# atheist (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover atheist. Page: Feed: --- ## [Atheists Demand Oklahoma School Address Classroom Misconduct by Teacher, Candidate for State Superintendent](http://atheists.org/news/atheist-stigma/atheists-demand-oklahoma-school-address-classroom-misconduct-by-teacher-candidate-for-state-superintendent/) _2026-08-07 · American Atheists · American Atheists_ The latest example of culture warriors claiming they’re fighting ‘secular’ indoctrination while promoting their own sectarian views. The post Atheists Demand Oklahoma School Address Classroom Misconduct by Teacher, Candidate for State Superintendent appeared first on American Atheists . ## [Fired for being an atheist](http://atheists.org/weekly-update/fired-for-being-an-atheist/) _2026-07-22 · Geoffrey Blackwell · American Atheists_ Our Legal Team is firing back — exposing abuses of power and holding rights violators accountable. The post Fired for being an atheist appeared first on American Atheists . ## [American Atheists Warns Texas Comptroller Not to Fire Non-Christians](http://atheists.org/news/atheist-stigma/american-atheists-warns-texas-comptroller-not-to-fire-non-christians/) _2026-07-21 · Nick Fish · American Atheists_ Religious discrimination in the workplace is not only illegal under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, but also violates the constitutions of both the United States and the state of Texas. American Atheists' warned Huffines in the letter that it would take action to defend the rights of any nonreligious employees let go from the Office of the Comptroller of Public Accounts. The post… ## [Scapegoats under your bed!](http://atheists.org/weekly-update/scapegoats-under-your-bed/) _2026-07-18 · Melina Cohen · American Atheists_ Every generation gets its boogeyman, and there is no scarier scapegoat than the atheist. The post Scapegoats under your bed! appeared first on American Atheists . ## [“The biggest lie that’s ever been told in America”](http://atheists.org/weekly-update/the-biggest-lie-thats-ever-been-told-in-america/) _2026-07-11 · Nick Fish · American Atheists_ This is an all-out declaration of war against the very idea of religious neutrality, drafted by a government commission and presented to the President of the United States in the Oval Office. The post “The biggest lie that’s ever been told in America” appeared first on American Atheists . ## [American Atheists Files Comment Demanding Religious Liberty Commission Withdraw Biased, Ideological Report](http://atheists.org/news/federal-policy/american-atheists-files-comment-demanding-religious-liberty-commission-withdraw-biased-ideological-report/) _2026-07-10 · Nick Fish · American Atheists_ American Atheists argues that the report should be withdrawn in its entirety and the RLC start over by conducting a good-faith effort to examine this vital issue without bias. The post American Atheists Files Comment Demanding Religious Liberty Commission Withdraw Biased, Ideological Report appeared first on American Atheists . ## [It’s a bipartisan problem](http://atheists.org/weekly-update/its-a-bipartisan-problem/) _2026-07-09 · Nick Fish · American Atheists_ And in the wake of the Christian Nationalist movement’s hijacking of our 250th anniversary celebrations this year, we can’t sit idly by while one of the highest ranking members of the Senate gives them more ammunition by repeating a false story. The post It’s a bipartisan problem appeared first on American Atheists . ## [Why is Chuck Schumer fabricating Christian Nationalist-style quotes?](http://atheists.org/news/atheist-stigma/why-is-chuck-schumer-fabricating-christian-nationalist-style-quotes/) _2026-07-06 · Nick Fish · American Atheists_ In social media posts celebrating Independence Day, Chuck Schumer referenced the Founding Fathers’ statements calling the United States “God’s noble experiment.” The problem? There is no evidence that any early American statesman has ever uttered the phrase. The post Why is Chuck Schumer fabricating Christian Nationalist-style quotes? appeared first on American Atheists . ## [Call on Senator Chuck Schumer to Retract his Christian Nationalist Fabrications](http://atheists.org/petition/call-on-senator-chuck-schumer-to-retract-his-christian-nationalist-fabrications/) _2026-07-06 · Nick Fish · American Atheists_ The post Call on Senator Chuck Schumer to Retract his Christian Nationalist Fabrications appeared first on American Atheists . ## [The Fourth is for the faithless](http://atheists.org/weekly-update/the-fourth-is-for-the-faithless/) _2026-07-04 · Nick Fish · American Atheists_ "Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry." The post The Fourth is for the faithless appeared first on American Atheists . ## [Every Channel. One Login. (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1R4Uo2asdLnm) _2026-07-04 · **Sponsored**_ 17,000+ live channels, movies and sports on any device. Free trial, no IP lock. ## [Card Games and the Critical Mind](/post/cardgamesandthecriticalmind/) _2026-04-21 · Thinks Too Much_ I have a love for card games specifically Magic: the Gathering. It’s a game that requires a vast amount of ever expanding knowledge as well as the ability to think critically about hte situation you’re in while also trusting you gut. It allows for so much creativity within how you interact with the game and the community as a whole. Everything deciding what deck you’ll build to… ## [Atheist Grimoire: Perceptions of Pantheons](/post/agperceptionsofpantheons/) _2026-04-19 · Thinks Too Much_ A concept I always like to talk to comrades about is the idea of a “Personal Utopia”. The idea comes as a counter point to the perils warned about in Thomas Moore’s “Utopia” where Moore is making a joke about how unreal and impossible a communist society with perfect tolerance and no private property is. I agree, that perfect world is impossible, but we should still… ## [Clavicular and the rituals of insecurity](/post/clavicularandself/) _2026-04-01 · Thinks Too Much_ Insecurity is a fact of life for most of us. It’s why so many philosophical and religious traditions focus on dealing with this in a “letting go” kind of way. From the Buddha, to Cato the Younger, to modern day acceptance movements, we have always known that the judgments of others upon ourself is truly of no concern to us. Our external appearance is only a part of our selves and… ## [Grimoire of an Atheist: Ethics of Practice](/post/agethicsofpractice/) _2026-02-06 · Thinks Too Much_ With the steady decline in organized religions in the world today. There is an ever growing desire for people to nurture a sense of whimsy. A sense of magick and awe in every aspect of our lives that simply can’t be satisfied with traditional means of religion. No longer do people seemingly want to be a body on a pew listening to a single interpretation of the enchanted world. Yet, we still want… ## [Grimoire of an Atheist: Anything Interesting](/post/anythinginteresting/) _2026-01-18 · Thinks Too Much_ “What the fuck has that got to do with ANYTHING INTERESTING?” -Richard Dawkins I was listening to Alex O’Conner’s “Within Reason” Podcast while I completed a ten hour drive last week. A great Podcast to listen to if you’re interested in casual philosophy, religion, and okay science (I’ve been a fan for a long time Alex but I’m not convinced you… ## [Grimoire of an Atheist: Altars](/post/grimoirealtars/) _2026-01-01 · Thinks Too Much_ My altar is less aesthetically pleasing than mosts I have seen posted on the Tumblrs and Instagrams of the world. It has a vibe to it that I enjoy. It is based vaguely on the description in Oberron Zell-Ravenloft’s “Grimoire for the Apprentice Wizard” in that it has a representative of all four elements(earth, water, wind, fire) and it has a higher and lower teir to represent our… ## [Interview – Bart Ehrman on Jesus Mythicism](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/11/interview-bart-ehrman-on-jesus-mythicism/) _2025-11-30 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ My very special guest today is Professor Bart Ehrman. Bart will need no introduction for most people, but in case you aren’t aware: he is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the author of over 30 books on early Christianity and New Testament studies, including the best sellers Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who… ## [In Defence of Bad Books](/post/indefenceofbadbooks/) _2025-11-29 · Thinks Too Much_ I love bad books. Popular bad books. Non-fiction bad books. Any bad book is worth a read every once in a while. Bad books aren’t objectively bad in my opinion just books that might not be for me or I even disagree with. The best bad books are the books that I want to enjoy because they’re popular or because the premise is fun. And what makes them bad is equally fluid and often just my… ## [On an Atheist Conception of God](/post/atheistgod/) _2025-11-21 · Thinks Too Much_ Gods and worship have been quintessential aspect of the human experience since all of known human history. Yet, there are those of us who have chosen to defy these well established rules of society. Why you have chosen to abandon a creator framework for life is, to me, irrelevant, but I do want to make a claim that the conception for god is a useful tool for navigating life and our journey of self… ## [Review – Alice Roberts “Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity”](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/10/review-alice-roberts-domination-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-and-the-rise-of-christianity/) _2025-10-30 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ Alice Roberts, Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity, (Simon and Schuster, 2025), 413 pp. There is no shortage of excellent books on both the end of the Roman Empire and on the formation of Christendom. Most are by expert historians, many are recent and several are highly accessible works aimed at the general reader. So it may be wondered why another such book has… ## [Realtime AI Arbitrage Terminal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xEyV48AiczTJ) _2025-10-30 · **Sponsored**_ Realtime auto-trading across exchanges with scored setups, backtesting, and risk controls. ## [Interview – Dr Dan McClellan on the Hebrew Bible](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/09/interview-dr-dan-mcclennan-on-the-hebrew-bible/) _2025-09-28 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ My guest today is Dr Dan McClellan. Dan is the presenter of the Data over Dogma podcast and a public educator who has won the Society of Biblical Literature s 2023 Richards Award for Public Scholarship for his YouTube and TikTok videos on the academic study of the Bible. He is also the author of The Bible Says So: What We Get Right (and Wrong) About Scripture s Most Controversial Issues (2025).… ## [The Great Myths 16: The Conflict Between Science and Religion](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/08/the-great-myths-16-the-conflict-between-science-and-religion/) _2025-08-06 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ The Conflict Thesis forms a kind of underlying historical metamyth that informs and undergirds a substantial number of assumptions about history by anti-theist polemicists. This is the assumed and unquestioned idea that Science and Religion have been perpetually at war down the ages. Also known as the Draper-White Thesis or Warfare Model, it is a conception of the history of science that presents… ## [Interview – Dr Thomas C. Schmidt on Josephus’ Testimonium](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/06/interview-dr-thomas-c-schmidt-on-josephus-testimonium/) _2025-06-30 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ My guest today is Dr Thomas C. Schmidt of Fairfield University. Tom has just published an interesting new book through Oxford University Press: Josephus and Jesus – New Evidence for the One Called Christ. In it he makes a detailed case for the authenticity of the Testimonium Flavianum; the much disputed passage about Jesus in Book 18 of Flavius Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews. Not only does he… ## [“Rationality Rules” Bungles Tom Holland](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/05/rationality-rules-bungles-tom-holland/) _2025-05-11 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ In 2019 public historian Tom Holland published his book Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, a thematic history examining the ways Christianity has fundamentally influenced western thinking. The book became a best-seller and critical favourite, though it did not sit well with some, particularly those with an animus against Christianity and religion in general. It has been, however, warmly… ## [Interview – Dr Ada Palmer on Myths of the Renaissance](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/04/interview-dr-ada-palmer-on-myths-of-the-renaissance/) _2025-04-27 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ My guest today is Dr Ada Palmer, Associate Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Chicago and author Inventing the Renaissance: Myths of a Golden Age. I must say I haven’t enjoyed reading a book as much as this one in quite some time. Dr Palmer takes the traditional idea of the Renaissance – that it was a glorious rebirth of reason, artistic mastery and secular thinking… ## [13 Years A Atheist: How It Began](https://rodrigoclarkvet.blogspot.com/2025/04/13-years-atheist-how-it-began.html) _2025-04-14 · Rodrigo Clark · My Perception of Thought..._ It’s been nearly 13 years since I became an atheist. As I sit here writing this, I had to pause and think—yeah, it really has been almost exactly 13 years to the day since I first began to question my beliefs. To be honest, I can't pinpoint the exact piece of media or content that initially sparked my disbelief. But I can say that even during my upbringing as a Jehovah’s Witness, I never had… ## [Did the Pope Apologise to Galileo?](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/03/galileo-pope-apologise/) _2025-03-23 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ One regularly repeated element in the mythic version of the Galileo story is the claim that the Catholic Church did not even admit Galileo had been right about heliocentrism until 1992, which is when Pope John Paul II finally issued an apology for his persecution. This factoid forms a satisfying coda to the popular version of the Galileo Affair, when the righteous martyr for reason is finally… ## [Interview – Dr Nathan Johnstone on New Atheist Bad History](https://historyforatheists.com/2025/01/interview-dr-nathan-johnstone-on-new-atheist-bad-history/) _2025-01-30 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ My guest today is Dr Nathan Johnstone. Nathan is the author of the excellent 2018 book, The New Atheism, Myth and History: The Black Legends of Contemporary Anti-Religion. Like me, Nathan is an unbeliever. And, like me, he has been concerned at the way many of our more anti-theistic fellow atheists have misused history in their arguments. His book covers many of the same examples of this as the… ## [Ritual Sacrifice](/post/ritual_sacrifice/) _2025-01-10 · Thinks Too Much_ I don’t kill anything! To make that clear off the bat, but I tend to notice when things break or plants die right as major changes happen. And it’s all because of that damn witch in my home town! Origins Eight years ago I wore a promise ring that my girlfriend at the time bought me as a going to college present. I loved that thing as it reminded me of her while also being a beautiful ring and… ## [The Clocking Out Ritual](/post/clockingout/) _2025-01-04 · Thinks Too Much_ Life is a series of rituals. You wake up and do your morning rituals of making your bed, brushing your teeth and showering. These are signals in your mind that you need to transition into a new mindset. You are no longer in sleeping mode and need to be in awake mode. The ritual of Coffee or Tea in the morning is more a symbolic waking up than it is a necessity for caffeine. ## [Zero-Persistence E2EE (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/8kg7v5QApZ2j) _2025-01-04 · **Sponsored**_ End-to-end encryption with client-side WebCrypto and volatile memory. ## [Dedications to Myself](/post/ah1systems/) _2024-12-29 · Thinks Too Much_ “A man standing by a spring of clear, sweet water and cursing it. While the fresh water keeps on bubbling up. He can shovel mud into it, or dung, and the stream will carry it away, wash itself clean, remain unstained.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations Human Nature and Habits Humans are an ever growing ever changing beast, but through habits that can change. We can either work to maintain habits that… ## [Atheism, Christmas, Capitalism](/post/christmas24/) _2024-12-26 · Thinks Too Much_ Merry Christmas everyone! I hope it went well or at least not awkwardly. I know Christmas is still a tough time for people who are struggling with their family’s politics and also their religious convictions. I have never had to deal with that as it just never comes up. I consider myself “blessed” in that manner. Honestly, I am disappointed as I have spent years on atheist forums and groups that… ## [Work Life Balance 1](/post/worklife1/) _2024-12-20 · Thinks Too Much_ Intro I have recently signed and accepted a job offer with a substantial raise but it is a salaried position. My entire life I have been warned against the dangers of Salary positions. How they only offer those jobs to people who go above and beyond. Working outside of normal hours to get the job done. So that they no longer have to worry about paying overtime and so that the company can feel… ## [Dating apps and Mental Health](/post/datingapps/) _2024-12-16 · Thinks Too Much_ Recently I read a blog post from a friend of mine and his thoughts on dating. It was a good read and I’ll need to ask if he is okay with me sharing it here. However, he had a whole set of reasons to hate dating apps saying they’re “exercise in futility, false hope, and discouragement” viewing them as a place of luck where you hate every second of using just hoping you find… ## [Pagan Christmas, Again.](https://historyforatheists.com/2024/12/pagan-christmas-again/) _2024-12-15 · Tim O'Neill · History for Atheists_ Every year, without fail, we find endless articles, memes and claims on social media about the supposed pagan origins of Christmas. As with Halloween and Easter, anti-theist activists find themselves in furious agreement with neo-pagans and even some evangelical Christians that the date and virtually all the main customs and traditions of Christmas are actually pagan. Pop history articles and… ## [Selfishness and Why I got Snipped](/post/selfishsnips/) _2024-12-09 · Thinks Too Much_ December 6th 2024, I received a vasectomy at the age of 27. I have spent the weekend healing and going over in my head everything I want to tell people about why I did it and what lead me to finally do it. I’ve been listening to podcasts about it and reading stories on Reddit, and I have some thoughts on why I specifically want to get it done. Primarily I wanted to focus on my ideas of selfishness… ## [Atheist Occultism](/post/atheistoccult/) _2024-12-03 · Thinks Too Much_ There is an obvious contradiction in being both an Atheist and an Occultist. How can I believe and practice Magick and Religious rituals if I do not believe in the powers that I am acting as if I am controlling? What gives me the right to disrespect these practices and traditions? Simple, it’s fun and I do not worry about gods or demons smiting me. That is of course the short version. ## [So You're Buying a Gun](/post/buyingagun/) _2024-11-27 · Thinks Too Much_ Welcome to firearms ownership! This document is to help you learn the basics and give you the fundamental skills necessary to defend yourself and your loved ones. What to know Firearms are tools that are there to help you survive in either a deadly confrontation or a dire survival situation. They are not toys. You can certainly have fun with them, but there is a real gravity to being a firearms… ## [50 Round Handgun Training Manual](/post/50rdtrain/) _2024-11-25 · Thinks Too Much_ Dry Fire Drills NOTE: All Drills should be performed using your Every Day Carry Clothes and Gear, The point is to be ready when an actual situation occurs. Ideal Draws (10-15 minutes daily) Start from a loose, comfortable standing position. At random you will put your hands up like you’re surrendering then draw your firearm and point it straight at the mirror using your reflection as both a target… ## [Hello World!](/post/helloworld/) _2024-11-23 · Thinks Too Much_ Welcome to my Site! This is my blog… I guess. I’ve been wanting to find a place to collect and share my ideas for years now. Hopefully this becomes a regular habit that I can maintain for years, but we need to start small by starting the site and introducing what I do. Things to see I am an avid enjoyer of what I believe to be a stereotypical collection of hobbies: Hiking, History,… ## [Cluck-tastrophy!](/post/clucktastrophy/) _2024-09-16 · Thinks Too Much_ It’s been 3 years since Jacob went to rehab. It’s been a long road to recovery since then and they say it never ends. Merideth has been supportive of her son the whole time he’s been away. He told her all about the theater troupe he joined and that play about the King he was in. Not as the king, but one of his servants. He’s detailed his whole time working for that fast food chicken place, Lucky…