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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.
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- Leading questions, agenda pushing, or disingenuous attempts to bait members.
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- Self promotion or upvote farming.
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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a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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I actually agree with this decision. We can't force people to leave religion. And, in a secular society, reasonable accommodations can be made. In New York, it has long been common for religious Jews to leave the office earlier on Fridays and not work Saturdays. My mother needed home health aides 24x7 toward the end of her life. The ones who worked Sunday were always Seventh Day Adventists.
I don't have a problem with this.
As a tangent, I do have a problem with people taking jobs that are wholly or partly against their religion. So, for example, pharmacists who are not willing to fill all prescriptions should choose another line of work. If you don't agree with birth control or medical abortions, don't take birth control or have a medical abortion.
But, if you're not willing to fill a prescription for someone else, you need another job.
Taken to extremes, I can imagine a pharmacist refusing to fill my insulin prescription because they believe in the power of crystals and want to sell me a lump of quartz. I know it's reductio ad absurdum. But, is it really any different ethically?
I have a problem with this. This particular case reasonable accommodation wasn't possible. He was hired on to work the weekends. This wasn't him not able to go above and beyond this was him not willing to do what he was explicitly hired to do. If he had been hired to work mon-fri and didnt want to work Sundays that would be one thing, but he was hired specifically to work Sundays.
I once had a coworker who was a diehard Christian we did a fair amount of weekend work. I took Sundays and it wasn't a big deal and I never made it one because why should I? The thing is our normal shift was mon-fri.