A half-forgotten holy war: the Cristero conflict that killed 90,000 Mexicans
For freethinkers, the message of the Cristero War is clear: religion is dangerous and laced with the potential for violence.
Biblical Violence and Modern Legal Practice
Is it likely that Deuteronomy 13 still has a degree of influence on our penal law, for instance in clauses about blasphemy?
The Bible on Apostasy
A good place to start on the scriptural foundations of violence in the Bible is with Deuteronomy 13:1-3 (punishment of apostates).
Can Translation Mitigate All Immoral Passages in Scripture?
For apologists of religion, the violence in Scripture is only superficially there. It has to do with the "translation" of the text in question.
Criticism of religion as the first pillar of freethought
The two elements of critique of religion and predilection for free speech adequately sum up the movement for freethought.
What is AGI?
60 years ago the ambition was to build machines that can learn and reason like humans. Human-level AI is now possible.
Motives for Atheism
People’s motives for developing an atheist position are often grounded in a laudable type of engagement and not in disillusion.
A Definition of Atheism: Atheism as A-theism
An atheist is someone who denies the existence of a god with certain characteristics. In other words: he denies the existence of “God”.
We Don’t Have Free Will. We Have Something Better.
We have ‘self-aware, conceptual reasoning’, or SCR for short. Future machines that have SCR will also have moral agency.
Is There A God?
Priests have built world-wide, trillion-dollar empires on their claim that an unseen deity waits to reward or punish people after death.
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