Every Atheist Needs: Franny and Zooey
Why every atheist needs to read Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger.
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50 Shades of Shut The Hell Up
Now here’s something new. A Jeeby fanboy who is poking around in other people’s sex lives.
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Skeptics, We’ve Been Challenged To Read The Bible
This believer wants us to read just 100 pages of the Bible.
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Every Atheist Needs: Contact By Carl Sagan
As an atheist, I had already considered Carl Sagan an absolute treasure, and someone who left both a massive mark and a gaping hole in our world. His calm but passionate demeanor, his sheer intelligence and his infectious love for unravelling nature’s mysteries made him an absolute one-of-a-kind. He passed his torch on to one of my favourite living people, Neil deGrasse Tyson and left us with a body of work that can only be described as epic and profound.Carl Sagan took the idea that you leave
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Every Atheist Needs: Confessions Of An Innocent Man
Faith is, very simply, a belief in something without any proof. A theocracy is powered, at its highest levels, by ideas for which there is no evidence. The value placed on faith in such a society, seeps into every aspect of day-to-day life. It strips otherwise intelligent citizens of their critical thought and devalues truth, and when the truth is no longer important to an entire society, things like the events in this book happen. Repeatedly, unendingly, until faith is kicked out and reason re
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Every Atheist Needs: An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth
If you don’t remember the time Chris Hadfield spent on the International Space Station, you had to either have had your head bent in prayer or you were binge watching Lost, for which you are forgiven. That ending tho…Hadfield, my fellow Canadian, single-handedly revived our fascination with space as we waited every day for his next photo of Earth from the cupola of the Space Station. We watched for our city or town and were blown away by how small everything looked in every single shot. He trie
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Every Atheist Needs: Wrong Men & Twisted Confessions
The two books I’m talking about are The Wrong Men by Stanley Cohen and Twisted Confessions: The True Story Behind The Kitty Genovese And Barbara Kralik Murder Trials.In light of reading Sam Harris’ new book, Waking Up, I was reminded of these two books because they were so brutally unsettling to me. Sam’s book talks about how little we know about human consciousness and asks the question, is what we know, really what we know?If you supplement Sam’s book with these two books, you’ll answer that q
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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Befriend a Killer
GM’s gonna get a little dark on you today. I’m feeling a little melancholy missing old friends and I thought I’d pay homage to one in particular.Have you ever had one of those friendships that lasts for fucking ever and goes so euphorically high and so deeply low and even when it’s stable, it’s still something that can barely be contained in your mind, in your heart or in your dreams? The mindfuck kind, the sort that leaves ugly scars and foaming anger and firey love and lust and longing that ma
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Follow Friday: Bravery & Generosity Edition
Happy Friday Unbelievers! A couple of notes before I get started:1. My site was the target of a brute force attack and everything crashed twice. So, I have taken some steps to fix it all, including adding the new comment system, Disqus. Things should be faster and functioning now, still some bugs are needing to be ironed out though. Please bear with me.2. I’ve added two sections to my site, which are functional now for the most part. Up above in the menu, you’ll see Memes – this is where I will
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Every Atheist Needs: Waking Up by Sam Harris
Boy! You think you a know a person (from reading tweets), and then they go and write something so beautifully surprising and delightfully different. The atheist community has some amazing authors, and Sam Harris is definitely already one of them, but nothing has been written like this before. Nothing.First, the style. This could have easily been a dry book with no personality and and an intense snooze-factor, but with Sam’s intelligent wit and frequent use of openly honest personal stories, this
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Follow Friday: My Buddy The Rat, Mr. McAfee & A Documentary Binge #FF
You may have noticed that I posted my Atheist Life Hacks yesterday, when I usually post them Friday. That’s because I want to do a more in-depth Follow Friday here on my blog. I find that not many people actually follow the people I recommend if I send out a Follow Friday tweet and I sincerely think you’re missing out. I always put thought into who I recommend you follow, so I hope that these posts will help you find some new, informative, fun and followable people all over the interwebs.I thoug
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