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Category: Religion and Reason
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Odin and Zeus as well as many other gods have been reduced to fairy tales. Each was believed in at one time in history. They were succeeded, possibly even demoted to myth, by newer gods as they have come along. Reducing gods to myth is a good thing, only thing is, the new gods have…
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Just not good enough. No one can say they didn’t try. Throughout history there have been many attempts to eliminate any evidence which might contradict the Biblical story. Also, there have been many attempts to insert fraudulent information into the Bible. However, the attempts were so clumsily carried out that many were found out. Eusebius,…
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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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Ignorance has its intelligent proponents. Its major difficulty is how to convince people something is right, when it is so terribly wrong. The proponents, of course, do not think what they are supporting as being terribly wrong. If they were convinced of this and still promoted it they would be in another category: Liars for…
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