The Atheist Blogger

Time for some blog promotion! I subscribe to quite a few atheist blogs in my feedreader (Liferea for all you Linux fans), and I thought I’d give you a summary of my favourite ones:

Friendly Atheist (http://friendlyatheist.com)

No atheist feed is complete without the blog of the “eBay atheist”. As the chair of the Secular Student Alliance, Hemant Mehta is a great person to add if you are in education and want someone who understands your view. He also seems to update his blog about 5 times a day, so make sure you don’t miss anything!

Atheist Revolution (http://www.atheistrev.com)

Now with a brand spanking new domain, Atheist Revolution is almost the opposite of Friendly Atheist. Whilst Hemant Mehta strives not to be overly offending to people of faith, vjack is openly critical of religion and belief in gods. If you like to read determined attacks on religion, read this blog! vjack has recently started a new feature called “Blogging Tips” which are aimed at new bloggers who want to make a good start to their blog.

The Atheist Jew (http://baconeatingatheistjew.blogspot.com)

As the author explains on his website, he is an atheist since he doesn’t believe in gods, but he is also a Jew since his mother was a Jew. It’s his heritage, not his religion. This blog is based in Canada so if you are Canadian it will keep you up to date with the national atheist information. The Atheist Jew, like Atheist Revolution is a great place to go if you want to see relgion / belief openly mocked.

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A copy of Richard Dawkins “The God Delusion” fell off my shelf today, and opened on page 83 which contains a rather humorous “proof” of the non existence of God based on the qualities of a creator. It was written by Douglas Gasking, and is really a joke / parody of similar theist arguments FOR God. However I think it is a perfect example of how atheists view the beauty of the world without resorting to any form of god.

1. The creation of the world is the most marvellous achievement imaginable.
2. The merit of an achievement is the product of (a) its intrinsic quality, and (b) the ability of its creator.
3. The greater the disability (or handicap) of the creator, the more impressive the achievement.
4. The most formidable handicap for a creator would be non-existence.
5. Therefore if we suppose that the universe is the product of an existent creator we can conceive a greater being - namely, one who created everything while not existing.
6. An existing God therefore would not be a being greater than which a greater cannot be conceived because and even more formidable and incredible creator would be a God which did not exist.

   Ergo:

7. God does not exist.

Now perhaps theists can understand our stance on the beauty and complex nature of the world we live in. Sure, they have a God who made it all, but we believe that all this beauty and complexity came into being without a designer, which makes it all the more wondrous and inspiring.

Our non-existent “creator” is way better than yours…