Regardless of one's views on God, religion, or Christianity specifically, you'd think respectfully disagreeing would be a virtue to strive for. So when I come across a Facebook page called The Virgin Mary Should've Been Aborted, it makes me shake my head. I'm not Catholic, but vitriol of this kind … [Read more...]
I can't say I'm too optimistic with this challenge. A good many Atheists will make the unsubstantiated claim that Christianity has the same (in quantity and quality) evidence -- or lack of evidence -- as any other religion. I would like that claim substantiated here in the comments below. What … [Read more...]
I believe I found this post through Twitter a while back and thought I'd write on it. Not so much because I feel a need to offer proper answers, more so because I am always amused at what Atheists offering these kinds of questions or challenges believe they are "difficult" or substantive challenges … [Read more...]
https://twitter.com/religulous/status/360587992395546625 That there may have been 18,000 invented gods, their being invented has no bearing on whether the 18,001st is also invented. Let's say I've been commissioned to pick up a friend of a friend, named Dana Smith from the airport whom I've never … [Read more...]
Let me begin by saying up front that I get the point: if you hold exclusive religious beliefs you, in essence, condemn those outside your group to hell. But the atheist world view doesn't hold that non-Atheists receive any eternal punishment, so why not hold to atheism so you don't have to believe … [Read more...]
Religion is responsible for more deaths and wars in the world than any other cause, but not really. Many Atheists will make this claim and add to it that countries which embrace atheism to greater degrees are more peaceful and bestow more rights upon their citizens than countries thick with … [Read more...]
Specifically, what do you, who are Atheists, believe about why Theists are theists? For example, I hear quite often and see just as often statements like "you only believe in God/your God because of your parents/upbringing/where you were born. Break free!" Sure I suppose some, maybe even many … [Read more...]
Not surprisingly former president of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Ann Lynch, has a problem with Hobby Lobby's business practices. She penned a letter to the editor of the New Haven Register which was published on Tuesday, June 25th doing her best to turn the public against the … [Read more...]
If you ask the Atheists you encounter, many of them will tell you their atheism is a non-belief; that it's not a view. Well, the American Atheists have had a monument approved and erected at a courthouse in Florida. I hope those Atheists who claim atheism is not a view or belief set see the … [Read more...]
Ordinarily I'd side with Atheists who would object to the Theist (Christians mostly) who would assert that the Atheist does in fact know God exists. Not because I think the accusation is wrong, but because telling someone what they believe is generally not a good starting point. Why would a … [Read more...]
Why is Bill Gates going to hell? I have no idea and I don't even know that he is. But every once in a while you run across a graphic created by a critic of Christianity (and religion) which attempts to show why its soteriology doesn't make sense... or something. So whats the problem? Simple, no … [Read more...]
I pondered this quite some time ago and have no shame is presenting my own uncertainties to an audience. Inerrancy as I understand it can be summed up as: everything the Bible asserts to be true, is true. Of course this gets to the heart of the post. Inerrancy, at least on the surface, appears to … [Read more...]
Well, you can't say the pro-life groups didn't call it. Only a month after the court decision to allow the "morning after pill" (a pill which will prevent pregnancy by prohibiting a fertilized egg i.e., a new human being, from implanting in the uterus) to girls as young as 15, the Obama … [Read more...]
This is more of an in-house discussion among Christians, but feel free to weigh in with some speculation on the issue if you're outside the Christian camp. Jesus tells us no man can know the day or the hour, and I believe him, no one can know the day or hour. But could someone guess? There is no … [Read more...]
Earlier this week I responded to a logically flawed "challenge" to Christians. It aimed to have Christians offer "scientific" evidence for the existence of only the God of Christianity. Well, I have a challenge of my own for Atheists who claim to reject God on the basis that the advances in … [Read more...]
Is there a legitimate reason abortion defenders fight to limit or eliminate parental notification laws? … [Read more...]
I tend to follow Atheist bloggers because I believe it is important to familiarize yourself with multiple points of view which are contrary to your own. Anyway, I read the following post, a challenge to Christians in an Atheist's blog I happened upon via Twitter a few months back. In it, the … [Read more...]
Question to self-identified 'Freethinkers': What is a Freethinker? What distinguishes Freethinkers from others? … [Read more...]
Some on the pro-abortion choice will try to correlate the states with the highest teen birth rates to the fact that they are by and large the states with the most religious population. This is meant, I presume, to show some double-standard when it comes to the "religious-right" and their ideas … [Read more...]
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