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Folly of atheism

• Who lives better and more reasonable lives? Atheists or theists? The bitter fruit of atheism - Sean Thomas, The Telegraph

Militant secularism

• Militant secularism

Militant atheism YouTube channel

• Militant atheism YouTube channel

other

http://freethoughtblogs.com/alstefanelli/2012/04/04/tyranny-lost-concept/

Other information

Boston University study, atheism/autism: http://csjarchive.cogsci.rpi.edu/proceedings/2011/papers/0782/paper0782.pdf

no-religion/U.S slower than previously reported - mainly unchurched theists rather than atheists/agnostics: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810024831.htm

Amongst the most elite – the Nobel Laureates and the U. S. Academy of Sciences – the percent of Atheists is the highest, around 93%, “committed to the life of the mind”.[10] Biet-Hallahmi, author of “Atheism, A Psychological Profile”, in “The Cambridge Companion to Atheism”, wrote, “…what these individuals [the most elite] had, in addition to their creativity and high intelligence, was a strong wish to create distance between themselves and their parents.”[1] Vitz has also stated other common factors he observed in the leading atheists he profiled: they were all intelligent and arrogant.[2]

Atheism - A license to kill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZ5fq9SvWs

http://wonderfulword.com/1millionlinks/Creation_Evolution.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/19012/gather/greatlin.htm

a message to atheists: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5QQONHlgtw&feature=related

Age groups and internet usage

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Generations_Memo.pdf

Most students have to navigate these decisions without any spiritual direction or encouragement. The campus ministry targets university students, because it is the decision making time of life: the small window of time where individuals are open to changing their ideas, beliefs and perceptions of the world. This is why roughly 90% of all Christians made their decision for Christ before they reached the age of 21. http://www.campusforchrist.org/about/whycampus.php

Age of conversion - Barna Group

http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpd

http://debunkingatheists.blogspot.com/

Fellow atheist calls PZ Myers "The idiot of the week" apparently over defining what an atheist is: http://www.atheistrev.com/2011/02/idiot-of-week-pz-myers.html

Causes of atheism additional info

Further study needed (see previous resources on this matter on talk page via archives): Psychological profile of atheists: http://thecountryshrink.com/tag/atheism/ conservative 21:35, 28 June 2009 (EDT)

Biet-Hallahmi, author of “Atheism, A Psychological Profile”, in “The Cambridge Companion to Atheism”, wrote, “…what these individuals [the most elite] had, in addition to their creativity and high intelligence, was a strong wish to create distance between themselves and their parents.” - Caplovitz and Sherrow 1977; Quoted in “Cambridge Companion to Atheism”: “Atheists: a Psychological Profile”, Cambridge University Press, p307. conservative 23:30, 18 January 2009 (EST)

Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study of America's Nonbelievers (Paperback)[3] conservative 23:37, 18 January 2009 (EST)

http://www.atheism-analyzed.net/Atheist%20Talking%20Points%20Rebellion.htm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/04/bookcase-debate-new-atheists-religion

atheism and IQ

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/andrewbrown/2008/dec/19/religion-iq-atheism

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-human-beast/201005/the-real-reason-atheists-have-higher-iqs Drugs and church attendance: http://www.nysun.com/opinion/say-yes-to-faith-no-to-drugs/83346/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fo7CvTBYNk

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2124100/'High-IQ-linked-to-atheism'-claim-attacked.html

7 Links to review:

http://www.rzim.org/GlobalElements/GFV/tabid/449/ArticleID/10020/CBModuleId/881/Default.aspx

http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/05/breaking2453432.91875.html

http://www.investigatingatheism.info/

http://www.doesgodexist.org/AboutClayton/PastLife.html

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/atheism/

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010341

http://www.pointofinquiry.org/pz_myers_science_and_atheism_in_the_blogosphere/

http://www.bethinking.org/resource.php?ID=139

http://cco.cambridge.org/extract?id=ccol0521842700_CCOL0521842700A022

http://www.atheism-analyzed.net/

http://www.christianparents.com/

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9C03EFDD123EE033A2575AC0A9659C946697D6CF

March 9, 1907, Saturday

Page 1, 238 words

BERLIN, March 8. -- Emperor William to-day bestowed on Prof. Ernst Haeckel, the celebrated Darwinian and founder of the Association for the Propagation of Ethical Atheism, the title of Excellency, in honor of his golden jubilee as a doctor.

http://atheist-nutters.blogspot.com/search/label/Urban%20Legends

UK: http://www.theosthinktank.co.uk/mainnav/home.aspx

UK: http://www.christianvoice.org.uk/

UK: http://www.ukapologetics.net/08/UKCW.htm

UK: http://www.freethinker.co.uk/

UK: http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/

UK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2111174/Intelligent-people-'less-likely-to-believe-in-God'.html

UK: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/study/pg/religiousstudies/RMPRSTDS_RPHRSTDS.html#mailto:g.lynch@bbk.ac.uk

UK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2124100/'High-IQ-linked-to-atheism'-claim-attacked.html

UK atheists blogs:

http://www.stokehumanists.co.uk/

http://blog.newhumanist.org.uk/

http://www.aacuk.blogspot.com/

UK Humanist group: http://www.humanism.org.uk/site/cms/

http://www.brandonpres.com/information/pastors_welcome.htm

http://iidb.infidels.org/vbb/showthread.php?t=102130

http://www.americanvision.org/foolsheart/blog/blogger.html

http://atheism-analyzed.blogspot.com/2008/06/is-science-moral-imperative.html

http://www.blogcatalog.com/directory/religion/atheism

http://planetatheismblog.blogspot.com/2007/05/planet-atheism-and-search-engines.html

Richard J. Radcliffe http://pview.findlaw.com/view/2598174_1?channel=LP

HK Baptist University

http://www.hkbu.edu.hk/~ppp/top/top19

http://www.americanvision.org/foolsheart/blog/blogger.html

http://www.jstor.org/pss/3653869

strong atheism and the issue of presumptiousness

Increase of knowledge:

http://homepages.gac.edu/~fister/doubling.html

http://www.gerrymcgovern.com/cc_ch1_2.htm

American - faith: A - work in - progress Stephen Prothero; USA TODAY; Mar 10, 2008; A.11;

http://blip.tv/file/638817

The-Bahnsen debate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6iEUanJbsw&feature=related

Craig and Zindler debate: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5hOza8GTqk

C.S. Lewis from a to theism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydyCqhzVZVE

Atheist-Atrocities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW62EilDXPY&feature=related

Atheism-suicide

http://creationwiki.org/User:Creationist/atheism-suicide

A biblical and theological dictionary

By John Farrar http://books.google.com/books?id=-jwHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA58&sig=LgqvbG_76irmJfQ_dcmoBe-1S_E&dq=atheism+%221619%22+%22LucilioVanini,+a+native+of+Naples,+publicly+taught+atheism+in+France,+and+being+convicted+at+Toulouse,+was,+in+the+spirit+of+the+times,+condemned+and+executed+in+1619.+%22&hl=en

Atheist YouTube channel wasteland

A reply to a YT video by a YT Skeptic named “NonStampCollector”. This fellow combines lousy art (stick figures) with lousy arguments, but somehow manages to get hundreds of people to watch his stuff and praise it. Just goes to show what a wasteland the Net can be![4]

Loftus and Christian-thinktank, etc.

http://www.tektonics.org/lp/ignorance.htm

Dawkins

http://www.thinkingchristian.net/2011/04/why-is-richard-dawkins-so-popular/

People tend to Believe in God

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/8510711/Belief-in-God-is-part-of-human-nature-Oxford-study.html

secularism and the UK and list of quotes

• No secularism please, we're British

Other

Amongst the most elite – the Nobel Laureates and the U. S. Academy of Sciences – the percent of Atheists is the highest, around 93%, “committed to the life of the mind”.[10] Biet-Hallahmi, author of “Atheism, A Psychological Profile”, in “The Cambridge Companion to Atheism”, wrote, “…what these individuals [the most elite] had, in addition to their creativity and high intelligence, was a strong wish to create distance between themselves and their parents.”[5] Vitz has also stated other common factors he observed in the leading atheists he profiled: they were all intelligent and arrogant.[6]

Atheism - A license to kill: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkZ5fq9SvWs

http://wonderfulword.com/1millionlinks/Creation_Evolution.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/19012/gather/greatlin.htm

Age groups and internet usage

http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP_Generations_Memo.pdf

Most students have to navigate these decisions without any spiritual direction or encouragement. The campus ministry targets university students, because it is the decision making time of life: the small window of time where individuals are open to changing their ideas, beliefs and perceptions of the world. This is why roughly 90% of all Christians made their decision for Christ before they reached the age of 21. http://www.campusforchrist.org/about/whycampus.php

Age of conversion - Barna Group

http://www.barna.org/FlexPage.aspx?Page=BarnaUpdate&BarnaUpdateID=172

Atheism and demographics

• Atheism demographics

Effect of prosperity on rate of atheism

• Why atheism will not replace religion

• Prosperity and levels of atheism

• Atheism and socialism and degree of prosperity

Atheism, conservative religion and rates of birth

Atheism, conservative religion and rates of birth

American religious groups and income

• American religious groups and income

decline of atheism further research

Decline of atheism, further research: http://churchintoronto.blogspot.com/2012/01/atheism-in-decline.html

Find original sources for these additional stats. Conservative 07:45, 21 May 2012 (EDT)

Dawkins

Upcoming book: http://au.christiantoday.com/article/dawkins-to-write-about-personal-journey-to-atheism/13465.htm

award, "services to humanism": http://www.cisionwire.com/british-humanist-association-press-room/r/richard-dawkins-awarded-for-services-to-humanism,c9271235

Atheists and attacking critics as being stupid and/or crazy

Vox Day:

"Now, it is certainly true that I rub the oft-demonstrated fact of my superior intelligence in the face of my critics, for the reason I have often explained. Both the political Left and the militant atheists regularly resort to the logical fallacy of appealing to the authority of intelligence; in fact, atheists even utilize it in a bizarre and illogical argument against the existence of God. My overt assertion and subsequent demonstration of an even higher degree of intelligence than most of them can muster thereby removes one of their favorite intellectual weapons from their arsenal and tends to make them look foolish when they attempt to use it to dismiss me in the manner that they dismiss so many others they attack.

This is why you will often see them theorizing that I must be crazy, because they are so attached to their logical fallacy that they literally cannot grasp that someone can be more intelligent than they are and nevertheless reject their left-liberal ideology or their godless scientism... even though it has been statistically demonstrated that there are more high IQ theists than atheists. IQ-flaunting is a useful rhetorical device that trumps a common rhetorical argument, nothing more. And it is obviously an effective one, as most of my critics eventually get around to complaining about it sooner or later."[7]

Dislike of evangelical atheists

• Dislike of evangelical atheists

Essays

Essays:

Rise of global creationism and the global decline of atheism/agnosticism

10 Reasons American atheism will see a significant decline

Atheism: A house divided and in global decline

Pro- atheism funding

• Pro-atheism funding

New Religious Survey

I saw this survey, which was released today, being spun by the mainstream media. I think it supports some of the things you've been writing about--specifically that people are spinning "unchurched" into atheists. This survey indicates that a mere 3% of people are atheist as opposed to the 20% who answered "no religion".

I thought you might like to have the link and survey, in case you hadn't seen it and wanted to use it to update some of the pages. http://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-03/uoc--aar031213.php Best, WilliamWB 12:50, 13 March 2013 (EDT)

Creation vs. evolution

Creation vs. evolution - CW

Various types of atheists - research

• Various types of atheists - research

• 6 types of atheists

Humorous articles on the atheism and obesity article

• Fat atheists

"...the article goes on to give a massive list of atheists who are fat. I’m going to give you a few of the names, not because I want a cheap laugh or people to just shake their heads in shame, but because I want people to know just how hard these ******* work to get a list of atheists who are fat."[8] The bitten dog yelps the loudest!

non religious and Domestic violence

Fergusson et al. (1986) - non-religious New Zealanders experienced higher rates of domestic violence than their religious counterparts

Ellison and Anderson (2001) - regular church-attenders - lower rates of domestic violence than non church-attenders

"Another line of thought suggests that religious people may be less likely to perpe- trate domestic violence (Fergusson, Horwood, Kershaw, & Shannon, 1986). A 1999 study of U.S. couples found that both men and women who attend religious services regularly are less likely to commit acts of domestic violence than those who attend rarely or not at all (Ellison et al., 1999). A follow-up study identified three pathways through which religious involvement may operate; namely, increasing levels of social integration and social support, reducing the likelihood of alcohol or substance abuse, and decreasing the risk of psychological problems (Ellison & Anderson, 2001). However, even after considering such indirect effects of religion through the use of sta- tistical controls, that study found that regular religious involvement still had a protec- tive effect against the perpetration of domestic violence by both men and women (Ellison & Anderson, 2001). In addition, that study showed that evidence of such pro- tective religious effects persisted regardless of whether domestic violence was measured using data from self reports or partner reports, which makes it difficult to attribute these observed religious effects to simple social desirability or other response bias." - Johnson Christopher G. Ellison, Jenny A. Trinitapoli, Kristin L. Anderson and Byron R. Race/Ethnicity, Religious Involvement, and Domestic Violence[9] See also: http://vaw.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/13/11/1094

The religion of atheism/humanism

• The religion of atheism/humanism by Michael Ruse

S.S. Atheism is taking on water

Western theism is in the doldrums, global atheism is declining and the liberalism which feeds secularism/atheism is laden with large and growing sums of sovereign debt.

"The atheist movement comprises more than 2,000 groups and organizations in the U.S. today, but the movement, in composition and purpose, has failed...". - CJ Werleman at Salon

“If mainstream freethought and humanism continue to reflect the narrow cultural interests of white elites who have disposable income to go to conferences then the secular movement is destined to remain marginal and insular.” - Dr. Sikivu Hutchinson