Like Rolling Uphill

"Like Rolling Uphill - Realising the Honesty of Atheism" by Dianna Narciso, is an effort to address the questions and misconceptions of believers, Dianna offers her perception of religion as from the outside looking in.

If you ever wanted to know what makes an Atheist tick, this book will offer you fascinating insight.

When Atheists dare to come out of hiding, they are sometimes surprised by the reactions they receive. From accusations of immorality, to nonsensical questions about evolution, believers are apparently threatened by our lack of belief. There may be good reason for that feeling. after all, we represent the possibility that they may be wrong.

The tone throughout the book is not of someone attacking religion, but of someone who is defending a position against the misconceptions of religionists. That always makes this kind of work more accessible.

Celebrity Atheists

An interesting website that I felt like sharing. The Celebrity Atheist List contains a list of notable individuals classified by their level of Atheism.

Some known Atheists/Materialists:
Douglas Adams, Woody Allen, Lance Armstrong, John Carmack, Fidel Castro, Richard Dawkins, Jodie Foster, Bill Gates, Seth Green, Angelina Jolie, Diane Keaton, Bruce Lee, James Lipton, John Malkovich, Sir Ian McKellen, Arthur Miller, Julianne Moore, Jack Nicholson, Gary Numan, Keanu Reeves, Salman Rushdie, Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, More...

Anonymous Quotes Collection

- "Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned"

- "A theologian is like a blind person in a dark room searching for a black cat which isn't there.. and finding it!"

- "The Holy Books were written by the same people who said the Earth was flat"

- "Evolutionists have proof without conviction. Creationists have conviction without proof"

- "Humanity without religion is like a serial killer without a chain saw"

- "Faith is that quality which enables us to believe what we know to be untrue"

- "The narrower the mind, the broader the statement"

- "The believer is happy; the doubter is wise"

- "Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters"

- "If you believe everything you read, better not read"

- "I can explain it for you, but I can't understand it for you"

Are Our Children Learning Yet?

Scientific Reasons Behind Atheism

Most theistic religions teach that mankind and the universe were created by one or more deities. Many people, including both atheists and theists, feel that this view is in blatant conflict with modern science, especially evolution. For some atheists this conflict is one reason they reject theism. Some theists draw the opposite conclusion from the same conflict, and reject evolution in favor of creationism, despite the essentially complete consensus about evolution among scientists. Other theists accept that evolution happened and do not believe that there is a conflict.

Evolutionary science, supported by a large body of palentological and genomic evidence and accepted by the overwhelming majority of biologists, describes how complex life has developed through a slow process of random mutation and natural selection, and that the human race is merely one species among others, one of many random products of this stochastic process. It is now known that humans share 98% of our genetic code with chimpanzees, 90% with mice, 21% with roundworms, and 7% with the bacterium E. coli.

This humbling perspective is quite different from that of most theistic religions, which give humans a unique and central status; in the Abrahamic religions, for instance, humans are thought to be created "in God's image" and to be a qualitatively different thing from the "beasts of the Earth". Similarly, the facts that Earth's Sun is only one undistinguished star among billions in the Milky Way, which itself is merely one undistinguished galaxy among billions of others, and that modern humans have existed at all for only 0.0015% of the age of the universe, are seen by some atheists as rendering implausible the proposition that this universe was created (by some deity) with mankind in mind.

More fundamentally, western science is based on the assumption that the universe is governed by unchanging natural laws that can be determined by experiments and used as a reliable basis for prediction and engineering, which assumes the absence of divine interference. The success of modern science and engineering would thus arguably imply that deities are either absent or at least take a rather hands-off approach to the world. Many atheists feel that the simplest explanation is that there are no deities.

Bible is the word of God?

Or is it even inspired by God? I don't think so because God - assuming there is - is not the author of confusion, and the full Bible is confusing and contradicting to itself, this may be an old debate that still needs to be clarified:


"For his (God's) anger endureth but a moment"
Psalms 30:5

Contradicted by:

"and the lord's anger was kindled against Israel and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years"
Numbers 32:13

"God is not a mar, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent"
Numbers 23:19

Contradicted by:

"and the Lord repented that he made Saul king over Israel "
Samuel 15:35

Also:

"and the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people"
Exodus 32:14

"For the Lord is good; and his mercy is Everlasting"
Psalms 100:5

Contradicted by:

"I (God) remember that which Amalek did to Israel (four hundred years before)... Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all they have, and spare them not, but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling ox and sheep, camel and ***"
1 Samuel 15:3

"(God) dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see"
1 Timothy 6:16

Contradicted by:

"Then spoke Solomon, the Lord said that he would dwell in the thick Darkness"
1 Kings 8:12

"For God cannot be tempted with evil, neither tempteth he any man"

James 1:13

Contradicted by:

"And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham"
Genesis 22:1

"For God is not the author of confusion"
1 Corinthians 14:33

Atheistic Quote

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful, without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

Douglas Adams

Manifestation of Reason - Birth of Atheism

Since the masses of the people were inconstant, full of unruly desires, passionate and reckless of consequence, they must be filled with fears to keep them in order. The ancients did well, therefore, to invent Gods, and the belief in punishment after death. It was then when Theology was born out of fear and fed by massive ignorance.

There was a time when “The Supernatural” ruled. It was called “The Dark Ages”.

Awareness multiplies, and Theological beliefs decline with time as education level rises, and such ideologies will eventually cease to exist as a modernized society shall dump such creeds as myths. I believe that a mere society form of Atheism; and the death of dogma is the birth of morality.

Atheism can be defined as the mental attitude which unreservedly accepts the supremacy of reason and aims at establishing a lifestyle and ethical outlook verifiable by experience and the scientific method, independent of all arbitrary assumptions of authority and creeds. An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a mosque or church. An Atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.

Some understand what they believe in. Others believe in what they understand. It only requires a sense of reason to comprehend my conduction. The conduction consists of a variety of quotes and statements which - I hope - can be of guidance to the reader to unveil uncommon perspectives related to the subject.

Unfortunately, new opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common nor understood. I know that many have been breastfed of religious facts; therefore, opposition is highly expected. I just hope such have the ability to think from the scratch.