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God Must Have Done It

11/22/15  6 reasons religion may do more harm than good

11/1/15  Don’t blame secularism for societies ills (Phil Zuckerman)

10/26/15 Everything Does Not Have A Reason (Nathan Phelps)

10/20/15 More Atheist Leaders Who Aren’t Dawkins or Harris: Jenn Ramirez

9/25/15 Burying Your Dead Without Religion  

3/29/15   The stupidest question to ask scientists

3/28/15   I’ll Pray For you

2/23/15   8 Ways I Tried So Hard To Be A Christian That I Became An Atheist

2/12/15  Mind Blowing… These 23 Unbelievable Facts Will DESTROY Your Understanding Of Time

3/25/14 The Atheists’ Case for Fighting Poverty

2/14/14 Yes, Atheism Is a Genuine Religion

1/26/14  Growing Up Unvaccinated  I had the healthiest childhood imaginable. 

1/19/14  Let 2014 be the year we start accepting atheists

1/18/14  11 Things Atheists Couldn’t Do Because They Didn’t Believe In God

1/14/14  Religious Persecution Extends to Nonreligious

9/19/13  Holy Freeloading! 10 Ways Religious Groups Suck on the Public Purse

9/13/13   NFL Star Arian Foster: 6 Things I’ll Try to Teach My Daughter

7/8/13  Alluring but risky medicine

6/31/13   The invisible secular humanists: A response to Joe Klein

5/21/13 God condemns himself — updated and further refine

5/13/13  Atheists are good citizens, victims of religious bigots

1/14/12 After Tragedy, Nonbelievers Find Other Ways To Cope

12/18/12  Losing our religion

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