verywide.net » Atheism http://verywide.net/blog Just trying to catch butterflies, fish, lunatics, and stars, metaphorically speaking. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 The Hazards of Confronting Believers http://verywide.net/blog/2009/04/05/hazards-of-confronting-believers/ http://verywide.net/blog/2009/04/05/hazards-of-confronting-believers/#comments Sun, 05 Apr 2009 21:35:17 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/?p=291 One of the most difficult positions held by atheists—a de facto position following of course from the main proposition of atheism—is that there is no divine aid or comfort to be looked for in difficult times. Religious people are fond of saying that they are “carried through the hard times” by their beliefs, by their [...]

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Mission Statement: [The] purpose of the Humanist Symposium is not primarily to criticize religious beliefs or debunk the latest superstition, but to offer and discuss a positive alternative to belief systems based on [...]

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