The Reverend Michael Aus came out as a non-believer on national television on March 25th 2012. Congratulations to Mike on his brave decision, and to the Clergy Project for giving him moral support. For more information about The Clergy Project see their website at http://www.clergyproject.org/
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Richard Dawkins and Michael Aus discuss The Clergy Project
Monday, March 26, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Jonathan Haidt: Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer.
Monday, March 19, 2012
Scarlet Letter - Atheist Documentary Trailer
Special Sneak-Peek look at Scarlet Letter, a documentary about atheists.
Secularism - A Short Film
A Short Film by David M. Beadle. Robert G. Ingersoll wrote this essay in 1887, it's message is as urgent today is it was 127 years ago.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Moroccan Girl, 16, Commits Suicide After Being Forced to Marry Her Rapist
From Al-Arabiya English:
A 16-year-old Moroccan girl has committed suicide after a judge ordered her to marry her rapist, according to Moroccan media reports.
Last year Amina al-Filali’s parents filed charges against their daughter’s rapist, a man 10 years older than her but it was only recently that a judge in the northern city of Tangier decided that instead of punishing him, the two must be married.
The court’s decision to forcibly marry Amina to her rapist was supposed to “resolve” the damage of sexual violation against her, but it led to more suffering in the unwelcoming home of her rapist/husband’s family.
“After I filed a complaint against him, he said he will marry her. And when he married her and took her to his family's home he mistreated her, beating her and leaving her starve with no food,” Zahra Mallim, Amina’s mother told the Morocco's 2M TV.
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Tuesday, March 13, 2012
Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Most Astounding Fact About The Universe
Astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson was asked by a reader of TIME magazine, "What is the most astounding fact you can share with us about the Universe?" This is his answer.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
New Atheist Billboard: God Is a 'Myth'
March 5, 2012 on My Fox NY
A national organization known as American Atheists said on its website that two billboards questioning the existence of God would be going up Monday in heavily religious neighborhoods in the tristate region.
American Athesists says the signs will be in English and Hebrew and another would be in Arabic: "You know it's a myth... and you have a choice."
The Arabic billboard is going up in Paterson, New Jersey, which has a large Muslim population.
And, one in Hebrew and English, will be up near the Williamsburg Bridge where there is a large Jewish community.
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