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    Atheism

    Hello My name is Tanmeet and I am 18 years old. I came across a thinking that I can be wrong about and i just wanted to be sure. One of my friend he is sikh and a atheist. His friends are also atheist and sikh. My question is can a sikh be a atheist? A true one. According to me they can't...
  2. Tejwant Singh

    Atheism Atheism A Religion? Government Says Yes For Tax Purposes

    Atheism a Religion? Government Says Yes for Tax Purposes The Blaze Fred Lucas 3 hours ago Federal Govt Wants Clergy Tax Break for Atheist Leader. The leader of an atheist group sued because she didn't believe she qualified for tax exemptions afforded to clergy. When the government says...
  3. Tejwant Singh

    Atheism Evolution And God

    Evolution And God: Only 21% Of Americans Believe Humans Evolved Without Divine Guidance Posted: 07/23/2013 3:42 pm EDT Updated: 07/23/2013 3:49 pm EDT Though the number of Americans who believe that human beings evolved without God's influence has increased since 2004, the percentage may...
  4. Tejwant Singh

    Controversial Margaret Doughty, Atheist Seeking U.S. Citizenship, Told To Join Church Or Be Denied

    Margaret Doughty, Atheist Seeking U.S. Citizenship, Told To Join Church Or Be Denied The Huffington Post | By Nick Wing Posted: 06/19/2013 11:36 pm EDT | Updated: 06/20/2013 12:36 pm EDT Margaret Doughty, an atheist and permanent U.S. resident for more than 30 years, was told by...
  5. Tejwant Singh

    Atheism Public Atheist Monument Going Up Near Courthouse In Starke, Florida, Is Country's First

    Public Atheist Monument Going Up Near Courthouse In Starke, Florida, Is Country's First Jaweed Kaleem Posted: 05/31/2013 5:43 pm EDT | Updated: 05/31/2013 6:25 pm EDT A small city in heavily Christian northern Florida is about to become home to the first public monument in the United...
  6. Kanwaljit.Singh

    Atheism Atheism - What Happens When We Die?

    A very interesting discussion with all great answers. I believe the members can share their own experience how they explained death to young ones, if any. I don't have any. In recent memory, I have just had one great loss. And I had no small kids to explain to. But when I was young, I suffered a...
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    Atheism Is Atheism Compatible With Sikhism

    I am trying to understand how much atheism is compatible with sikhism.
  8. Harry Haller

    Atheism Is Atheism The Ultimate Sikhi?

    Hello everyone, I would like to put forward the proposition that only in atheism lies the ultimate ability to do gods work in this world. This is not as stupid as it sounds, as I will explain. I come from a background of Khatri Sikhs (where appearance really is everything!), my parents...
  9. spnadmin

    Atheism Atheism's Odd Relationship With Morality

    Rabbi Adam Jacobs Managing Director, Aish Center in Manhattan Posted: March 24, 2011 08:24 AM Though expecting to be rather irked by it, I was surprised to find myself almost enjoying (and agreeing) with a lot of what Sam Harris had to say in his TED Talk entitled "Science can...
  10. Caspian

    Atheism Biological Immortality And Religion

    So heres the deal. Within the past couple of years we have made tremendous progress in the area of genetics. So much so that just this past week, Harvard scientists have managed to reverse age a mouse http://dvice.com/archives/2010/11/has-the-scienti.php We have also managed to increase the...
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    Atheism Atheism And God

    I found this quote from Sri Aurobindo whereby atheism does not contradict faith in God. It is a good example of paradoxical reasoning which I enjoy practicing. "Atheism is a necessary protest against the wickedness of the churches and the narrowness of the creeds. God uses it as a stone to smash...
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    Atheism Conversation About Atheism

    SS AKAL JI . ATHEIST JI. You do not have to believe in God it will not make ANY difference TO billions of people living on this earth. Let us put this way that there are so many people who do not believe in GOD but they are very truthful to themselves and others and believe in truth and...
  13. Admin

    Atheism Why Atheism Will Replace Religion!

    Atheists are heavily concentrated in economically developed countries, particularly the social democracies of Europe. In underdeveloped countries, there are virtually no atheists. Atheism is thus a peculiarly modern phenomenon. Why do modern conditions produce atheism? First, as to the...
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    Atheism Intolerance Towards Atheism

    Sikhs seem very proud of their tolerance and respect for people with different beliefs and they should be because both are valuable traits. Tolerance has always been something I liked about Sikhism but I noticed that the tolerance was always called 'tolerance for other religions.' So as I...
  15. spnadmin

    Atheism Atheism, Conversion, And Class

    Atheism, Conversion and Class Shelley Emling: Atheism, Conversion, and Class Atheists like to think of themselves as free thinkers whose take on the world is more intelligent than that of those who are religious. Often they hold up sketchy studies as proof that their skepticism of a...
  16. spnadmin

    The Burden Of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted A Worldview That Science Never Intended

    The Burden of Proof: How Atheism Has Adopted a Worldview That Science Never Intended "The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues...
  17. spnadmin

    Atheism Richard Dawkins: The Man Who Gave Atheism A Bad Name

    Richard Dawkins – The Man Who Gave Atheism a Bad Name zenbullets.com home of matt pearson, maker of abstract things. Richard Dawkins – evolutionary biologist, popular science writer, professional atheist and all round very clever person. I’ve read a number of Dawkins’ books; he is a very...
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    Atheism Is Atheism Dogmatic?

    That is quite ironic. The misconception people have is that atheism is a dogma, a religion, a faith, a philosophy, etc. It is NONE of those. The one and only similarity (other than being humans and stuff) that atheists have is that they do not believe in god. I could care less about caste...
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    Atheism Questions About Blasphemy And Atheism

    I created this thread for those people who are on the fence... perhaps, its good if you hear both sides of the story so you can make up your mind. Ill start.... my first question is, to the believers of course: 1. Why do you believe in god? 2. Why are you religious? :D:happy::happysingh:
  20. BhagatSingh

    Atheism Good Reasons For "Believing" In God - A Presentation By Dan Dennett For Intellectuals

    If you don't consider yourself an intellectual then don't watch this. I say this because it will be hard to understand and the presenter, Dan Dennett, will come off as arrogant. I found myself just WOWing at many parts of it. This presentation was just fantastic, it explains a lot!! :D He uses...
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