“Unsinkable Atheism,”

14^th Annual Atheist Alliance International (AAI) Convention

September 25—28, 2008 - on the historic Queen Mary, in Long Beach.

Featured Guests include:  Michael Shermer, P. Z. Myers, Michael Newdow, Eddie Tabash, Julia Sweeney, Herb Silverman, Mikey Weinstein, Jeremy Hall, Lori Lipman Brown, and Ellen Johnson.

Let's get ahead in our knowledge of the movie expelled before it actually comes out...

Keep checking Expelled Exposed for the National Center for Science Education's official response to the Ben Stein movie Expelled; for now, we hope you will find this collection of resources helpful. (all info from ExpelledExposed)

www.blasphemychallenge.com

The DVD's are gone.  The challenge is not.

See this video.

Quite a few fundraisers...

I say degenerate atheists in the title, in the sense that one is a degenerate gambler. I know you're out there, I am one of em. I'll keep throwing money at this until I'm out of it, and I know there are quite a few of you in the low end of the tax bracket that are forking over the dough, believe me it's appreciated. We're working hard right now to get two years worth of site improvements and fund raising out of the way so we can revive focus on our show and other bigger projects we're working on. We certainly have been asking for and receiving a lot of help in the process, sometimes we can't help but feel like televeangelists. Thanks so much everyone for getting us this far.

Let me break some need areas down as fast as I can...

The following pages are some of our most viewed pages of '07. If you have yet to see these pages, check them out. Most of them got big because they are on sites like Reddit, Digg, and Stumbleupon. If you visit the pages, please bump them up on those social networks if you have yet to do so.

39,274 views ---- CHRISTIAN POWNAGE 101 Kudos to Rich! We attained www.christianpwnage.com as a result.
26,391 views ---- Response to Dr. Roger Olson
21,974 views ---- Still Don't Think that Theism is a Mental Disorder?
20,079 views ---- RRS Webcam Room
13,594 views ---- Our Team
12,772 views ---- News story from Belgium that further demonstrates the idiocy of Islam
10,541 views ---- Purchase Shows
9,816 views  ---- The official RRS defeats Way of the Master thread
9,724 views  ---- How many did God kill vs Satan?

Just letting you guys know that every site on the network will be down today for about 3 hours, probably beginning in the late afternoon. The new server should be arriving at the location and up and running by tonight. Yay!

For more info, see this post and this one .

UPDATE FRIDAY FEB 1st 11:48 pm est. RRS site and network sites will go down for several hours starting soon. The final stages of prep are being complete, final tests being run, and we're ready for lift off within an hour or two. All of the data will be transferred to our new home. Some sites around the world will get the site online before others. The whole process may keep your particular area out of the loop for up to a day, but normally isn't longer than several hours.

Over the next week or two you're going to see drastic changes to our network.  You'll see new site designs, new color changes, and new sites coming on board. Don't get too excited or attached to any one feature, we could have to scrap a feature or color set at anypoint to put something more compatible in its place.   

ALL OF THE SITES ARE BEING UPGRADED AND OVERHAULED.  PLEASE HANG IN THERE WITH US AS WE PREPARE FOR CONSIDERABLE GROWTH.

Some relevant threads:

Kellym78 on the disorder of theism

Kellym78 on the disorder of theism part deux

RRS in some videos on the mind disorder of theism.  Video 1  -   Video 2 

In the recent storm of debate over whether theism is a mental disorder, I've noticed an interesting word game being played. Those who disapprove of our label are suggesting that theism is not a mental disorder, and that anyone who does something in the name of religion was insane to begin with.

I'd like to remind all of the atheists who object to "Theism is a Mind Disorder" to remember a particular logical fallacy -- No True Scotsman. Let's look at a hypothetical dialog.

1) Theism is a mind disorder.

2) No it isn't.

1) Look at what Joe did. He cut his hand off in the name of religion.

2) He's really crazy. That's not because of theism.

1) Ok, fine. But look at Iran. They've been cutting hands off for centuries in the name of religion.

2) Yeah, but the people who do that are really crazy. That's not because of theism.

First, I'd like to wish everyone a slightly belated Happy New Year from everyone at RRS. You all have our best wishes for a brighter future. You can rest assured that we are working harder than ever to help make a brighter future for everyone -- a future where religion doesn't loom like the boogey-man from nightmares, and children can grow up learning how to think for themselves.

Sapient has been working round the clock for many days now. I don't want to completely spoil the surprise, but there are a lot of really exciting things on the horizon. Many of the server issues we have been experiencing are due to the fact that the server is soon going to be upgraded, and we'll be converting to a faster, easier to use server. Look for better load times, easier user functions, and significantly more subscriber benefits! We'll also have much more user-friendly mod functions, which will make everyone's experience better.

We currently rank as the most popular atheist website in America, and it's going to get better.

Thanks to everyone who has generously supported us in the previous year. We literally couldn't do it without you. If you're not yet a member, please consider as part of your New Years resolutions helping us rid the world of theism. For the cost of a movie night or a pizza delivery per month, you can help us reach literally millions of people!