My Thoughts Are Free: October 2010

My Thoughts Are Free

09 October 2010

Happy 70th Birthday, John Lennon

John Lennon

October 9, 1940 - December 8, 1980

Imagine no religion.....

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I will post my thoughts and those of others on issues of religion and nonbelief, including freethought quotations gathered since I was 12. Help in identifying sources of quotations without complete attribution information will be appreciated. Keywords will be printed in red in quotations.

In my attempt to show that being religious is not a guarantee of moral behavior, I am posting a series of reports on the bad behavior of religious people past and present. This in no way implies that most religious people are immoral. Most religious people I know are good, ethical people. Likewise, most of the non-religious people I know are good ethical people. The religious do not have a monopoly on morality.

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ABORTION & BIRTH CONTROL

•Christians Behaving Badly #1

•Christians Behaving Badly #5

•Christians Behaving Badly #8

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BIBLE

•Asimov, Isaac

•The Bible Is...

•The Brick Testament

•Let There Be Legos

•More Bible Quizzes

•Rewriting the Bible

•Story of Creation

•Why I AM an Atheist - Part 1

•Why I AM an Atheist - Part 2

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BOOK REVIEWS/EXCERPTS

•Atheists: A Groundbreaking Study/Hunsberger & Altemeyer

•Divinity of Doubt/Vincent Bugliosi

•The Glass Castle/Jeannette Walls

•God in the White House/Randall Balmer

•Godless Constitution/Kramnik & Moore

•Jesus for the Non-Religious/Spong

•Mark Twain's Autobiography

•Mighty & the Almighty/Madeleine Albright

•Mistress of the Vatican/Eleanor Herman

•Sex, Mom & God/Frank Schaeffer

•Wordy Shipmates/Sarah Vowell

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CHURCH/STATE SEPARATION

•American Leaders' Thoughts on Religion

•Blog Against Theocracy 2009

•Church/State Separation Quiz

•Faith-based Initiatives

•God in the White House

•God, Politics & Football

•Is America A Christian Nation?

•Obama, President Barack

•Penn Jillette on 2012 Elections

•Religion & Politics, Stepsisters Since 1980

•Religious Freedom

•Religious Right Gets It Wrong

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CLERGY BEHAVING BADLY

•Christians Behaving Badly #2

•Christians Behaving Badly #4

•Christians Behaving Badly #5

•Christians Behaving Badly #7

•Christians Behaving Badly #8

•Christians Behaving Badly #14

•Christians Behaving Badly #21

•Hypocrisy with 2 Capital R's

•Jews Behaving Badly #1

•Jews Behaving Badly #2

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EVOLUTION

•Christians Behaving Badly #3

•Christians Behaving Badly #9

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FAMOUS FREETHINKERS

•American Leaders' Thoughts on Religion

•Anthony, Susan B.

•Asimov, Isaac

•Carlin, George - Commandments

•Carlin, George - Religion

•Famous Freethinkers A to E

•Famous Freethinkers F to J

•Famous Freethinkers K to O

•Famous Freethinkers P to S

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•Franklin, Benjamin

•Gervais, Ricky

•Heinlein, Robert

•Heinlein, Robert (Lazarus Long 1)

•Heinlein, Robert (Lazarus Long 2)

•Huxley, Thomas

•Ingersoll, Robert (Christmas)

•Ingersoll, Robert (Winter Solstice)

•Jillette, Penn

•Kirby, Paula

•Lennon. John

•Lincoln, Abraham

•Martin, Everett Dean

•O'Hair, Madalyn

•Russell, Bertrand - Christ & Morality

•Russell, Bertrand - Progress

•Russell, Bertrand - Religion & Cruelty

•Sagan, Carl - Skepticism

•Seneca, Lucius

•Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

•Top 50 Atheists

•Twain, Mark/ Autobiography

•Twain, Mark - 2009 Conference

•Twain, Mark - Misc. Part 1

•Twain, Mark - Misc. Part 2

•Twain, Mark - Misc. Part 3

•Twain, Mark - Misc. Part 4

•Twain, Mark - Misc. Part 5

•Twain, Mark - Missionaries

•Twain, Mark - The Religious Animal

•Twain, Mark Tonight (Hal Holbrook) on Religion

•Twain, Mark - Torture

•Vowell, Sarah

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FREETHOUGHT RESOURCES

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HOLIDAYS

•Agnostic Christmas (Ingersoll)

•Merry Christmas vs. Happy Holidays

•Smart Asses Escape Christmas

•What I Want For Christmas (Ingersoll)

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HUMOR & FUN

•Atheist Humor

•Atheist Humor 2

•Bad Faith Awards

•Create Your Own UN-Church Signs

•If Jesus Ran for President/Bill Maher

•Haggard, Ted - song by Roy Zimmerman

•It's a Miracle!

•Letter to Anti-Gay Christian

•Three Religious Truths

•Two Commandments

•Why Atheists Laugh at Religion

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MORALITY

•Is Religion a Guarantee of Moral Behavior?

•Joe the Atheist

•Morality (quotations)

•Wealthy Citizens & Corporate Freeloaders

•Why I Am an Atheist #3 In God's Name

•Why Torture is Wrong

•Why Torture is Wrong Part 2

•Why Torture is Wrong Part 3

•Without an Ounce of Integrity

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MOVIE REVIEWS (by subject)

•Ten Word Movie Review - Religulous

•The Invention of Lying - Religulous

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QUOTATIONS (by subject)

•Church/State Separation

•Faith - Part 1

•Faith - Part 2

•Faith - Part 3

•Missionaries

•Random Free Thoughts

•Rejecting Reason - Francis Bacon

(See Famous Freethinkers for quotations by authors)

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RELIGIOUS PEOPLE BEHAVING BADLY

•Christians #1 Birth Control

•Christians #2 Sexual Abuse

•Christians #3 Creationism

•Christians #4 Black Collar Crime

•Christians #5 Blame It On...

•Christians #6 Hate Mail

•Christians #7 Brawling Priests

•Christians #8 Abortion Rights

•Christians #9 Creationism

•Christians #10 Pizarro & Incas

•Christians #11 Torture

•Christians #12 Toward Other Christians

•Christians #13 Demonic Tricks or Treats?

•Christians #14 Clergy Sexual Abuse

•Christians #15 Pat Robertson

•Christians #16 Pat Robertson 2

•Christians #17 Evil Nuns

•Christians #18 Clueless Missionaries

•Christians #19 Antichrist Protection

•Christians #20 Proselytizing Teacher

•Christians #21 Hiring a Hit Man

•Christians #22 Kidnapping for Jesus

•Hindus #1 Maltreatment of Widows

•Jews #1 Sexual Abuse

•Jews #2 Sexual Abuse

•Muslims #1 Stoning Women

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WOMEN & RELIGION

•Women and Religion - Part 1

•Women and Religion - Part 2

•Why I AM an Atheist - Part 1

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WHY PEOPLE ARE/ARE NOT ATHEISTS

•Divinity of Doubt/Vincent Bugliosi

•Does God exist? by Snowbrush

•Everything [about religion] is right until it's wrong

•Godless Numbers Rise

•Keeping Up Appearances

•Religion is "out of date"

•Secularism Rising

•What Am I? Atheist or Agnostic?

•Why Are There Atheists?

•Why I AM an Atheist - Part 1

•Why I AM an Atheist - Part 2

•Why I AM an Atheist - Part 3

•Why People Believe in Gods

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C Woods: I grew to doubt my parents' Christian beliefs when my family read the Bible cover to cover, several times. As a teenaged girl, I was especially horrified by the way most religions treated women. (And this was long before the feminist movement.) Frequently, I have been disappointed by people who claim to be religious, yet have behaved in unethical ways. I came to the conclusion that all religions cannot be true, but they can all be false. Today, I consider myself a freethinker. I base my beliefs on reason, not faith. I pull my life philosophies from many sources. Certainly a few come from religious origins. Others come from sources as varied as Confucius, Thomas Jefferson, Bertrand Russell, and Mark Twain.

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