What Makes Life MeaningfulWe can all agree that the lives of people like Hitler or Attila the Hun hold no moral foundation other than what they believed their personal ethical (or unethical) foundation was, and in turn they did in fact have followers that supported their so-called beliefs. This, consequentially, ... Read More
Atheists generally have a bad public image around the world due to the fact that they do not believe in a god. The term atheist has many inappropriate colorings including untrustworthiness, immorality, and being conflated with un-Americanism. The distrust of atheists in societies around the world stems from major philosophical ... Read More
Being labeled as an atheist carries a lot of baggage in todays society. In discussions with theists, the atheist position is often misunderstood as believing, or knowing, there is no god. This puts the atheist in the position of proving a negative, unless they can demonstrate the proper usage of ... Read More
In Seven States, Atheists Push to End Largely Forgotten BanSummaryIn 1961, Roy Torcaso refused to say that he believed in a God in order to serve as a notary public in Maryland in doing this, he was denied the ability to serve as a political official in the state. This ... Read More
How many rights do you have? You should check, because it might not be as many today as it was a few years ago, or even a few months ago. Some people I talk to are not concerned that police will execute a search warrant without knocking or that they ... Read More
Sartre, which we place among atheists, stress that central concern of philosophy is human existence. He says that human being is a special kind of consciousness (being-for- itself). Everything else is matter (being-in-itself). He believes that human being has no God-given essence and is absolutely free and absolutely responsible. According ... Read More
The story of Jesus Christ is one of the most discussed history subject among Christians, Jews and even Atheists. It is also very unclear. Because of the lack of recorded history, stories sprang up everywhere. It is very hard to tell fact from fiction. Like most history, a lot of ... Read More
After all of the arguments for and against the existence of god, the problem of non-belief is the most convincing. Why, if god exists, are there non-believers? The strongest answers to this question are that god does not want everyone to be saved, believing in god tests how worthy one ... Read More
Life consists of choices. Life itself is a choice. People make numerous choices a day whether or not to go to school, study for the test, or even which pair of shoes to wear. Sometimes it is very difficult to decide what course of action to take. Sometimes a specific ... Read More