Atheist Inmates In Their Own Words: Critical Thinking Behind Bars

This is part two in a series about godless inmates in the US prison system.
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Sneak Preview: Atheist Inmates In Their Own Words
I’ve written to dozens of atheist inmates, mostly in the U.S., to ask them what being an atheist in prison is like.
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Follow Friday: Prison Outreach, Power and a Podcast
Here are the atheists I want you to follow this week!
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This Believer Is The Perfect Example Of How Religion Threatens Critical Thought
This guy found god and suddenly began supporting the death penalty because of it.
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Innocents: Too Late To Set Free
This is an ongoing series telling the stories of wrongful convictions in North America. Some of these stories contain content that may distu
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Innocents: How Not To Solve A Triple Murder On Coney Island
Brooklyn teen Anthony Yarbough was just 18 when he arrived home one night in 1992 to find his mother, sister and sister’s friend lying dead in pools of their own blood. They had been stabbed numerous times and strangled with electrical cords.
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Innocents: David Keaton of the Quincy Five
Since Keaton, 153 more men and women have narrowly escaped being executed after it was found out they were wrongfully convicted.
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Guest Post: Do Prisons Work? (A UK Perspective)
Do prisons work? From Reading Gaol to Wormwood Scrubs today’s prison system beggars belief.
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The Ultimate Punishment Part 6: Irrational Capital Punishment & Conclusion
This is the final part in a series that examines the death penalty in the United States of America.
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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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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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