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Category: Religion and Reason
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A recent presentation by Bill Maher asked the question: “If there was one turd in the swimming pool, would you jump in?” This question was made in reference to the Bible. Taking this further, what if the swimming pool had many turds, so many that you had to wait for an area to clear, just…
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The year was 2024 and by proclamation it was publicly declared that free will did not exist. Legislatures everywhere had been convinced by numerous well-meaning but ultimately ignorant philosophers and others that no one could be held responsible for any act they did as they were pre-destined to behave so. It all began in 2025…
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The horrors of female circumcision are well-known. Why it is performed is usually due to cultural and religious reasons: Hygienic and aesthetic. The external female genitalia are considered dirty and “unsightly” and should be flat, rigid and dry; Sociological. Identification with the cultural traditions, as a rite of passage of girls into womanhood, and for…
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Do this or I keel you. Do this or you will suffer an ever-lasting death. Obey or burn in hell. Believe this or die infidel, non-believer, heathen. I have heard it said that Christianity invented a disease, sin, in order to offer the cure, salvation. Put another way, God created humans that he knew would…
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I came across a question the other day, it was on the cover of a book, I think. It asked if the end times were ever going to end. This question was directed towards Christians. Christians have believed since Jesus’ supposed time that Jesus was returning any day now to rescue them. Despite the fact…
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Objectivity is defined as existing independently of perception or an individuals conceptions. It is something which is undistorted by emotion or personal bias. It is of or relating to actual and external phenomena as opposed to thoughts, feelings, etc. There are many people who claim to be making an objective observation but upon examination have…
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A label, let’s add a label to it. Everything needs a label. Without religion there would be no need for the label ‘atheist’. Without religion there would be no label ‘christian’. Without religion there would be no ‘belief’. When an individual does the adequate research and declares he or she does not believe, he or…
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A quote attributed to Francis Xavier is often used to describe the molding of a child into the type of adult desired: “Give me the child until he is seven and I will give you the man.” Small children are very vulnerable. Children are disposed to trust and believe everything their parents, or other adults…
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Although Christianity is presently threatening the personal freedoms that the citizens of the United States enjoy, the threat is not near as terrible as it would be if Christianity actually had power here and were able to void the Constitution. If the various sects of Christianity were to present a united front and end bickering…
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If there had never been religion by now you might be skimming along in your flying car. Maybe the light barrier would have been broken and you would be visiting relatives living on a world light years away, for the weekend. Wars might be a distant memory. Perhaps there would never have been any wars,…
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