Imagine No Heaven

If we didn’t believe there’s a better place after we die, then we’d try a bit harder to make this world a better place. How can a person be free, if his mind isn't free? Irrelevant musings on politics and atheism. Fighting organized oppression, one religion at a time.

[madmaduniverse]

The Arab/Muslim awakening phase is over. Now we are deep into the counter-revolutionary phase, as the dead hands of the past try to strangle the future. I am ready to consider any ideas of how we in the West can help the forces of democracy and decency win. But, ultimately, this is their fight. They have to own it, and I just hope it doesn’t end — as it often does in the land of dragons — with extremists going all the way and the moderates just going away.

There Be Dragons - NYTimes.com

You can never be free if your mind isn't free. 

[madmaduniverse]

It was true in Eastern Europe in 1989, added Mandelbaum, but there are two big differences between Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Many Eastern European countries had a recent liberal past to fall back on — after the artificially imposed Soviet communism was removed. And Eastern Europe also had a compelling model and magnet for free-market democracy right next door: the European Union. Most of the Arab-Muslim world has neither, so when the iron lid of autocracy comes off they fall back, not on liberalism, but Islamism, sectarianism, tribalism or military rule.

There Be Dragons - NYTimes.com

Why isn't religion mentioned? 

[madmaduniverse]

[madmaduniverse]

God must be a sadist to design this. 

[samous]

[madmaduniverse]

samous:

Steve Jobs

[thehackerformerlyknownas4chan-d]

[madmaduniverse]

christiantheatheist:

‘A Universe From Nothing’ by Lawrence Krauss, AAI 2009

I’m learning more from this talk than I did from all of my lectures last week.

[madmaduniverse]

[helvetebrann-deactivated2014092]

[madmaduniverse]

helvetebrann:

[deanpepin-deactivated20111108]

[madmaduniverse]

Such a liar. 

http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/edwards-v-aguillard/amicus1.html

Francis Crick supports the motion that creationism has no place in the classroom, and supported teaching of Evoluation. Funny, how creationists always attribute quotes to dead people, or misrepresent them. 

deanpepin:

Yes, your professor might forget to tell you about a man named Francis Crick. He shared the Nobel Prize for discovering the molecular structure of DNA. He is a spiritual skeptic, I might add, and a noted biochemist in the finest of highly educated circles. Read what he has to say about...

[quantumshadowflux-blog]

[madmaduniverse]

everyday in the news, there is something bad happened because of religion. 

[oiwefcsknl-deactivated20111010]

[madmaduniverse]

ikilledgod:

ATHEIST COMPLETELY DESTROYS CREATIONIST ON CNN, we all need to take notes and follow in his example. I love how my followers will reblog the fuck out of a funny a picture when it comes to watching a 5 minute video that will educate you, you’re no where to be found.

[tpil85kglifter-deactivated20170]

[madmaduniverse]

Sad. 

[madmaduniverse]

If God told Michelle to run and then told Perry to run, are they talking to the same God? 

[madmaduniverse]

Quote from the article: 

 First, why would the existence of God guarantee the meaningfulness of each of our lives?  Is a life of unremitting drudgery or unrequited struggle really redeemed if there’s a larger plan, one to which we have no access, into which it fits?  That would be small compensation for a life that would otherwise feel like a waste — a point not lost on thinkers like Karl Marx, who called religion the “opium of the people.”  Moreover, does God actually ground the values by which we live?  Do we not, as Plato recognized 2500 years ago, already have to think of those values as good in order to ascribe them to God?

[the-quiet1-has-a-new-blog-deact]

Remember, atheists are right when they say the burden of proof lies with those making the claim. Just don't forget that when they claim religion is actively harmful.

[madmaduniverse]

the-quiet1:

“Citation needed” is just about all you need to say for an anti-theist’s argument.

Evidence: 

9/11

Fred Phelps. 

Need more? 

[skepticalavenger]

[madmaduniverse]

religiousragings:

Just admit it, Mary!