Comments on: Women in atheism: a tour through history

By: Gina Martin

Gina Martin — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:26:00 +0000

Yep! The Brick Bible is terrific for that. http://thebrickbible.com/

By: MTBooks

MTBooks — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:11:00 +0000

fallopian tubes?

By: Daniel Maycock

Daniel Maycock — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:38:00 +0000

Sorry for sounding like a Jerk, I don’t care – just pointing out an observation. If I offended you, I’m terribly sorry.

By: petertrepan

petertrepan — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:30:00 +0000

Well, the older generation might take issue if you read their kids Ingersoll, but you could offer to read them the Bible. Most Christians have heard about Adam and Eve, Noah’s ark, and Moses versus the Pharaoh, but not as many have heard about the sack of Midian, the mysterious unpardonable sin, or the prohibition against clothes of two fabrics. An actual thorough reading of the Bible has created more freethinkers than anything else I know of. Don’t use the New International Version. It has been worded to make the offensive parts more confusing to the reader.

By: petertrepan

petertrepan — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 14:09:00 +0000

I second this. The more people are aware of the difference between secularism and atheism, the easier it is to distinguish between religious people who can live with atheists versus those who can’t.

By: Amelia_G

Amelia_G — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:57:00 +0000

Oh, shoot, now serious.

56:06: “In the Hispanic/Latin American community [women] have it twice as hard.” Yes, they do! and it kills me. I don’t know how to deal with this. I don’t even have patience to pretend any more. And I have a sister-in-law my age in Argentina dying of AIDS because of the double standard. I can’t save the relatives my age, it’s too late. Yet still because of denieces and denephews, I have Zugszwang, I really need good answers fast.It might be too late–if you’ve watched a father tell his son in front of his not-yet-speaking but everything understanding daughter, “yes guapo, fun stuff is for boys, not for girls.”

By: Amelia_G

Amelia_G — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:29:00 +0000

42:49: oh, ALG did! :)

By: Amelia_G

Amelia_G — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:23:00 +0000

This talk is glorious. One interesting item: “Nothing fails like prayer” is a good one. I’ve been thinking about prayer as a type of worrying, institutionally encouraged. In children.

By: Amelia_G

Amelia_G — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:12:00 +0000

Wonderful! So articulate. Thank you.

Jennifer Michael Hecht is great too. (I am *such* a JMH fan.)

By: Charlie B

Charlie B — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:23:00 +0000

There is a conference/group for everything these days! Isn’t that awesome?

Unfortunately the conference for people afraid to attend conferences never quite works out.

By: Jardine

Jardine — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 01:27:00 +0000

Wait a minute. Are you saying that the meatballs are not in fact testicles but are instead breasts? I think I sense an upcoming schism for Pastafarians.

By: Leslie

Leslie — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:17:00 +0000

No, it is just you, and your post makes you sound like a jerk. If there are enough people who share group membership(s) in common and they want to meet to discuss, what do you care?

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:48:00 +0000

Bummer. Won’t make much of a conference himself, then.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:22:00 +0000

It’s just you.

By: TaymonBeal

TaymonBeal — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:57:00 +0000

As explained in The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Flying Spaghetti Monster has physical characteristics of both sexes (the meatballs and Noodly Appendages).

By: theophrastvs

theophrastvs — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:54:00 +0000

how many world religions have been established by women? (nah the vestal virgins and Pythias don’t count) now how many have been established with women in mind? so no more religion until the flying spaghetti monster is properly established to be the one true pasta goddess (those ain’t meatballs folks) next up: only folks with two X chromosomes (all in the same nucleus [finger wag]) may be licensed to carry hand-guns.

By: Cameron Postelwait

Cameron Postelwait — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:48:00 +0000

absolutely. no crutch of eternity. this is all we got folks. live it up well!

By: Daniel Maycock

Daniel Maycock — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:38:00 +0000

It is just me – or is there a conference / group for everything these days? I’m surprised it’s not the atheist feminist minority atlas shrugged league for feminist minority atheists that believe in in the principles of Ayn Rand between the years 1956 & 1958 (not to be confused with the Atheist feminist minority fountainhead league).

By: Joseph Francis

Joseph Francis — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:46:00 +0000

I wouldn’t use ‘atheism’ and ‘secularism’ interchangeably.

By: digi_owl

digi_owl — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 21:09:00 +0000

Because you knew you only had this chance at living the life you wanted?

By: Cameron Postelwait

Cameron Postelwait — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 19:55:00 +0000

i feel like i only started to really live when i stopped believing an in afterlife.