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Month: December 2012
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The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 2,000 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 3 years to get…
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When I was a child, maybe five- or six-years old, I learned that I was mortal. My great grandmother had recently died and naturally I had many questions, “Where is she?” “When will she be back?” “Gone?”. The answer I received was devastating and left me in tears. “Everybody dies, that is the way…
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Alcoholism is a problem to some people. They seem to have a genetic predisposition to the overuse of alcohol. Many a spouse has dealt with this problem in their mate. Some of them, rather than to take a firm hand, think the problem will eventually work itself out. Only seldom does such a problem correct…
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Pretending that science has not proven that Adam and Eve could not have existed, let’s examine the circumstances of the alleged original sin. God placed the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden. With God’s vast array of abilities he could have placed the tree in question … any … where … he ……
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Tis the season to be jolly…. for some. Christians claim the holiday as the birth of Jesus, a sort of half-man, half-God, whole-God… well, a kind of hybrid (sort of like Hercules). Even though there is no actual record of the time of Jesus’ birth (actually no record he ever existed), it certainly wasn’t on…
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If you have blogged enough, as I have, and gotten your real name out there, you know that sooner or later someone who has been rankled by this or that you have said will track you down. In this case, tract you down. It’s scary but if your name is out there as an atheist,…
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It is well known that theists compartmentalize their thinking. Compartmentalize means: To separate into distinct parts, categories, or compartments. What this means is that they can keep science and theology separate within their minds and never use science to scrutinize their beliefs. If they did examine their beliefs with logic and reason, well, they wouldn’t…
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Black-collar crime has always been a problem. Black-collar crime is crime committed by those who operate a Christian church. Included are those who function in name of a church, i.e. youth leaders, deacons,pastors, and others. In fact, it seems a growing problem, especially for the Catholic church. Atheists, on the other hand, make up a…
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What do Christians mean when they implore you to have an open mind? I can assure you that they do not mean the same thing that is meant when the non-religious say it. Atheists, humanists, agnostics, and the non-religious mean for you to keep your mind open to new ideas, new information, without dismissing it…
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