How An Atheist Spends His Time
The sentiments displayed in the following comment that I received on my post about Saint Paul’s bones seem fairly common and therefore worth addressing:
wow…it must be nice to be such a skeptic. Listen: if you and other atheists don’t believe in God, why are you constantly devoting your time and energy to disproving religion? It’s [...]
Science & Sacrilege
Ray Comfort – a Christian evangelist well known among non-believers for his silly and stupid arguments – has just committed what I would consider to be scientific sacrilege. He has taken what many consider to be one of the most important books in the history of science, Darwin’s Origin of Species, and ruined it. The [...]
Religious Fanatics on the Lunatic Fringe
A reader of Women on the Web writes to advice columnist Margo Howard:
Dear Margo: Our daughter started college a year ago, and we’ve noticed during her visits home that she’s not the sweet, innocent girl we sent away for higher learning. We raised her with strong Christian beliefs, but lately she’s saying that she’s joined [...]
An Angry Atheist
Some of you may have already read Charlotte Allen’s pharisaical tirade against atheists in the Los Angeles Times, Atheists: No God, just whining. I don’t necessarily suggest reading the article in its entirety. Allen, or an editor, provides a high-school-esque thesis statement abbreviating her entire argument:
Superstar atheists are motivated by anger — and boohoo victimhood.
Really? [...]
Are atheists mostly religious people?
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The following post was submitted by guest contributor Scumps.
This question doesn’t make sense on its surface, but I’ll try to explain why I think it’s true.
I am not here to convince anyone to believe in God or gods, but to explore a problem in the basic beliefs of most atheists. [...]
Religion is not atheism
I’ve been reading lots of recent discussion about why atheism is or is not a religion. These discussions have prompted me to think, which – if you read to the end – is perhaps the highest compliment I can make about them.
Most people begin the debate by defining atheism and religion, and many feel that [...]
Who Prays? And Should They?
As discussed in my last entry, Congress and the president have proclaimed today to be a National Day of Prayer.
Some may chose to respond to this proclamation by praying. Others may chose to review my series of entries about The Word Magic Known As Prayer or the appropriateness of the government issuing calls to [...]
Dr. Frank Turek Has Evidence
‘I Don’t Have Enough Faith To Be an Atheist’
Dr. Frank Turek’s explanation for the existence of god
by Lindsay Fendt, April 16, 2009
Thursday night LaRose Digital Theater was packed. Elon students and Burlington residents filled every seat, every aisle and almost every inch of floor space all to hear a man who claimed to [...]
Religion is not a crutch
…and religious theists are not weak.
I often read claims by atheists asserting that “religion is a crutch for weak-minded people”. Less often do I or other atheists consider the implications of this claim.
Calling religious theists weak and equating religion with a crutch is neither a constructive argument against religion nor a compelling defense of skepticism. [...]
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