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Category: Religion and Reason
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Initially religions were invented to explain those things in nature for which primitive humans had no explanation. Earthquakes, weather, and other natural occurrences were not within the control of humans. What caused them? When the concept of cause and effect developed in early humans they naturally assumed there was a cause for every effect. There…
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John W. Loftus suggests that the believer put himself outside of his/her own religious beliefs and examine them critically compared to other religious beliefs. He calls it the OTF, or Outsider Test of Faith. Why do people who hold Christianity’s God to be true and exist, dismiss Zeus, or Odin? All have magical powers. All…
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Outrageous extraordinary claims without evidence to support them. Over the millennia that humankind has been around there have been thousands of religions making such extraordinary claims. Jesus Christ as manufactured within the pages of the New Testament is an amalgam of previous stories of similar individuals with similar life stories and attributes. Horus, Attis, Zoroaster,…
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Secularism: 1. Religious skepticism or indifference. 2. The view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education. A lot of Christians feel that if the Government is secular that it is atheist. This simply is not the case. Whenever someone makes the assertion that the Church and State must remain separate…
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The Origin of Religion The numerous religions of mankind may have a more primitive origin than we realize. They may have an origin directly linked to an instinctual primal emotional state, specifically, fear. Many have proposed that religion arose out of fear, and I assert that they are correct. However, the results of this origin…
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I recently was tricked into watching a video which questioned the reality of everything we see. It had two parts. The first part was really nothing new, as I have always read and do think everyone’s picture of reality is different, and is based on comparisons to past perceptions. In essence, the video asserts: nothing…
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On the blog-site of our local newspaper there was many a time when I was labeled arrogant. Although I was careful to present factual evidence of my position on most occasions I suppose on some I did not. However, most of the time it was easy to do a search on Google and find the…
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I recently passed a church which had a sign out front saying: GOOD – GOD = 0 Obviously the message from this church is that without God, there is no good, all goodness evidently seen as emanating from God. Despite the support for rape found in the Bible: http://www.evilbible.com/Rape.htm. Despite support for murder: http://www.evilbible.com/Murder.htm, Intolerance:…
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Getting atheists to agree on or organize around some concern is very difficult and has been compared to herding cats. I have heard this many times over the last 4 or so years since claiming the title of atheist for myself. Now I find myself in disagreement with some of those I consider like-minded. At…
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Where is the narrow fine line where the niceties of social interaction is perceived as accommodation? Atheists and theists have completely opposed points of view on religion. Yet there are always those who in the “spirit” of good will go to extra lengths to be civil in what they view as a means to persuade…
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