9) Atheists have no way to cope after losing loved ones without the belief in an afterlife. The belief that religion has sole ownership over death is so ingrained that it often causes believers to behave in inappropriate ways toward grieving atheists, using the occasion of a loved one’s death to try to coax us into taking up religion. Some believers who do this are openly predatory, but some mean well, and simply can’t imagine how atheists cope without telling ourselves pretty stories about an afterlife. Atheists have every right to be skeptical of the argument that belief in the afterlife quiets the pain of grief. After all, many religions teach that the dead person could be burning forever in hell, which can cause far more anxiety than relief. Read more...It’s not just a white dude thing — and 9 other myths religious people have about atheists, debunked
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HBO’s Scientology Exposé Shows the Cult Is Much Crazier and More Ruthless Than You Might Imagine | Alternet
just watched this on vidbull.com and what a wild fuckerization of mind control and meek, tender folks. Google Going Clear and vidbull.com for those of us w/o corporate TV.
Last month, Rachel Maddow made a splash by verbally stomping up and down on activist Richard Cohen, who claims he can teach gays how to be straight. Her beef was not just with his philosophy, but his relationship with conservative Christians in Uganda who are behind the effort to pass a bill that includes a death penalty for "serial offender" homosexuals. Today, the Times takes an additional look at Cohen and two other American evangelical Christians who have — they claim inadvertently — helped fuel the anti-gay movement in Uganda. This stuff isn't new, but this quote from Reverend Kapya Kaoma, a Zambian who has been tracking the relationship between the American evangelicals and the African anti-gay movement from the inside, is enlightening. "What these people have done is set the fire they can’t quench," he told the Times, adding that the Americans "underestimated the homophobia in Uganda" and "what it means to Africans when you speak about a certain group trying to destroy their children and their families." He pointed out that much more than in America, that kind of hyperbole has dire consequences. "When you speak like that," he said, "Africans will fight to the death."
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Due to fear of reprisals, Anonymous members are reluctant to give their names. One organizer, who goes by the nom de guerre of "93," tells us the church has sent warning letters to "our more public members" calling them "'terrorists.' They’re attempting to stamp out our constitutional right to free speech." link
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