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		<title>Myths about Atheists</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading the extraordinary variety of accusations flung at atheists over the last week or two, and decided to google &#8220;myths about atheists&#8220;.  I found the following list here: Atheists have identical attitudes to everything. Atheists are moral because, presumably, only those who obey the Bible are moral. Atheists all believe in evolution, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salient.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1605081&amp;post=4&amp;subd=salient&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have been reading the extraordinary variety of accusations flung at atheists over the last week or two, and decided to google &#8220;<a title="Myths about Atheists" href="http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&amp;q=myths+about+atheists&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;meta=">myths about atheists</a>&#8220;. </p>
<p>I found the following list <a title="Top 10 Atheist Myths" href="http://humanists.net/avijit/article/top_10_atheist_myths.htm">here</a>:</p>
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<li>Atheists have identical attitudes to everything.</li>
<li>Atheists are moral because, presumably, only those who obey the Bible are moral.</li>
<li>Atheists all believe in evolution, which provides less &#8220;answers&#8221; than creationism.</li>
<li>Atheist cannot claim that there is no God since they cannot prove the non-existence of God.</li>
<li>Atheists are all anti-religious and want to remove religion from society.</li>
<li>Atheists are so closed-minded that they cannot see that miracles happen every day.</li>
<li>Atheists promote a negative statement and lead empty, unhappy lives.</li>
<li>If atheists are right, then religious people are wasting their time, but at least they&#8217;re happy. No harm in that! If religious people are right, then atheists are going to hell. It seems logical that atheists should become religious just to be safe.</li>
<li>There are no atheists in foxholes <span class="q01"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:windowtext;font-family:Arial;">– </span></span>meaning that atheists chicken out on their deathbeds.</li>
<li>America was founded by Christians on Christian values, so all Americans should believe in God.</li>
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<li>I have seen some other accusations:<br />
atheists can&#8217;t legitimately decide to be atheists because they haven&#8217;t studied the Bible throughly – if they knew God&#8217;s Word they would believe as we do and accept God into their hearts;</li>
<li>atheists are atheists because they are emotionally defective and can&#8217;t empathize with others, so they can&#8217;t feel religious (spiritual) experiences and can&#8217;t feel God&#8217;s Truth;</li>
<li>atheists are following cult leaders and founding atheistic religions;</li>
<li>atheists are atheistic only because they have closed their minds to the evidence for God&#8217;s existence, creationism, or intelligent design creationism (if they don&#8217;t believe in these it&#8217;s because they have not read or understood the books);</li>
<li>atheists worship scientists and blindly accept everything that scientists tell them even though science can&#8217;t prove anything;</li>
<li>atheists claim that their position is rational, but atheists are incapable of logic or critical thinking – after all, if atheists could think critically they would see that our dogma-of-choice is the Truth;</li>
<li>atheists have committed terrible atrocities and society will go to hell in a handbasket if society becomes more secular and accepts <em>laissez-faire</em> &#8220;moral relativism&#8221;;</li>
<li>atheists tar all theists with one brush.</li>
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<p>I&#8217;m confident that I&#8217;ll find more examples to add to the list.</p>
<p>Some who passed as the lentils boiled have added to the list in the comments section.</p>
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		<title>Blogroll world!</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A-borborygmi : Mojoey at Deep Thoughts is managing an enormous atheist blogroll (more than 350 websites). If you wish to submit your atheist blog, click on the image at the link above and send him an email. His website is also worth visiting.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=salient.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1605081&amp;post=1&amp;subd=salient&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://godorygmi.blogspot.com/2007/09/borborygmi.html">A-borborygmi</a> :</h3>
<p class="post-body entry-content">Mojoey at <em><a href="http://mojoey.blogspot.com/"><font color="#38b63c">Deep Thoughts</font></a></em> is managing an enormous atheist blogroll (more than 350 websites). If you wish to submit your atheist blog, click on the image at the link above and send him an email. His website is also worth visiting.</p>
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