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Carnival of the Godless

Today’s carnival has just been posted at The Rational Response Squad.

Also, the carnival posted two weeks ago (yes, I’m late with this one) at Atheist FAQ.

Carnival of the Godless

I haven’t written much recently, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot of good stuff out there I can recommend. This week the Carnival of the Godless at Life Before Death is exceptionally good, in my opinion. One of my favorites is this piece from Surgeonsblog on the absurdity of religion, specifically Christianity:

What a comedian! [God] makes mankind imperfect, sets up some rules to follow, knowing (by definition) that billions of people will be unable to follow them, and then sees to it that in their failure they suffer eternal punishment. Eternal. To infinity and beyond, hallelujah. (Although according to those who build the churches and collect the cash, you can live a life of sin and crime and have a deathbed conversion; or drop a dollar in a dish; or, like Jimmy Swaggart, weep and declaim, and be fine, poof, it goes away. On planet Earth some killers get off after a couple of decades. But god's "vengeance is mine" jones doesn't get satisfied after a million years or two? Pretty harsh.) And for what? Well, murder, I suppose, except when it's in his name; whacking off, I'm pretty sure; but for most, just not accepting him as their savior. Even if you live an exemplary life by all other measures, if you don't kiss his... ring, you boil and blister forever. FOREVER. Life is short, eternity is quite a bit longer. It's like giving a first-grader the SAT and jailing her for the rest of her life if she fails. This particular picture of god, which seems to place many beside themselves with self-satisfied delight -- by any reasonable criteria is one of a child abuser. If you heard of a guy who had a bunch of kids, starved them, and then threw them in a hole when they reached for food (god made rules he knows we'll break, gave us hungers he knows most can't resist), you'd call the cops for sure. Good for you, by the way. And even if you found cartoons on his hard drive, I'm thinking you wouldn't say with a chuckle (did I mention the chuckle in the preview?) what a funny guy he is.

Much more at the link.

Carnival of the Godless

A Peer Reviewed Journal of The Carnival of the Godless has just been posted at Tangled Up in Blue Guy. Worth clicking the link.

Carnival of the Godless

Posted at A Load Of Bright. If you only have time to read one article, read The Atheist Experience on Why do atheists speak out? This is why – an eloquent put down of an one Christian’s idiotic view of atheists.

If, as Terry implies, it is the God of the Bible whose "wisdom" I should prefer, I confess to being puzzled by the idea that I should consider a being who consigns anyone who does not worship him to his satisfaction to an eternity of agonizing torment as "wise," when my own, pitifully inadequate notions of human wisdom tell me that a being like that is by definition a horrendously wicked and evil tyrant. Any God who refuses to make his existence unambiguously clear, and then is willing to consign individuals to eternal torture simply for doubting his existence, can only be unutterably evil, and the fact that Christians think that such a God is a paragon of all that is good is a view that quite simply perverts any meaning the notion of "goodness" could possibly have. For a Christian to hold such a view and still think he is "better off than the atheist" reveals the intellectually and morally corrupting force of Christian "faith" more powerfully than any atheist critique ever could.

Carnival of the Godless

Just posted at Ain’t Christian. Includes a post from yours truly – but also many other good posts from a godless perspective.  Good Sunday reading while those Xian types are at church.

69th Carnival of the Godless

The Carnival of the Godless has just been posted at The Uncredible Hallq. All posts are from an invisible-man-in- the-sky-less perspective.