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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
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- 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
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Orgs, Blogs, Zines
- Center for Inquiry
- American Atheists
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- 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a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.
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Santa was at least based on Saint Nicholas of Myra in the 4th Century. We can't confirm Jesus was based on one person or several.
A lot of what is accepted about Jesus is directly pulled from other mythologies.
Example = 12/25 birthday.
https://www.nairaland.com/4251378/list-gods-born-virgin-25th
HORUS An Ethiopian-Sudanese God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 3,000 YEARS before Jesus.
BUDDHA A Nepal God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 563 YEARS before Jesus.
KRISHNA An Indian God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 900 YEARS before Jesus.
ZARATHUSTRA An Iranian God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 1,000 YEARS before Jesus.
HERCULES A Greek God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 800 YEARS before Jesus.
MITHRA A Persian God, born 25th December, by a Virgin- 600 YEARS before Jesus.
DIONYSUS A Greek God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 500 YEARS before Jesus.
THAMMUZ A Babylonian God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 400 YEARS before Jesus.
HERMES A Greek God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 200 YEARS before Jesus.
ADONIS A Phoenician God, born 25th December, by a Virgin around 200 YEARS before Jesus.
Hercules was not born of a virgin. Anyone who knows the myth can tell you that.
Also, the Buddha is not a god and not Nepali and not born of a virgin.
This list is nonsense.
I totally believe Hercules was a virgin birth, every bit as much as Jesus was!
See, ~~Chad~~ ~~Zeus~~ God came to them in their dreams, and “blessed” them with a baby. Who is Joseph or any other man to challenge a woman’s word on divine intervention?
Honestly, I'm more annoyed by the list calling Buddha a Nepali god who was born of a virgin on the 25th of December since not a single word of that beyond "Buddha" is what any Buddhist claims.
Thank you for this list.
People get annoyed when you point out that there is little actual evidence of a Jesus. There was most certainly a real person originally behind it all but that is significantly divorced from the textual evidence.