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So this months book is “The Demon Haunted World” by Carl Sagan, and the discussion will be held on Saturday 30th, at 23:00 UTC. Again, if you need to work out your time follow these steps:

1. Visit the website http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
2. Scroll down past the first table of countries and you will see another box that has the words “Current UTC (or GMT/Zulu)-time used: “
3. With the time/date shown in that box, you can work how how far ahead or behind you are of UTC.

Everything will be confirmed nearer the time.

Now for the vote for Septembers book.

Do not vote unless you wish to read the book or take part in the discussion!

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Voting lasts 7 days.

I apologise for my inactivity on the blog after my somewhat less spectacular return from exams, but when one is confined to a bed for 2 days with a fever, headaches, and completely delirious (suffice to say I did *not* start believing in God) then one’s mind isn’t prone to considering writing a blog post, let alone trying to use a computer…

However, as I recovered I spent some more time on facebook, and got into a rather interesting debate about atheism as a belief. I used to be of the thinking that atheism was not a belief, but rather a “disbelief”, however it took a few well informed atheist commentators of this blog to change my mind.

Realising that belief in no gods and dis-belief (or non-belief) in gods are exactly the same things is quite a confusing thing to get your head around at first, but it is important when considering philosophical questions. The idea that the statements “I do not believe there are Gods” and “I believe there are no Gods” are exactly the same makes so much more sense than trying to convince yourself otherwise.

However as the debate continues, the two sides are still at disagreement, although my opponent is a fabulous person to debate against. I thought instead of taxing my still recovering brain to write a post concerning the entire topic, I’d see what everyone thought at first. A simple yes or no poll:

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Whether you like the term “deconvert” or prefer “conversion to atheism”, a recent investigative essay by Kieran Bennett has had quite a varied response. In light of this, I thought it might be interesting to run a poll to see how many people attribute their “deconversion” to Kieran’s conclusive factors.

Unlike previous polls, you can select multiple answers since there are probably multiple reasons. I’ve tried to reword a few factors so that ex-Muslims, Jews etc can also answer.

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