This'll be the first post in a disorganized thread of links I stumble across that I like. At some point I'll try to organize them. A point probably in the distant future.

From the FAQ of the "Atheist Fools" board at the Motley Fool. www.fool.com . They are now a pay site, but they gave me a free membership for a year. That year is up February 13th, and I ain't paying. The primer on logic and fallacies is quite good. Although not an Atheist I usually tell people I am to avoid confusing them. Us poor Theistic Agnostics are a misunderstood bunch.

Q. I'm interested in reading more about atheism. Where can I look?
Here are some links that might be of general interest.
http://www.infidels.org
http://www.skepdic.com
http://www.skepticsannotatedbible.com
http://atheism.about.com
And other FAQs which are in the same vein as this one:
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/intro.html
http://www.atheist-community.org/faq.htm
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html
The last link contains a primer on logic and fallacies. Although it appears on an atheist web site, this is valuable information for anyone who wishes to present a compelling argument, regardless of what their beliefs might be.

Finally, if you want to look at arguments for the other side, these links have been kindly submitted by frindon:
http://theologic.com/links/
http://www.newadvent.org/


Update:

http://www.fallacyfiles.org

Quite a good list of logical fallacies.

Discussion of Hitler's table talk, from an atheist/humanist perspective...
http://www.nobeliefs.com/HitlerSources.htm

Main page
http://www.nobeliefs.com/

(haven't read most of it, can't really comment...logical fallacies not as good as infidels.org)

Ugh. Have gotten shangaied into "advising" my spouse on the establishment of a 501(c)(3). Links to look through, already wasted too much time at work farting around with them..

Quite good guide on establishing a (501)( c )(3)

http://www.ncstac.org/content/materials/501c3.pdf

IRS stuff – to read through

http://www.irs.gov/charities/
http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/
http://www.irs.gov/charities/charitable/article/0,,id=96099,00.html

Guide, unfortunately not quite applicable to Connecticut

http://www.srbc.net/legal/establishing501.htm


Other links that look pretty good:

http://www.ctnonprofits.org/pages/NonprofitResources/startnonprofit.asp

http://www.nonprofits.org/npofaq/02/01.html

Note: remember to ask re: who as right to name, since they're splitting from the national organization. They may be screwed as to that.

Nietzsche channel, notable for the extracts from letters...

http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/nletters.htm
http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/

All kinds of Hitler crap, including a searchable (but not readable)
copy of Table Talk (which I thought was still under copyright)

http://www.adolfhitler.ws/

Cool. Many thanks.

Huge library of philosophy texts.

http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/study.htm

Like I have the time to read them, or would be able to understand them if I tried. :(

Kind of a pain in the ass to find this stuff at this site each time I want it, so I figured I'd add it here. (Not searchable.)

The question comes up: Was Nietzsche an Anti-Semite? Let's see what he said, in his own words. Going to emphasize for myself some of it, this wasn't part of the original text.

http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/nlett1887.htm


Nice, March 29, 1887: Letter to Theodor Fritsch

(Compare: Nietzsche's note, End 1886-Spring 1887 7 [67])

Dear Sir,

Herewith I am returning to you the three issues of your correspondence sheet, thanking you for your confidence which you permitted me to cast a glance at the muddle of principles that lie at the heart of this strange movement. Yet I ask in the future not to provide me with these [anti-Semitic] mailings: I fear, in the end, for my patience. Believe me: this abominable "wanting to have a say" of noisy dilettantes about the value of people and races, this subjection to "authorities" who are utterly rejected with cold contempt by every sensible mind (e.g., E. Dühring, R. Wagner, Ebrard, Wahrmund, P. de Lagarde—who among these in questions of morality and history is the most unqualified, the most unjust?), these constant, absurd falsifications and rationalizations of vague concepts "germanic," "semitic," "aryan," "christian," "German"—all of that could in the long run cause me to lose my temper and bring me out of the ironic benevolence with which I have hitherto observed the virtuous velleities and pharisaisms of modern Germans.

— And finally, how do you think I feel when the name Zarathustra is mouthed by anti-Semites? ...



Nice, end of December 1887: Draft of letter to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche

In the meantime I've seen proof, black on white, that Herr Dr. Förster has not yet severed his connection with the anti-Semitic movement. [...] Since then I've had difficulty coming up with any of the tenderness and protectiveness I've so long felt toward you. The separation between us is thereby decided in really the most absurd way. Have you grasped nothing of the reason why I am in the world? [...] Now it has gone so far that I have to defend myself hand and foot against people who confuse me with these anti-Semitic canaille; after my own sister, my former sister, and after Widemann more recently have given the impetus to this most dire of all confusions. After I read the name Zarathustra in the anti-Semitic Correspondence my forbearance came to an end. I am now in a position of emergency defense against your spouse's Party. These accursed anti-Semite deformities shall not sully my ideal!!

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Christmas 1887: Letter to Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche

[...] You have committed one of the greatest stupidities—for yourself and for me! Your association with an anti-Semitic chief expresses a foreignness to my whole way of life which fills me again and again with ire or melancholy. [...] It is a matter of honor with me to be absolutely clean and unequivocal in relation to anti-Semitism, namely, opposed to it, as I am in my writings. I have recently been persecuted with letters and Anti-Semitic Correspondence Sheets. My disgust with this party (which would like the benefit of my name only too well!) is as pronounced as possible, but the relation to Förster, as well as the aftereffects of my former publisher, the anti-Semitic Schmeitzner, always brings the adherents of this disagreeable party back to the idea that I must belong to them after all. [...] It arouses mistrust against my character, as if publicly I condemned something which I have favored secretly—and that I am unable to do anything against it, that the name of Zarathustra is used in every Anti-Semitic Correspondence Sheet, has almost made me sick several times. [....]


http://www.geocities.com/thenietzschechannel/nlett1881.htm



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Sils-Maria, July 30, 1881: Postcard to Franz Overbeck

I am utterly amazed, utterly enchanted! I have a precursor, and what a precursor! I hardly knew Spinoza: that I should have turned to him just now,was inspired by "instinct." Not only is his overtendency like mine—namely to make all knowledge the most powerful affect—but in five main points of his doctrine I recognize myself; this most unusual and loneliest thinker is closest to me precisely in these matters: he denies the freedom of the will, teleology, the moral world-order, the unegoistic, and evil. Even though the divergencies are admittedly tremendous, they are due more to the difference in time, culture, and science. In summa: my lonesomeness, which, as on very high mountains, often made it hard for me to breathe and make my blood rush out, is now at least a twosomeness. Strange! Incidentally, I am not at all as well as I had hoped. Exceptional weather here too! Eternal change of atmospheric conditions!—that will yet drive me out of Europe! I must have clear skies for months, else I get nowhere. Already six severe attacks of two or three days each!! — With affectionate love

Your friend.

Probably this gets taken down before too long, but who knows?

An amazing list of links relating to early American history.

http://www.speakeasy.invisionzone.com/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=46