Hitchens Pillows

we've all been there: all around us, heads bow, hands are raised in supplication, and all we can do is roll our eyes.

It is interesting to contemplate an entangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent on each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. These laws, taken in the largest sense, being Growth with Reproduction; Inheritance which is almost implied by reproduction; Variability from the indirect and direct action of the external conditions of life, and from use and disuse; a Ratio of Increase so high as to lead to a Struggle for Life, and as a consequence to Natural Selection, entailin...

Walk your walk and BE confident in your worldview.

Evolution: with an 80s painting twist

One day the world will be free, puppets no more!

I am the Flying Spaghetti Monster. Thou shalt have no other monsters before Me. (Afterwards is OK; just use protection.) The only Monster who deserves capitalization is Me! Other monsters are false monsters, undeserving of capitalization. -- Suggestions 1:1

New Atheism is the name given to the ideas promoted by a collection of 21st-century atheist writers who have advocated the view that "religion should not simply be tolerated but should be countered, criticized, and exposed by rational argument wherever its influence arises."

Why do believers: "Create a mystery to solve a mystery?"

90% of Americans believe in God. We are the 10%

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus

Don't be ILL. and Don't be such Dictator…like Kim Jong-il.

Present your theological position and watch Sam Harris' left (or is it right?) eyebrow climb northward in classical disbelief.

He's still not convinced.

yes, contemporary religion should be ridiculed

From the urban dictionary: HITCH-SLAP: The act that noted rational atheist Christopher Hitchens must employ on theologists when they attempt to enter discussions that require logic for proof and not "faith". EXAMPLE: Christopher just hitch-slapped Pat Robertson!

Good works in non-mysterious ways.

let 'em know who you are.

Ramen…

"You Only Live Once"…unless you're Hey-Zeus.

Is true that god doesn't play dice with the world?

Inspired by the signature neckties wore by Richard Dawkins.

We'll look back at the Reason Rally as one of the game-changing events when people started to look at atheism and look at atheists in a different light. —David Silverman

The "Four Horsemen of New Atheism" are Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens.

for all you bible-thumpers

When font-lovers die, most of use are going to Helvetica.

makes a great sticker! (Atheism is the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. Atheism is contrasted with theism, which in its most general form is the belief that at least one deity exists.)

FISHY: arousing feelings of doubt or suspicion

The two words most feared in any rational debate.

Freethought is a philosophical viewpoint that holds opinions should be formed on the basis of logic, reason and empiricism and not authority, tradition, or other dogmas. The experience of freethought is known as "freethinking," and practitioners of freethought are known as "freethinkers."

The First Amendment to the United States Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...." and Article VI specifies that "no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States."

The term secularism was coined in 1851 by George Jacob Holyoake to describe "a form of opinion which concerns itself only with questions, the issues of which can be tested by the experience of this life."

yes, these 4 are Fantastic, too.

from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. -CD

the dino represents the strength of our reasoned arguments

"If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes."

yes, these 4 are Fantastic, too.