41. Great Historical Writings - H. L. Mencken Features columns on the Scopes Trial and Mark Twain. Also links to an extensive quotation collection. http://www.positiveatheism.org/tochmenk.htm

and modern works of historical significance) Biographies, Tributes, Quotes Book-Length Works Miscellaneous Articles Chapman Cohen ... Joseph McCabe H. L. Mencken The Murray-O'Hair Family Thomas Paine Bertrand Russell Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) Voltaire On the Internet See the Big List of Quotes H. L. Mencken Coverage of The Scopes Trial Homo Neanderthalensis (June 29, 1925) Sickening Doubts About Publicity (June 29, 1925) Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury (July 10, 1925) Trial as Religious Orgy (July 11, 1925) Souls Need Reconversion Nightly (July 13, 1925) Darrow's Eloquent Appeal (July 14, 1925) Law and Freedom (July 15, 1925) Fair Trial Beyond Ken (July 16, 1925) Malone the Victor (July 17, 1925) Genesis Triumphant (July 18, 1925) Tennessee in the Frying Pan (July 20, 1925) Bryan (July 27, 1925) Aftermath (September 14, 1925) Darrow vs. Bryan (Associated Press Coverage) Mark Twain's Americanism (November 1, 1917) H. L. Mencken by Gore Vidal (1991) Positive Atheism's Big List of H. L. Mencken Quotations editor@positiveatheism.org

42. Atheism The Case for Evolution Note The theory of evolution does not necessarily entail atheism, but I include this section because many religious individuals argue http://hem.passagen.se/nicb/atheism.htm

Click here for frames. "Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear." - Thomas Jefferson I am an atheist ( is that at all possible? ), which means that I do not believe in the existence of any gods or other supernatural beings. I was a Christian for over a decade, but I gradually began to realize, through calm, rational reasoning, that there was, in fact, no reason whatever for supposing Christianity true. I invite you to find out for yourself why this is so. I also urge you to leave the Church of Sweden, if you are a member. For information on this and a form to fill out, click here Introduction An Introduction to Atheism from the Secular Web, which is recommended for those unfamiliar with the definitions of and bases for atheism. What Is Atheism? , a clarifying definition. Atheist Commentary , some brief answers by George H. Smith to the most common questions about atheism. Is Atheism Logical? , an essay by Mark I. Vuletic

43. Anime Atheism Street Fighter, Escaflowne, Ranma 1/2, and Ruroni Kenshin stories by Frank Wustner. http://frankwustner.myrmid.com/

44. The Fascist Ideology Of Star Trek: Militarism, Collectivism, & Atheism Provocative essay on themes of militarism, collectivism, and atheism in the popular scifi series. http://www.friesian.com/trek.htm

The Fascist Ideology of Star Trek One and only one person can give steering and engine orders at any one time....The commanding officer may take over the deck or the conn...In taking the conn from the officer of the deck, the captain should do so in such a manner that all personnel of the bridge watch will be notified of the fact. Watch Officer's Guide, A Handbook for all Deck Watch Officers , Revised by K.C. Jacobsen, Commander, U.S. Navy, 11th Edition [Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1981, pp. 68-69] I have always liked Star Trek . I watched the original show in the 60's, waited eagerly for the first movie in the 70's, and then later in the 80's got hooked all over again on Star Trek: The Next Generation . It has been good television, good science fiction, and occasionally even good film. Some things, nevertheless, have driven me crazy: (1) Picard and Riker both giving commands, in tandem, on the bridge is absurd. One person has the conn or has the deck on a ship, and it is dangerous to have any confusion about that (see quote above). As Executive Officer, Riker wouldn't even be on the bridge in ordinary circumstances. (2) There doesn't seem to be anything like a regular watch on the bridge. In one show a big point is made that only a full commander can have bridge command, but nothing is more common on the show than to have scenes where all the senior officers of the ship are in some conference or other, leaving who knows who directing the ship on the bridgeunless there are full commanders who aren't part of the regular cast. The writers don't seem to know what naval lieutenants are forto be the officers of the deck. And (3)

45. SPIRITUAL SPECTRUM TV SERIES Topics from meditation to medicide, from love to capital punishment, from atheism to Christianity, from vegetarianism to life after death. RealVideo files of 14 years of programming. http://www.spiritualspectrum.org/

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46. BBC - Religion & Ethics - Atheism The essentials. atheism is not a belief. atheism is the absence of belief in God. Living. Related Links. BBCi, Latest atheism news. NonBBC. Humanists. http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/atheism/

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index MONDAY 7th June 2004 Text only BBC Homepage Religions Atheism ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! The essentials Atheism is not a belief. Atheism is the absence of belief in God. Atheists are people who do not believe in God or other spiritual beings. The basics Introduction Reasons Features History Rituals Types of Atheism Features H J Blackham Editor of New Humanist, Jim Herrick, looks back at the work of renowned Humanist H. J. Blackham, as he celebrates his 100th birthday. What Atheists think of religions Many atheists criticise religion strongly, but they do find some good bits, too. A-Z of world religions Choose Atheism Baha'i Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Islam Jainism Judaism Mormon Paganism Shinto Sikhism Unitarianism Have your say Newsletter Living Related Links BBCi Latest Atheism news Non-BBC Humanists National Secular Society British Humanist Association Religious Tolerance.org - Atheism The BBC is not responsible for the content of external websites

47. Panlatrevo -- Home Religious philosophy resources and discussions on religion, spirituality, atheism and freethought. Centers on Taoist philosophy. http://www.panlatrevo.com/

HOME TEXTS AND SCRIPTURES TAO ESSAYS TAO RESOURCES ... TAO LINKS SEARCH Keywords here: Advanced Search TAOIST TEXTS TAO TE CHING CHUANG TZU I CHING LIEH TZU WEN TZU HUA HU CHING QINGJING JING NEIYEH OTHER TEXTS CHENG TAO KO FAITH IN MIND TEN BULLS ART OF WAR RANDOM I CHING Hexegram: Feng MISCELLANEOUS TAO ESSAYS TAO RESOURCES TAO BOOKS TAO LINKS ... FEEDBACK Panlatrevo Home Site Updates and News After a long absence, I have started to work on this website again. I am currently updating the website code and have plans to add the Lieh Tzu I Ching , more book recomendations and more essays in the comming months. In the mean time, if anyone would like to recomend any Taoism websites, forums or e-mail lists, please send me an e-mail and I'll consider linking to them. Added the Neiyeh to Texts and Scriptures Added Tao Te Ching, Chapter One by Ellen M. Chen to Tao Essays and Articles Added The Bike Path to Tao Essays and Articles Added four more chapters (4, 6, 23, 28) to the Hua Hu Ching Added two chapters (2, 9) to the Hua Hu Ching That's all very nice, but what is this place?

48. BBC - Religion & Ethics - Atheism News atheism news stories atheism features. Please note that some sources may require registration. Anger over call to teach children atheism in school. http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/news/newsatheism.shtml

@import url('/includes/tbenh.css') ; Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index MONDAY 7th June 2004 Text only BBC Homepage Religions Ethics ... Help Like this page? Send it to a friend! Atheism features Please note that some sources may require registration. God barred from civil weddings Sunday Times 30 May 2004 REGISTER offices are banning some of Britain’s best loved poems from being read out at weddings because they contain “religious” words. Officials are refusing to allow the reading of works that include words such as “soul”, “God” or “grace” because they contravene rules that civil marriage ceremonies must be secular. Please note that some sources may require registration. Evolutionary miologist Maynard Smith dies Associated Press 29 Apr 2004 John Maynard Smith, a leading evolutionary biologist widely credited with taking the radical step of applying game theory to the subject, has died at the age of 84. Please note that some sources may require registration. J. Maynard Smith, 84, Who Saw Darwinism as Game Theory, Dies New York Times 29 Apr 2004 Dr. John Maynard Smith, an evolutionary biologist who revolutionized the study of animal behavior by applying the principles of game theory, died on April 19 at his home in Sussex, England. He was 84.

49. The Secular Web Agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and rationalism on the Web http://www.infidels.org

50. Irregular Times: Further Than Atheism Welcome to Further Than atheism. Written share. It is based upon the insight that atheism should be a beginning, not an end in itself. http://www.irregulartimes.com/further.html

Welcome to Further Than Atheism. Written for non-believers of all stripes , Further Than Atheism is an ongoing attempt to explore the territory that lies beyond the rejection of gods that all atheists share. It is based upon the insight that atheism should be a beginning, not an end in itself. By focusing merely upon what they do not believe, atheists restrict themselves to mere reaction to the ideas of the religious. Atheism consists only of negation, but it allows for many possible affirmations as well. The search for such possibilities is what Further Than Atheism is all about. Isn't Atheism Enough? An introduction to the column Protecting the Freedom to Disbelieve Think your vote doesn't count this fall? Think again. To Church or Not to Church : The decision to congregate is a matter of personal preference Mythology For All On Liberty and Libertarians : How would atheists fare with libertarians in power? Can Atheists Celebrate Holidays? The Danger of Easy Answers Dumb Laws That Impose Religion In Really Silly Ways Can Environmentalism Replace Religion?

51. Affirming Humanism What is humanism and what is it all about? How does it compare to religion? Some ideas from the About.com Guide to Agnosticism and atheism. http://atheism.about.com/library/weekly/aa092398.htm

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52. Atheism atheism. atheism is the philosophy that there are no gods ( a = without, theos = god). (see also Occam s Razor as justification of atheism) http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ATHEISM.html

Atheism Atheism is the philosophy that there are no god s ("a" = without, "theos" = god) The simplest argument for atheism follows from Occam's Razor : from different equivalent explanations, choose the simplest one. If we cannot explain more things by postulating the existence of God than we can without, then we should prefer the theory without. The fact that this principle is not sufficient to prove that God does not exist, is not very relevant. After all, nobody can prove that unicorns, flying toasters or 23-legged purple elephants do not exist, but that does not make their existence any more likely. (see also: Occam's Razor as justification of atheism This assumes that the existence of God does not explain anything. However, the most typical argument for the existence of God is that creation by God is needed to explain the complexity of the universe around us. Apart from the fact that that same complexity can already be explained by straightforward principles of evolution and self-organization , the introduction of God does not in any way contribute to explanation, since it just pushes the phenomenon to be explained one step away. If God explains the existence of the universe, then what explains the existence of God? Since the concept of God is neither simpler nor more intuitive than the concept of the Universe, explaining God's origin is not in any way easier than explaining the origin of the Universe. On the contrary, since God is in principle unknowable, we cannot even hope to explain His coming into being. On the other hand, although the Universe may never be grasped in its totality, there are definitely many aspects of it that are observable and understandable, and lend themselves to ever more complete explanations. In conclusion, postulating God as an explanation does not only make the theory unnecessarily complicated, it even obscures those phenomena that might have been explained otherwise.

53. The Page Of Reason -- Arguments For Humanism, Reason, Science, Atheism And Socia Arguments for atheism and Humanism, quotes, music, thoughts, essays, books, and philosophy. http://WWW.Update.UU.SE/~fbendz/

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54. Atheism FAQ: Atheism, Holidays And Rituals atheism, Holidays and Rituals Should atheists participate in religious holidays? Is atheism compatible with any sort of holiday or ritual, with or without religious origins? How should atheists handle family events around religious holiday seaons? http://atheism.about.com/library/FAQs/ath/blfaq_ath_hol_index.htm

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55. Religious Movements Homepage: Atheism atheism. IV. Links to atheism Web Sites. Major Atheist Organizations American Atheists The American Atheists, Inc. was founded in 1963. http://cti.itc.virginia.edu/~jkh8x/soc257/nrms/atheism.html

Atheism Profile Beliefs Related Ideologies Links ... Bibliography I. Group Profile Name: Atheism Definition: Atheism is a) the disbelief in the existence of God or any other deity, or b) the doctrine that there is neither god nor any other deity. (1) The word comes from two Greek word roots: a , which means "not," and theos , which means "god." (2) History: Atheism has its roots in both Eastern and Western ancient cultures.While the philosophers of ancient Greece were debating the characteristics of their gods, the Indian Vedas were also questioning the power and origin of the deities of their belief system. These debates, in both cultures, eventually led to questions concerning the actual existence of any gods. These questions did not gain widespread recognizition until much later, however. Atheism as it is known today largely developed in Western culture, and had its first great entrance onto history's philosophical stage during the Enlightenment. (3) Early Christian thought set some of the groundwork for later atheist arguments. Christian thinkers debated the characteristics of God and tried to prove, through reason, the existence of God and the existence of the Christian idea of God. Anslem, for example, in the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God, argued that God is that which there is nothing greater, and since a real God is greater than an imagined one, then God must exist. Other Christian thinkers did not accept Anselm's reasoning here, but offered other arguments on why God had to exist. Aquinas tried to present God as a "first mover," as one who set the world in motion, and without whom nothing would exist. He argued that objects and their existence proved the existnce of its creator. (4)

56. The Psychology Of Atheism The Psychology of atheism. Paul C. Vitz. The title of this The Psychology of atheism Social and Personal Motives. There seems to be http://www.origins.org/articles/vitz_psychologyofatheism.html

Home Our Focus Search What's New ... Leadership U. The Psychology of Atheism Paul C. Vitz The title of this paper, "The Psychology of Atheism," may seem strange. Certainly, my psychological colleagues have found it odd and even, I might add, a little disturbing. After all, psychology, since its founding roughly a century ago, has often focused on the opposite topic-namely the psychology of religious belief. Indeed, in many respects the origins of modern psychology are intimately bound up with the psychologists who explicitly proposed interpretations of belief in God. William James and Sigmund Freud, for example, were both personally and professionally deeply involved in the topic. Recall The Will to Believe by James, as well as his still famous Varieties of Religious Experience . These two works are devoted to an attempt at understanding belief as the result of psychological, that is natural, causes. James might have been sympathetic to religion, but his own position was one of doubt and skepticism and his writings were part of psychology's general undermining of religious faith. As for Sigmund Freud, his critiques of religion, in particular Christianity, are well known and will be discussed in some detail later. For now, it is enough to remember how deeply involved Freud and his thought have been with the question of God and religion. Given the close involvement between the founding of much of psychology and a critical interpretation of religion, it should not be surprising that most psychologists view with some alarm any attempt to propose a psychology of atheism. At the very least such a project puts many psychologists on the defensive and gives them some taste of their own medicine. Psychologists are always observing and interpreting others and it is high time that some of them learn from their own personal experience what it is like to be put under the microscope of psychological theory and experiment. Regardless, I hope to show that the psychological concepts used quite effectively to interpret religion are two- edged swords that can also be used to interpret atheism. Sauce for the believer is equally sauce for the unbeliever.

57. Nietzsche, God And Doomsday By Henry Bayman An essay which uses Nietzsche's writings to attack science and atheism. http://stjohns-chs.org/english/gothic/works/Nietzgodanddoomsday.html

TABLE OF CONTENTS NIETZSCHE, GOD AND DOOMSDAY: THE CONSEQUENCES OF ATHEISM by Henry Bayman "Reason divorced of knowledge of the divine burns into itself, like acid." "Do you know what fear and loneliness mean?... You will see nothing in that expanse of eternal emptiness, you will not hear your own step, you will find nothing solid for you to rest upon." In the Mouth of Madness Nietzsche saw it coming. "The story I have to tell," he wrote, "is the history of the next two centuries... For a long time now our whole civilization has been driving, with a tortured intensity growing from decade to decade, as if towards a catastrophe: restlessly, violently, tempestuously, like a mighty river desiring the end of its journey, without pausing to reflect, indeed fearful of reflection... Where we live, soon nobody will be able to exist." Nietzsche's was a mind that thought so deeply and with such intensity that it threw off sparks and crackled like a high-voltage generator. Poised on the brink of the 20th century, he saw it all in the crystal ball of his mind, and the abyss he beheld was so horrifying that he desperately tugged at the emergency brakes, vainly trying to stop the runaway train. "There will be wars," he prophesied, "such as have never been waged on earth.." And again: "I foresee something terrible, Chaos everywhere. Nothing left which is of any value; nothing which commands: Thou shalt!" Nietzsche was no stranger to paradox and contradiction. He was simultaneously the opponent, proponent and victim of the nihilism he foresaw. His was a mind at war against his soul, a spirit locked in titanic struggle with the intellect. A student of Sufi psychology might observe that his ego—his "Me", his egotistical self—had gained control over his mind, and the latter thwarted all attempts of his spirit to elevate itself by placing before it a self-defeating intellectual obstacle around which it could find no way.

58. Morality And Atheism Morality and atheism. One claim that theists make often in atheism is that one cannot both accept atheism and objective moral standards at the same time. http://www.eskimo.com/~cwj2/atheism/moralath.html

Morality and Atheism by Ed. Stoebenau and Charles W. Johnson Last revised 29 January 1998 Introduction One claim that theists make often in #atheism is that one cannot both accept atheism and objective moral standards at the same time. They feel that at least one of these two views is true: objective moral standards prove that God exists, or that if there is not a God, then there cannot be objective moral standards. This paper serves a few purposes. First, it directly shows that there are differing views on morality between atheists. One of the writers is a moral subjectivist ; the other is a moral objectivist. In the first half, Charles Johnson defends a subjective view of morality. In the second half, Ed. Stoebenau defends a view that atheism and objective morality are consistent; one can accept both and still be ration in these respects. This paper shows that the moral argument for theism can be defeated in both of its premises: either there are not objective moral standards or they do not need to be from a deity. Note The views expressed in the first part of the essay are no longer the views of the author of that part (Charles Johnson); indeed, he's changed his mind to almost precisely the opposite. However, this essay has been left online in order to ensure that links to it continue to work, and for reading interest. - CWJ, 27 May 2002

59. Ex-Atheist.com. Christian Apologetics, Logic And Debate! Story of how a lifelong skeptic became a Christian. Also includes articles discussing skepticism, atheism, and apologetics and various resources for Christians. http://www.ex-atheist.com/

Christian Apologetics, Logic in Religious Debate, Christianity vs. Atheism. Just how real is God? FROM SKEPTICISM TO WORSHIP Read how A.S.A. Jones discovered faith in God after 20 years of hardcore skepticism and debate. THE TRUTH OF THE BIBLE; LEARNING TO THINK SPIRITUALLY Logic, Debate and Apologetics; Contending Earnestly for the Faith RELIGIOUS DEBATE!; Learn How to Argue Your Point! DEBATE TIP : Debate is about two people giving each other the opportunity to say something stupid. ANALYZE THIS! Responses to E-mail. Action Packed Argument! AIR-TIGHT LOGICAL ARGUMENTS FOR: How Can a Loving God Permit Suffering? THE GAME DESIGNER ARGUMENT Why God's Morality is Objective Why I Believe God is Real The Games Skeptics Play A Message to any Christian Entering Debate or College A Man Called J. P. Holding ... SEND FAN MAIL Off Site Webs Infidels.org's parody of Ex-atheist.com

60. Atheism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia atheism. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the philosophical position. See also Atheist (band). atheism, morality, and philosophy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheism

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