Reason/s & Belief

you can certainly have character as an Atheist and talk about that

true understanding

timeless truths

So, a bunch of folks who believe a magical sky ghost and base those beliefs on a book written 1800 years ago (as well as others who hold similarly ridiculous beliefs) don’t want to perform marriages on two people who are in love. That’s cool – as long as the state itself has process in which those two lovers can be married.

these organizations can still discriminate on whatever basis they want, they just can’t receive taxpayer money for it

The general rule is that religious groups can discriminate when they’re operating as religious groups, but if they’re operating in a secular capacity, they have to comply with secular laws

the sooner churches work out that marriage has little to do with religion for many people the better

Some day, not so far off any more, when the Shamans disapprove of something, society’s overall response will be, “So?” Not so long after that, the overall response will be “Who?”

How arrogant. “As revealed by god”

Christians can assume that almost anywhere they go and anything they do, they’ll feel normal. 

 There is a reason so many unbelievers cannot keep their mouths shut while the children of our Nation are getting indoctrinated every Sunday morning, rendering them totally and completely unequipped to integrate into a post-modern society. It's because they are being taught that the earth was created six-thousand years ago, that a nine-hundred-year-old man crammed an army of animals into a boat for forty days, that donkeys and snakes talk and all the other countless and totally insane fairy tales that they are taught as unmitigated truth.

In truth, of course, atheists, like all people, regularly experience far more severe "stress" without abandoning their worldview.

the most important factor in creating atheists is education, not material comfort. In fact, if material comfort correlates to atheism, that is only because it also correlates to education.

a non-theistic worldview is attained via a lifetime of education and thoughtful consideration of knowledge and reason

this is insulting to the millions of atheists and humanists who take their lifestance seriously, who have given much thought and energy to understanding the world

Atheists suffer like everyone else, atheists watch loved ones suffer, atheists encounter unbearable hardships, and atheists die in pain - all the while remaining atheists.

One can be praised for acquiring beliefs through having gone to the trouble of studying, researching, and making a genuine attempt to gather as much information as possible. By the same token, one can be blamed for acquiring beliefs through deliberately ignoring evidence, arguments, and ideas which might tend to create doubt about long-held assumptions.

Atheism implies no further belief system

If you want to know what a godless liberal believes, you have to ask.

not all liberals or everyone opposed to contemporary American conservative policies is a godless liberal

It’s one thing if someone’s position is influenced by religious values, but quite another to base a law on those values.

When religious conservatives attack something in society, politics, or law which they don’t like, there’s a good chance that they will attribute the problem to godless liberals.

being a godless liberal is not inherently bad. There is nothing wrong with basing one’s politics on something other than religion

there is nothing wrong with not being religious