Beware of Fake Facebook Fundraising Campaigns using “Likes” & “Shares”

I have noticed a lot of Facebook memes (pictures) which claims with sharing or liking this picture Facebook will donate to the cause. This is absolutely false and Facebook will NOT donate money based on the amount of likes or shares that a photo receives. The photos often depict a severely injured, ill or abused child. People are exploiting these children by spreading their photos and the good nature of people who end up sharing these photos, in order to receive more likes (fans) for their pages.
Please do not share the photos - report them instead! Please share with your friends to raise awareness on this issue.

Morality

Denver Simonsz

A question for Christians: How would you bring a Buddhist to Christ? Buddhism also deals with questions about our existence such as suffering, life and death and morality. Say you point out the evidence for the 'historical Jesus'. The Buddhist could say Siddartha Gautama existed as a historical figure well before Jesus. He was supposedly conceived without sex, had many supernatural events occur during his life and additionally achieved enlightenment. Both Buddhism and Christianity give people meaning and supposedly improve lives. If you asked them to have faith, why would they? Think about it.

Will Barton

As humans we consider one person having a belief which is based on no evidence as delusional and crazy. However, when millions of people share a belief with no evidence we are expected to consider it rational and worthy of respect.

Will Barton

Imtiaz Mahmood

Basically each religion has different ways of being completely wrong about things than other religions, all tied up in a different set of fossilized tribal nastiness. But instead of being ashamed of these intellectual and moral deficiencies, they want them enshrined and celebrated.

Baldies fighting over a comb doesn't come close. More like stones fighting over hearts.

Imtiaz Mahmood

Tribute to Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011) was a British-American author and journalist whose career spanned more than four decades. Hitchens, often referred to colloquially as "Hitch", contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Atlantic, The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He was an author of twelve books and five collections of essays, and concentrated on the subjects of politics, literature and religion. A prominent staple of talk shows and lecture circuits, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded and controversial figure. Known for his contrarian stance on a number of issues, he excoriated such public figures as Mother Teresa, Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Initially describing himself as a socialist, Hitchens began his break from the established political left after what he called the "tepid reaction" of the Western left to the Rushdie Affair. The September 11 attacks "exhilarated" him, strengthening his internationalist embrace of an interventionist foreign policy, and his criticism of what he called "fascism with an Islamic face." His numerous editorials in support of the Iraq War caused some to label him a neoconservative, although Hitchens insisted he was not "a conservative of any kind", and his friend Ian McEwan described him as representing the anti-totalitarian left.
A noted critic of religion and a self-described anti-theist  he said that a person "could be an atheist and wish that belief in God were correct", but that "an anti-theist  a term I'm trying to get into circulation, is someone who is relieved that there's no evidence for such an assertion." According to Hitchens, the concept of a god or a supreme being is a totalitarian belief that destroys individual freedom; and, that free expression and scientific discovery should replace religion as a means of teaching ethics and defining human civilization. His anti-religion polemic, God Is Not Great, sold over 500,000 copies.
Hitchens died on 15 December 2011, from complications arising from oesophageal cancer, a disease that he acknowledged was likely due to his lifelong predilection for heavy smoking and drinking. His death prompted tributes and eulogies from a range of public figures, including Tony Blair, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Lawrence Krauss, Martin Amis, James Fenton, and Stephen Fry.
Hitchens often spoke out against the Abrahamic religions, or what he called "the three great monotheisms" (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). When asked by readers of The Independent (London) what he considered to be the "axis of evil," Hitchens replied "Christianity, Judaism, Islam - the three leading monotheisms." In his book, God Is Not Great, Hitchens expanded his criticism to include all religions, including those rarely criticized by Western secularists such as Hinduism and neo-paganism. His book had mixed reactions, from praise in The New York Times for his "logical flourishes and conundrums" to accusations of "intellectual and moral shabbiness" in the Financial Times. God Is Not Great was nominated for a National Book Award on 10 October 2007.
In February 2010, he was named to the Freedom From Religion Foundation's Honorary Board of distinguished achievers.
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair said, "Christopher Hitchens was a complete one-off, an amazing mixture of writer, journalist, polemicist, and unique character. He was fearless in the pursuit of truth and any cause in which he believed. And there was no belief he held that he did not advocate with passion, commitment, and brilliance. He was an extraordinary, compelling and colorful human being whom it was a privilege to know."[183]
Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist at the University of Oxford and a friend of Hitchens, said, "I think he was one of the greatest orators of all time. He was a polymath, a wit, immensely knowledgeable, and a valiant fighter against all tyrants including imaginary supernatural ones."[183]
Sam Harris, American writer and neuroscientist, wrote, "I have been privileged to witness the gratitude that so many people feel for Hitch’s life and work—for, wherever I speak, I meet his fans. On my last book tour, those who attended my lectures could not contain their delight at the mere mention of his name—and many of them came up to get their books signed primarily to request that I pass along their best wishes to him. It was wonderful to see how much Hitch was loved and admired—and to be able to share this with him before the end. I will miss you, brother.

Dec 25th The birth of...

Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.” 

― Neil deGrasse Tyson

Organized Religion

Miracles

Child Marriage

Child marriage is indeed one of the most dangerous, inhumane and primitive behavior which modern societies due to the advancement of science and morality counts as a heinous act.

If we step outside of our comfort zone and enter the less fortunate areas in the world, where people do not have governmental systems to protect them or their minimum human rights, then we realize religious authorities become more dangerous to people than in modern societies. In societies like that believers still could behave as was demanded or suggested in the holly books. Few examples of that is slavery, oppression of women, stoning, witch burning and child marriage. In such areas under the influence of religious oppression change is much harder, especially where behavior of the role models advocates the same behavior we like to see it change. In the case of child marriage Muhammad the prophet of Islam married Aisha one of his wives when she was six and consummated at nine. The problem in this particular case will always be the creator of Islam doing something anyone who is literal about Islam would be allowed to do by their belief system even if it would be illegal by law. 

The only reason we as humans are constantly advancing in our standards of living is our advancements in technology and science due to skepticism, freethinking and imagination.We have to realize the same way as we do not behave any longer as the holly books demands even as believers, we can and should be skeptic about everything we do and constantly look for better answers through science, the only accurate and worthy tool for understanding of our universe.

Science And Religion

Creationist

Happy Halloween

Religion

ISLAM

Muslim Joke

In order to test his son a Muslim father leaves a Quran, knife, some money and bottle of alcohol on a table and thought to himself:

If he takes the Quran he is going to be a good Muslin in the future.

If he takes the money he is going to be a good businessman in the future.

If he takes the alcohol he is going to be a alcoholic in the future.

If he takes the knife he is going to be a bully a thief in the future.

As he was hiding behind the counter the son comes home and puts the knife and money in pocket, drinks the alcohol and takes the Quran with him.

The father realized his son is going to become an Imam in the future.

Argument with Christians and Muslims

I argued about the religious leaders like pope or ayatollah.
Their answer was they are not the real leaders. They are fakes.

I argued about the Taliban or the people who blow up abortion clinics.
Their answer was they are not true Christians or Muslims. They don't understand Christianity or Islam.

I argued about stoning people to death and slavery in their books.
Their answer was those were from different times. it doesn't apply to us anymore.

I argued about different Surahs and Verses.
Their answer was the translation is wrong or its out of the context.

 I argued about the history of violence and the historical aspect.
Their answer was that historian didn't know or was an enemy and my religion is the religion of peace.

I argued about the scientific aspect of no need for a god.
Their answer was science is often wrong and doesn't have all the answers.

I argued about the big-bang and evolution.
Their answer was they are both theories and not proven and also a scam.

Superstition (Religion)

One in five Americans has no religion

The fastest growing "religious" group in America is made up of people with no religion at all, according to a Pew survey showing that one in five Americans is not affiliated with any religion.

The number of these Americans has grown by 25% just in the past five years, according to a survey released Tuesday by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.

The survey found that the ranks of the unaffiliated are growing even faster among younger Americans.

Thirty-three million Americans now have no religious affiliation, with 13 million in that group identifying as either atheist or agnostic, according to the new survey.

Pew found that those who are religiously unaffiliated are strikingly less religious than the public at large. They attend church infrequently, if at all, are largely not seeking out religion and say that the lack of it in their lives is of little importance.

And yet Pew found that 68% of the religiously unaffiliated say they believe in God, while 37% describe themselves as “spiritual” but not “religious.” One in five said that they even pray every day.

John Green, a senior research adviser at Pew, breaks the religiously unaffiliated into three groups. First, he says, are those who were raised totally outside organized religion.

By Dan Merica posted on October 09, 2012 01:57PM GMT 

Source:http://richarddawkins.net/news_articles/2012/10/9/survey-one-in-five-americans-has-no-religion#.UHaC8MXA_xQ