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Statement of Purpose

• This is a support and conversation community for people who don't believe in gods.
• Superstition hucksters have no reason to subscribe or post here at all.
• If you are looking to debate or proselytize, options will be linked lower in the sidebar.

Acceptable

• Honest questions or conversations.
• Discussions on parenting or advice.
• Struggles, frustrations, coming out.
• Atheist memes. We can have fun!
• News headlines relevant to atheism.

Unacceptable

Depending on severity, you might be warned before adverse action is taken.

• Anything against site rules.
• Illegal and/or NSFW material.
• Troll posts and comments. There will be no attempt to explain what that means.
• Leading questions, agenda pushing, or disingenuous attempts to bait members.
• Personal attacks or flaming.

Inadvisable

• Self promotion or upvote farming.
• Excessive shitposting or off-topic discussion.

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Application of warnings or bans will be subject to moderator discretion. Feel free to appeal. If changes to the guidelines are necessary, they will be adjusted.

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If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathizer or a resemblant of a group that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of any other group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you you will be banned on sight.

Provable means able to provide proof to the moderation, and, if necessary, to the community.

 ~ /c/nostupidquestions

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If you want your space listed in this sidebar and it is especially relevant to the atheist or skeptic communities, PM DancingPickle and we'll have a look!

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Connect with Atheists

• Matrix: #atheism:envs.net

Help and Support Links

• Freedom From Religion Foundation
• The Secular Therapy Project
• Secular Students Alliance
• Black Nonbelievers
• The Clergy Project
• Atheist Alliance International
• Sunday Assembly
• Atheist Ireland
• Atheism UK
• Atheists United

Streaming Media

This is mostly YouTube at the moment. Podcasts and similar media - especially on federated platforms - may also feature here.

• Atheist Debates - Matt Dillahunty
• Rationality Rules
• Friendly Atheist
• Making Sense with Sam Harris
• Cosmic Skeptic
• Genetically Modified Skeptic
• Street Epistemology
• Armored Skeptic
• NonStampCollector

Orgs, Blogs, Zines

• Center for Inquiry
• American Atheists
• Humanists International
• Atheist Republic
• The Brights
• The Angry Atheist
• History for Atheists
• Rationalist International
• Atheist Revolution
• Debunking Christianity
• Godless Mom
• Atheist Freethinkers

Mainstream

• Independent
• The Guardian
• Newsweek
• The New York Times
• Salon
• The Conversation
• The New Yorker
• HuffPost

Bibliography

Start here...

• The Bible
• Bhagavad Gita
• The Quran
• The Book of Mormon
• Adi Granth

...proceed here.

• God is Not Great (Hitchens)
• The God Delusion (Dawkins)
• The End of Faith (Harris)
• Why I Am Not a Christian (Russell)
• Letter to a Christian Nation (Harris)

Proselytize Religion

• Convince an Atheist

From Reddit

As a community with an interest in providing the best resources to its members, the following wiki links are provided as historical reference until we can establish our own.

• Coming Out
• Seeking Asylum
• Want to Debate?

MODERATORS

According to these opening lines of our Constitution, the foundation for laws and continued blessing and success in Iowa is based on these points:

    There is One Supreme God.

    Blessings over this state come from the One Supreme God

    We must depend upon the One Supreme God if we want to enjoy continued blessings.

It is a tortured and twisted interpretation of law that affords Satan, who is universally understood to be the enemy of God, religious expression equal to God in an institution of government that depends upon God for continued blessings. Such a legal view not only violates the very foundation of our State Constitution, but it offends the God upon whom we depend and undermines our wellbeing.

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Therefore, based on the laws of God and the Constitution of the State of Iowa, and for the purpose of securing the blessings of God upon our state: 

    I am calling for our governor to have this blasphemous display removed immediately based on the grounds that it is unconstitutional and *offends God upon whom the State of Iowa depends for blessings.*

    I am calling for clarifying legislation to be adopted in accordance with our State Constitution that prohibits satanic displays in our Capitol building and on all state owned property.

    I am calling for legislation to be adopted that makes it legal to display the Ten Commandments in our Capitol, in all buildings owned by the state, and in our public schools.

If we want the blessings of God upon our state, we must demonstrate by our laws and actions that we are indeed depending upon Him and that we are opposed to Satan.