“A FREE THINKER IS SATAN’S SLAVE!” read the signboard of the New Canaan, Connecticut Baptist Church.
This church must know its flock well and know that there will not be any thinking, free or otherwise, going on when they read this.
The Merriam Webster dictionary defines a free thinker as “one who forms opinions on the basis [...]
Ancient Rome abounded in gods and goddesses. The fire on the hearth was the sign and substance of the goddess Vesta, each person had a guardian angel which was also his soul that lived on after death. “On the farm there was a helping god for every task or spot: Pomona for orchards, Faunus for [...]
I love sex, don’t you? A study in 1993 determined that all but 5% of men and 11% of women have masturbated. In 2002 the Alan Guttmacher Institute found that by their late teenage years, at least 3/4 of all men and women have had intercourse, and more than 2/3 of all sexually experienced teens [...]
This is very important. I have found the truth and I will reveal it soon to the world. You who read this simple little blog will be the first to know what it is and my true identity. I use a pen name now because my real name is probably known to you. The most [...]
People who don’t eat broccoli are sinners and will go to Hell. Fortunately, if they eat broccoli on the last day of their life, they will be saved. If you don’t believe me, look it up in the Bible.
The 41st president of the United States didn’t eat broccoli. He hated broccoli, [...]
Rational debates with Christians usually end in one of two ways: 1) it’s just a leap of faith or 2) You have to look at the outcomes. Mmmm outcomes like 9/11? the Middle East? Northern Ireland? How about the suggestion that the president be assassinated?
The following is from a posting on the Daily Kos. I [...]
Anyone who thinks God wrote the Bible should read Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why, by Bart D. Ehrman. A biblical scholar, he has studied the texts of the Bible in their original languages. “As I realized already in graduate school, even if God had inspired the original [...]
Christopher Hitchens in his book god is not Great addresses impossible tasks put forward in the Bible.
“The order to ‘love thy neighbor’ is mild and yet stern: a reminder of one’s duty to others. The order to ‘love thy neighbor as thyself’ is too extreme and too strenuous to be obeyed, [...]
After satisfactorily proving his own existence Descartes went on to try to prove God’s.
I recognize that it would be impossible for me to exist with the kind of nature I have–that is, having within me the idea of God–were it not the case that God really existed. By ‘God’ I mean the very [...]
I had a lovely conversation with a Jehovah’s Witness recently. As she turned to leave she paused and looked back to express the very thought that was on my mind. “I enjoyed this. We listened to each other.”
She couldn’t understand how I could write an essay “Satan Wrote the Bible” and yet I [...]
Many Gods
Ancient Rome abounded in gods and goddesses. The fire on the hearth was the sign and substance of the goddess Vesta, each person had a guardian angel which was also his soul that lived on after death. “On the farm there was a helping god for every task or spot: Pomona for orchards, Faunus for [...]