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issues cover story is a statement from American Atheists President David Silverman, who
speaks for the entire organization when he says that bigoted atheists have no place in our
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF movement (see page 5).
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Karen Rei lly
The craziness is doubts, all competitors for the public podium. To confuse every
discussion with lies and nonsense so its victims can no longer
almost completely
think straight about any subject. This is precisely why the phrase
President Trump is now a part of our everyday language.
This one institutionand it has no rivals in this mission,
invisible to the not anywhere in Earth cultureis religion.
Not religion the fluffy kitten. Not religion the friendly cat
people being that just occasionally scratches. But religion the tiger, with
its historically obvious teeth and claws: lies, intimidation,
crushed under it. subjugation, suppression, terror, torture, murder, and war.
A tiger that is still with us, and has, as its fierce main mission,
to get us to believe things that are unprovable, unsupportable,
undefendable ... but that somehow must be believed, supported
or San Francisco. and defended.
To some of us, this will come across as old news. Why am I To believe the unprovable, unsupportable, indefensible is
even writing about it? But the point is that the whole situation is somehow the greatest of virtues. To doubt it is the vilest and
wacky as hell. American companies. American workers. Going most terrible of sinsa threat to our own immortal souls.
to work each day to make landmines that wouldhow can I Teach that to a whole people, for all of their history, and you
put this delicately?blow the freakin legs off children. And then create not just craziness for the individual, but also profound
sleeping well that night. (Companies in the continental United misery, vast pain, and ugliness for hapless future generations.
States supposedly stopped manufacturing landmines in 1997, But the weird sort of reverse-miracle attendant on the whole
but the U.S. still has the largest stockpile of the clever little thing is that the craziness is almost completely invisible to
things in the world.) the people being crushed under it. As long as everybody stays
Someone sat down and invented these things, knowing they crazy, as long as you kill or discredit anyone who begins to edge
would kill mostly civilian adults and children. And someone toward sanity, the crazy can stay clamped down for hundreds,
else, a lot of someone elses, right here in America, thought it even thousands, of years.
was a dandy idea to make money off them. Following which, a And so it has. Occasional bright sparks of sanity have given
lot of other someone elses put them in fields all over the world us science, technology, medicine, and reason itself. But those
without bothering to note where they were. And three hundred sparks, like diamonds in mud, are used as tools to spread the
million someone elses just sort of sat back and yawned. crazy because they still exist in a matrix of crazy that pervades,
As it turns out, there is a connection to religion in the making opposes, or perverts just about every advance toward greater
and placing of landmines. The landmine industry flourished sanity, such that we have technological wonders gifted to us by
on U.S. soil for so many years because a majority of the people the sanity-sparks of scienceradio, TV, computers, the web.
involved, and a majority of the American public, didnt even Such that we can build landmines to blow the legs off children
bother to think about it. It wasnt important because, according and sleep well at night. Such that the freedom to not have
to their beliefs, nobody was really dying. They were only children is opposed by powerful voices right now, today, at the
passing on. highest levels of American government.
Besides, even if people were injured or killed way off in those Such that every major disaster in the world is followed by
distant places, that was all up to God, wasnt it? If their lives and televised religious voices blaming either the victims, marriage
deaths were wholly the responsibility of God, no mere assembler equality, pornography, or all of the above and using the human
of landmines here in America was guilty of any moral crime. horror as a sales pitch to raise money to grow more craziness.
Heck, maybe even God was using them as a tool of redemption Such that there are large numbers of us who accept that the world
for those godless heathens. is ending soon, and that this is a good thing much to be desired.
The point of all this is that theres a level of crazy built into Such that there are world-scale problemsglobal warming, for
our culture, and it appears to spring directly from the fact that instancethat cannot even be brought up in a public forum
were trained to be crazy. To think in an irrational manner and without being shouted down by a ready chorus of crazies.
believe unbelievable things. And such that the spreading and consuming of this deadly
This isnt some cultural accident, or just a simple holdover craziness is seenby most of us stillas the most staunchly
ignorance from the time when we were flea-scratching, upright and passionately defended human right.
beasts. This is organized. Deliberate. There is, in our society, And that, excuse me, is just plain nuts.
an established, streamlined, all-pervasive and aggressive-as-
hell institutionactually a collection of institutionshell- Hank Fox is the author of Red Neck, Blue Collar, Atheist: Simple Thoughts
bent on spreading the crazy. We live in a society that features About Reason, Gods & Faith. A former blogger on the Patheos network
a Crazy School. (A Citizen of Earth) and Freethought Blogs (Blue Collar Atheist), he now
Crazy School doesnt just teach its own curriculum, it blogs independently as A Citizen of Earth.
16 Saviors, 16 Flavors
by Michael B. Paulkovich
Religion
religion and science can coexist because they do not interfere
with each other. I dont buy it. If you rely on the scientific
method to make life-or-death decisions, you should, at the very
least, cast a skeptical eye on religion. Just as I wouldnt entrust
is fair game
my money to a banker who thinks that twenty bucks can buy
a Rolex, Im not going to trust my daughter to a doctor who
believes in superstitions.
Our new pediatrician does something I like a lot: he
when it comes questions things. His questioning led to the testing of our
daughters stool and the discovery of her milk allergy. He
to the medical
recommended that my wife abstain from eating dairy if she was
going to breastfeed, and that we incorporate formula into the
babys diet. We immediately saw a reversal: our daughter began
field because
gaining weight and started sleeping better. Today, she is an
overall happier baby who just had her first birthday.
History is full of lessons about why we have laws and
religion and institutions that protect religious freedom and the freedom of
expression. Yet those lessons do not require us to pretend that
science are
superstitions presented as religious beliefs are just as valid as
logic and reason.
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The Bible,
explanation, he asked the class, of the bad attitude or poor class participation.
Churchs position on abortion and birth But it occurred to me that there was
control? something I could ask. Before my internal
Only about one in four raised their
hands. That in itself was remarkable, obviously, editor had a chance to head things off, my
hand went up. I was sitting right in front of
didnt say
because most of us were completing our the old priest, and he nodded at me.
fourteenth or fifteenth year of Catholic If I understand the biology right,
anything
education. We knew what the Churchs I said, in the case of identical twins,
position was, of course, but curiously, no that first cell, the zygote, splits into
one had bothered to explain it. two new cells that separate and develop
about
The old man acknowledged the show independently. The old priest may or
of hands, gave up on the assigned material, may not have nodded to indicate that he
and launched into an abridged explanation understood what I was saying. I dont
DNA.
of the Churchs view. He probably said a bit remember. But he didnt cut me off.
more than I remember, but essentially, he When that happens, then? I asked.
went to the blackboard and drew an x or Does the soul that God just infused split
some other symbol to represent a sperm cell in two, in some sort of spiritual mitosis,
and a different symbol to represent an egg. or does God recall it and issue two new
He then drew arrows from each to a circle. ones? I think my question caught the old
The circle represented the ovum that forms when the sperm priest off guard, or maybe he was just distracted, because he
fertilizes the egg. simply muttered something about divine foresight and then
At the moment the sperm and egg unite and form a lit into two guys sitting near the door. They had been having
new cell, he explained, God infuses an immortal soul and a whispered conversation between themselves for several
transforms that cell into a human beinga person. Anyone minutes, and their conversation had become louder and more
who intentionally destroys that cell, or the embryo it develops annoying.
into, kills that person. This wasnt about killing a cell or a Before the priest had gotten very far with those
bundle of cells; it was about killing a living being with an miscreants and could turn his attention back to me, the bell
immortal soul. rang. He surrendered and dismissed the class, and I made my
I was probably nineteen years old then, and despite all the escape unscathed. The ancient professor had not eviscerated
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Atheist Answers
by David McAfee
I have been an atheist as long as I can remember, and Ive been inundated with
questions about atheism for almost as long. After graduating from college with a
degree in religious studies, I began writing about secular issues for this magazine
and other outlets. Over the past seven years, Ive published five books, and, needless
to say, the questions keep coming. Atheist Answers is a collection of my responses to
some of the most relevant and interesting questions Ive been asked. This article is an
adaptation of two chapters: Evidence & Belief and Afterlife. I hope my ramblings
help you solidify your own ideas, and even create some new ones.
How do you know there is no God? Our knowledge is very limited, whose nonexistence I cant prove, and I dont believe in most
so isnt it possible for there to be something keeping the order? of them.
I dont claim absolute certainty on the non-existence of
god, but uncertainty is not enough to warrant belief. Nobody Can God and religion coexist with science?
knows exactly how we got here, but Im more comfortable with A lot of the conflict between religion and science stems
following the scientific evidence than I am in proclaiming the from the stagnancy of scripture. When the Bible is seen as the
existence of a deity out of my own ignorance of the facts. The divinely inspired word of God even though it makes ridiculous
distinct lack of evidence pointing to a god is exactly why I dont claims like man being made from dirt and the earth being
believe in one. created in six days, you get generations of people who fight
against our evolving understanding of our origins. If you look
What evidence do you have against the existence of God? at organizations that have consistently impeded the progress of
We have lots of evidence against certain types of gods, science, youll see that they are most often religious in nature.
including prayer-answering deities. Intercessory prayer, for
example, has been extensively debunked by the scientific method. Want proof of God? Look at the human eye. That design did
not happen on its own.
But can you prove that God does not exist? Should we conclude that God is an eagle then? An eagles
No, and Ive never said I could. There are a lot of things eyesight is up to eight times better than a humans.
Dont you ever feel connected to something bigger than yourself, How would you explain the happenings that people call miracles?
that the universe is trying to tell you something, or is it all just a What most people call miracles are merely placeholders
bunch of coincidences? for anything unexplainable. Throughout the history of
I do feel connected to something bigger than myself: the humanity, there have been millions of unexplained phenomena
earth, my fellow animals, the universe, and the cosmos. That that were later determined to be of natural origin. Not once,
last one is bigger than you or me and any man-made god or however, has the opposite occurred. We have never had a
vague spiritual idea you can come up with. It encompasses scientific understanding that was replaced with a supernatural
everything you have ever seen or ever will see and it created us or miraculous explanation.
humans out of the same materials that make up the stars, trees,
rocks, and planets, as well as the chemicals that produce love, What would it take to change your mind?
anger, and happiness. If there were substantial, testable, peer-reviewed evidence
that showed the presence of a deity to be highly probable, Id re-
I just cant fathom everything exploding into existence from nothing evaluate my position. But that will never happen because of the
with no outside force helping. How can you say there definitely is very nature of deities. At the end of the day, a believer has to rely
no God in any shape or form? on faith. If the Abrahamic God somehow proved his existence
There are a lot of theories, but no solid proof of anything to the world, I would believe in that deity. But I still wouldnt
yet. I would urge you to fight the desire to fill that unknown worship it.
with God. Saying I dont know is perfectly acceptable,
and in many cases its the only honest answer. While we How can atheism be logical?
have a number of ideas about how the Big Bang could have If I showed you a picture of a forest and told you there was
come about without an omnipotent deity, I can assure you someone in the picture and you couldnt find him, youd declare
that there are zero scientific theories that explain the origin he doesnt exist, but he could be under a pile of leaves.
of an omnipotent CreatorGod. Its possible that some If you show me a picture of a forest and told me there is
detached deistic god started it all, but without evidence someone in the picture, Ill search and examine and put your
pointing to that notion, it doesnt make sense to believe claim under scrutiny. If I dont find something, I wont take a
If the
constantly making connections that arent there, prove their religious beliefs to be true. If
but we can train ourselves to recognize this and it did, the opposite would also be logical,
adjust our thoughts accordingly, instead of simply and I would point to famous non-believers
believing. who used to be religious as evidence for
atheism.
How are you so firm in your beliefs?
Abrahamic
God
Where do you get the idea that I am firm in I often hear from believers that gods
my beliefs? I would consider my beliefs quite cannot be proven because it first takes a
malleable, because they are shaped by the evidence leap of faith before letting go to see the
put forth. I am on a lifelong journey to rid myself of proof within yourself. What would you
false beliefs and sacred cows, so its necessary for say to that?
me to be willing drop long-held beliefs if scientific Believers often forget that most
somehow
data proves them to be false. I also am open to atheists used to be religious, that many
adopting new ideas based on fresh empirical non-believers used to think they had a
evidence. Firmness in beliefs is what causes people personal relationship with their God,
to shy away from looking at those ideas with a
skeptical or critical eye. proved his and that they used to feel the power of
prayer. Theyve since learned that their
Ive been having doubts about my non-belief. Its existence feelings were internal emotions and not
some external force.
to the world,
hard to imagine sometimes that we are alone without
a guiding force. What are your thoughts? I think that without a belief in a loving and
just God, most people would become very sad,
I would
My advice is to simply follow the evidence.
If youve found some action or force that must bitter, and angry about the world. Do you
be attributed to a deity, then you are sitting on think some people need religion?
an enormous discovery. Most likely, however, If you were right, then countries with
you perceive a guiding force because you are
a pattern-seeking animal who sees coincidental believe in high rates of atheism, like Japan, France,
The Netherlands, Denmark, and Iceland
that deity.
beneficial outcomes in your own personal life as would be filled with hate groups, crime,
a sign that someone is on your side. suicide, and more. We do not see that. We
can also look at highly religious nations
Do you ever wish you were wrong?
There are a lot of things I hope Im wrong But I still like Afghanistan (the country with one
of the highest rates of depresssion) or the
wouldnt
about. I think it would be great, not to mention U.S. (where only one in three Americans
scientifically groundbreaking, if we were to prove say theyre very happy) for comparison.
worship it.
the existence of psychic ability, gods, or any form Im not saying atheism necessarily leads
of afterlife. But my hopes cant be used in place of to happiness, but its statistically clear
evidence, so I separate my desires from my beliefs. that the opposite is not true.
Do you think religion in general has had a positive or negative If you dont believe in God or Heaven, what is the meaning of life?
influence on the advancement of technology, or has it not had any Shouldnt it be a persons own responsibility to give life
effect on it at all? meaning, instead of having to rely on heavily flawed religious
Religious people brought about the scientific method traditions to provide the framework? It is my sincere opinion
Just like the outrage over American Atheists billboards, this within hours of her post, every venue where she was still to perform
outrage was predictable and failed to have a negative effect on cancelled her appearance. CNN fired her from the New Years Eve
her popularity. gig shed co-hosted with Anderson Cooper for the past ten years.
This year, however, things got weird when she made a The double-standard machine was on full blast when she
statement on social media that arguably amounted to nothing decided it was in her best interest to plead guilty in the court of
more than garden-variety political commentary. On May public opinion to the non-existent crime of making a political
30, she posted an image on Twitter and Instagram of herself statement through art. The machine went into overdrive when
holding a plastic Donald Trump head dripping with fake blood. it came out that she was under an FBI investigation into whether
The caption read, There was blood coming out of his eyes, she intended to assassinate the president, which was opened
blood coming out of his...wherever. Other than changing her and closed in a matter of days.
to his, this was a direct quote from Trumps own description Fortunately, her remorse was short-lived. At the end
of another female television personality, Megyn Kelly, when of August, she retracted her apology and announced new
she moderated one of the Republican primary debates. performance dates in Europe, Asia, and Australia on what was
Griffin was in the midst of a national tour at the time, and now called the Laugh Your Head Off World Tour, complete
with a poster that reproduces the infamous photo with a globe
substituted for Trumps head.
But the jokes really on us as a nation because now the rest
of the world is laughing its head off at the Land of the Free
because its actually the land of Viva free speechunless its
offensive to me.
A little over a month before this all hit the fan, an art exhibit at
the University of Alaska was coming to a close after a six-week run.
The show featured work by Department of Art faculty members
including Thomas Chung, an assistant professor whose painting
Everything depicts a young Hillary Clinton in a white pantsuit
embracing the leg of a naked Chris Evans (the actor who stars in
the Captain America film franchise) who is holding the severed
head of Donald Trump that drips blood onto Hillarys outfit.
The exhibit was thirty-seven days into its forty-day run
before a gallery visitor posted Chungs painting on Facebook
to question its appropriateness on a campus funded by tax
dollars. The post went viral enough to catch the attention of
the local news stations, which prompted hundreds of calls and
emails to the university that were threatening enough that
Chung had a police escort on campus for a while.
The gallery visitor who started it all was just that: a visitor
not a student, faculty member, or other employee of the university.
For what its worth, Trump carried Alaska with 51% of the vote
compared to Clintons 39%, and as of this writing, his approval
rating in that state is still higher than the national average. So why
I
Texas at sunrise. The spring air grape juice tasting one and the same
was chilly, but I felt warm and safe on my tongue.
remember
holding hands with the people next I was taught that experiencing
to me as our group formed a circle awe is only possible through God,
how it
and sang hymns. I would have been so when I started to have doubts
six or seven, wearing an Easter dress about the religion of my childhood,
that matched my little sisters and one of my greatest concerns was
made
a Sunday hat with pastel ribbons. that I would no longer have the
That morning, my mother had ability to experience those feelings
woken us while it was still dark so that were inherent to some of the
we could join the churchs sunrise best moments of my life.
service. I cant see the specific Since then, Ive learned
me feel:
colors of the sky anymore in my that religion doesnt have a
minds eyethey blend in with monopoly on awe. Its a common
the others that have followed misconception thats easy to
small but
but I remember how it made me debunk once you understand how
feel: small but important, part of awe works. Anyone, religious or
something bigger than I realized not, is capable of experiencing
was possible.
I didnt know it at the time, important, awe. Keltners research suggests
that human beings have an innate,
part of
but what I experienced during fundamental need to experience
this moment was awe, an emotion awe. He describes the need as an
that scientists and psychologists emotion that has evolved in us to
have only begun to research and ensure that we cooperate within
understand in the last two decades.
A foundational leader in the study something social collectives. His research,
published in peer-reviewed
bigger
of awe, Dacher Keltner of the psychology journals, has found
University of California Berkeley, that the experience of awe nurtures
explains that awe is that sense of feelings of altruism and empathy,
than I
wonder we feel in the presence of boosts creativity and academic
something vast that transcends our performance, and discourages
understanding of the world (Awe, both narcissism and the sense of
the Small Self, and Social Behavior, entitlement.
realized
Journal of Personality and Social As a mother, I naturally began
Psychology, 2015, vol. 108, no. 6). to wonder how to foster these
was
I find this definition helpful, as it connections in my children.
names both the cause and effect of Growing up in the church had
experiencing awe. Like the sunrise shaped my experiences of awe
service at Easter, most moments throughout my childhood, so my
possible.
of awe from my childhood are own children, who are being raised
intertwined with religion: the glow outside of religion, will have some
of candles in a darkened sanctuary, very different references.
One of my
magnanimity. Keltner gathered we are by the Golden Gate Bridge
data from twenty-five countries and if were not as impressed as they
greatest
encompassing a diverse pool of are by the taste of five different sodas
cultures including Americans mixed together. Whats important is
as well as the indigenous Himba that we encourage and respect how
in Namibia. He has found the and where they do find awe. Then,
number-one triggerwhether
its in the U.S. or among the
concerns if were lucky, well learn from their
experiences as well.
was that
indigenous Himba in Namibia This feeling is difficult to arrange
to always be the same: the or plan because awe pushes the
profound generosity of others. limits of understanding and can
I would
This is good news for families therefore come close to crossing
whose resources may be limited the boundary into feelings of fear.
whether its temporal, financial, or People who are unwilling or unable
no longer
environmental. to restructure their thinking in order
Nature as a trigger of awe to accommodate awe may find the
comes in second place, but the experience terrifying. We can help
have the
scene doesnt have to be as big children make the leap from fear to
or dramatic as we might think. enjoyment by encouraging them to
Simply looking up at the sky; wonder, ask questions, and, most
ability to
being around water, trees, or importantly, let them know theyre
animals; or studying insects or not alone in their search.
the stars can be awe-inspiring. An It can be hard for parents to admit
important point Keltner makes is we dont always have an answer, but
that because of our fundamental,
innate need to experience awe, experience if we can embrace and admit to our
children that we dont know exactly
those
the triggers are as varied as how big the sky is, how the universe
human beings themselves. Art, was formed, or what happens when
music, and science can score big we die, we let them know its okay to
points in different people. Let wonder, to explore, to ask questions,
feelings.
your child take the lead: turn and keep searching for answers that
up the volume to their favorite may never be found. This alone can
songs, encourage their passion for be awe-inspiring.
photography, or their interest in
dinosaurs and space. Maria Polonchek is the author of In Good Faith: Secular Parenting in a
Children will identify their own versions of awe, but Religious World has written parenting essays for Brain, Child magazine,
Keltner reminded me that its their job to be different The Friendly Atheist blog, and the book Have Milk, Will Travel.
www.MiltonTimmons.com
www.ScrollSeekers.com
David Silverman
President of American Atheists
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Cliff Somers
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