I haven’t gotten to perform any ceremonies yet, but I have enlightened a lot of people about atheism. It’s amazing how much misunderstanding there is about atheism. If my ministry has done nothing else, it has at least shown a few people that atheists can be decent normal human beings and that we do have morals. So far the most common questions have been about evolution and morals. So how about you? How is your ministry going? How do you bring up the subject of atheism?

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Submitted By: (Gregor Mendel) gbissonette (at) loyola (dot) edu

http://www.allvoices.com/userevents/681813-burns-crosses/stories
I don’t have much more to say except to post this link and bring up this topic. I was speechless when I saw this article. It is brief, but addresses the major question: is it right to raise children with a particular religious background…. and is it right to force beliefs upon people via mutilation as punishment? I say no…

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Professor Richard Lynn, emeritus professor of psychology at Ulster University, said many more members of the “intellectual elite” considered themselves atheists than the national average.

A decline in religious observance over the last century was directly linked to a rise in average intelligence, he claimed.

But the conclusions - in a paper for the academic journal Intelligence - have been branded “simplistic” by critics.
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Professor Lynn, who has provoked controversy in the past with research linking intelligence to race and sex, said university academics were less likely to believe in God than almost anyone else.

A survey of Royal Society fellows found that only 3.3 per cent believed in God - at a time when 68.5 per cent of the general UK population described themselves as believers.

A separate poll in the 90s found only seven per cent of members of the American National Academy of Sciences believed in God.

The opinions expressed in this article are those of the writer, and may not be those of the First Church of Atheism.

SUBMITTED BY: (Jeff ) notes2me1970 (at) yahoo (dot) com

The Truth is the idea held by those with the most influence. The Truth in itself is not what is important because obviously, the Truth can change overnite with a new discovery or advance, or rejection of such previous ideas thought to be the Truth.

What is paramount to the Truth is the motivation of the ones claiming to hold it.

I do not condemn Christians for wanting to save unborn babies. I do not condemn women who want to use abortion as birth control.

Both have the right to think what they want.

Submitted By: (Mike Walker) mikemcmack (at) yahoo (dot) com

by Robert G. Ingersoll
1894
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Somebody ought to tell the truth about the Bible. The preachers dare not, because they would be driven from their pulpits. Professors in colleges dare not, because they would lose their salaries. Politicians dare not. They would be defeated. Editors dare not. They would lose subscribers. Merchants dare not, because they might lose customers. Men of fashion dare not, fearing that they would lose caste. Even clerks dare not, because they might be discharged. And so I thought I would do it myself.

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