Tag Archives: Religion
Ye therefore shall be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect
No one has ever overcome every human weakness, it’s simply not possible. Perfection isn’t even a concrete concept. Theists themselves admit they don’t become perfect because of their belief, they don’t become saints.
So what difference has religious belief made to human behavior? It introduced the idea that some of our common behaviors were bad, evil, [...]
The Difference
It’s the difference between you believing something and you wanting me to believe something.
Athesim and Science
Image by Colin Purrington via Flickr
There appears to be, in the minds of many theists, a determination to wed atheism and science, though
unnecessary and not supported.
An atheist is any non-believer in gods. There are atheists who think
crystals hold some sort of magical properties, those who see auras,
Mystics, Buddhists, all kinds of folks who only [...]
Swedish government – it’s illegal for schools to teach religious doctrine as if it were true.
Courtesy of The Guardian:
The Swedish government has announced plans to clamp down hard on religious education. It will soon become illegal even for private faith schools to teach religious doctrines as if they were true. In an interesting twist on the American experience, prayer will remain legal in schools – after all, it has no [...]
Bakunin’s thoughts on religion
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
– Mikhail Bakunin, God and the State (1871), quoted from The Columbia Dictionary Of Quotations
People go to church for the same reasons they go to a [...]
Religious prattle
Following is an actual letter to the editor, a shining example of parroting unoriginal clichès without making any effort on the part of the writer to think for himself or even put his canned comments into his own words:
Thoughts on the ‘God’ question
“In God we trust.” Well, except for Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, [...]
“You can’t prove there is no god”
Why do we only require disproof of an unproven hypothesis when it comes to religion?
If I claimed I had built a machine that generated energy out of thin air and ran forever, is anyone obliged to spend time disproving that claim? Wouldn’t any rational, sane person simply say, “Let me know when you have proof [...]
Huckabee adjusts his position
From PageOne:
According to presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, homosexual behavior is a choice.
“We may have certain tendencies, but [we choose] how we behave and how we carry out our behavior,” Huckabee said in an interview Sunday with Tim Russert of MSNBC’s “Meet the Press.”
Huckabee is known for his controversial remarks regarding homosexuality; as [...]
Evangelicals finally find their candidate: Huckabee
The rocketlike rise of a once-obscure former Arkansas governor and Southern Baptist minister to the front ranks of the Republican presidential campaign owes much to the likes of Don Swisher.Chatting between Sunday services about the campaign in the foyer of First Assembly of God Church, Swisher said he plans to vote for Huckabee Thursday night [...]
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