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Robert Wedderburn

@atheocrat

Born atheist, scammed briefly as a kid, then reborn. Mellowing with age, but still pissed at human stupidity. Liberal/francophile/thaiophile/secular humanist.

 Provence or Thailand
Joined August 2010
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End of an era. Will there be another #ChristopherHitchens ? No. Religion breathes a sneaky sigh of relief.
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"Beyond New Atheism" opinionator.blogs.nytimes.co… - a less aggressive direction for atheists?
Beyond 'New Atheism'

Beyond 'New Atheism'

Most believers come to religion because of personal experience, not philosophical argument. A new brand of atheism takes this fact seriously.

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.@davidstarlingm I learn something everyday. B/c the universe & learning are limitless 2 those whose minds arent blinkered by iron age myths
"All those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand..." [Kurt Vonnegut] #atheism
Atheist: You’re an atheist too. Christian: No I’m not, I believe in God. Atheist: Oh yes you are and I can pro… (cont) deck.ly/~1U3hT
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.@diealogue I'm interested in facts arrived by rational thought processes, not dressed up as such by woo magic & circular reasoning #atheism
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--Anne Rice #atheism (on her renouncement of #Christianity): "I refuse to be anti-gay. I refuse to be anti-fem… (cont) deck.ly/~FYKRl
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.@diealogue do me a favour, not interested in tax exemption arguments, or stupid notions abt alleged Xian origins of humanism. Ludicrous.
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"Religions vary in their degree of idiocy, but I reject them all." [Gene Roddenberry] #atheism #atheist
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"For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes." [Francis Bacon] #atheism #atheist
"The last god will disappear with the last man." [Michel Onfray] #atheism
#atheism "The difference between faith & insanity is that faith is the ability to hold firmly to a conclusio… (cont) deck.ly/~u9Eyp
[Madalyn O'Hair] #atheism "I'll tell you what you (Christians) did with atheists for about 1500 years. You out… (cont) deck.ly/~JJ5xU
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RT @RevdLesley: Atheism and Misogyny nblo.gs/lNLtH >> you might as well have blogged about non-stamp collectors & misogyny!
"Atheism - the arrogant belief that the entire billion galaxy universe was not created for us"
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God is an Epic Troll: The Best of the Advice God Meme ranker.com/list/god-is-an-ep… via @ranker

God is an Epic Troll: The Best of the Advice God Meme

The Judeo-Christian God is an epic troll. If you grew up Catholic, Protestant or at all Christian, then most of these iterations of this God meme will hit ...

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On the 2209115th day God finally took some science lessons & eventually admitted Galileo was right #atheism
On the 2315926th day God told the Pope that he'd lied abt creation in the Bible, & 2 pretend He'd bn describing evolution all along #atheism
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Then on the 8th day, God buried fossils precisely where scientists would expect to find them... #creationism #atheism #evolution
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.@MiereKhenai It's the destructive effect of organized religion, through its adherents, that bothers us. #atheism
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