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IntroductionMost Christian apologists these days do not commonly argue that the bible is scientifically accurate, however, there are some who do. One of the most well-known of this type is apologist Ray Comfort. Several years ago I examined several of these claims by Comfort about science and the bible in my refutation of his Evidence Bible, but I will also cover arguments by others as well.Does

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I've become aware of a blog that doesn't like my open challenge and considers my conditions to be an example of question begging. The author writes,See Alan Roebuck's "No Evidence for God?" in Intellectual Conservative for a useful treatment of the tendency of atheists to beg the question against theism by simply assuming, without basis, something like naturalism, materialism, or positivism to be

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IntroductionI recall when I read the bible for the very first time I was shocked by what I read. I had always heard that the bible was the inspired word of god but what I read sounded more like stories from groups of very primitive peoples. I've heard it said that nothing will get you to atheism faster than reading the bible, and doing this is what first began to put dents in my belief about the

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1. The Bible: An Exposé: Introduction2. The Bible: An Exposé: A Brief History3. The Bible: An Exposé: Scriptures Galore4. The Bible: An Exposé: Myth or History?5. The Bible: An Exposé: Superstition and Myth in the Bible6. The Bible: An Exposé: The Bible and Science

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IntroductionIt's a common argument by certain Christians that the bible is an accurate historical record. Some even go so far as to claim that the bible is infallible. Is there any merit to these claims? Did Jesus exist, or is he simply a mythical character? These are some of the claims I will be investigating in this fourth post of my series The Bible: An Exposé. I will continue by covering the

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Title: No Rules Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Techniques for Mixed Martial Arts and Self-DefenseAuthor: Gene SimcoPublisher: Kensington Publishing Corp., 2005IntroductionNo Rules Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: Techniques for Mixed Martial Arts and Self-Defense, by New York based Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu instructor Gene Simco, is a nicely layed out book with nice looking pictures and a preview of Simco’s self-defense DVD

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Self Defense Made Easy, Vol. 1: Defensive Techniques, with Gene Simco: DVD ReviewProduced by: NYMAG, 2004Running Time: Approx. 60 min.This two set DVD is by famed Jiu-Jitsu expert, Gene Simco, and author of a very popular book called Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu: The Master Text. The first disk deals with self-defense for the average person; the second, with police officers. Due to my lack of in depth

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The Dynamic Combat Shield was featured in the October 2002 issue of Black Belt magazine, in an article written by Richard Ryan. The shield was developed by Ryan in the 1980‘s as a way to protect your most important abilities in a sudden, close-range self-defense situation: your ability to see, breathe, and think, which all happen to be right around the area that the shield protects most.The

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Today I’m going to cover the basics of what you need to know in order to protect yourself legally after a confrontation has taken place. As it so happens, in order to protect yourself after the confrontation, you must take proper steps before the confrontation turns physical.Sure, in later posts I will explain some techniques you can learn but in today’s litigation happy world you must learn how

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A few years ago I started a blog called Truth in Martial Arts but I've since taken it down because I didn't have the time to keep up with two different blogs. There were a handful of posts that I really liked and wanted to keep so I've decided to post them to my blog here. While this doesn't have anything to do with politics, philosophy, or religion, these posts do have something in common with

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Most people have a set of beliefs they adhere to that helps guide them in their daily lives. Many people gather these beliefs through religion, philosophy, science, or by just pondering life's wonders and problems. I believe having a set of core values is very important, so long as these views are based on sound logic and facts. However, I firmly believe that the vast majority of individuals'

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It's actually very simple. Just view the following diagram...(If needed click to enlarge)

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Today is a national holiday where we honor Martin Luther King, Jr. On this day we are supposed to honor a man who stood up for equality, freedom, and non-violence. It is for this reason that I find it ironic that Barack Obama's inauguration was held during this time in 2009. Here we have a president who claimed that he would close Guantanamo Bay but throughout these years in office he had reneged

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In the last piece about the bible's history I alluded to the fact that there were numerous manuscripts. For the first three centuries of Christianity’s history all the manuscripts were copied by unskilled copyists. Only after this period did trained scribes enter into the picture and begin copying the many manuscripts, reducing the number of errors in the copies. [1] During these first few

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Warning: This video is not censored. This is disgusting and aptly demonstrates the immaturity of several of those who seek to join the military. These men are part of the reasons why I don't support the troops. Not only are they fighting an immoral war (for expansion of U.S. power, influence, and oil) started by their government, but they are also acting immorally. This is what Gen. Wesley

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As Jaroslav Pelikan, the late Professor of History at Yale University, said, the bible, before it was in written form, was most likely transmitted through an oral tradition for many generations. [1] Later the various songs, sayings, and stories were put to paper and collected, sifted through, and mostly “standardized” after about the 4th Century. [2] Each of the three monotheisms, Judaism,

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Several years ago I made an attempt to write an in depth blog post about how reliable the bible is. It was simply titled Is the Bible Reliable? It's been a commonly viewed post over the years but like many of my older writings I feel that the writing and organization of many of the posts are poorly written and not well thought out. I've since decided to rewrite a series about the bible that

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I know the title of this post sounds like the beginning of a bad joke... a Catholic and an atheist walk into a bar... but it's actually about something I never thought I'd do in a million years. I'm dating a religious woman. A very religious woman. To protect her identity I'll call her D. She is a pretty strict Catholic and goes to church pretty regularly, though she does miss a day here and

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I have written a lot about this subject in the past but here is another example of the authoritarianism and hypocrisy of the state.As the above video noted, the police and government are simply attempting to strong arm the populace into abandoning any kind of protests against wrongful police actions, which are legion. If people aren't aware of these incidences nothing can be done about it.I am

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This first video depicts a clear misuse of the taser on an unarmed and non-resisting woman. This second video shows a clear case of excessive force. Is this cop such an asshole that he believes it's OK to punch an unarmed woman in the face?!

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Happy New Year to all!Is it really 2012 already? The last few years have truly flown by. It sure seems true what they say: time goes by faster the older you get and it feels as if last year just began not too long ago! That can't be a good sign...I had a few big projects this year. In February I rewrote my review of Vox Day's The Irrational Atheist. To my knowledge it is the most thorough (and in

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Glenn Greenwald speaks about America's two-tiered justice system and why he wrote his latest book, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful Recorded at Claremont-McKenna College on 4 November 2011.via videosift.com

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IntroductionI had responded to a ridiculous post at a website called Real Men Have Spoken. The moronic author of that post responded and this is my response to him. Of course, there isn't much at all to respond to. 99% of his comments are personal attacks. The rest of it he's simply stating (with not a shred of evidence, mind you) that I don't actually know what I'm talking about because all I do

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I've been catching up on the final seasons of Penn and Teller's Bullshit and I just finished season seven. I found out that on the DVD they didn't include the episode on the vatican but I was able to find it online. I'm stunned they didn't include it. My first guess is the vatican threatened Showtime or someone because this episode is so damning. Here it is for anyone who may have missed it. It's

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Nearly a year and a half ago a blogger who goes by the name of Makarios wrote a blog post that was so ignorant I blasted him for it. Now, about a year later he's written another blog post at his new blog repeating the exact same crap he did in his previous post. He writes,The Arizona Atheist is convinced that cameras are watching him. The "Man" is out to get him, or so he thinks. As he drives

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I've warned people for years about the governments' increasing power grabs. Read it and weep. Literally weep. The bill of rights are further being eroded. James Bovard should have been listened to by many more people. He began cataloging these acts back in 2000 before the government started using “terror” as an excuse to violate our rights. Thanks to skepticaleye.com for the video.

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The war on Iraq was begun on March 20, 2003 and “officially” ended December 15, 2011. After the lies by Bush about Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction the government's stated goal about why they entered Iraq (a country that had nothing to do with the September 11th attacks) changed to a rallying cry of goodwill and humanitarianism. The U.S government wanted to bring peace and democracy

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I was browsing the internet and came across a post discussing David Marshall's book The Truth Behind the New Atheism. At James' Thoughts and Musings James writes at the end of one of his posts while blogging through The Truth Behind the New Atheism,In the meantime, if you are interested, check out Arizona Atheist’s critique of Marshall’s The Truth Behind the New Atheism. Marshall did not care for

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I read today that the well-known author and opponent of religion, Christopher Hitchens, has died yesterday. He was 62. Hitchens, who had been battling esophageal cancer since early 2010, died at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, surrounded by friends, Vanity Fair said. Hitchens is survived by his wife, Carol Blue, their daughter, Antonia, and two children from a previous marriage, Alexander

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IntroductionI am at it again. I've set my sights on yet another Christian author who has published one more in a long line of books seeking to refute the New Atheists. This one is titled The 'New' Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don't Hold Water?, by Michael Poole, published by Lion Hudson plc, 2009. I found this book to be poorly organized and the noted sources are a little difficult to understand at

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Here are this month's picks for police brutality videos. On Democracy Now I learned that after this attack took place three students had to be taken to a hospital.

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A statist is defined as someone who favors the “concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry.” This is a humorous, but sadly very accurate, representation of the numerous forms statism takes.Thanks goes to Francois Tremblay for this picture. If the picture is too small to view click to enlarge

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Introduction A while back I received a comment on my post titled Why I Do Not Support the Troops by a seemingly illogical, hateful, and sexist (even though he denies it in the website's Introduction) man who goes by the name Viceroy. He writes on a blog called Real Men Have Spoken. Despite the silly name of the website this army vet wrote to me on the aforementioned post about how wrong I am. I

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In October of this year I decided to copy a document I'd written titled 10 Errors in the Truth Behind the New Atheism into the Customer Discussion forums of Amazon.com. Not surprisingly David Marshall arrived to give a response almost a month later. As usual, he resorts to his usual nonsense by claiming I can't read and whatnot, when it's clear I pointed out cases where he couldn't read or failed

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Several years ago I recall watching an episode of Roseanne where Roseanne Barr's character was watching a school play featuring her son, DJ, played by Michael Fishman, on Thanksgiving Day. As the parents watch the play unfold they witness the Pilgrims invite the “Indians” to join them for a meal. Afterward the Pilgrims grab their guns and open fire, killing all of the “Indians.” The children fall

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This was posted to John Loftus' blog Debunking Christianity on July 15, 2010 by Hector Avalos, author of Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship (Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2011).I had contemplated copying this to my blog for quite some time and finally decided to do so. For those who haven't yet read it I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Back in 2009 I had conducted my own

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I had a discussion about anarchism with Bret who blogs at anythingbuttheist.blogspot.com. This discussion took place on November 13th, 2011 via Yahoo Messenger. The following is our discussion, with certain personal comments that have nothing to do with the discussion at hand taken out. Since this was more of a “live” debate/discussion and not one that I could sit and think about an argument or

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The most recent book by noted biblical scholar Hector Avalos is his Slavery, Abolitionism, and the Ethics of Biblical Scholarship. In this book Mr. Avalos seeks to continue where is last book, The End of Biblical Studies, left off. He writes, “My basic premise is that if slavery is not regarded as wrong, then little else can be. And if slavery is regarded as inexcusably wrong, then biblical

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Today in the early morning hours police arrived at Zuccotti Park in New York with dump trucks in their attempts to clear the encampment of the protesters. Not only were most people arrested but all of their tents and other belongings were thrown into a garbage truck and thrown away. This blatant and disgusting act by the police and local government infuriates me. They not only violated a major

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I came upon the work of economist Peter T. Leeson after reading the interesting book The Legal Foundations of Free Markets, edited by Stephen F. Copp, wherein Leeson contributed a very good essay titled Do Markets Need Government? I found this present essay of his at Cato Unbound.org. It dates from August 6, 2007.No sane person believes that anarchy generates order. The idea that anarchy could be

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IntroductionI have blog posts dedicated to why I became an atheist and an anarchist, but I've never explained in much detail the thought process that lead me to anarchism. I've chosen to do that now.Nothing But DoubtIn early 2005 I had just gotten out of major surgery and a friend stopped by to see how I was doing. He handed me a copy of Every Man and Woman an Island: The Individual Human Being

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I'd like to begin this piece by quoting a protester:Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street and for Wall Street....Our laws are the output of a system which clothes rascals in robes and honesty in rags....the politicians said we suffered from overproduction. Overproduction, when

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Daniel, who blogs at the Spanish skeptics website called Chile Skeptic, had asked to translate what is probably one of my most viewed posts: William Lane Craig's Arguments for God Refuted. Daniel has finished his translation and the Spanish version of my blog post can be found here: Argumentos de William Lane Craig a Favor de Dios Refutados (accessed 11-9-11).Thank you Daniel!

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A new study appeared recently that looks to initially show that atheism is linked with Asperger’s syndrome, a type of high-functioning autism. I've seen Vox Day boast on his blog about how his observations have been proven correct after four years but his boasting is unwarranted. After looking at a few write ups on the subject it's clear what's going on. It's not as if atheism causes one to

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I found this video called Why I Do Not Support the Troops on Youtube today. It was linked to by a family member whose husband is in the military and she obviously didn't like this woman's message. Neither did most people judging by the many responses telling her to shut up and calling her a bitch. I for one couldn't agree more with everything she said. She took the words right out of my mouth. Of

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Why the Bible Cannot Be the Word of God., by Andre JacobsAuthorHouse, 2011Softcover, 107 pagesISBN: 978-1-4567-2276-0At just a little over one-hundred pages Why the Bible Cannot Be the Word of God is a very quick read. However, despite its brevity, the author presents a very clear case about why he believes the bible is not a book inspired by the Christian god. The book is broken down into twelve

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Dancing is a crime?! Since when?! Here is an example of police misconduct when a cop arrests someone for video taping him. This video showcases numerous examples of police brutality, several of which I've featured on The Lucifer Effect in the past.This final video shows a cop slamming a girl into a wall who then falls to the ground. This took place in Phoenix, Arizona.

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I bought David Berlinski's book The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions and instead of doing a thorough review on my blog I've just decided to write a brief review on Amazon.com. I've refuted other books that make much the same claims as this one so I didn't feel the need. Plus, if I had written a review it would have been a pain in the ass because he failed to cite his

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Some may be shocked by the title of this post but once you see what these employees did during a Halloween party last year the title will make sense and will be entirely justified.The New York Times has revealed that the law firm of Steven J. Baum threw a Halloween party where employees dressed up as homeless people, mocking their victims. Baum's firm represented many of the big banks, such as

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At Occupy Wall Street numerous customers decide to close their Bank of America accounts in protest of the bank's immoral actions. Unfortunately, police and other “authorities” block their attempts and arrest those who went inside the bank to do so. And so many people think police are here to “protect and serve.” Yes, protect and serve the powerful and wealthy...Here are two videos from the scene.

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I hope this series has been informative and clear for all who've decided to read it. My goal with the series was to outline and organize the entirety of my personal philosophy so my views could be more easily understood. My second goal with this series has been to respond to criticisms of my views and I believe I've responded to all of them. While this series is meant to explain all aspects of my

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I was watching FOX News the other night because I've been curious how they might twist any happenings at the protests that are taking place. I finally saw a blatant example. FOX News repeated the propaganda of the police department, who argued that police had to break up protesters at Oakland because of an alleged sexual assault and drug use. Immediately I thought...bullshit. I had previously

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A while back I discovered the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Civic Literacy Exam. Having only a high school education and my vast library of books, with which I've been educating myself over the last several years, I surprised myself by getting the equivalent of a C (though on some grading scales I found my score equals a B). Not too bad, especially considering the sad fact that out of those

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IntroductionThe following is a refutation of the book by Christian apologist David Marshall titled The Truth Behind the New Atheism:‭ ‬Responding to the Emerging Challenges to God and Christianity,‭ published by ‬Harvest House Publishers,‭ ‬2007‭. This review that you are now reading has had a long history. [1] This is the fifth (and final) edition I will write. Why so many editions? Well, I am a

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In the Beginning...At just seventeen years of age I was thrown into a deep depression due to the teasing I had endured throughout my middle and high school years. In order to help myself claw my way out of this deep hole I had dug myself I began to contemplate the world around me and tried to understand all of the events that lead to that moment. After many months of thinking about my life, and

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On an older post comparing Statism to Theism (which I've since updated here) I had a good debate with an anonymous fellow who respectfully disagreed with my views, and who actually understood them, unlike most detractors. It was a very fun and interesting debate and I still think about this individual sometimes and wonder why all those who disagree with me can't just discuss this like a mature

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I genuinely enjoy debate and discussion, which is one of the reasons why I blog in the first place. Unfortunately, there are those who do not want a rational discussion where both sides compare arguments and evidence. They just want to preach and tell you how wrong you are. This comment policy is very hard on exactly those kinds of individuals. Despite the fact that this is the first formal

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Because the mainstream media neglects to cover the protests taking place I thought I would share today's Democracy Now! broadcast so all could see the massive protests taking place all over the world. I also wanted to highlight the crackdown on peaceful protesters who are doing nothing more than taking part in a (supposedly) constitutionally protected protest. You know, the first amendment that

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On Yahoo.com they've reported a story about Kirk Cameron, co-host of the Way of the Master television series, and about how a picture of his 41st birthday "party" somehow got leaked online.(Lane Chaplin/Twitter)In the Yahoo article they mentioned a caption contest and I've got a perfect one. How about,“Is this what happens when an evangelical Christian chooses to go around insulting people on

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Dear Readers,I'm considering doing one final book review (of course, there might be more... I've said I would be done in the past but decided to do another) by a Christian apologist and I have a few that I'm considering. They are as follows:1. The Dawkins Letters: Challenging Atheist Myths2. What's So Great about Christianity3. The 'New' Atheism: 10 Arguments That Don't Hold Water4. The Devil's

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Today is Columbus Day. A day that has become a national holiday. Even though it's somewhat well known what Christopher Columbus did to the natives when he landed in the americas I sometimes wonder what certain Statists' and patriots' feelings are about it. Personally I am ashamed of this act in our history. It is even more shameful that it is celebrated as it is. In the multivolume History of the

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In a previous post I explained the role of the social contract in a society and looked at some examples of how it might be applied. In this post I am going to explain the methods by which that social contract is enforced. Individualism vs. CollectivismBefore I begin the discussion about the methods of enforcement I have to explain the theory behind it and it once again goes back to Prime. Other

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FELLOW ATHEISTS:Many atheists have told their de-conversion stories on their websites and blogs and I've even written about mine right here. I know many other atheists have written similar stories about how and why they de-converted and I'd love for anyone who'd like to, to share their stories here. If you have a blog please link to your de-conversion story in the comments. Or if you don't have a

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This man was allegedly tasered and beaten for not removing his hat. I liked what this man had to say. I agree entirely. Here, cops arrest a woman at the Occupy Wall Street protest for no reason at all. This last video shows video shot by a bystander during the murder of Kelly Thomas, a homeless man, who was beaten into a coma by the Fullerton police during an arrest on July 5, 2011. Kelly died

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I normally haven’t put any entire news stories by Democracy Now! on my blog but this one I felt was important to see and there may also be some viewers who are fans of independent filmmaker Michael Moore. After some headlines (Planned Parenthood being attacked by republicans again is one story) there is a long talk with Michael Moore about the Occupy Wall Street protest and more clips of police

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This is a talk by NCSE's Eugenie Scott about the similar tactics of the evolution and global warming deniers. This took place September 15, 2011 in Glasgow, Scotland.

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Over at OccupyWallStreet they show video of a cop pepper spraying a group of unarmed, innocent women as they were pinned inside of a police line. This sickens me.Here is a video showing more detail of the filthy pig in slow motion, highlighting his actions.

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Update 9-22-11: A little over two years after I wrote this post I am horribly saddened and angered to report that Troy Davis has been murdered. It happened September 21, 2011 at 11:08pm ET in Georgia after a last minute stay by the supreme court was rejected. Before his murder Troy’s final words were the following:Eyewitnesses described the mood in the execution chamber as "somber" as Davis was

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The social contract is an idea that's been around for centuries and has been expounded by some of the world's greatest thinkers: Rousseau, Locke, and Hobbes. While I do not agree with each of these mens' ideas in their entirety there is no doubt about the impact these men have had on our political history. For this piece, however, I will not discuss these mens' views, only my own (with the help

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From chomsky.info,Was There an Alternative? Looking Back on 9/11 a Decade Later, by Noam ChomskyWe are approaching the 10th anniversary of the horrendous atrocities of September 11, 2001, which, it is commonly held, changed the world. On May 1st, the presumed mastermind of the crime, Osama bin Laden, was assassinated in Pakistan by a team of elite US commandos, Navy SEALs, after he was captured,

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The debate over whether or not morality is subjective or objective is a long one and with this post it is my goal is to explain the reasons why I believe there is no such thing as an objective set of morals. My second goal is to explain what I believe is the best way to achieve a standard form of morality in such a world.Let's Define Our TermsIn order to make my position completely clear we must

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The American Civil Liberties Union has recently released a report highlighting the dangers of government on our freedoms since the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center.The ACLU writes,An ACLU report release to coincide with the 10th anniversary of 9/11 warns that a decade after the attacks, the United States is at risk of enshrining a permanent state of emergency in which core values

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Since March of 2011 I've been compiling a series of posts I've decided to call The Tao of Arizona Atheist. It is a series that I hope helps to better explain my personal philosophy and my reasons for holding the views I do (and answering some critics' objections). It's been a lot of fun writing these and at this point I've written seven posts and I have four more in the works but I may decide to

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I was contacted by a member of the atheist/anarchist band called Beltaine’s Fire. Their style of music isn't quite the kind I listen to but it has a good beat (at least the one song I listened to called Crime and Punishment). If anyone out there might be interested please give this group their support. You can view the band's webpage here and you can listen to samples of their music here.

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The police beat a homeless and mentally ill man to death and refuse to release the tape of the beating, despite much public protest. Here is another man beat by police for no reason.

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To the vast majority of individuals the above question seems absurd. “Of course we need government,” they argue, and for various reasons. These reasons are what I'm going to look at in this installment of The Tao of Arizona Atheist. I've covered some (silly) objections in the past, but with this post I want to cover some objections that are usually considered to be insurmountable according to

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Thanks to Open Parachute for this one. This is funny!

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The Tao of Arizona Atheist is a series that outlines and defends my personal philosophy. The individual posts are written in a specific order, explaining each founding principle before moving on to more complex subjects. For this reason it is highly recommended that you read each post in the order they are presented below in order to gain a better understanding of my views. 1. The Tao of Arizona

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“CELEBRATE SCIENCE” LAUNCHES IN AUGUST: A NATIONAL TOUR TO KEEP SCIENCE IN AND CREATIONISM OUT OF OUR NATION’S SCHOOLS New York, NY – July 22, 2011 - When summer ends and school is back in session, not all American students will be getting a science education based on actual science. In a recent national poll, only 23% of biology teachers strongly agreed that evolution is the unifying theory

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It’s been many years since the days of ”Equity,” “Utopia,” and “Modern Times,” Josiah Warren’s planned anarchist communities in the 1800‘s but in the 2000‘s there looks to be a new ‘libertarian’ experiment coming to fruition. Pay Pal founder Peter Thiel has given 1.25 million to the Seasteading Institute which plans on creating “Libertarian” communities outside of all government law and

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God, No! Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales, by Penn Jillette. Simon & Schuster Hardcover, 256 pages ISBN-10: 145161036X Release Date: Approx. August 16,2011 Not long ago I was contacted by the marketing specialist at Simon & Schuster, asking if I'd like to review this soon-to-be-released book by Penn Jillette, the taller, more vocal half of Penn & Teller. I've

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A Yahoo News article tells how Fox News pulled comments from their online article about their interview with Blair Scott, the American Atheist communications director, who received thousands of death threats from Christians because of the lawsuit seeking to stop the inclusion of a “crucifix” at the World Trade Center Memorial.

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I've decided to take a page out of another atheist's blog who had a post asking for any and all to promote their blogs, so with this post if you have a blog or a particularly well done post you'd like to share please link to it in the comments. Any blogs that I find to be well researched, written, and (at least mostly) well-argued will be added to my recommended blogs list on the side of my blog

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In this first video it's hard to see it but at approximately 19 seconds into the video you can see the cop on the right side kick the man who is on his hands and knees in the face. Later on you can see just how hard the kick was since you can see a small pool of blood coming from the man's head.In this second video a man runs onto the field of what looks to be a soccer game. Several cops run the

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I am indeed shocked. That was my first thought when I received a notification from David Marshall in the comments that he had gone over my critique of the first chapter of his book The Truth Behind the New Atheism. As I skimmed his response I chuckled because I’ve already responded to half of his response here several months ago.After skimming it to see the gist of his response I was not at all

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I was notified today of this excellent video by "skydivephil" on YouTube that does a fantastic job of debunking William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument. I was also pleased and flattered that my blog was featured when they quoted the brief email discussion I had with Alexander Vilenkin in my blog post William Lane Craig's Arguments for God Refuted.

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For those of you who can't avoid having to buy a new car after June 1, 2011 will from then on be watched more closely by law enforcement than you might like. According to CameraFRAUD all new cars will come with “black boxes” that will alert authorities if you are not wearing your seat belt or if you're speeding, among other “infractions” and they will promptly send you a ticket in the mail.Here

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This is the second time I’ve been notified by an unknown website claiming that I’ve been one of the chosen out of the thousands of atheist blogs that are out there. This one was from a website called www.onlinecourses.net, which currently hosts a listing of the top 50 atheist blogs. It seems strange that an “online course” website would link to such blogs, which is why it made me suspicious when

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The subject of this Tao of Arizona Atheist is about how Prime is linked to private property and other issues that go along with that, such as surveillance on a piece of property. Prime and PropertyDue to the fact that Prime assumes personal privacy, autonomy, and all other rights that an individual has as a birth right, private property is among those “natural” rights. This is because a person

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From Seattle, Washington comes a sad story about a cop, Ian Birk, who brutally shot and killed a partially deaf man for carrying a pocket knife. Of course, the story gets more interesting when crime scene photos contradict Birk's initial statement about how Williams' knife was open and posed a threat. Read the story below.Photos show shot wood carver's knife was in closed positionBy Denise

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Over at David Marshall's blog he's written a series of posts about how Christianity has supposedly raised the status and well-being of women throughout the world. In my review of his book I tackle some of his claims on this issue. The only argument that seems half way legit is that of Christianity's positive influences and reforms in India. All the others are factually flawed in some way, or

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Joe Hinman, a.k.a. “Metacrock” continues to refuse to publish my comments on his blog when I try to (politely) criticize something he says about me, or when I try to post my scathing rebuttals of his poor arguments.This time I was commenting on a post where he quotes, what is apparently, his favorite comment from me about the lack of evidence for religion, where I said, “Faith is bullshit.” I

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A group who calls themselves Food Not Bombs was recently arrested in an Orlando park because they lacked the permits “necessary” to be able to feed groups of people larger than 25. Alright, say it with me... That's bullshit! Getting arrested for trying to help hungry people is beyond cruel and beyond stupid. I'm so shocked by this I can't even express just how dumbfounded I am that this would

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For the longest time I wasn't aware that there were books by anarchists who answered the many criticisms of anarchism and I've recently been reading a few of them. I'm currently reading a few books about Market Anarchism in preparation for writing future pieces of my The Tao of Arizona Atheist series. One book is titled “But Who Will Build the Roads?”: Market Anarchy Explained, by Francois

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Now I’ve heard it all. In Maryland the government has decided to fine innocent children because their lemonade stand did not have a vender’s permit! Of course, in reality, this is nothing new for these despicable thieves who routinely steal money from people on a constant basis. But this is even more enraging since for decades children have been setting up lemonade stands all over the country

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I’ve got some good news for all my readers.First, I’ve recently finished my review of The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens, by Vox Day. When I first posted it I noted at the beginning telling my readers that I still had three sections of the book to review on pages 214 to 231 dealing with the Spanish Inquisition, the Crusades, and human sacrifice.

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Most of my readers should be fairly familiar with the Christian apologist named David Marshall, whose rants against atheists (particularly Richard Dawkins) are often as irrational as they are void of actual content.In September of 2007 Marshall published The Truth Behind the New Atheism: Responding to the Emerging Challenges to God and Christianity and several weeks after its publication, while

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An atheist who goes by the name of “Dr. H” has recently emailed me after I asked him to read my review of David Marshall’s The Truth Behind the New Atheism and his conclusion was that it was a “well written and well-researched essay.” In addition he included a few minor criticisms, such as the length of it but over all agreed with most of what I said in my review. Thanks for the kudos! I’m

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In 1979 David Aikman wrote his doctoral dissertation titled The Role of Atheism in the Marxist Tradition, where he attempted to lay blame for the Communist atrocities on atheism. Aikman tried to argue that atheism was synonymous with a hatred of religion which is a completely illogical argument. In 2008 Aikman published a book that was related to that research he did for his dissertation all

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