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"There are no foxes in atheistholes."
   — Ralph Dumain, ca. 1971

"A man without a god is like a fish without a bicycle."
   — Anonymous



Organizations: Washington, DC Area

Washington Area Secular Humanists (WASH)

Religion Reality Check - ASUSA (Alliance of Secularists USA)

Beltway Atheists
See also:

Beltway Atheists on MySpace.com

Beltway Atheists Meetup Group

The Washington Ethical Society

National Capital Area Skeptics

MACHAR/The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism

Center for Inquiry - Washington D.C.


Organizations: United States

American Atheists

American Humanist Association

Council for Secular Humanism

Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.

Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP)

Center for Inquiry on Campus

Institute for Humanist Studies (IHS)

The Humanist Institute

Religion Reality Check - ASUSA (Alliance of Secularists USA)


Organizations: International

International Humanist and Ethical Union

International Liaison Committee of Atheists and Freethinkers


Organizations: Religious Humanism / Secular & Liberal “Religious” Groups: United States

American Ethical Union

Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations

Society for Humanistic Judaism

Unitarian Universalist Association


Organizations: Church-State Separation

Americans for Religious Liberty

Americans United for Separation of Church and State

Secular Coalition for America


Other Organizations

Rationalist Society of Australia

Humanist Society of Scotland

Atheist Association of Finland

Fédération Nationale de la Libre Pensée (French)


Periodicals

American Atheist (publication of American Atheists)

Free Inquiry (publication of Council for Secular Humanism)

Freethought Today (publication of Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.)

Humanism Today - The Journal of the Humanist Institute (online)

The Humanist (publication of American Humanist Association)

New Humanist (UK)

Philo, the only professional philosophy journal devoted exclusively to criticisms of theism & defenses or developments of naturalism

Positive Atheism (online magazine)

The Truth Seeker
There are back issues online.

The Rationalist

The Skeptics Society and Skeptic Magazine

Skeptical Inquirer magazine (publication of CSICOP)

Freethought History Newsletter, #12 (1994) & #13 (1995)


Coalitions

The Atheist Alliance Web Center
Links galore: members, directory, library, etc.

Community of Reason

Secular Coalition for America

Secular Student Alliance


Web Guides, Web Rings, Multiple Resources

Annotated Webliography of Humanism

Agnosticism/Atheism

Council for Secular Humanism selectively lists humanist links.

EpistemeLinks.com: Website results for Atheism

Freethought Ring

Humanists.net (worldwide, supports web hosting)

Secular Web

Skeptic Ring

WASH has very useful links pages.

Religious Movements Homepage: Atheism


Blogs

Rant & Reason (sponsored by American Humanist Association)

Atheism Blogs - Blogs for Atheists

Agnosticism & Atheism with Austin Cline (blog)

Capella's Guide to Atheism - An Atheist's Guide to Scripture and more

Atheist Network

The Heart of Humanism

Black Woman Thinks...Religion, Politics, Race, Atheism and more!

Reason & Society (Current blog of Ralph Dumain)


Special Atheist / Freethought / Humanist / Secularist Web Sites

Freethought Forum

Reason & Society

Old blog by Ralph Dumain

Free Thought Media

The Infidel Guy

Equal Time for Freethought

Atheist Empire - All About Atheism

The Infidels

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & The Future of Reason, by Sam Harris

RichardDawkins.net - The Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science

The Freethought Almanac by Ronald Bruce Meyer

Skepchick Magazine

Barry F. Seidman

Julia Sweeney (formerly of Saturday Nite Live, nonbeliever's blog)

Childhood and Religion (Benjamin Abelow, M.D.)

Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party

Landover Baptist | Where the Worthwhile Worship. Unsaved Unwelcome. (spoof)

Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster


Miscellaneous Individual Sites

Dangerous Talk

The Rational Response Squad

Fred Whitehead

Evolving Mind

The Assertive Atheist

Reverend AtheiStar

Trust Reason

A Call to Sanity (Jason Scott Yeldel)

Black Sun Journal - Atheism, Climate Change, Drug War, Atheist, Religion


Encyclopedia Articles

Atheism - Wikipedia (note links)
   See also Category:Atheism

Freethought - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Agnosticism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
   See also Category:Agnosticism

Secular humanism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Secularism - Wikipedia
  See also Category:Secularism


Online Texts: Sources

American Atheists is generous with online texts.
There are also FAQs, and units on Christianity, Islam, and evolution, as well as AA's own publications.

Council for Secular Humanism has a number of online texts, and a bookshop.

FFRF makes some of its publications available online as well as in print form, and especially online pamphlets.

An English Atheist


Specific Online Texts

The Necessity of Atheism by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Dialogue between a Priest and a Dying Man by the Marquis de Sade

Letters From the Earth by Mark Twain

Upstart Radio audio version of Letters From the Earth by Mark Twain

The God Pestilence by Johann Most

The God Pestilence by Johann Most

The God Pestilence by Johann Most

The God Pestilence by Johann Most

The God Pestilence by Johann Most, Foreword by Fred Woodworth

Die Gottespest / Johann Most

The Meaning Of Atheism by E. Haldeman-Julius. Little Blue Book No. 1597. Haldeman-Julius Company. Copies all over the web.

Is Theism a Logical Philosophy? (1930 Debate between E. Haldeman-Julius and Rev. Burris Jenkins)

The Church Is a Burden, Not a Benefit, in Social Life by E. Haldeman-Julius

Studies In Rationalism edited by E. Haldeman-Julius (Big Blue Book #B-7)

E. Haldeman-Julius - Marketing Master
   Wednesday, September 24, 2004

Big Blue Books by Joseph McCabe

The Philosophy of Humanism by Corliss Lamont

An Atheist Manifesto by Joseph Lewis PDF or HTML

Skeptic's Annotated Bible / Quran / Book of Mormon

Assassinations Foretold in Moby Dick! by Brendan McKay

Religion and “Believers” by Nikos Raptis

Atheism: Belief in no God, or no belief in God; there is a difference


Secularism

Secularism 101: Religion, Society, and Politics; Index of Articles and Resources

Secularism - Wikipedia
   see also: Category:Secularism

National Secular Society (UK)


Related Doctrines

The Center for Naturalism

Naturalism.org

Agnosticism: Uncertainty about whether God exists

World Union of Deists

Temple of Reason (Deists)

HUUmanists

Religious Humanism


Critical & Rational Thinking

Critical Thinking On The Web (Tim van Gelder)

Foundation for Critical Thinking

Butterflies and Wheels: Fighting Fashionable Nonsense

kenanmalik.com


Black / African-American / African Atheism (further relevant links on black intellectuals in my general bibliography)

African Americans for Humanism

Harlem Community / Center for Inquiry

The Infidel Guy

Famous Black Freethinkers Page

Black Woman Thinks...Religion, Politics, Race, Atheism and more! (blog)

A Call to Sanity (Jason Scott Yeldel)

Frank the Financially Savvy Atheist (The F.S.A.): Where the hell are they? blog

Discussion: Being Atheist & Black (Austin's Atheism Blog)

 

The Hubert Harrison Center

Lucy Parsons, black American anarchist. See entry in Freethinkers in Texas (see http://www.atheist-community.org/library/FREETHINKERSinTX-02.doc for Word 2000 version)

AHAL - AFRICAN HUMANIST ALLIANCE

UHASSO: Uganda Humanist Association

Religion and “Believers” by Nikos Raptis


Jewish Secularism & Atheism

MACHAR/The Washington Congregation for Secular Humanistic Judaism

Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations

Society for Humanistic Judaism

Jewish Virtual Library on Haskalah

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
    Atheist Jew
    Humanistic Judaism
    Haskalah   


Atheism, Humanism, Secularism, & Science in India

Atheism in India

Note the atheist Gora's autobiography, including his book "An Atheist with Ghandi"

"Development of Philosophical Thought and Scientific Method in Ancient India"

Essays on IHEU site

SECULARISM IN INDIA – THE INCONCLUSIVE DEBATE, by Justice R. A. Jahagirdar

Philosopher of the Humanist Revolution (M.N. Roy) by Babu Gogineni

The Four dangers of irrationalism by Levi Fragell, President, IHEU. January 18th, 2000. Lecture at the Indian Rationalist Association´s Golden Jubilee Conference in Trivandrum, India

Secularism, science and the Right” [Review of Meera Nanda, The Wrongs of the Religious Right: Reflections on Science, Secularism and Hindutva] by R. Dumain

"Distortion of history worries Amartya", The Hindu, 06/11/2005

"Humanism In India" by Matt Cherry, Free Inquiry, Volume 16, Number 4, Fall 1996

Atheists of India yahoo discussion group


Freethought in the Islamic World

Secular Islam blog

DiaHumanism Institute for Studies in Freethought ( DISF)

Zentralrat der Ex-Muslime (in German)


Online Discussion Groups / Meetups / Finding One Another

Freethought Forum

BookTalk.org, the freethinker's online book discussion community

Secular E-Mail Lists & Discussion Groups

Meetup Groups: search for atheists & humanists

Internet Infidels Discussion Board

Yahoo! Groups: search for 'atheism', 'freethought', 'secular humanism', etc.

topica email discussion lists: search for 'atheists', 'humanism'

EpistemeLinks.com: Philosophy of Religion Discussion Lists


Important Atheists/Freethinkers/Humanists & Related Figures in History

Darwin Day Celebration

Corliss Lamont Website

ROY WOOD SELLARS: PHILOSOPHER OF RELIGIOUS HUMANISM

Hypatia

Robert Green Ingersoll [1833 - 1899]

Robert G. Ingersoll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Robert Ingersoll dot com

Ingersoll Complete Works online

Ingersoll Infography

Joseph McCabe

Omnivore Issue 32 by Scott McLemee (TPM Online)

Joseph McCabe: Atheist Prophet for Our Time by Hal Verb

Thomas Paine

Tom Paine works online

Thomas Paine National Historical Association

For info on organizations arranging celebrations, go to the Thomas Paine Institute


Publications for Sale

Bank of Wisdom


Books of Interest

Women Without Superstition: “No Gods - No Masters”: The Collected Writings of Women Freethinkers of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Freethought on the American Frontier edited by Fred Whitehead & Verle Muhrer

Dictionary of Atheism, Skepticism, & Humanism by Bill Cooke

The New Encyclopedia of Unbelief edited by Tom Flynn

The Encyclopedia of Unbelief edited by Gordon Stein (old edition, 1985)


Birthdays

12 February
Darwin Day Celebration

11 August
Robert Green Ingersoll [1833 - 1899]


The Autodidact Project: Atheism / Freethought / Secular Humanism Links

Ralph Dumain on atheism, irreligion, and rationality

Die Gedanken Sind Frei (My Thoughts Are Free)

Red Jacket vs. Christianity: The Native American as Rationalist

Lorraine Hansberry's Humanism

Adorno on Truth, Survival, Consolation & Freedom of Thought

T.W. Adorno on Zen Buddhism

Bruno Bauer on Christianity, Alienation, and the Dialectics of Religious Consciousness

M. Bakunin on Materialism and Idealism

Natural Order and the 'Divine Legislator' (according to Bakunin) by Paul McLaughlin

Negation: Bakunin and Bauer by Paul McLaughlin

Bakunin and Feuerbach: On Religion, Philosophy, & Naturalism by Paul McLaughlin

When God Was a Woman” by Bob Black

“There Is No God” (1813) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“I Will Beget a Son” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Necessity! Thou Mother of the World!” by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Fragment of A Refutation of Deism by Percy Bysshe Shelley

[A Refutation of the Christian Religion] (1814?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

A Fragment on Miracles (1813-1815) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

On Polytheism (1819?) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Essay on the Devil and Devils by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Engels on the British Ideology: Empiricism, Agnosticism, & “Shamefaced Materialism”

Engels (& Borges) on Carlyle

The Popes Combat Modernity in the Bourgeois Century

"Spinoza, the First Secular Jew?" by Yirmiyahu Yovel

Salomon Maimon’s Autobiography: On a Proposed Conversion to Christianity

Adolph L. Reed, Jr. on Organicism, Authoritarianism, Clericalism, & Black Politics

James Baldwin Revisited (2): Go Tell It on the Mountain by Ralph Dumain

On Job's Dilemma: God's Injustice (from the play J.B. by Archibald Macleish)

Why Koshchei the Deathless Knows Neither Pride nor Love

Pondering the Spirit World with Seinfeld

Revisiting Vonnegut's Cat's Cradle by Ralph Dumain

“God or Labor: The Two Camps” by M. Bakunin

Scepticism & Fideism by Richard H. Popkin

“Doubt and Atheism” by Evlogi Dankov

A Different Kind of Criticism [of Religion: Excerpt] by Max Horkheimer

“Theses Against Occultism” by Theodor W. Adorno

Leon Trotsky on the Culture of Fascism

Humanism—100 Years of Freethought by David Tribe

The Village Atheist (Excerpts) by E. Haldeman-Julius

“Haldeman-Julius, The Little Blue Books, and the Theory of Popular Culture” by Dale M. Herder

Book Review: Between Tides by V.Y. Mudimbe by Ralph Dumain

Cornel West's Evasion of Philosophy, Or, Richard Wright's Revenge by Ralph Dumain

FEEDBACK: Melville the “Atheist” by Ralph Dumain

“Love Is the Fulfilling of the Law” by Hewlett Johnson, Dean of Canterbury

The Late Vitalism of Wilhelm Reich: Commentary by Ralph Dumain

Some Loud Thinking About the Bhagavadgita by G. Ramakrishna

Lokayata by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

Science and Philosophy in Ancient India by Debiprasad Chattopadhyaya

Swami Agehananda Bharati on Hindu Fascism & Western Infatuation

Eastern & Western Philosophy: Unpublished Letter to the Editor [rejoinder by R. Dumain to 'The Great Divide' by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad]

"The New Age Mythology" by Michael Parenti

The Asconan Idea in Politics by Martin Green

Taoism & the Tao of Bourgeois Philosophy (review of J. J. Clarke, The Tao of the West) by Ralph Dumain

"Esperanto und Atheismus" de Detlev Blanke

Vincent” by Sandor Szathmari, a short story about Galileo, translated by Ralph Dumain

“The Temptation of Kul” by John I. Francis, a tale of absolutisms in conflict translated by Ralph Dumain

La Dia Pesto [The Divine Pestilence] de Johann Most

Ĉu Oni Povas Vivi Sen Religio? [Can One Live Without Religion?] de André Lorulot

La Releviĝo de Tomaso Paine [The Resurrection of Thomas Paine] de R. W. Morrell

Kontraŭ Dio! Ateista Krestomatieto [Against God! Little Atheist Crestomathy]

David Hume vs. ‘Intelligent Design’

Secular Humanism—Ideology, Philosophy, Politics, History: Bibliography in Progress

Ludwig Feuerbach: A Bibliography

Richard Wright Study Guide. Note on-site and off-site links.

100 Years of C.L.R. James

Holistic Thought, New Age Obscurantism, Occultism, the Sciences, & Fascism

Occultism, Eastern Mysticism, Fascism, & Countercultures: Selected Bibliography

Meera Nanda Online

Positivism vs Life Philosophy (Lebensphilosophie) Study Guide

Emergence Blog

Esperanto Study Guide / Esperanto-Gvidilo. Note relevant items in Esperanto & English on-site, plus off-site links on Ateismo.



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