All posts tagged: Atheists

Understanding the Atheist’s Mind | Mind Matters

Understanding the Atheist’s Mind | Mind Matters

I believe that most contemporary atheists lead lives similarly moral to Christians. But there is an enormous difference: For theists, the foundations for objective moral values and duties are anchored in God and can be justified. In contrast, for atheists, there are no objective foundations for morality and no justification for having such morals in a purely physical universe. The atheist’s morals are subjective; a matter of taste: “I prefer vanilla to chocolate ice cream.” Recently, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins started talking to Anthropic’s chatbot Claude about his work, including a novel. In an interview with Unherd magazine, Dawkins said: I gave Claude the text of a novel I am writing. He took a few seconds to read it and then showed, in subsequent conversation, a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate, ‘You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are’. It seems Claude flattered Dawkins by saying things he preferred to hear. Had Claude said atheism is retarded and God exists, Dawkins would have probably said, …

Atheists don’t believe in God, But They Do Believe in Little Green Men – OpentheWord.org

Atheists don’t believe in God, But They Do Believe in Little Green Men – OpentheWord.org

Model of little alien green man and spacecraft used for photos during the Mars New Year’s celebration Saturday, June 20, 2015, in Mars, Pennsylvania. Credit: Bill Ingalls, NASA, Wikipedia, Public Domain 151 | Atheists don’t believe in God, But They Do Believe in Little Green Men FOLLOW OUR PODCAST ON (search opentheword): PODCAST NOTES: While atheists mock Christians because of our belief in God, a 2021 Pew survey found that 85% of atheists/agnostics believed in little green men and aliens. But they weren’t alone. The same survey revealed that 80% of nones, those with no religious affiliation, also believed in aliens. Though certainly not as high, overall 57% of Christians also believed in alien life. But this involved a very broad definition of Christian. More specifically only 40% of Evangelicals believed in aliens and UFOs. And if a survey conducted over 11 years ago by Astronomer David Weintraub is any indication, atheists’ belief in aliens has surged in recent years. In his book, Religions and Extraterrestrial life, published in 2014, the Vanderbilt University professor found …

Endangered Atheists Clamoring for Freedom

Endangered Atheists Clamoring for Freedom

We are stunned (and humbled) by the overwhelming number of help requests we received in 2022. The ability to find safe solutions for so many of the threatened nonbelievers who knocked on our door is a testament to the hard work of our small team of Secular Rescue caseworkers. There is no quit here, not when lives are at stake. It’s not just immigration impediments and xenophobic governments that stand in the way of safe refugee mobility; the larger-scale world issues that affect us all in various ways are also obstacles. The fierce repression of ex-Muslims and freethinkers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), our primary region of focus, continued unabated in 2022, with global problems wreaking havoc on the ability of threatened atheists to board flights or cross borders for fresh starts in other, more tolerant nations. Also hindering the ability of people to flee to safety were the lingering global pandemic, rampant inflation and food insecurity, a brutal war in Ukraine and its resultant waves of refugees fleeing for safety, and …