with everything. Political, apolitical, social, asocial, etc...
And sadsacks is just a term for people who don’t study the perfect life form: unicorns!
Defining someone by the negation of their oppressors label is pretty fucking offensive.
It’d be like calling native Americans the NotWhites. It defines them by a metric they didn’t care about.
for one thing, that's literally not why it's structured like that. It's structured like that because of how the english language works. Take that up with big language, not big religion.
It'd be like calling the americans (the colonizers, not the natives) anatives. Not like calling the natives "notwhites" Though im sure you would agree with me there, considering how that went down. You are literally just pulling this out of your ass.
I mean you really don't seem to understand how these words are supposed to work. Theism is literally defined as "caring about religion" Atheism is literally just the opposite, not caring about it. Are you suggesting that theists should be offended at being called "theistic" Yes i realize my dipicition of theism here is not the best, but fight me about it.
This is like complaining about dehydration being the term for people who "havent consumed enough water" because it was created by the rich elities who can drink enough water. It's literally just language. Why is this such a big pain point for you? I literally do not understand why.