atheism
Why do people believe in strange things?
Henry Byron Warner died of a heart attack at the age of 82. Jeffrey Hunter, at 42, suffered a cerebral hemorrhage, lost consciousness, and died fatally injured in the head. Max von Sydow left us last ...
Stigmata of Disbelief
Humanists International’s worldwide survey of discrimination and persecution the Freedom of Thought Report, continuously ranks Turkey as having “systemic discrimination” where disbelief often leads to...
Miracles and Trauma
“As for miracles, I will confess to you that I have not seen any miracle here, one of a blind man seeing, a paralyzed man walking, a sick man being healed before my eyes. But I have seen tho...
The Criminal Fate Worship
Last year, during the deadly fire in Mati, a popular website uploaded the ‘news’ of the rescue of an icon of the Virgin Mary, after personal intervention of… herself. Forgive my naiv...
The Epistemological Paradigm Of Post-Religious Humility
AAI received a scholarly article with an unusual angle supportive of the naturalistic or atheistic perspective on life. The article basically compares a new genre of humility tinged by scientific awe ...
The Logic of Atheism
AAI Vice-President, Bill Flavell’s, speech from the January 14th, 2022 World Logic Day event hosted by the Atheist Support Network. Today is World Logic Day. What a great idea! Today we have ant...
Book Review: The Stranger of Wigglesworth by Colby Hess
Colby Hess has written a children’s book that is an allegory for the origins of all religions, and how the priests and shamans play on our collective human insecurities to con us into following their ...
¿Por qué creería en propriapros*, o en conejos subatómicos o en algún dios? / Why would I believe in propripraps*, or in subatomic rabbits, or in any god?
* Propriprapo es el nombre que inventé para referirme a las infinitamente pequeñas mentes eternas, característicamente bromistas, que atraviesan las entidades materiales, dando impulso a todas las cos...
Book Review: The World’s Biggest Lie
Recently an AAI follower, Andrew McQuinn, contacted the blog to ask if AAI would review his new book The World’s Biggest Lie: A Trial for Truth. While McQuinn is not a historian or religious scholar—t...
Greek Court Recognises Atheism as Ground for Asylum
Ali (not his real name), was born to a Sunni Muslim family in Pakistan. He grew up a practicing Muslim but, in 2015, horrified and repulsed by the Taliban’s atrocities against innocents, he left Islam...
Michael Sherlock – Early Buddhism – God, gods & Other Religions
The belief in an eternal soul was, and remains, antithetical to the aim underscoring Buddha’s ‘Four Noble Truths’, i.e., it perpetuates dukkha by fostering the delusional clinging to, and craving for,...
A society in complete intellectual decline.
We will never know what Paisios, who is celebrated as a saint today, and crowds of sheep and goats flock to his tomb, really said and did not say. And even if he did say a tenth of what he supposedly ...