I wrote an article reworking the 12 step to exclude God over a year ago. It was a great exercise, but ultimately abandoned. Here I am, more than a year later with my observation made since then. I have rejected my own 12-step model for something a little more tangible, significant, and simple. One great thing about being a scientifically driven atheist is the willingness to be wrong and openness to correcting this inequity. Perhaps I will have more to say on this in a year or two; but for…
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Hi, everyone.
My goal here is not to argue that Christianity is true, but that I'm reasonable to be a Christian. I don't care if you agree with me about Christianity, but I do want to persuade you that I'm not stupid, crazy, insane, or in any other epistemically lamentable state, for being a Christian. What follows is a sketch that I can expand as people ask reasonable questions.
Keeping this as short as reasonably possible, I'm a Christian because I think that God exists and…
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With the rise of Evangelical Christianity in the United States a corresponding increase in finger pointing and blame claiming that the country is in moral decline accompanied it. The usual culprits for the fingered for the alleged deterioration are liberals, non-Christians and unbelievers, but a look at the numbers show the source may be a closer to…
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so at a recent party, I was listening in on a conversation that my Christian friend and some of his christian friends were talking about how people can believe that there is not god? I as a in-the-closet-atheist. didn't say anything but his friend said "Where does moral thought come from?" and i was pondering that idea that our thought can bring moral actions and moral judgement. If there is a god than he would give Humanity moral thought? i dont know this question is hard for me to come up…
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By FRANK ELTMAN, Associated Press – 1 day ago
NEW YORK (AP) — Richard Leakey predicts skepticism over evolution will soon be history.
Not that the avowed atheist has any doubts himself.
Sometime in the next 15 to 30 years, the Kenyan-born paleoanthropologist expects scientific discoveries will have accelerated to the…
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I pose this question, since I have watched many of William Lane Craig's great academy award winning performances. I have heard many atheist say that he has won most of the debates against atheist, but I have always come to the conclusion that he has not provided anything with substance. He uses the same old arguments that are known not to be very strong. Therefore from my point of view he lost. I think a person wins a debate if their claims are true, if they provide evidence, and if the…
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yes I know this sounds rediculous but do you (Atheist) thing there are aliens out there in our universe, I was just wandering, i know this isn't the most intellectual or anit-religious but i am curious, thanks.
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If you've read my blog in the past you've probably seen my furious rants about my idiot of a best friend. You know, the one who has called me morally inferior and hell-bound?
Well after exactly a decade of being loyal to him in spite of his special brand of bullshit, we are no longer friends.
He sent an email to my husband (not me) telling me that we were no longer friends. No reasonable explanation, just some ridiculous babel over wanting what's best for me because he felt he…
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I was browsing the news and found this:
http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2012/may/24/christians-dallas-american-bible-challenge-gsn-sho/
I kind of see this as a good thing because more people will actually read the bible and probably become atheists.
Also, I want to try out just to cause a ruckus and be Captain Chaos!
What do yall think of this?
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I have found numerous reports on various sites that the Iowa GOP has a new proposed platform. (full platform on Scribd; Raw Story article and summary;…
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My separation from Christendom is relatively recent. At least, the more public end of it. I've entertained the idea of letting myself accept I no longer believed in any of the gods described by humans in any religion at any time in history for quite some time. I can't discount there could be some god or another somewhere out there. But I really doubt it.
The reaction to my rejection of religion has been about what I expected. It all came straight back to Hell. I am no stranger to…
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An undated file photo showing Italian teenager Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee, believed to have been kidnapped after a music lesson in Rome on June…
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This article, Straight White Male: The lowest difficulty there is has been passed around in the Twitterverse for the past week or so. I think it does a very good job explaining the concept of 'privilege.' If life was a video game, being a straight white male would be the lowest difficulty setting, the easiest way to play the game with all else being equal.…
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As these are often going to occur, if I feel inclined to talk about something- I likely wrote an article about it already. Heh.
So... today my jab at skepticism was finally released for publication. Jab is light actually. I was fairly balanced and unbiased when I wrote it. Now I will take of my mittens and pop the claws:
Skepticism is lazy and excuse riddled. If you are not a scientist or even at the very least driven to conducting a scientific inquiry, skepticism is a cop out…
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Ok so the most Unforgivable SIN is to BLASPHEMY and anyone who DOUBTS the existance of the Holy Spirit is certain to be DAMMED to HELL so when your mind starts to wonder in fact that there is NO EXISTANCE of this holy spirit you just committed the greatest crime in Fundamentalist Christianity and that people is to THINK!
This is why im always talking about this stuff bcuz every Christian person either believes they will go to hell if they even THINK there IS'NT a GOD and that makes…
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I cam across this recently and had to share the absurdity of it..
Published Monday, January 9, 2012 at 11:00:00 AM
A few months ago, I was reading about homeschooling, because I do things like randomly reading about homeschooling. I read an article that mentioned a family using science textbooks produced by Bob Jones University. (If you're not familiar, that's a…
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