Category: Atheism
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The Freethinker — ‘The Voice of Atheism since 1881’ — is heading towards extinction
Please subscribe and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. IN preparing a press statement to accompany the release on Amazon today of my memoir —Well, Goodness, Godless Me – A Romp Through the Life (So Far) of a…
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Atheist satirical songwriter Tom Lehrer dies aged 97
Subscribe to The Angry Atheist and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. GIVEN that anything that came anywhere close to mocking religion was banned in Apartheid South Africa, it’s pretty damned amazing that The “Vatican Rag”, written…
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Organisation that helps people escape the evil clutches of religion denied a presence at a Canadian Pride event
Subscribe to The Angry Atheist and get a FREE copy of Atheist Limericks & Cartoons! Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. EARLIER this month St. John’s Pride Festival concluded with a Pride in the Park celebration where local businesses and non-profits set up booths to introduce…
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‘Atheists reject God, but they don’t understand what they are rejecting, say Canadian psychologist
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. JORDAN Peterson, who was judged in 2020 to have made statements that were “transphobic, sexist, racist”, angrily labeled a young atheist a “smart- ass” during a recent debate on YouTube’s Surrounded channel. The video — “Jordan Petersen vs 20 atheists…
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Trump victory signals a ‘war with our secular community and the values that unite us’
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with a donation. DONALD Trump has said, aloud and in public, that “Christians are the most important people.” He embraces extremism, spreads disinformation, spews hate, and sows division and distrust. He has surrounded himself with zealots who have overtly and repeatedly proclaimed war…
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Fear that atheism was robbing her of ‘spiritual solace’, Ayaan Hirsi Ali thinks Christianity will help restore it
Please click this link to help me keep The Angry Atheist active with an donation. PROOF that wisdom does not necessarily come with age was provided this week by once fiery atheist Ali, above. In an article that that saddened non-beievers and delighted Christians, she declared that she turned to Christianity because she ultimately “found…
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Kudos to Rawstory for publishing ‘Why I don’t believe in God’
SINCE starting this blog, following my sacking from The Freethinker last year when it decided to abandon its raison d’etre—atheism—I have been asked on numerous occasions why I chose to call it The Angry Atheist. The answer is that I was inspired by a book written by Greta Christina, above—Why Are You Atheists So Angry?…
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‘Biden is giving $500,000 grants to spread atheism overseas’ claims former Republican House Speaker
NEWT Gingrich, above, a twice-divorced Republican Roman Catholic and staunch Trump ally, claimed in a tweet last month that “Biden is giving $500,000 grants to spread atheism overseas. Have the Democrats literally lost their minds and become the anti-religious party?“ This prompted Newsweek to fact-check his claim. It concluded that Gingrich, “who has a track…
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Fort Worth sued for denying an atheist group permission to display anti-Christian nationalism banners
ANNOUNCING this week that Metroplex Atheists have launched a lawsuit against the Texas city, Geoffrey Blackwell, above—litigation counsel for American Atheists—declared that “free speech is free speech, whether or not the government likes that speech or certain members of the community object to it.” According to American Atheists, the lawsuit comes on the heels of…
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Recent study shows that atheists are more politically influential than evangelicals
THE section of people in American society most likely to be highly engaged in political action are not evangelicals, as we’ve been led to believe. They are in fact atheists, according to political scientist Ryan Burge, above. Burge’s May article, based on findings by the Cooperative Election Study, was seized upon today (Thursday) by The…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 