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- This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
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Connect with Atheists
- Matrix: #atheism:envs.net
Help and Support Links
- Freedom From Religion Foundation
- The Secular Therapy Project
- Secular Students Alliance
- Black Nonbelievers
- The Clergy Project
- Atheist Alliance International
- Sunday Assembly
- Atheist Ireland
- Atheism UK
- Atheists United
Streaming Media
This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.
- Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
- Rationality Rules
- Friendly Atheist
- Making Sense with Sam Harris
- Cosmic Skeptic
- Genetically Modified Skeptic
- Street Epistemology
- Armored Skeptic
- NonStampCollector
Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
- Humanists International
- Atheist Republic
- The Brights
- The Angry Atheist
- History for Atheists
- Rationalist International
- Atheist Revolution
- Debunking Christianity
- Godless Mom
- Atheist Freethinkers
Mainstream
Bibliography
Start here...
...proceed here.
- God is Not Great (Hitchens)
- The God Delusion (Dawkins)
- The End of Faith (Harris)
- Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
- Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)
Proselytize Religion
From Reddit
As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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The problem is the bible doesn't mean much anyway. Christian ministries are glad to cherry pick passages that can be interpreted to inform their own values, and also to select versions of the bible that are prone to this (which is one of the reasons the KJV is so popular). In 2019, of only 30% of the eighty million evangelists were literate in what their ministry asserted, that is, studied the bible or was aware of the statement of faith of their ministry, so there are a lot of Christians who do not fully reflect on what it is to be Christian.
Curiously this runs contrary common Protestant doctrine Sola Scriptura ( by scripture alone, ) which asserts that it is up to the parishioner to read the bible and understand for themselves what it means to them. And Christians individually just have to choose what doctrine is important, and which isn't just as they have to negotiate with the parts about slavery. And the doctrine Sola Fide (by faith alone) means that their faith is enough for salvation, and no ministry has to stamp their wrist.
Note that these protestant dictums were critical at the time of their declaration because the Church routinely manipulated scripture, and gatekept salvation to serve political ends, and to manipulate parishioners to fulfill those ends, from doing sexual favors for the clergy to sending crusaders off to war. It was restoring the spiritual welfare of the people back to the people.
Today, the scholarly consensus, what is taught in seminary, is that the bible is not univocal (it's different people opining, often in correspondence), not inerrant (plenty of contradictions with history, with scientific observation and with other passages), and not divinely inspired (just a bunch of stone-age guys taking guesses and sharing mythology). When the bible is asserted to be any of these things, it is according to the doctrine of a ministry, possibly a post-biblical tradition.
But again sola scriptura can and should negate such assertions: The bible is only what you need it to be, even if that's just an ace doorstop.
Addendum: Once sin is meaningless, once can choose who you want to be, it becomes your responsibility to decide your own morality, your own principles and your own loyalties. Most of us figure out pretty quickly that parasites, predators and elements are out and eager to kill us, and that cooperation is a force multiplier. Morality is simply the negotiation of those terms.