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 [...]
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 [...]
French philosopher Blaise Pascal wagered “that one would be wise to believe in God, since in the end the believer would lose nothing, unbelievers everything, if proved wrong.” Assuming that the God he was talking about is the God of the Bible I argue the opposite. If one leads a life based on [...]
There is a type of question on tests in which we are given several samples and we are to choose which one doesn’t belong. For example, which of the following doesn’t belong: horse, mouse, man, mosquito, whale? The answer is mosquito because the rest are mammals. Here is another. Which of the following [...]
You don’t know there is a God any more than an atheist knows there is no god. You can believe there is a God. You can think there is a God. You can have faith there is a God. But there is nothing you can do to convince me you KNOW there is a God.
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Do I believe in God?
I don’t believe in the God in whose name women were persecuted and killed as witches in Salem.
I don’t believe in the God in whose name men and boys marched to war in the Crusades.
I don’t believe in the God in whose name Protestants and Catholics killed each other in Northern [...]
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 [...]