religion problems

I’ve finally succumbed to YouTube

June 22, 2010

It’s official.  I was avoiding YouTube for a while, and I even intended on doing a podcast before I did any YouTube videos, but I realized that video is the perfect way to explain some things that were difficult with text, and would probably be tough with audio alone as well. So far, I’ve been [...]

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Faith Requires not Questioning

May 25, 2010

I came across a quote by Frater Ravus about faith, and I found it rather funny, but when I posted it to my status on my Facebook page, someone asked me a question that got me thinking. Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. – Frater Ravus The [...]

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The “What is God?” Argument for the Non-Existence of God

May 7, 2010

When we talk to theists, they talk about God being immaterial.  What is immaterial, and how can something exist and be immaterial at the same time? What is Immaterial? I’ve spoken somewhat on this subject before, but I am looking at it in a different manner now. When we speak of immaterial things, we are [...]

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Another Example of Why Religion is Bullshit

May 5, 2010

A Jehova’s Witness man in Ghana has disowned his 5 year old son because the hospital gave him a blood transfusion.  How messed up is that? Leaving the hypocritical stand the Watchtower Society holds on blood transfusions aside, I have heard of this practice of shunning, and I have heard that JW’s will shun people [...]

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Satan is not your Aversary

March 27, 2010

When people become atheists, they often first get very religious just before they lose their faith.  During this time, it seems to them that things get worse in their lives.  This is often not true. What Reason are you Closer When people have hard times in their lives it is normal for them to cling [...]

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The Reason Libertarian Free Will is Irrational

March 23, 2010

Inevitably the question of free will comes up when you argue with believers.  They claim that God has given them free will, although there are multiple reasons to disregard that as plainly false. What is Free Will? When we think of free will, we generally think of it in the sense that we have complete [...]

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Evil is Not the Absence of Good

March 22, 2010

I have been seeing the argument lately that God did not create evil, because evil does not really exist, but is instead the absence of good.  This is used to argue against things like the problem of evil.  While sometimes this argument is said to have been made to an atheist teacher by Albert Einstein, [...]

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Believers Can’t Know God Exists

March 15, 2010

When talking to believers, they constantly talk about how they know God exists.  This is not a possibility.  The best a believer can rationally say is that they are agnostic. What is God? Nobody really ever spends much time examining this question, and when you think about it, nobody has ever given an answer to [...]

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What all Arguments for the Existence of God Fail At.

March 11, 2010

Imagine you had a house in the woods that was extremely secluded.  You walk out to the main road to your mailbox and when you get back to the house you notice that the walls are covered in random magic marker scribblings.  You didn’t see anyone coming or going from your house, and you are [...]

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Why Teaching Religion to Children Should be Illegal

March 4, 2010

I know that religious people will be be way upset about this, but I have long ago learned that people getting upset about what I say is just a given considering what I talk about.  That having been said, I have to express my concern about people teaching religion to children. The Problem Imagine that [...]

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