Category Archives: Christianity

Book Excerpt: Penn Jillette, “God, No!: Signs You May Already Be an Atheist and Other Magical Tales”

Posted on by
Reply

Where is the humility in being a theist? There is none. What would it mean for me to believe in god? It would mean that I know. Not just that I might happen to know about Kerouac, Thailand, liquid nitrogen, and vector calculus identities, but that I know that there is an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent power in the universe that I can’t prove to you, but that I know because I have faith. I know because I say I know. I can feel it.

http://wp.me/p1GRG6-uH

Atricle: “Does Secularism Make People More Ethical?”

Posted on by
Reply

Non-believers are often more educated, more tolerant and know more about God than the pious […] Secularists make up some 15 percent of the global population, or about 1 billion people. As a group, this puts them third in size behind Christians (2.3 billion) and Muslims (1.6 billion). Churches in the US are losing up to 1 million members every year. In Europe, secularization has advanced even further.

http://wp.me/p1GRG6-uF

Article/Audio: “Tensions Develop Among US Evangelicals Over the Existence of Adam and Eve”

Posted on by
Reply

[…] with the mapping of the human genome, it’s clear that modern humans emerged from other primates as a large population – long before the Genesis time frame of a few thousand years ago… Evolution makes it pretty clear that in nature, and in the moral experience of human beings, there never was any such paradise to be lost… To many evangelicals, this is heresy.

http://wp.me/p1GRG6-tV

Book Excerpt: “The Immorality of the Christian Religion”

Posted on by
Reply

Any religion that requires the acceptance of its ideas on faith alone is admitting that its doctrines cannot stand on their own merits, nor withstand any critical examination. They require that adherents accept their authority as truth, and the Christian religion is a perfect illustration of this point. The belief in a god is irrational, and once this leap of faith is made it only takes short steps to abandon the standards of rationality and lose the ability to distinguish truth from falsehood.

http://wp.me/p1GRG6-tw

Aphorism: On Christian Terrorism

Posted on by
5

By Madison S. Hughes (07.25.2011)

Since Norway’s tragedy, at the hand of a right-wing Christian terrorist, I have noticed two interesting, albeit predictable, responses from Christians.

1. “He is not really a Christian; he is a madman that is mentally ill.” Why is it that when a right-wing Christian terrorist commits an act of terrorism it is presupposed that the Christian has a mental condition, but if a Muslim terrorist commits an act of terrorism the Muslim is presumed to be an Islamic terrorist?

2. “Anything to an extreme is bad.” Well, this particular tragedy was committed by a right-wing religious extremist. Consider this, if you will, religious extremists would not exist if there were no religion.