Twitter is an awfully busy place with lots of real gems and lots of.... well, not gems. Twitter is so busy, in fact, that it's hard to figure out which people are worth following and which aren't. Which atheists do you think are the best ones to follow?
Readers nominated a lot of different people on Twitter and now we have the five finalists for you to vote on.
Any person who identifies as an atheist, agnostic, skeptic, or freethinker is eligible if they tweet regularly, were tweeting regularly through most of 2011, and write consistently on issues pertaining to atheism, agnosticism, freethought, church/state separation, etc.
Here are links each of the Twitter accounts that are finalists for the Favorite Agnostic / Atheist to Follow on Twitter of 2011:
Readers Choice Awards - All Voting Pages- Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Book of 2011
- Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Website of 2011
- Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Podcast of 2011
- Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Blog of 2011
- Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Facebook Page of 2011
- Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Ad of 2011
- Favorite Agnostic / Atheist Community of 2011
Previous Favorite Agnostic / Atheist to Follow on Twitter Winners:
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I am just curious as to why Stephen Fry did not make the finals? I do not know the criteria so forgive me for my not knowing. Thanks. Jingle
He wasn’t nominated.
Although I love all five listed above, I’d vote for @rationalists
…that you offer your newsletter both to agnostics as well as atheists is an insult to atheists: we’re perfectly certain THERE IS NO GOD.
Emlyn:
Speaking for all of any group is never a good idea. Atheists in particular since we’re like snowflakes.Most atheists I know are less certain than you are. While I certainly can find no any evidence or reason for any gods I have to admit it could be possible.
I think the only thing uniting all atheists is not believing in any gods.
(4) Emlyn Addison, I’m certain too, but given actual evidence, I’d change my mind. I’m not willing to insist that even the FSM absolutely does not exist, despite my present certainty. As my kids used to say, lighten up!
I am sorry Emlyn but this is a rather silly thing to say.
Bertrand Russel described himself as an agnostic, Albert Einstein admitted to the possibility of an entity like Spinoza’s god, and I am sure Richard Dawkins has expressed a similar opinion. I feel the same way as the above people because you cannot prove that some sort of intelligence is out there.
What we can be quite certain of however, is that if this intelligence does exist, it is not some sort of personal god who cares about us on an individual level, or even mankind as a whole. The overwhelming evidence is against this proposition. The endless array of disease, natural disasters, and genocide, that we have to cope with, screams at us that there is no god like Jesus Christ’s pop, with his finger on the pulse.