HERE are two encouraging snapshots from The Esquire Survey
of The American Woman, published in the May 2010 edition:
And, off-topic admittedly, is another:
HERE are two encouraging snapshots from The Esquire Survey
of The American Woman, published in the May 2010 edition:
And, off-topic admittedly, is another:
The Freethinker was founded in 1881 by GW Foote, an outspoken critic of religion. After the publication of irreligious cartoons in the 1882 Christmas edition, Foote was convicted of blasphemy and sentenced to 12 months hard labour. Despite this setback the magazine has remained in print ever since. You can read more here.
April 21st, 2010 at 10:51 pm
I am delighted to see a mainstream publication (Esquire) recognizing that the number of nontheists in America is as high as 39 percent, even if their methodology was less reliable than the polls Ronald Aronson examined and found the figure to be 36 percent. Now perhaps network TV will stop peddling the religious propaganda that nontheists number between 10 and 18 percent.
April 21st, 2010 at 11:48 pm
Given the number of women who believe in evolution, and compare it to the number of atheists, I am left to conclude that there are a lot of people like me. I guess they just aren’t here.
11 percent that don’t believe in evolution. I suppose that would be the ones that don’t realize that 95 percent of all species that ever lived on this planet are extinct. Add to that the megamillions that aren’t extinct and believe they all fit on Noah’s ark along with habitat and food for the journey. Hopefully, the spiders wouldn’t eat the flies and caterpillars. Why didn’t god just murder everybody except Noah and his family, passover style, and skip the flood bullshit?
My vote is for Beyonce. Yeah, she’s about as black as Katherine Morris.
NeoWolfe
April 21st, 2010 at 11:49 pm
I have to say US woman are up for any wishing to put this theory into practise pleae say yes
April 22nd, 2010 at 12:55 am
The question ‘believe in g0d’ is such an open ended one that even an atheist can answer yes. As in yes there is a g0d but no real proof and I have no use for g0d as a personal concept—some would call that idea agnostic, others atheist. The question should be ‘do you believe in a personal g0d such as jepus or jhvh or allyoop.
April 22nd, 2010 at 4:33 am
Rachel Maddow, 15%? Yuk!
April 22nd, 2010 at 4:34 am
This is quite shocking considering the fact that most religious organizations rely on women for their bake sales, bingos,cleaning of churches, fund raising, and in general pushing the hubby and kids into yet another boring hour of rants every Sunday (or Friday night, take your pick). I certainly hope this information is correct, since it would mean that women are FINALLY beginning to wise up and are realizing that their time, money, and effort might be better spent on an organization that doesn’t view them as vessals of sin and filth.
p.s.: Gong Li is much hotter than any of those women listed. If I were a man, she would be my choice!
April 22nd, 2010 at 5:53 am
Megan Fox,Megan Fox,Megan Fox,Megan Fox,Megan Fox and finally @ #6,that singer. Is ‘Fox’ her real name,if it is, it’s a clear case of nominative determinism.
@L Long,
I don’t understand how an atheist can answer “yes” to the question -”do you believe in god?” since atheists maintain that there is no evidence for a deity and consequently no reason to ‘believe’. ‘Agnostic’ might be a better description.
April 22nd, 2010 at 9:20 am
An encouraging result for us non-theists even if the survey questions were a bit vague. However, this does beg the question: why aren’t these women a bit more vocal about their lack of faith.
I don’t recognise any of the women in the photographs so in spite of me being a woman who wears comfortable shoes, can’t comment.
April 22nd, 2010 at 7:36 pm
When I indulge in the thought experiment of choosing the most preferred bed-lady, the primary consideration is facial and full-body beauty. But there is a lot to be said for a lady friend who can engage in intelligent conversation both in and out of bed. On that basis, I am surprised that Rachel Maddow did not score far higher than fifteen percent.
April 23rd, 2010 at 12:43 am
Dr. Harwood:
“On that basis, I am surprised that Rachel Maddow did not score far higher than fifteen percent.”
Well said, evolution knows what it is doing. We are attracted by intelligence. Our degree of human intelligence happened as a result. While it really pissed me off every time my wife beat me at chess, I was really happy when my daughter skipped the second grade in school.
But, tell the truth, would you rather sip cognac with Rachel Maddow or stain the carpets with Beyonce??? The question was who you would sleep with, not who you would have a relationship with. Be honest!!!!
NeoWolfe
April 23rd, 2010 at 2:30 am
RussellW
The greek meaning of ‘atheist’ is ‘without g0d’
so technically I could say I believe there is a god but live ‘without g0d’ in my life. A deist still lives his life with g0d but does not ‘know g0d’. An agnostic is a fence sitter unable to decide.
Atheism has many shades.
Personally, I am of the ‘there IS NO g0d’ school. Where my wife is as described above.
April 23rd, 2010 at 4:43 am
Well if I were to dip my toe in the juices of lesbianism, they would NOT be Rachel’s!
April 23rd, 2010 at 8:11 am
L.Long said:
“An agnostic is a fence sitter unable to decide.”
Bullshit!!!!! An agnostic can be a person waiting for the rest of the evidence to come in before making a decision. While we are mincing definitions, agnostic means “not knowing”. A person who admits that they do not have the answers.
At the point where atheists can prove there is no designer of the universe, that the universe is an accident, then they will be the scientists. Until then, they are just another religion, living their lives based on an unsubstantiated assumption. Myself, I am very comfortable with the statement, “I don’t know.”
NeoWolfe
April 23rd, 2010 at 5:48 pm
In my view (you have yours and I have mine) agnosticism is only defensible when it is limited to the claim that the existence of gods as a class cannot be disproven, and the existence of some kind of intelligent design behind the origin of the universe cannot be disproven. Anyone who claims that the existence of the god(s) of the Tanakh and/or Bible and/or Koran has not been disproven either has not read Victor Stenger’s //God: The Failed Hypothesis//, or did not pay close enough attention to its logic.
Calling atheism a religion is like calling baldness a hairstyle. (I have heard other analogies, that that one is as good as any.)
April 24th, 2010 at 1:24 am
The difference between agnostics and atheists is the following. Agnostics allow the possibility of the evidence of God being found one day, whereupon they would become believers.
(Modern) atheists go further. Based on the excellent work of David Hume on formal logic, they conclude that no such evidence can ever be found because the proposition is, what Hume called, “nonsense”.
“Nonsense” cannot be proven (or disproven)
Example: I claim that there is a dragon living in my garage that cannot be detected by any means whatsoever, now or ever.
An agnostic would be waiting forever to decide whether to accept the existence of that dragon.
An atheist would refuse to accept its existence (because there can never be a proof of its existence)
Ha ha ha ha ha!
A believer, on the other hand, would have a really serious problem, because my claim above is exactly the same as believers make about God..
May 1st, 2010 at 6:57 am
And the more believers, the safer your car!