Reasonable Doubt

GODLESS RESOURCES

American Atheists
American Humanist Association Center for Inquiry
Americans United
Council for Secular Humanism
Committee for Skeptical Inquiry
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Godless Americans Political Action Committee
Americans United for Separation of Church & State
Americans Secular Union
Humanist Institute
Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason & Science
Secular Coalition of America
United Coalition of Reason
American Ethical Union
Atheists for Human Rights
Atheist Agenda
Secular Party of American (National Atheist Party)
Freethought Society
Atheist Alliance International
International League of Humanists
Rationalist International

Atheist Articles
Four Horseman

Bible Contradictions
Atheist Countries

BOOKS

God is Not Great by Christopher Hitchens
The God Delusion by Richard Hawkins
The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker by Richard Dawkins
Why I am Not a Christian by Bertrand Russell
Godless by Dan Barker
Losing Faith in Faith by Dan Barker
Letting Go of God by Julia Sweeney
Misquoting Jesus by Bart Ehrman
How Jesus Became God by Bart Ehrman
Atheist Universe by David Mills
God: The Failed Hypothesis by Victor Stenger
The New Atheism by Victor Stenger
The Christian Delusion by John Loftus

The End of Christianity by John Loftus
The End of Faith by Sam Harris
Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
Breaking the Spell by Daniel Dennett
The Mythmaker by Hyam Maccoby
Atheism: The Case Against God by George H. Smith
Why Atheism? By George H. Smith
Good Without God by Greg Epstein
Losing My Religion by William Lobdell
Honest to Jesus by Robert Funk
Freethinkers: History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby
The God Virus by Darrel Ray
Unholy Bible by Nathan Harris
The Invention of Religion by Alexander Drake
Why Christianity Must Change or Die by John Shelby Spong
Rescuing the Bible From Fundamentalism by John Shelby Spong
Why People Believe Weird Things by Michael Shermer
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Infidel by Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The Improbability of God by Michael Martin
Putting Away Childish Things by Uta Ranke-Heinemann
The Christian Agnostic by Leslie Weatherhead
Fifty Reasons People Give for Believing in a God by Guy P. Harrison

Atheism Defined
American Atheists
Pew Research Center: Facts About Atheists
Atheist Alliance
Friendly Atheist

Top Atheists in the World Today
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Arguments for Atheism

Patheos: The Free Thinker

New Yorker: Americans and Atheism

Atheist Revolution

Celebrities Who Don't Believe in God

Atheist Scholar

Infidels: The Secular Web
American Humanist Association
Richard Dawkins Foundation

Skeptic's Dictionary
Evil Bible

DEFINITIONS

ATHEISM - Atheism is in the broadest sense an absence of belief in the existence of deities. Less broadly, Atheism is a rejection of the belief that any deities exist. In an even narrower sense, Atheism is specifically the position that there are no deities. Generally Atheism is a denial of god or gods, and if religion is defined in terms of belief in spiritual beings, then atheism is the rejection of all religious belief.

AGNOSTICISM - Agnosticism is the view that the existence of god, of the divine or the supernatural is unknown or unknowable. Another definition is the view that human reason is incapable of providing sufficient rational grounds to justify either the belief that god exists or the belief that god does not exist. An Agnostic is a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as god) is unknown and probably unknowable broadly. An Agnostic is one who is not committed to believing in either the existence or the nonexistence of a god.

Patheos: The Free Thinker
Atheist Revolution
Atheist Scholar

Infidels: The Secular Web
American Humanist Association
Richard Dawkins Foundation

Skeptic's Dictionary
Evil Bible

HUMANISM - Humanism is a philosophical stance that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings, individually and collectively. Generally, humanism refers to a perspective that affirms some notion of human freedom and progress. It views humans as solely responsible for the promotion and development of individuals and emphasizes a concern for humans in relation to the world. In modern times, humanist movements are typically non-religious movements aligned with secularism, and today humanism may refer to a non-theistic life stance centered on human agency and looking to science rather than revelation from a supernatural source to understand the world. A Humanist is a person having a strong interest in or concern for human welfare, values, and dignity. Humanistic thinking encourages us to think more from the perspective of: what we want than what we don't want; what works than what doesn't; assets and human potential than deficits and constraints.

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SECULARISM - Secularism is the separation of religion from civic affairs and the state. It may connote anticlericalism, atheism, naturalism, and banishment of religious symbols from the public sphere. As a philosophy, Secularism seeks to interpret life on principles taken solely from the material world, without recourse to religion. It shifts the focus from religion towards temporal and material concerns. In political terms, secularism is the principle of the separation of government institutions and persons mandated to represent the state from religious institutions and religious dignitaries.

Ricky Gervais: The Unbelievers Interview

Julie Sweeney: Letting Go of God

Christopher Hitchens: Ten Commandments

John Oliver: Televangelists

Andy Thomson: Why We Believe in Gods

How to Stop Being a Christian

Christopher Hitchens: Rational God Bashing

Great Atheist Bomb Drops
Ricky Gervais: Destroys Religion

Oxford Union Interview: Bill Maher

Christopher Hitchens: The Jesus Myth

Christians Destroyed by Hilarious British Atheists

Religion's Worst Ideas
Criticism of Religion

The Thinking Atheist: Farewell to Faith

Julie Sweeney: Gifts of Not Believing in God

Aron Ra: Damn Commandments

Carl Sagan: The Existence opf God

Christopher Hitchens: Outrageously Funny

Celebrities Who Don't Believe in God

SKEPTICISM - Skepticism is an attitude of doubt or a disposition to incredulity either in general or toward a particular object. It is the doctrine that true knowledge or knowledge in a particular area is uncertain. It is the method of suspended judgment and systematic doubt. Skepticism is generally a questioning attitude or doubt towards one or more accepted instances of knowledge which are asserted to be mere belief or dogma. Formally, skepticism is a topic of interest in philosophy, particularly epistemology. More informally, skepticism as an expression of questioning or doubt can be applied to any topic, such as politics, religion, or pseudoscience. It is often related to doubt about the existence of god or the supernatural. Philosophical skepticism denies that knowledge or rational belief is possible and urges us to suspend judgment on many or all controversial matters. More moderate forms of philosophical skepticism claim only that nothing can be known with certainty, or that we can know little or nothing about non-empirical matters, such as whether god exists, whether human beings have free will, or whether there is an afterlife. Scientific skepticism advocates for testing beliefs for reliability, by subjecting them to systematic investigation using the scientific method, to discover empirical evidence for them.

Atheist Articles
Four Horseman

Bible Contradictions
Atheist Countries

FREE THOUGHT - Free thought is an epistemological viewpoint which holds that beliefs should not be formed on the basis of authority, tradition, revelation, or dogma, and that beliefs should instead be reached by other methods such as logic, reason, and empirical observation. A Free·Thinker is a person who forms their own ideas and opinions rather than accepting those of other people, especially in religious teaching. Free Thought is strongly tied with rejection of traditional social or religious belief systems. Freethinking is most closely linked with secularism, atheism, agnosticism, humanism, anti-clericalism, and religious critique. It is the free exercise of reason in matters of religious belief, unrestrained by deference to authority. Freethinkers hold that knowledge should be grounded in facts, scientific inquiry, and logic. The skeptical application of science implies freedom from the intellectually limiting effects of confirmation bias, cognitive bias, conventional wisdom, popular culture, urban myth, prejudice, or sectarianism. Free Thought can also be defined as thinking which is independent of revelation, tradition, established belief, and authority, and embraces a range of unorthodoxy, religious dissent, skepticism, and unconventional thinking.

FAMOUS ATHEISTS

Scientists/Researchers/Philosophers
Albert Einstein
Charles Darwin
Thomas Edison
Richard Dawkins
Sigmund Freud
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bertrand Russell
Stephen Hawking
Sam Harris
Carl Sagan
Christopher Hitchens
Daniel Dennett

Voltaire
Ivan Pavlov
John Stuart Mill
Francis Crick
James Watson
Stephen Jay Gould
David Attenborough
Alfred Kinsey
Marie Curie
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
Victor Stenger

Artists
Leonardo di Vinci
Pablo Picasso
Vincent Van Gogh
Raphael
Frank Lloyd Wright

Commentators
Larry King
Andy Rooney
Bill Maher
Howard Stern

BEST OF NON-BELIEVERS

Best of Non-Believers (1)

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Best of Bill Maher (1)

Best of Bill Maher (2)

Best of S am Harris (1)

Best of Sam Harris (2)

Best of Sam Harris (3)

Best of Ayaan Hirsi Al1 (1)

Best of Ayann Hirsi Ali (2)

Best of Christopher Hitchens (1)

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"I'm not really an atheist so much as I am an anti-theist. I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief, is positively harmful."

-Christopher Hitchens

“Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance.”
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

"I'm not ridiculing religion. Religion ridicules itself."
-Bill Maher

"I'm not mocking your religion. I'm describing it."

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"One can't prove that god doesn't exist. But science makes god unnecessary."
-Stephen Hawking

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SCIENCE NOTES

"Atheism is the denial of the existence of any supernatural being by accepting the basic scientific truth."

-Rajendra Chaudhari

“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.”
-Richard Dawkins

“We talk about the Internet. That comes from science. Weather forecasting. That comes from science. The main idea in all of biology is evolution. To not teach it to our young people is wrong.”
-Bill Nye

"A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good, just because it's accepted by a majority."
-Booker T. Washington

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
-Aldous Huxley

"We have fought long and hard to escape from medieval superstition. I, for one, do not wish to go back."
James Randi

“I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery.”
-Neil DeGrasse Tyson

“The evidence of evolution pours in, not only from geology, paleontology, biogeography, and anatomy (Darwin's chief sources), but from molecular biology and every other branch of the life sciences. To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant -- inexcusably ignorant, in today’s world. Doubts about the power of Darwin's idea of natural selection to explain this evolutionary process are still intellectually respectable, however, although the burden of proof for such skepticism has become immense.”
-Daniel Dennett

ACTIVISTS

“You cannot be both sane and well educated and disbelieve in evolution. The evidence is so strong that any sane, educated person has got to believe in evolution.”
-Richard Dawkins

“Teaching creationism in science class as an alternative to evolution is inappropriate… If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.”
-Bill Nye

Ricky Gervais: The Unbelievers Interview

Julie Sweeney: Letting Go of God

Christopher Hitchens: Ten Commandments

John Oliver: Televangelists

Andy Thomson: Why We Believe in Gods

How to Stop Being a Christian

Christopher Hitchens: Rational God Bashing

Great Atheist Bomb Drops
Ricky Gervais: Destroys Religion

Oxford Union Interview: Bill Maher

Christopher Hitchens: The Jesus Myth

Christians Destroyed by Hilarious British Atheists

Religion's Worst Ideas
Criticism of Religion

The Thinking Atheist: Farewell to Faith

Julie Sweeney: Gifts of Not Believing in God

Aron Ra: Damn Commandments

Carl Sagan: The Existence opf God

Christopher Hitchens: Outrageously Funny

Celebrities Who Don't Believe in God

“The concept of intelligent design encourages us to stop looking for answers. It would have us steer in the opposite direction of scientific curiosity. How can anyone suggest that science will never come up with a natural explanation for something, for anything? Shouldn’t we work the problems a bit more before giving up? Shouldn’t we have more faith in the power of science and of the human mind?”
-Guy Harrison

“Science is expanding, and with it our vision of the universe. Although this new and constantly changing view may not always give us comfort, it does have the virtue of truth according to our most effective resources for acquiring knowledge. No philosophy, moral outlook, or religion can be inconsistent with the findings of science and hope to endure among educated people.”
-Heinz R. Pagels

“No one is in charge. And honestly, that’s even cooler. The idea of an ordered and elegant universe is a lovely one. One worth clinging to. But you don’t need religion to appreciate the ordered existence. It’s not just an idea, it’s reality. We’re discovering the hidden orders of the universe every day. The inverse square law of gravitation is amazing. Fractals. The theory of relativity. The genome. These are magnificently beautiful concepts.”
-Adam Savage & Jamie Hyneman

Atheist Articles
Four Horseman

Bible Contradictions
Atheist Countries

FAMOUS ATHEISTS

Statesmen/Politicians
Thomas Jefferson
John Adams
Benjamin Franklin
Julia Gillard

Athletes
Diana Nyad
Lance Armstrong
Frank Mir
Pat Tillman
Jonathan Edwards
Robert Smith
Riccardo Montolivo

Business People
Bill Gates
Mark Zuckerberg
Warren Buffett

Film Makers/Directors
Walt Disney
Woody Allen
James Cameron
Alfred Hitchcock
Quentin Tarentino

Atheism Defined
American Atheists
Pew Research Center: Facts About Atheists
Atheist Alliance
Friendly Atheist

Top Atheists in the World Today
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Arguments for Atheism

FAMOUS ATHEISTS

Musicians
John Lennon
Mick Jagger
Dave Matthews
Bjork
Roger Waters
David Gilmour
Brian Eno
Dan Barker

Linda Ronstadt

Ani DiFranco
Ian Gillan
Billy Joel
Randy Newman
Maurice Ravel
Henry Rollins
Richard Rodgers
Frank Zappa

Tom Lehrer

Entertainers/Celebrities
Katherine Hepburn
Marlon Brando
Frank Sinatra
Ricky Gervais
Gabriel Byrne
Christopher Reeves
Eddie Izzard
David Cross
Julia Sweeney

Chris O'Dowd
David Duchovny
Diane Keaton
Charlie Chaplin

George Carlin
Emma Thompson
Keira Knightley
Daniel Radcliffe
John Cleese
Rowan Atkinson
Penn & Teller
James Randi

Joaquin Phoenix
Helen Merrin
Hugh Laurie

Ian McKellan
Jack Nicholson
Jodie Foster
John Malkovich
Johnny Depp
Julianne Moore
Keanu Reeves
Kevin Bacon
Mira Sorvino
Morgan Freeman
Natalie Portman
Paul Giamatti
George Clooney
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Sean Penn
Bruce Lee
Stephen Fry

Steve Martin
Tim Roth
Whoopi Goldberg
Adam Savage
Jamie Hyneman
Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt
Billy Connolly
Keira Knightly
Bruce Willis

Patton Oswalt
Donald Sutherland
Gene Wilder
Bill Maher
Nigella Lawson

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Authors/Scholars
Kurt Vonnegut
George Bernard Shaw
Ernest Hemingway
Oscar Wilde
Mark Twain
Edgar Allen Poe
Arthur Miller
George Orwell
Albert Camus
Noam Chomsky
Langston Hughes
W.E.B. DuBois
Paul Kurtz
Michael Shermer
Ian McEwan
Martin Amis
Phillip Roth
Susan Jacoby
Polly Toynbee

Ricky Gervais: The Unbelievers Interview

Julie Sweeney: Letting Go of God

Christopher Hitchens: Ten Commandments

John Oliver: Televangelists

Andy Thomson: Why We Believe in Gods

How to Stop Being a Christian

Christopher Hitchens: Rational God Bashing

Great Atheist Bomb Drops
Ricky Gervais: Destroys Religion

Oxford Union Interview: Bill Maher

Christopher Hitchens: The Jesus Myth

Christians Destroyed by Hilarious British Atheists

Religion's Worst Ideas
Criticism of Religion

The Thinking Atheist: Farewell to Faith

Julie Sweeney: Gifts of Not Believing in God

Aron Ra: Damn Commandments

Carl Sagan: The Existence opf God

Christopher Hitchens: Outrageously Funny

Celebrities Who Don't Believe in God

FAMOUS ATHEISTS

Writers/Journalists
Stephen King
Gene Roddenberry
Seth MacFarlane
Joss Whedon
Isaac Asimov
Douglas Adams
Arthur C. Clarke
Salman Rushdie
Dave Barry

Activists
David Silverman
Michael Newdow
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Margaret Sanger
Frederick Douglass
Phillip Randolph
Ayanna Watson
Karl Marx
Che Guevara