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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.
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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a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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As an atheist, I have trouble understanding what a bunch of us would get together and do, in the name of atheism.
We can discuss how I didn't bring my stamp collection.
... because I don't collect stamps.
i found this at their website
I can think of a number of topics.
How religions harm society. This can be done philosophically in general, historically, or with present day examples. I could see multiple different sessions on this, including dividing into regional phenomena on top of the other subjects.
Religious debate subjects. I could see one panel (or several, depending on the depth of discussion) that goes into the traditional arguments (eg Kalam, problem of evil, etc) and how they tend to unfold.
Evolutionary and social origins of religiosity. These panels would review the sociobiology of religious belief as a pan-cultural phenomenon. Why do virtually all cultures have some kind of religious belief? When does it lead to evolutionary success? When is it harmful? Can this understanding allow us to “treat” for it, like we do with other public health crises?
Non-theistic foundations of philosophy. Can we establish a philosophical foundation of ethics and moral reasoning, and how do they compare with religiously originated ones?
So atheism to you is just "anti religion". Meh. That sort of conflation is what makes atheism seem so "bad" to people.
Theism and religion are not one and the same.
No, and no.
Atheism is tied to religion in that it is religions that posit god-concepts as having a non-mythological/non-fictional basis in reality. Atheism is perfectly compatible with religions that are non-theistic.
But the question is what could be talked about. If atheism to you is merely some cosmic nihilism, then you’d be welcome to not attend and instead throw a ferret into someone’s tub to try to get money for Jackie Treehorn.