Sites to See
- ChurchLite -- Come into the Lite (TM) -- Come into the Lite, ChurchLite: Church for the unbeliever. Everything you love about church with half the guilt and 0 grams of metaphysics per service.
- EARTHWARD - Welcome!! -- EARTHWARD is a non-profit, non-political, non-membership public-benefit charity organization that provides humanitarian relief aid to civilian victims of religiously motivated violence ranging from acts of violence by individual extremists or terrorist organizations that claim religious justification for their actions to full-scale holy wars waged by religiously dominated governments.
- Ship of Fools: the Magazine of Christian Unrest -- The only problem I have with the average Christian is that they stand aside and let the nuts go unchallenged. The fine Christian folks at Ship of Fools kick ass and take no prisoners. Bravo!
- NormalBobSmith.com (Jesus Dressup) -- Bob is very talented artist and web designer who has decided to use his powers for evil, not good. I like that.
- The Skeptic's Annotated Bible -- "The Skeptic's Annotated Bible contains the entire text of the King James Version of the Bible presented from a skeptic's point of view. Verses are highlighted using a color coding system with attached notes." This is very, very cool
- The Skeptic's Dictionary (Recent Additions or Modifications) -- over 400 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal,supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature
- Creation "Science" Debunked -- "A guide to fighting the creationists and their attempts to impose their peculiar interpretations of religion onto our society."
Religious Humor
- Churches ad hoc -- Photos of crosses in odd circumstances with interesting captions.
- Ask Sister Rosetta -- A Biblical advice column.
- Landover Baptist -- The Largest, most powerful assembly of worthwhile Christians to ever exist. Unsaved NOT WELCOME! Shoo Demons!
- God Hates Figs -- This site uses the Bible to prove that God hates figs. It reminds of something, but I can't think what...
- FRXT - Home page -- Have fun reading Fundie Jokes, Fundie Comments, Fundie Toys, Fundie Section for Adults and more
- I'm Jesus Christ -- I'm a messiah. This is my story.
Atheism Resources
- Secular Humanist Website of Edwin F. Kagin -- Edwin F. Kagin is a lawyer-poet. He believes that, through grace and faith, this will be a regular column and, if events are predestined, that whatever he believes makes no difference whatsoever.
- Attic Access -- Read the novel Attic Access by Robert Battaglia
- The Hellbound Alleee station -- The Hellbound Alleee station plays shows on atheistic issues, weird music, and other atheistic content.
- Strong-atheism -- "...a site dedicated to strong-atheistic thought and apologetics. The authors of this web site subscribe to strong-atheism as a form of rational constructivism : an opposition to the faith and nihilism which dominate the philosophical landscape. If you seek a solution to the intellectual vacuum in religious discourse, this is a place for you."
- The Atheist Empire -- "Atheist quotes, atheist graphics, religious information, religious history, message boards, club, humor etc."
- The Atheist Attic -- Columns on atheism and related social issues. Frequently updated.
- Insolent Bitch - An Insolent Bitch laughs loudly, lives large, and gets what she wants. -- Insolent Bitch is your guide to a life of romance, adventure, fun and excitement. Learn how to find a lifetime of joy and fulfillment in 25 free lessons.
- Atheists Online - Blasphemy at Low as Hell? prices! -- Blasphemous Products: Shirts, Sweats, Jerseys, Heresy Hats, Mugs and Bumper Stickers for Atheists, Agnostics, Heathens, Infidels, the Non and Anti-Religious.
- Chock Full of Atheism -- A personal page.
- Welcome to the Heathen Handbook Online Edition! -- A nice little online community for atheists.
- Escape the Dogma -- A fairly large collection of essays by James Lee.
- Skeptic's View of Christianity A Skeptical View of Christianity and the Bible -- Articles dealing with errors and contradictions in the Bible and the origin of the gospels. Contains links to dozens of resources relating to biblical skepticism.
- Religion Atheism Freethought Radio Broadcasts: LIVE with the Infidel Guy -- Live internet radio webcast discussing philosophy, atheism, science and evolution with great guests @ 8PM ET: Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.
- To Question is the Answer -- Challenges supernaturalism in all its forms, from religion to ouija boards
- Atheism - Suite101.com -- Atheism - disbelief in gods, but also a freethinking way of life. Life without deities or other invisible means of support. Intellectual freedom, fight for atheist rights, individualism. - dewey decimal 211.8
- The Universal Church Triumphant of the Apathetic Agnostic -- "We don't know, and we don't care." The Church offers ordination, and through our International University of Nescience, also offers a select range of degrees to members and clergy. As always, at no cost to you.
- Positive Atheism -- Apparently it's been there for years, but I've only just found it. They look like some sort Atheist Activists (my kind of people) but they also look like they may be trying to herd cats. Look for the handbills.
- The Secular Web -- A virtual library of information on nontheistic world views, including agnosticism, atheism, freethought, humanism, and secularism."
- SET FREE! Your One-Stop, Anti-Christian Shop -- Atheist, Freethinker, and anti-Christian products to help educate and thus SET FREE the opiated masses hooked on JeJuice and his dad, Biblegod." Quite a few of these products are pamphlets available for viewing online.
Evolution
- Smashing the Sacred Myths -- Examines the conflict between evolution and religion, and dispels the myths and superstitions that have long been used as an excuse for political and religious extremism.
- EvoWiki, the Evolution Education Wiki -- The Evolution Education Wiki is a free, reader-built encyclopedia of evolution, biology, and origins. EvoWiki's goal is to promote general evolution education, and to give mainstream scientific responses to the fallacious arguments of creationism, the Intelligent Design movement, and other antievolutionists.
- The Talk.Origins Archive -- A collection of articles and essays, most of which have appeared in talk.origins at one time or another. The primary reason for this archive's existence is to provide mainstream scientific responses to the many frequently asked questions (FAQs) that appear in the talk.origins newsgroup and the frequently rebutted assertions of those advocating intelligent design or other creationist pseudosciences.
- Understanding Evolution -- A your one-stop source for information on evolution. A project of the University of California Museum of Paleontology. Includes teacher and student resources for all levels of education. Very slick.
Personal Favorites
Things I like that don't necessarily relate to this site. They're up here near the top because it's easier than book marking them.
- The Onion -- "The Onion, America's Finest News Reporting is an award-winning satirical publication founded in 1988 in Madison, Wisconsin." They frequently make fun of religion in articles like "Christ returns to the NBA."
- Jon Carroll -- Carroll is a columnist for The San Francisco Chronicle. Jon Carroll's column is the first place I go.
- Jesus of the Week -- "A growing gallery of images showcasing the Manger Main Man." Imagine mystery Science Theater 3k. Now imagine that instead of abusing old movies, they're abusing black velvet paintings, air-fresheners, napkin holders, and other items bearing the likeness of Christ.
Discordianism
Hail Eris! [FNORD] Hail Discordia! [FNORD] Hail Bob! [FNORD] oh to hail with it.[FNORD]
- f u c k i t a l l . c o m [only life can kill you.] -- open to interpretation.
- Sacred Disorder of the Enigmata -- "a faithless, enigmatic alternative to modern day religious conformity."
- HyperDiscordia (What's Really New) -- In this world, there are two kinds of people -- those who Get It and those who Don't. If the meaning of this is not immediately obvious to you, count yourself as one of the latter.
Skepticism
These sites are good places to go for ammunition, and a little light reading.
- James Randi Educational Foundation - Home Page -- The James Randi Educational Foundation is a non-profit learning resource aimed at promoting critical thinking everywhere. James Randi is the world's foremost skeptic and debunker.
- Ontario Skeptics Society for Critical Inquiry web page -- Web site of Ontario Skeptics Society for Critical Inquiry, one of the world's biggest and most active skeptical organizations, applying critical thought and science to the paranormal, pseudoscience and all things in human experience
- CSICOP On-line: Scientifically Investigating Paranormal and Fringe Science Claims -- World-wide organization that encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view.
- Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc. -- National organization of freethinkers (atheists, agnostics) in Madison, Wisconsin, working to keep state and church separate and to educate the public about the views of nontheists. President Anne N. Gaylor. Editor Annie Laurie Gaylor. PR Dan Barker. Book publisher.
- Dangerous Ideas -- This site highlights the costs, in lives, families, and nations affected by this type of thinking, not only in the past, but the present as well, with commentary added.
- Skeptic News -- The "What's New" Page for Skeptics
- Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.) -- "A nonprofit national membership organization established in 1983 to protect children from abusive religious and cultural practices, especially religion-based medical neglect. CHILD opposes religious exemptions from duties of care for children."
- Biblical Errancy -- The contents of the first 186 issues of Dennis McKinsey's Biblical Errancy.
- The Skeptic's Dictionary (Recent Additions or Modifications) -- over 400 skeptical definitions and essays on occult, paranormal,supernatural and pseudoscientific ideas and practices with references to the best skeptical literature
- Recovery from Mormonism -- A Site for those who are Questioning their Faith in the Organization And For Those who Need Support As they transition their lives to A Normal Life.
- Freethought Firefighters International (FFI) -- Devoted to religious tolerance, critical thinking, education and the absolute separation of church and state.
Religion and Spirituality
- United Universists - Faith in Reason, Inspiration in Nature, Hope inProgress - Philosophy Forum -- Universism is a personal religious philosophy or worldview which unites all freethinkers, whether they have used the term Humanist, Atheist, Agnostic, Deist, Transcendentalist, Pantheist or others to describe their beliefs in the past. Individuals who agree with and try to live the principles of Universism are termed Universists, in addition to or in replacement in of any of these other terms. Universism is personal and open to personal interpretation and change.
- TCOW.org -- This website was created as a tool to help people who share our philosophy communicate and share their ideas, and to keep them informed of events which would affect our freedom to be ourselves. It is also to encourage people desiring to be themselves, but who may fear that no-one will understand them. TCOW understands. It was founded by people who were different and stood up for it.
- Deus Project -- Promoting Deism among all the peoples of the world, as an alternative to faith-based religion.
- 2think.org -- A most enlightening site. Explore it, learn from it, live it. If you don't click here you are really missing out!
- OCRT -- An agency promoting religious tolerance, freedom, and understanding as a basic human right. They do this by providing accurate, balanced discriptions of various belief systems.
- Universal Life Church (Become Ordained) -- I am an ordained minister of the Universal Life Church. You too can become ordained in a matter of seconds by filling out a simple online form. ULC ministers are real ministers. The officiant at my wedding was a ULC minister with no more credentials than these.
- Unitarian Universalist Association (Principles and Purpose) -- "Unitarian Universalist" is as close as come to having a religion. I am not a Unitarian Universalist minister. (see below).
Interesting Ideas
When conducting a brain-storming session, people are encouraged to share their ideas, no matter how strange. These sites are can be seen as the ideas that pop-up in our global brain-storming session. Some are pretty good ideas. Others stink on ice, but could be the seed for something better.
- Critiques Of Libertarianism
- Jesus Is Alive!!!!! -- "The TRUTH about Jesus: his sexuality, his skin colour, his DOB and more." Apparently he was a gay stoner.
- Rational Spirituality - Suite101.com -- An exploration of spirituality in an atheistic, scientific and Objectivist context, and what it means to the rational individual. - dewey decimal 291.4
- www.punkerslut.com -- Atheism, Socialism, Vegetarianism, Determinism, Free Love, Humanitarianism, Pacifism, Pro-Choice
- What is Objectivism ? -- A beginner-level discussion of Objectivism, misconceptions about it, and its consequences in daily life.
- Welcome to BF Printing (Pamphlets) -- A large collection of links related to printing. So why am I linking to it? Because one of the things they have is a page of links to all kinds of pamphlets, including some of mine.
- David Eaglechild's Library of Wisdom -- A directory of wisdom teachings, spirituality, metaphysics, alternative healing, new age, religion, nutrition, pagan / wiccan, native american, martial arts, ufo / extraterrestrial, support groups, veteran support and more..."
- Scientific Pantheism -- "This site explores the history, theory and practice of Pantheism - the belief that the cosmos is divine and the earth is sacred."
- The Coalition to Ban Dihydrogen Monoxide -- Dihydrogen monoxide is colorless, odorless, tasteless, and kills uncounted thousands of people every year. Act NOW to prevent further contamination. Find out more about this dangerous chemical. What you don't know can hurt you and others throughout the world.
Sauerkraut
Goes well with wieners.
- Divine Interventions -- Home of Jackhammer Jesus and the baby Jesus buttplug.
- Poly MatchMaker -- Poly MatchMaker is a FREE service and members only site. We are not a swingers site, nor a free sex site. What we are is a place for mature loving adults to find others who share the Polyamory lifestyle.
Message Boards
Shopping
- Affable Atheist -- A cafepress shop
- Welcome to the New HeresyHouse.com -- Atheist, agnostic, and freethought swag to gladden the greatest sinner... t-shirts, solstice and greeting cards, posters, and more. Rational and satirical designs like you've never seen before... they're funnier than Hell, and much cooler!