Category: Religion

CONTROL FREAK CHRISTIANITY

I’m not angry with God. There’s no point being angry with a fictional character. i am annoyed by those Christians who use that fictional deity to try to tell me how to live.

Back off!

Live your own life and leave me alone!

If you’re one of those Christians who thinks atheists are angry with God, think again. Your God doesn’t exist so far as I can tell and there’s no point in being angry with a fictional character.

Some of us are angry with you though, or at least with some of you. We’re angry with those among you who think they’re entitled to threaten us with their imaginary Hell to coerce us into behaving the way they want us to. These people have no such right!

I chose my life path for good reason and I like it. It’s turning out pretty well all things considered. You worry about your own choices but leave me alone. I am not your slave to be commanded and I will not accept lifestyle advice from anyone who still believes their imaginary friend will solve all their problems someday!

Debunking Paley’s watch and a minister who lies

Paley’s watch is named after Rev. William Paley, the minister who first used the analogy of finding a watch on the beach as an analogy to prove Biblical creation. Of course it does no such thing but religious conviction tends to limit the ability of even the most intelligent people to consider all the options.

Paley’s watch has morphed into a variety of forms over the years from Mount Rushmore to the 747 in the junkyard. It even underpins several “Look at the trees” type arguments, none of which withstand scrutiny.

Here’s my response to the minister who isn’t just limited in his thinking .. he’s downright deceitful.

BIBLE CONTRADICTIONS: Let’s talk nativity

He has a lot of very superficial and scientifically illiterate things to say about gay and trans citizens as well as the proper (baby-making) role of women. But the most ridiculous and most obviously false claim he makes is that there are no contradictions in the Bible. He even says that anyone who finds a biblical contradiction will be the first person in the history of humanity to do it.

I’m acquainted with a street preacher called Dale. I’m hoping to debate him on line fairly soon. He’s agreed in principle but seems a little reluctant to come up with a date.

Dale makes some pretty outrageous claims. He states evolution is a lie, regularly using what I’m pretty sure he thinks is a clever, even witty line:

“Don’t let evolution make a monkey out of you”

He has a lot of very superficial and scientifically illiterate things to say about gay and trans citizens as well as the proper (baby-making) role of women. But the most ridiculous and most obviously false claim he makes is that there are no contradictions in the Bible. He even says that anyone who finds a biblical contradiction will be the first person in the history of humanity to do it!

We’ll, Dale. Here we go… I found some. Presumably, since you love the truth so much you’ll stop saying there aren’t any from now on.

Judgement day

Christians can’t demonstrate that their religion is true and so they threaten us with Hell and damnation instead.

“What will happen if you’re wrong?”

“What will you say to God on Judgement day?”

Christians can’t demonstrate that their religion is true and so they threaten us with Hell and damnation instead.

This is my answer!

The argument from popularity

Pastor Tom Brown seems to enjoy lying about atheism. He does it such a lot.

Pastor Tom Brown seems to enjoy lying about atheism. He does it such a lot. This time he’s surpassed himself by devoting his whole video to a logical fallacy called the argument from popularity (argumentum ad populum).

God’s genocide

many on the right support Zionist apartheid – because the Christian right insist that God gave that land to Israel and they command an awful lot of votes and even more money around the world.

Now then. How do you feel about genocide? How do you think the God of Abraham, the Bronze age God of war feels about genocide? More importantly, how do you imagine those Christians who think the Bible is the infallible word of God feel about the abuses committed by the state of Israel today toward Palestinians in the West Bank?

This is why so many on the right support Zionist apartheid – because the Christian right insist that God gave that land to Israel and they command an awful lot of votes and even more money around the world. This is not to say that all Israelis or even all Jews are Zionists but those that are seem to be calling the shots with devastating effect upon the Palestinians.

This isn’t defence, it’s invasion and it’s genocide. This is the unchanging God of Abraham commanding the outright destruction of entire populations, including, presumably innocent children and pregnant women.

So don’t give me any pro-life crap about the value of unborn babies before the Lord. Your God is a war criminal, a brutal, capricious, sadistic and genocidal torturer. And the Christians who follow him into defending the abuses of the Zionists are no better.

The end is not nigh

There’s no second coming. There wasn’t even a first. And there will be no stars falling to earth. That’s impossible.

The world isn’t ending – really, it’s not. Bible literalists like to claim that we’re in the end times. They claim to have prophecies to prove it. You know like Jesus’ prophecy that says “There shall be wars and rumours of wars”. Yeah, well show me a time – show me a single day since the New Testament was written down when that hasn’t been true.

That was Mark 13 verse 7. But the real reason not to take Jesus seriously here is found in Mark 13:25…

The end really isn’t nigh – at least not by any ‘second coming’