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I will not go quietly into the night!
Month: February 2013
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Atheists often dream what the world would be like without the existence of religion. On the other hand, Christians often lament what the world would be like without God. Atheists have a legitimate dream. Religion has had a terrible history on this planet. A history of oppression and violence. It has fought any new ideas…
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Chapter One Humanity Rises Centuries have passed since the last wars of Humankind. In this year, 2949 C.E., the trials of this species have been surmounted. A stable and sustainable population has been established and, including other colonized worlds, has reached well over a trillion members. Humankind has overcome the tendency to despoil their nests,…
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Astronomical Creationists as well as scientists calculate the likelihood of life originating spontaneously on its own at overwhelmingly negative odds. Yet, here we are. Not only developed, but quite well developed. We are here despite the calamities that have befallen earth on several occasions. Mass extinction at the end of Ordovician, around 434 million years…
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The purveyors of hate continue to churn out the lies in an effort to agitate the masses into marching to the drum of their tune. While proclaiming wisdom and truth instead they feed the willing listeners of their diatribe words of hatred, words of deceit, and words of slander. We of the world of reason,…
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The door is open a crack. Granted it is only a very small nearly imperceptible crack. This means the door is not locked. That which is beyond the door could push its way inward, inward into your thoughts. The door is the door to your mind. That which is outside, in this case, is…
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Many a Christian, engaged in a desperate attempt to save my soul, has claimed that when they surrendered to god to have had a supernatural experience. With the entrance of the spirit of god these people assert a cleansing of their soul. I respond, as is my nature, that it is all in their head.…
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Evolution In light of the many fables presented in the Bible pertinent to human origin it is my contention that the beliefs of Christianity are incompatible with the science of evolution. It is only recently that many of the religious have decided that the Biblical stories of human origin were metaphorical, meaning figurative or nonliteral.…
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