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Category: Religion and Reason
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Imagine the public outrage at the following possible, fictitious headline: MUSLIM LANDOWNER FORCES REMOVAL OF CHRISTIAN BILLBOARD! There would be no end to complaints of violation of free speech. Or: ATHEIST LANDOWNER FORCES REMOVAL OF CHRISTIAN BILLBOARD! Both cases would be a violation of free speech. Why is it that the following headline would be…
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Some people can be so annoying. It is especially so when those people are pointing out contradictions and flaws in concepts you’ve held true since childhood. At first you try to hush them up by being boisterous, telling them they have no right to voice their opinion about the matter. Each time you try to…
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Apostate: a person who forsakes his religion, cause, party, etc. There are many reasons a religious believer calls it quits. In fact, there are more reasons people list for leaving, than believing. Many people believe simply as a result of their upbringing. Children believe and trust their parents, and if their parents are believers of…
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Our public schools are under attack from many directions. The reasons for these attacks are varied. Religious fundamentalists charge that the public schools are not teaching the proper morals and cause the young to disrespect and reject religious teachings. These parents, having themselves been indoctrinated in the faith from an early age, find it much…
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It’s that time of year again… that time of Easter eggs, and celebration of the resurrection. A Man was born of a virgin thousands of years ago it is said, on December 25th, his birth being announced by a star in the East, and attended by three wise men. He was, it is said, a…
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Sam Harris, noted atheist and author, does not seem to think free will exists. He has described how our actions, our decisions, occur in our brains several seconds before they are acted upon. He asks where our thoughts originate. How does, and from where does, your next thought come from? Free will, he says, is…
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“Who Goes There?” is a book written by John W. Campbell, Jr. and copyrighted in 1948. This is basically a story about an alien creature and it’s ship that crash landed in the Antarctic around 20,000 years ago, and the subsequent discovery of it in 1948. Using thermite, the hapless humans managed to destroy the…
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Scientists admit they do not know everything. Science means the observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanation of phenomena. Only those things which are verifiable and falsifiable can be tested and investigated. There are many areas outside the ability of science to presently adequately investigate. Included in that list is: 1. What existed before…
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“The Most Ill-conceived and Convoluted Show on Earth!” Many fundamentalist Christians claim the Bible is the inspired infallible inerrant word of God. Other Christians not so much, having seen the contradictions, and errors themselves. Fundamentalists rely on many preposterous interpretations to validate their claims of infallibility and inerrancy. Here is the beginning…
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An individual, having lost their job, suffering a devastating loss of a relative, having been severely injured, about to lose every possession due to foreclosure and bankruptcy, sits, crying on a park bench. Contemplating suicide, this shadow, this down and out, pitiful wreck, awaits an answer. A friend approaches, sits down by him/her, and puts…
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