Category: Religion and Reason

  •         There are numerous stories bemoaning atrocities committed against Christians. They outline the different types of atrocities, they tell of the nature of who commits the atrocities. What they never seem to do is reveal the motives, the reasons for the atrocities. Most often it is a backlash against the actions of the…

  • Most religious believers hold to a concept of a god that has existed for eternity, without a thought as to what created that god, or what created that which created god, ad infinitum. Why cannot those same believers conceive of an eternally existing Universe instead. The first law of Thermodynamics states that energy cannot be…

  • Why do individuals who believe the nonsense of religion resist information which contradicts their beliefs, perhaps even destroys the very basis of their beliefs? A possible explanation is the euphoria that is produced by belief. It is my contention that the brain produces the “happy” endorphin in response to religious belief. This state can be…

  • A note to the believer: For those who believe, unless you want your invisible means of support to be shaken, perhaps toppled, I would ask that you stop reading at this point. Still here? That is your choice. Christianity’s history is rife with forgery and fraud. The Christian tale has always been difficult to swallow…

  • Religion depends on divisiveness. This is because it requires an enemy. It is irrelevant if this is an earthbound enemy or one from some other realm of existence. Some people are considered special, others evil, and often, those considered evil must, as a duty of the specially chosen lot, be destroyed. (1) Religion wears a…

  • The Winter Solstice celebrations have occurred for thousands of years, long before it was connected to many religious holy days prevalent today. Pagan religious observances associated Solstice with life changes that were linked to the rest of the Universe and was thought to determine the fates of people. Winter Solstice is the day of the…

  • There are people who are wearing T-shirts with the message: PRAY FOR OBAMA PSALM 109:8 Praying for Obama seems benign enough until you look up the bible verse. It reads: May his days be few;        may another take his place of leadership. and what follows is: Palm 109:9 : May his children be fatherless…

  • Many well educated and intelligent individuals claim that science and religion are not only compatible but complementary. Religion, belief, was a conception initiated by primitive man in an effort to explain those things in the natural world which they did not understand. Also, it can be said, that such belief was also prompted by a…

  •   Despite the many UFO sightings that have been reported, despite the many encounters and abductions which have been alleged, there is no proof of any extraterrestrial visitations to Earth. Suppose such visits have taken place? An alien race of pure reason, highly technologically advanced could have made a swing by our little planet without…

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