All religions are sets of beliefs, none of which can be proved scientifically; they all require a degree of faith. So, when you think about it, atheism is just another belief system based on the...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/09/would-you-believe-it/
The Economist Magazine reports this morning that the number of people who identify as Atheists in the United States population has grown five-fold in the last five years. They derived this infor...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/08/repression-of-atheists-by-the-religious-right/
"Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither ...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/08/a-passage-from-homers-zoo/
A lot of theists talk about Pascal’s wager, “if you (atheists) are wrong you will suffer for all eternity, but if we (theists) are wrong we would have lost nothing.” This is an example how...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/08/pascals-wager-against-theists/
(a revised chapter from: The Sins of God) Let's suppose there is a God. Let's suppose that this God is our divine creator, that he (for the purpose of this treatise I shall use the personal pron...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/08/is-god-an-evil-alien-bodysnatcher/
So, I'll out myself. I'm an Atheist. I don't believe in God, Gods, Godlets or any sort of higher power beyond the universe itself, which seems quite high and powerful enough to me. I don't belie...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/07/famous-freethinkers-angier-natalie/
GOD is an ideal concoct, The Force, the Power, the Almighty, The Big Brother, the king of the kings, The white bearded guy living in the sky. Read on...
The last two values espoused in the Humanist Manifesto III continue the general feeling set by the previous two, which is to say they may tend to inspire a yawn. But again, I will attempt to fin...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/07/humanist-values-working-for-a-better-society/
"A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to ...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/07/famous-freethinkers-armstrong-karen/
There is a tiny area at the back of my head where I run mental jobs that are the human equivalent of background tasks. I can poke them back there to run on their own, and they pop out with a “...
https://www.eloquentatheist.com/2012/07/anatomy-of-a-humanist-church/