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Every Atheist Needs: Particle Fever

Courtney Heard · · 1 min read

Every Atheist Needs: Particle Fever

Saturday night found Godless Dad and I surfing Netflix, trying to navigate their completely insane organization method, when we found this documentary. Particle Fever is a film about the discovery of the Higgs particle and takes place at CERN over the course of quite a few years. The film has no shortage of breathtaking shots of the Large Hadron Collider which should actually be called the Fucking Massive Hadron Collider. It takes us through the first beam when the LHC is first turned on and th

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Follow Friday: My Buddy The Rat, Mr. McAfee & A Documentary Binge #FF

Courtney Heard · · 2 min read

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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Every Atheist Needs: The Unbelievers

Courtney Heard · · 2 min read

Every Atheist Needs: The Unbelievers

After watching The Unbelievers and reading many of the reviews, it was pretty clear to me that most people misunderstood the documentary’s purpose. Every documentary about atheism seems to have to fulfill the requirement of making a case for atheism. The Unbelievers did not fulfill this requirement and as such, has been dismissed by many, believers and atheists alike. I just don’t think that was the purpose of this documentary. I could be wrong, but the way I saw it, this film was demonstrating

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