User:Genghis Khant/Closet

Welcome to my closet. This a personal space where I keep useful links to rational and secular sites. Feel free to browse around. It's a private space so if you have to talk please do it very quietly. You may leave suggestions on the talk page.

The Humanist view of life is progressive and optimistic, in awe of human potential, living without fear of judgement and death, finding enough purpose and meaning in life, love and leaving a good legacy. Polly Toynbee - President of the BHA

Only the true Messiah denies his divinity Well what sort of chance does that give me? Alright, I am the Messiah. Behold! The Messiah! Now, fuck off! Monty Python's Life of Brian

The Interweb

 * Humanists.net - a portal for Humanist sites
 * The James Randi Educational Foundation
 * Live Science
 * Skeptic tank - a BBS which maintains extensive archives on destructive groups, individuals, and ideologies
 * Committee for Skeptical Inquiry -

UK

 * National Secular Society
 * British Humanist Assoiciation
 * New Humanist Magazine blog
 * Atheist resource
 * Richard Dawkins - Old Lucifer himself (as in lucifer - bringer of light)
 * The Skeptic Express

USA

 * Atheist Empire
 * Rational Responders
 * Positive Atheism
 * The Secular Web
 * Internet Infidels discussion BB
 * Walkaway from Fundamentalism discussion BB
 * Imagine No Superstition A former catholic priest turned atheist psychologist
 * Sam Harris
 * The Reason Project
 * Machines Like Us
 * The long FAQ on Liberalism Part of the Liberalism Resurgent web site
 * From RC altar-boy to atheist
 * Debunking Christianity Blog
 * Debunking Paranormal Phenomena Blog
 * Debunking Creationism Blog
 * Debunking the Christian Right Blog
 * NoBeliefs.com (Freethinkers)

Freedom from Religion Foundation

 * Losing Faith in Faith - from pastor to atheist. (A remarkable autobiographical text).
 * For Goodness Sake. How Can an Atheist Be Moral?

Other

 * Religious Tolerance.Org
 * Apostates of Islam - hey it's not just about Christianity
 * The Abimelech Society - Get rid of the Gideon's Bible from your next hotel room
 * All you never wanted to know about the prime-mover of ID. Encyclopedic.
 * How Evangelical are You?
 * Skeptic Report
 * AJMilne blog
 * Skeptic Report
 * Skeptico
 * "psychic tricks"


 * astrology
 * The Situationist - Psycho-sociology blog examining why we're not as rational as we like to think
 * Dan Ariely talk
 * The Black Museum Of Priestly Abuse - It's not the satanists we need to be afraid of!
 * The works of Thomas Paine - The Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, etc.

Belief & Religion

 * Misquoting Jesus - Bart Ehrman NPR interview
 * The End of Faith - Sam Harris
 * Atheist Universe - David Mills
 * 101 Myths of the Bible - Gary Greenberg
 * How we believe - Science Skepticism & the Search for God - Michael Shermer
 * The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
 * The Language of God - Francis S. Collins (a proper scientist and a believer)
 * The Age Of Reason - Thomas Paine
 * How Mumbo-Jumbo conquered the World - Francis Wheen
 * God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens

Politics, Economics, Science, Psychology

 * The undercover Economist - Tim Harford
 * Vice - Dick Cheney and the hijacking of the American Presidency - Dubose & Bernstein
 * The Ancestors Tale - Richard Dawkins
 * The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins
 * Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
 * The Selfish Capitalist - Oliver James
 * Extrordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - Charles Mackay
 * Crashes - Bob Beckmann
 * The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
 * Quirkology - The curious science of everyday lives - Richard Wiseman
 * Tricks Of The Mind - Derren Brown

My Wastebin

 * The Bible
 * The Koran
 * The Book of Mormon

Holy Crap!
Stuff that need to be debunked
 * The Chemistry of Oil - Explained by Flood Geology
 * The Grand Canyon
 * Startling Evidence for Noah's Flood
 * YEC headquarters

Blogs

 * Pharyngula - the excellent P.Z.Myers
 * Angry by choice - a colleague of PZ. Some good stuff on "Creation science fairs"
 * - RW's own PalMD my be found here
 * Unreasonable Faith - Daniel Florien evangelical turned unbeliever
 * Bad Science Ben Goldacre's blog

Good Quotes

 * "Don't do to others what you would not have them do to you" - Confucius
 * "Theists are afraid people will think for themselves; atheists are afraid they won't." - Dan Barker (don't know if this is original to him)
 * "The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality." - George Bernard Shaw
 * "He is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong." – Thomas Jefferson
 * "Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color." – Don Hirschberg
 * "The efficacy of religion lies precisely in what is not rational, philosophic, nor eternal; its efficacy lies in the unforeseen, the miraculous, the extraordinary. Thus religion attracts more devotion according as it demands more faith -- that is to say, as it becomes more incredible to the profane mind." - Henri Frédéric Amiel
 * "The philosopher aspires to explain away all mysteries, to dissolve them into light. Mystery, on the other hand, is demanded and pursued by the religious instinct; mystery constitutes the essence of worship." - Henri Frédéric Amiel
 * "The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt." - Bertrand Russell
 * "[Regarding] the convention that clergymen are more virtuous than other men. Any average selection of mankind, set apart and told that it excels the rest in virtue, must tend to sink below the average." Betrand Russell
 * "The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so." - Robert Green Ingersoll
 * "The church lives because it witholds the results of the historical Jesus-research from you" (Original German quote: "Die Volkskirche lebt davon, dass man ihr die Ergebnisse der kritischen Jesusforschung vorenthält") - Hans Conzelmann
 * "Scientists and educators alike need to realize that the educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers." - Theodore Schick Jr
 * "Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable." - H. L. Mencken

http://www.update.uu.se/~fbendz/atheism/ath_qots.htm

http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/quotes/qframe.htm

Hitler's religious views

RW Links
Versions

Old shoe box at the back

 * Scale Bristol Stool Scale
 * Your Brain Lies To You - NY Times
 * Predictably Irrational - Book & Blog
 * WP:Host Desecration
 * Placebos
 * Placebos v Prozac
 * Ritual & Placebo
 * Bible-toting gay stud
 * Interview with Madalyn Murray O'Hair
 * 11yr old girl dies through prayer