I found this terrific story over at ExChristian.net that really struck me. His story is so similar to my own, which I describe in How I Became an Atheist. Read it and watch my video and you will get a sense of how difficult it is to throw off the oppressive beliefs of Christianity or any religion.

In this article EURweb.com is reporting that Disney is being accused by a Christian group of giving preferential treatment to Gays and Lesbians. The premise of these Christians is ridiculous. They are comparing Disney organized/sponsored events with ad-hoc events that Disney has not participation in. If I were a Christian Preacher and I were to say to my flock, "On May 19th 2009 we are going to Disney World would y'all like to join us?" would that put any onus on Disney to accommodate me in any special way? NO.

Re: Tough Questions for Atheists #2: Abortion -

Pro-Choice is different from Pro-Abortion and so this apparent dilemma is really non-existent.

Music is "Stumble" by REM

"Coming Out" as an Atheist -

I use the phrase "Coming Out" because in many ways coming out as an Atheist is very similar to coming out as gay. It really depends on the types of people that make up your family but I am sure there are some people for whom coming out as an atheist would actually be harder then coming out as gay. I seem to remember someone making a joke about telling your parents you are an atheist so that you can say that you were just kidding and that you were just gay.

See this video for the reaction that young ex-Catholic got when he came out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Aq00yJSxo

This is the first in a great series of videos about one man's quest to discover who wrote the bible. This examination takes him to many places and ends up with a realization that the bible is not the true word of God. I cannot be. It is the word of men and sometimes petty chauvinistic and devious men, at that.

UPDATE 8/1/2009

This video was removed due to copy right violations. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Yes, I am a Heretic! -

This is a response to Jezuzfreek777: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd8I-ywzmuo

This is a response to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDTVU5UEjKM

Watch it first.

Here is the Kissing Hanks Ass video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86hwO5XxPmA

Watch it and you will see how similar this message is to the one presented by YokeUp.

This is a response to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMNWzmcvegU

Links to the books I mentioned:

The Selfish Gene: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0199291152?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&linkCo...

The Ancestor's Tale http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/061861916X?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&linkCo...

The Extended Phenotype http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0192880519?ie=UTF8&tag=dhtein-20&linkCo...

This is a reply to a PM that RickUzTube sent me (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=rickuztube).

I mentioned a website for the "Stand to Reason" organization (http://www.str.org) I do not recommend this site to the weakminded. It contains dangerously flawed logic. If all I ever did was make videos about how the logic on this site was wrong, I could make videos for the whole of next year.

I mention several logical problems with the arguments made by Rick so I want to include a link to a great resource on logical fallacies: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/

This is a response to a text comment made by rickuztube in which he asks, "What is it that drives you to speak out against Christianity?".