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This page features links and in most cases summaries of articles on other websites. We have selected sites that we expect will be of interest to people not afflicted with religious beliefs. We hope you find this page useful. The lists of articles are updated frequently, check back at least once every day for the latest Atheism News.

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Atheist Fag


Two Anti-Gay Preachers Busted for Soliciting Gay Sex
First we have a case in Milwaukee, Wisconsin where the bitter cold winter is over and people are going to the parks. An anti-gay homophobe for Jesus Fundamentalist Christian preacher was arrested in a police sting operation aimed at men soliciting sex in a public park. Police say after church at the Holy Redeemer Church [...]
by Fagnit
5 Jul 2008 at 4:29pm

Atheist Fag in California Gay Marriage
Your Atheist Fag blogger is pleased to announce that he was married to his long time partner in Unholy Matrimony at the Riverside County Clerk’s offices in Indio California. Woo hoo! C’est moi on the right. From now on whenever I refer to him as my husband I will not need to [...]
by Fagnit
27 Jun 2008 at 7:45am

Preacher Who Advocated Murder of Homos Loses Again in Court
A Jeebus-loving professional hatemonger preacher has had the appeal of his lawsuit turned down as frivolous by the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. The Rev. Grant Storms of New Orleans sued Action Wisconsin after it excerpted a 2003 speech he made in Milwaukee on “homo-fascism” in the city, which the group said revealed [...]
by Fagnit
5 Jun 2008 at 11:12pm

Ohio Republican Possibly More Batshit Crazy than Sally Kern
An Ohio Party of Jesus legislator may be trying to steal the Batshit Crazy Tiara from famous Oklahoma lunatic Sally Kern. When someone pushed his crazy response button by mentioning a bill pending in the Ohio legislature that would outlaw discrimination in housing and employment against gays and lesbians, Wagner responded with a typical Fundamentalist Disorder [...]
by Fagnit
31 May 2008 at 9:06pm

Fairy Tale Based Bigotry Poised To Take Another Hit in California
Based on the questions asked by the Justices of the California Supreme Court, it looks like some whining crybaby homophobic Christian bigot doctors in San Diego may soon have to wipe the intolerant smirks off their bigoted faces. It seems that Jeebus wanted these doctors to marginalize, insult, and deny medical services to a lesbian couple [...]
by Fagnit
29 May 2008 at 12:12pm

New York State Moves Toward Destroying Sanctity of Bigotry
New York State Governor David Paterson has ordered state agencies to prepare to honor gay marriages that have been performed in other jurisdictions, such as the states of California and Massachusetts, as well as the Great White North of Canada. This order deals yet another body blow to the Sanctity of Bigotry. Who the [...]
by Fagnit
28 May 2008 at 9:50pm

Sanctity of Bigotry Takes Another Hit in Court
May has been a very difficult month for the Sanctity of Bigotry, with the California Supreme Court hobbling the efforts of Fundamentalist Christians to control who loves who as the first defeat for pious and self-righteous hatred and intolerance. Now the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals has dealt another blow to the Sanctity of Bigotry [...]
by Fagnit
22 May 2008 at 4:03pm

Fags Score Major Victory over Jesus in California
Militant atheist fags all around the planet are celebrating a gigantic humiliation for Jesus H Christ! On Thursday May 15th the California Supreme Court ruled in the case of Jesus vs Fags and Dykes. As pundits had predicted, California has become the second state in the union to legalize gay marriage. Take that [...]
by Fagnit
15 May 2008 at 12:43pm

Einstein on Religion: Childish Superstitions
Considered by many as the most brilliant scientist of the 20th century, Albert Einstein was notorious for his ability to see what is essential and disregard the meaningless. Thus it comes to as no surprise to rational people that he held all religions in very low esteem. A letter written by Einstein will be [...]
by Fagnit
13 May 2008 at 11:06am

UK Cardinal: Atheism is Product of Distorted Christianity
You can always tell when a religious leader is saying something stupid, just watch their lips to see if they are moving. The UK Regional Profit Manager for the Holy Roman Altar Boy Church, Cardinal Cormac Murphy O’Connor (shown in his best Sunday go to Meeting Dress) has suggested that “modern atheism” is a [...]
by Ungodly
9 May 2008 at 9:13am

 

Party of Jesus


Party of Jesus Trolls Sponsor AntiGay Marriage Amendment
Party of Jesus Senators Larry ‘Bathroom Troll’ Craig (ID) and David ‘D.C. Madam’ Vitter (LA), both famous for their Party of Jesus Lifestyle Choice of adultery in the public eye, are co-sponsors of a revived Federal Constitutional Amendment measure to protect the Sanctity of Bigotry. Excuse me, but is this the most obvious case of pandering [...]
by admin
1 Jul 2008 at 9:34pm

Doctors Find that US Tortured Guantanamo Prisoners of war
Doctors who have examined 11 victims who have been released from the US Concentration Camp and Torture Facility at Guantanamo Bay have found that each of the 11 former torture victims has suffered permanent harm from the illegal, immoral, and unjust war crimes ordered by Our Glorious Christian Leader. (Reuters) “The evaluations provide evidence of violation [...]
by admin
18 Jun 2008 at 7:08pm

Oklahoma Governor Vetoes Sally Kern Jesus Talk Bill
The Governor of Oklahoma, Brad Henry, has vetoed a bill co-sponsored by batshit-crazy Sally Kern (Party of Jesus) that would have exempted students from any hate speech restrictions as long as they claimed their hatred was based on some Imaginary Bearded Sky Daddy. Mrs Kern wanted children suffering from religious delusions to have Special Rights? to [...]
by admin
12 Jun 2008 at 8:04am

Will California Anti-Gay Ballot Measure Sink The Party of Jesus?
Ever since Pat Buchanan famously declared war on homosexuals at the 1992 Republican Convention, the Party of Jesus has been riding the homophobia highway. In 2004, when dissatisfaction with our illegal war in Iraq threatened the career of George Warcriminal Bush, Karl Rove successfully played the gay marriage card to win the presidential election. [...]
by admin
4 Jun 2008 at 8:53am

10 PoJ State Attorneys General Ask California To Stop the Sanity
The Attorneys General of ten US States, each and every one of them a member of the Party of Jesus, have petitioned the California State Supreme Court to put a halt to the sane, logical, and just threat of equal rights for all citizens. The fear these Sanctity of Bigotry proponents [...]
by admin
31 May 2008 at 4:11pm

Governator of California Backs Gay Marriage Ruling
The Governator of California (Party of Jesus) has taken a bold and dangerous move by publicly stating he thinks Californians should accept the recent Supreme Court ruling to allow gay and lesbian marriages. Going even further out on a limb, the world-famous Governator now runs the risk of being booted out of the Party [...]
by admin
30 May 2008 at 10:33pm

Former Party of Jesus Spokesliar Comes Clean About Iraq
A former official spokesliar for George Warcriminal Bush has admitted in a soon to be published book that Our Glorious Christian Leader used propaganda to sell the immoral, unethical and illegal war of aggression. ? McClellan charges that Bush relied on ?propaganda? to sell the war. ? He says the White House press corps was too [...]
by admin
27 May 2008 at 8:12pm

Party of Jesus Senators Defy Our Glorious Christian Leader
A total of 40 out of the 49 Party of Jesus US Senators have turned against the teachings of Our Glorious Christian Leader in a desperate effort to hold off the voting booth slaughter they know is coming in November. In one case they intentionally added domestic spending items to a bill that originally [...]
by admin
22 May 2008 at 7:25pm

McBush Pastor Says God Sent Hitler to Kill Jews
The dangerously delusional Fundamentalist pastor who has heartily endorsed Senator John McBush for the 3rd Bush term as President has indicated his faith-based belief that Jeebus sent Adolph Hitler to perform his horrific crimes against humanity so that the Jewish people would be forced to return to the geographic area of Israel. Just leave [...]
by admin
22 May 2008 at 9:41am

FBI Knew About Party of Jesus Sanctity of Torture Program
Even before the Abu Ghraib torture multimedia circus broke, the FBI knew that Our Glorious Christian Leader was conducting illegal, immoral, unethical war crimes against prisoners in various concentration camps and torture facilities. Our faith-based moron President was not only well aware of these despicable crimes, he was the author of these policies. Reports that [...]
by admin
21 May 2008 at 11:39am

 

Virgin Mary (again)


Our Lady of the Painful Looking Road Rash
In California USA a motorcyclist recently had an incident of premature contact with the road surface, a well known hazard for motorcyclists. But Marc Lipton, a gentleman who is apparently afflicted with religious beliefs, is of the opinion that he can see The Holy Virgin Mary Mother of God With Perfectly Intact hymen [...]
by Ungodly
7 May 2008 at 5:17pm

Our Lady of the Fraudulent Tears of Blood
An Italian Catholic church custodian is on trial in Forli, Italy for committing religious fraud. If only this was a new trend! Of course uttering the phrase religious fraud is as redundant as saying Republican liar, but in this case the fraud was so far over the top that even the Roman Catholic Church did [...]
by Ungodly
23 Apr 2008 at 12:04pm

Our Lady Of Blinding Peasants in India
We’re not exactly sure what happened in this case, but it seems that the Holy Virgin Mary Mother of God, who never once took the whole thing or even a little bit, got really pissed off with a bunch of people in India. It seems She, in Her Mercy, tricked them into looking at the [...]
by Ungodly
12 Mar 2008 at 1:34pm

Our Lady of the Well Charred Sycamore Tree
In October 2007 there were suddenly over a dozen wildfires burning in Southern California. San Diego County was hit the hardest with hundreds of homes burnt to the ground, but even rural areas of Los Angeles County were affected too. The Buckweed Fire along the Sierra Highway left one Sycamore tree dead in Agua Dulce, [...]
by Ungodly
14 Nov 2007 at 11:23am

Our Lady Of Clearly Just a Pebble for $50,000
When Lisa-Marie Corlet of Christchurch, New Zealand saw this perfectly ordinary pebble lying on a beach at Kaikoura’s South Beach, she knew immediately that the Holy Virgin Mother of God, who had never even once taken the whole thing, was desperately trying to make a large deposit in her bank account. But like a naughty [...]
by Ungodly
26 Oct 2007 at 10:21pm

Our Lady of the Obviously Stained Cloth
In Miami Florida, in a church of all places, people with a stunning lack of critical thinking skills are lining up to prove P. T. Barnum’s point, eagerly waiting to see a piece of cloth draped over an altar which allegedly shows an image of a Virginal Intact-Hymen Sex-Free Mother who never [...]
by Ungodly
24 Sep 2007 at 8:41pm

Our Lady of the Vagina Shaped Reflection on a Garage Door
In Minersville Pennsylvania there is a house with glass windows that is across the street from a garage with a garage door. Sometimes the angle of the sun is such that the sun shines on the glass window of the house and a portion of that sunlight is reflected onto the surface of the [...]
by Ungodly
20 Sep 2007 at 12:27pm

Our Lady of the Hawaiian Necklace
In July 2007 a lady who owns a Hawaiian clothing store in the San Diego area, and admittedly suffers from a really bad case of Catholicism, realized that some good publicity might help the bottom line in her ailing retail shop. So it was that circumstances led this not even slightly skeptical person to perceive the [...]
by Ungodly
9 Aug 2007 at 5:52pm

Our Lady of the Hand Held Camera
As any fool can plainly see, this photograph that was taken with insufficient lighting using a hand held camera includes a chromatic aberration that undeniably reveals the presence of Our Lady of the Hand Held Camera. In fact quite a few fools are able to see this reportedly virginal mother of an imaginary deity. And [...]
by Ungodly
8 Jun 2007 at 11:32am

Our Lady of The New Age Bullshit
A practitioner of New Age mumbo jumbo bullshit faux spiritualism has announced that the so-called Blessed Mother Apparition is now available for commercial tourism and gullible sheeple at his New Age mumbo jumbo fleecing center. Master Charles offers a number of methods you can select from in order to move money from your wallet to [...]
by Ungodly
20 May 2007 at 12:55pm

 


God is for Suckers


Time to replace ?gimmicky? pledge?
Below is a letter to the editor from author Paul M. Howey published in the opinion page of our local newspaper this past week. Few know the story of how the Pledge of Allegiance came to be. The “Pledge” was written as an advertising ploy to sell flags, and was written by a “Baptist socialist”. [...]
by Stardust
7 Jul 2008 at 6:25pm

Xianity in Amerikkka
My Financial Records Belong to God Last fall, Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, began probing the finances of six TV evangelists whose lifestyles include mansions, Rolls-Royces, and private jets, all paid for out of church funds. Grassley told BBC, “I would not contribute to an organization that is Christian [...]
by Bob
6 Jul 2008 at 3:52pm

Howdy-Howdy-Ho
First, a shout-out to the Ron-ster for updating this site and damning all of our souls to hell. Thanks, Chief… Builder of Planned Parenthood project in Portland pulls out: Walsh Construction didn’t want to deal with aggressive anti-abortion protesters [...] When Planned Parenthood of the Columbia/Willamette signed on as the anchor tenant, Walsh said, he called [...]
by Bob
6 Jul 2008 at 9:07am

Soup?s On!
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. - John Adams We’ve all heard this particular refrain: “Why doesn’t/can’t evolution explain the origins of life?” The answer is yet to be found. And we can always retreat to [...]
by KA
6 Jul 2008 at 2:14am

Death penalty considered for blasphemous bloggers in Iran
If this new law passes in Iran, the act of using the internet to promote apostasy will also become a capital offense. This is absolutely an outdated and outrageous law and an example of how a society controls people via religion making examples of those who disobey or speak out against the unreasonableness of their [...]
by Stardust
4 Jul 2008 at 12:19pm

What is Patriotism to you?
Barack Obama and John McCain have shared their thoughts on patriotism: * Barack Obama: Faith In One Another As Americans * John McCain: Putting The Country First Many liberals are labeled unpatriotic or told that we “hate America” because we are against the war in Iraq, or if we point [...]
by Stardust
3 Jul 2008 at 3:05pm

And now from the other side. . .
” . . .conservative Christians are motivated more out of opposition to Obama than enthusiasm for McCain.” Conservative evangelicals discuss backing McCain Umm, is this any big surprise? Conservative evangelical leaders met privately this week to discuss putting aside their misgivings about John McCain and coalescing around the Republican’s presidential bid while urging him to consider [...]
by Stardust
2 Jul 2008 at 10:02pm

Expanding faith-based programs? Eeghads!
I know, I know, here I go again! (and I do not speak for all of our moderators or everyone at GifS), but this pisses me off. I thought we would see LESS of this crap in government if the Dems regain control, and NEVER expected to see more of this bullshit. I [...]
by Stardust
1 Jul 2008 at 1:27pm
   


About Agnosticism/Atheism


Are there Any Atheistic Religions? Can an Atheist Be Part of Any Religion?
Although most religions are theistic, which means that belief in a god or gods is incorporated into its doctrines, there are a few religions that are atheistic. Such religions may...
8 Jul 2008 at 10:00am

Liberty Counsel Misunderstands or Misrepresents the Law
It's all-too-frequent that I witness Christian Nationalists misrepresenting the law. I'm often unsure whether I'm seeing deliberate misrepresentation as part of an effort to deceive people, or simply a misunderstanding...
8 Jul 2008 at 7:00am

Comment of the Week: Surprising Religious Theists
It's well known that religious theists harbor all sorts of misconceptions and myths about atheism and atheists. One important implication of this is that real atheists will not necessarily behave...
8 Jul 2008 at 3:00am

What is Aesthetics? Aesthetics is the Philosophy of Art, Beauty, Perception
Aesthetics almost never comes up in atheists' discussions about religion, but perhaps it should. First, religious and theistic ideas are often communicated in various forms of art (including film, books,...
7 Jul 2008 at 10:00am

Yomin Postelnik's Simple Proof of God: Simply Fallacious
There aren't any new proofs or arguments for the existence of gods. Atheists sometimes can develop new arguments against the need for believing in gods based on new advances in...
7 Jul 2008 at 7:00am

Book of the Week: The Age of American Unreason
Image courtesyPriceGrabber.com Have you gotten the impression that Americans are disdainful of intellectual pursuits, complex ideas, and thought that requires real work? Well, you should have because it's true. Anti-intellectualism isn't...
7 Jul 2008 at 3:00am

Propaganda Poster: Boy Scouts Must Be Prepared to Fight Godless Atheism
Image © Austin ClineOriginal Poster:Library of Congress Official, institutional bigotry and discrimination against atheists used to be much more prevalent in America. There was a time when the testimony of atheists...
6 Jul 2008 at 10:00am

Veiled Women at University
Apologists for the efforts of some Muslims to get women to cover their heads will sometimes argue that if the women choose it, then it doesn't matter because it's analogous...
6 Jul 2008 at 7:00am

Mailbag: Faith and Religion
From: "Kati" Subject: Faith I think that you generalize religion too much. Just because I have faith in God, I don't think that all faith is justified. I have found the right...
6 Jul 2008 at 3:00am

Religion, Atheism, Family Values: Are Religion & God Needed for Family Values?
America's Christian Right invests a lot of effort arguing for a connection between family values and their religion, but what basic family values require their religion or belief in their...
5 Jul 2008 at 10:00am


Global Atheism News Search


Helping Yourself by Helping Others (Acton Commentary)
R&L: What is the connection, in your opinion, between religion and economics? Templeton: Economic systems based on atheism have failed. Religion teaches the infinite worth of each individual. Religion causes each individual to want to serve others.
8 Jul 2008 at 3:11pm

Saudi king set to lead rare interfaith talks in Spain (The Christian Science ...
In a first for a Saudi Arabian leader, King Abdullah will convene a conference in Madrid as part of a Saudi outreach to defuse interfaith tensions, improve Islam's image, and restore respect for religious values.
8 Jul 2008 at 3:00am

Ambassador's Corner (European Union)
The European Commission has recently published the detailed survey of public opinion in all 27 EU Member States , carried out this Spring.
8 Jul 2008 at 3:41pm

It's now Cong vs the Left in text book row (Khaleej Times)
TRIVANDRUM ? The stir against the Class VII social science text book in Kerala is snowballing into a political fight between the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Congress-led United Democratic Front with the latter deciding to take over the agitation.
8 Jul 2008 at 3:21pm

DVD Tuesday: Weak (LAist)
We just had to camp at an ancient burial ground,didn't we?! | Photo courtesy of Dreamworks The Ruins deserves credit for not going the easy route and cutting out all the sex and violence to get a PG-13 rating. More horror movies should follow this traditional template and bring some measure of order back to the universe. Stop-Loss was one of many Iraq-themed movies that got ...
8 Jul 2008 at 4:30pm

Saudi king set to lead rare interfaith talks in Spain (The Christian Science ...
The three-day conference of religious leaders will start July 16 in Madrid.
8 Jul 2008 at 3:00am

Sir John Marks Templeton (1912-2008): A Great Entrepreneur and Philanthropist...
In 1990, I had no idea who the tall, elegant man, waiting patiently next to me in line to check out of our hotel in Antigua, Guatemala was. He turned his kindly glance in my direction and said, "Father, I deeply appreciated your speech at the conference yesterday.
8 Jul 2008 at 3:10pm

Farewell Sen. No (Carteret County News-Times)
Jesse Helms, 86, who served North Carolina courageously and well in the U.S. Senate for 30 years, from 1973 to 2003, died early Friday morning, July 4th.
8 Jul 2008 at 5:13am

Kerala textbook distorts Nehru?s will and testament (Gulf Times)
NEW DELHI: He didn?t believe in ?religions ceremony?, to be forced to do so, he said, would be a ?hipocracy?... those are, according to a textbook for government schools in Kerala, the words of India?s Cambridge and Harrow educated Jawaharlal Nehru.
8 Jul 2008 at 12:13am

'Observant' atheist takes a very awkward position (The Morning Call)
Q: I've been contemplating atheism of late and wishing there were varietal labels for that, as there are for most other belief systems. I'd appreciate your feedback on the following thoughts:
5 Jul 2008 at 5:27am

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