Shield your eyes, my child, look away! That’s the truth over there, you dare not look! It might ruin the fantasy you are living, and the happiness you enjoy. But father, should we live a dream? Shouldn’t we a least look at the real world? No, my child, the real world is full of sadness…

Imperfection is the continuing state of all living things. This includes the human mind, despite it’s apparent reign as most advanced on Earth. An imagined image of perfection is impossible to create for the mind is too flawed and soon taints that perfection with it’s own preferences or it’s own defective vision of what perfection…

    As anyone who has looked at the night sky in all it’s magnificence, I cannot view it without awe at it’s immensity. Thanks to mankind’s technological savvy we have knowledge that this magnificence is much greater than we can see. Not only is our planet not alone, it circles with several other planets…

  The bible not only approves of slavery in many passages, it gives a description of how to treat them.   When a slave owner strikes a male or female slave with a rod and the slave dies immediately, the owner shall be punished. But if the slave survives a day or two, there is…

Humans have their own world housed in their minds and driven by their own desires and affected by socialization with other humans. Perspectives are developed irrespective of reality initiated by belief or concepts presented by socialization. Those perspectives developed by exposure to religion through socialization with other believers and reinforced by an actual desire to…

How can an individual who has the capacity to reason believe in the nonsense written in the Bible? How can one accept in the face of the existence of a vast and seemingly unending Universe that the creator of such immensity would take an interest in one species on one planet among millions in such…

Bigotry and intolerance is built into Christianity. Atheism is merely non-belief in a supernatural deity. Atheism does not dictate anything as it is not a religion.  When pointed out to the Christian, the bigotry and intolerance is denied. As an excuse the christian thinks all he/she has to say is that it is a teaching…

Freethinker: somebody who does not accept dogma: an independent thinker who refuses to accept established views or teachings, especially on religion. Freethought is incompatible with theism. The very nature of freethought is an anathema to religious belief. The rigid doctrines of many religions creates a mental state wherein everything is looked at and evaluated from…

I make a call now to all believers who wish to preserve the right to continue believing what ever they desire. There are always some faction of believers who try to force their way into government in an attempt to make their beliefs the only beliefs permitted. These individuals are taking different offices in our…

I hope Richard Dawkins will forgive my use of the title of his book. This title explains much as to why non-believers and believers have reached a loggerhead. When believers ask you to accept their beliefs blindly what they are asking is for you to enter a state wherein your critical thinking and reasoning power…