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Month: April 2013
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Islam is a religion of peace. Have you heard this before? Ask Salman Rushdie about the peaceful intent of Islam’s adherents. Ask the Danish if Muslims are a peaceful lot. Ask the British. Perhaps Islam isn’t violent. Perhaps it’s a case of “Islam doesn’t kill people, people kill people”. Just as in any religion, the…
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“Oh, I read my Bible every day. I’ve read it through more than once.” As an atheist how many times have you heard the faithful make this claim? More than once, I imagine. As a moral and law-abiding atheist shouldn’t you ask the claimant if he/she, after reading their Bibles “more than once” clear through,…
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The following is a passage from a recent read of mine: “God’s Funeral” by John Higgins “I really don”t understand why religious people are so defensive. They have the greatest gift that those sorts of people can imagine, an affinity with God, a gift that probably makes them piss themselves with delirium. However that’s not…
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I am presently reading Michael Spry’s book No Santa, No Tooth Fairy, No God: The Need to Challenge Faith in America. He reiterated a point that I have often made as to why friendships break up when religion gets in the way. There is a need in the faithful, mandated by their beliefs, to spread…
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Did anyone think it would come to this? A child fashions what he calls a mountain out of a sandwich and because it resembles a gun the child gets suspended from school? Children, using their fingers to form a gun and shouting bang bang, suspended from school. Someone told they cannot wear an army hat…
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I was once asked what I would say if after death I found myself standing before the christian god. At the time I said the wrong thing, but… I’m like that with ‘should have saids’, which is why I would not make a good debater face to face. I admit that lack of skill, as…
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