I have enjoyed laughing at T-Shirt Hell’s irreverently humorous shirts for over 7 years now.
I placed an order today for two of my favorite shirts today. Below are some of my favorite religiously themed shirts from the site. Get one while you can.
More great shirts after the jump.
For those who may not be familiar with The Atheist Spot, it is a social bookmarking site, a la Digg and Reddit, exclusively for stories that we are likely to enjoy.
The site, whose tagline reads “In our minds we trust”, allows users to submit links that are voted up and down the news hierarchy. There are a variety of subcategories including Interviews, Video & Audio, Science & Technology, Events, and Books within which users can better classify their submissions.
There are three ways in which users can submit links to the site: through the “Add News” link on the website, through a javascript bookmarklet that can be accessed in your browser’s toolbar, and through embeddable image widgets that can be added to blog posts or new stories on your own site. I have the Sociable WordPress plugin installed on my site which uses PHP awesomeness to create dynamic submission links for each new blog post. Try it out below your favorite story on here to add it to The Atheist Spot for other users to enjoy.
Whether or not your submit links to the site, there is a wealth of great links on the site for all atheists, agnostics, and freethinkers.
Edit: I no longer use Sociable. I use SocioFluid which does not as easily allow for one to code in a custom bookmarking site. AtheistSpot is still pretty rad though, and you should totally use it.
If you are on Twitter, you can now follow the site. Simply click the image directly below the RSS icon to the right.
You can also be my friend on Facebook.
If all of these things like “Twitter”, “MySpace”, and “Facebook” are foreign to you, I’d love to say, “Get out more!”, but I suppose I should say, “Stay inside on your computer more!”
Once you have added me on the social network of your choice, as always, I would appreciate a quick shoutout to your friends/followers letting them know of a place where they can read up on atheist/agnostic/non-religious happenings.
If you’re in the Bible Belt like me, you can’t have too many allies.
Editorial Staff,
I was recently flipping through the 2007 AP Stylebook, and I came to the entry for “agnostic, atheist” on page 9. The stylebook definition given for atheist is, “An atheist is a person who believes there is no God.” It is my opinion, that this is not an accurate definition. According to Merriam-Webster, theism is the “belief in the existence of a god or gods”. The prefix “a-“, meaning without, only adds that atheists are without said belief. Atheism does not make any positive assertions nor does it represent a belief. It represents a lack of belief.
While your definition reads, “An atheist is a person who believes there is no God,” I believe it would be more correctly stated as, “An atheist is a person who does not believe in the existence of God.”
Furthermore, in your definition of “agnostic” you omit the key defining element of agnosticism, i.e. an unwillingness to commit. Merriam-Webster defines “agnostic” as “a person unwilling to commit to an opinion”. While your definition states, “An agnostic is a person who believes it is impossible to know whether there is a God,” I believe it would be more complete if read as, “An agnostic is a person who is unwilling to commit to a belief of the existence or nonexistence of God.”
It should go without saying that where “God” is used in these contexts, it could and should be substituted with “a god.” Your stylebook dictates the capitalization of ‘God’ “in references to the deity of all monotheistic religions” (pg 106), but atheism and agnosticism are not exclusive to monotheistic religions.
I appreciate your time and attention to these discrepancies. I hope that you will consider corrections to these entries to prevent any potential misconceptions among your publications’ users. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.
Sincerely,
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http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/theism
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/agnostic