Paris À La Carte: Are These Things Really What We Should Be Angry About?
Paris À La Carte: Are These Things Really What We Should Be Angry About?
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An Open Letter To The Mothers Of The Garland Shooting Attackers
An Open Letter To The Mothers Of The Garland Shooting Attackers
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Why Religion Needs To Be Destroyed
My reaction to the massacre at Charlie Hebdo in Paris, France.
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Your Stories of Atheism: Child Refused Healing Surgery
This is an ongoing series featuring your stories of how you came to identify as an atheist. If you want to send me your story, you can submit it here. To read past stories, click here.The first one this week is from MikeMoeller1, a former Jehovah’s Witness: I was brought up in a Jehovah witness family. I always questioned why we didn’t have Christmas trees or celebrated anything the other kids did at school. When I was 15 I started asking questions about the bible and actually my fathers faith.
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Follow Friday: Just A Couple Of Awesome Guys I Dig
It’s getting close to Halloween. Do you dress up? If so, what are you going as? This is me last year, I was a zombie doctor:Zombie Godless MomSpeaking of dressing up, the first guy I want you to follow dresses like a train bandit in his vlogs and I’m not gonna lie, it’s kinda mysteriously cool. It is, of course, Paul from Quaranify Me. This guy has a heart the size of Texas and he’s not afraid to say what he really feels. His podcast, Quranify Me is hard hitting, entertaining and consistently co
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Video: Why Don’t We Let Moderate Muslims Tell Us What They Support
Even I was shocked at this… what’s your take?#islam #muslim
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This Video About Moderate Muslims Made Me Cheer
A moderate Muslim American woman stands up and confronts a panel about discrimination. The answer she got was absolutely perfect, and so well said that I nearly knocked over my tea cheering. Notice the standing ovation… people are hearing this message.#islam
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Why Ben Affleck Is Wrong
Ben AffleckIt’s funny, Ben looks exactly like my brother and seeing him so passionately argue on TV makes me want to sympathize and defend the guy, because he looks like my fucking brother. The fact cannot be changed, though: Ben is wrong.First, I think it’s important to note that Ben’s heart is clearly in a good place. He dislikes hatred and bigotry and racism and that’s something to be commended. The problem is not necessarily Ben himself, but our culture of “don’t-upset-anyone” politically co
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Dutch Comedian Insults Islam, Only Gets Funnier When Confronted About It
Yeah, I already posted today, I know! This was too awesome not share with you folks though. The best soundbite I took from this is,“Do you think that when I put on the TV, I don’t see things that annoy me? That I don’t feel insulted now and then? But one develops a shield to deal with these things. That’s what you do in a free society, because you’re inevitably confronted with things you don’t like. The religious are very bad at this because they tend to believe they have a monopoly on the truth
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Atheist Life Hacks: How To Date A Muslim Man
Atheists are bigots. If I had a pie for every time I heard that, I’d be Kirstie Alley.When I was in college – and I really have no idea how I did this – I worked at YVR airport. I had a full course load, and then went to the airport at night and cleaned planes until morning. I do not recall if sleep really ever happened. I do recall, however, being in such a sleepless stupor that my boss appeared to me as Hulk Hogan… but that’s a whole other story.I had the extreme pleasure of peeling the NHL’s
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