Daily Archives: 08.14.2011
Blog Post: “Is Hell Simply Separation from God?”
There is something called the Problem of Hell. It goes a bit like this:
1. Hell is a place of eternal punishment and torture.
2. God is all-loving and all-good.
3. A God that has these properties (from 2) would not send people to Hell.
4. Therefore, either Hell does not exist or God does not exist.
Essay: Sam Harris, “My Friend Einstein?”
Quote: Karl Marx
Religious suffering is at the same time an expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.
Karl Marx, Philosopher, Sociologist, Economic Historian, Journalist, and Revolutionary Socialist
Video: Christopher Hitchens, “Any Good in Religion?”
Video: Christopher Hitchens, “Where Do Christians Think They Get Their Morals From?”
Video: Christopher Hitchens, “On the Ignorance of Believers”
Video: Christopher Hitchens, “Hitchens: Religion is About Power”
Blog Post: “What Comes After death?”
I submit to you that “dead before life” is the same as “dead after life”. Why shouldn’t it be? Every time someone is born, they go from being dead to being alive. All of us know exactly what it’s like to be dead, because we each have experienced it.
Aphorism: On the Forfeit of Critical Thought
By Madison S. Hughes (01.01.2011)
The forfeit of critical thought to religious indoctrination as a moral compass is not only ludicrous, but also unwarranted! Vicarious and empathic acquaintance is sufficient without such surrender.
