Religion – Page 3 – The God free guide

Something instead of nothing

One of the silliest questions asked by theists: Can atheism explain why is there something rather than nothing?

An old mate of mine asked…
“Can atheism explain why there’s something rather than nothing?”
I was surprised because he’s a bright guy. One of the most intelligent lads in my old Grammar school as it happens. And yet his question was so ridiculously stupid I could hardly believe he’d asked it.
However, since it’s not uncommon for atheists of less intelligence than him to ask this same question I put my answer into a video so I won’t need to keep typing out the answer every time some theist presents the question as though it’s some sort of ‘gotcha’.
Spoiler alert… it isn’t.

My conversion experience

I’ve been an atheist for 30 years. But then I came across the Kalam cosmological argument presented by Willian Lane-Craig. It changed my life!

In God’s name

All decent people loathe the things you do in your God’s name!

I neither hate nor fear your God, but here’s the real shame: All decent people loathe the things you do in your God’s name!

America, Nazism and the Christian right

Can you imagine what would have happened had Nazi Germany been as strong as modern America?

It’s awful to watch the USA’s decline from across the pond. There’s a real sense of history being made as the country’s fall begins. It’s like watching the Barbarian sack of Rome or, more appropriately, perhaps the beginning of the end of the German weimar republic between the wars.

Elected on the back of countless sermons by Christian nationalists and white supremacists the President seems determined to follow the fundamentalist ‘Heritage foundation’ far right ‘Project 2025’ agenda. This 900 page document covers everything from education to services, healthcare to the ‘right’ kind of Christianity. It’s a blueprint for authoritarian dictatorship straight out of Margaret Lockwood’s ‘A handmaids tale’.

Just like Hitler post 1933, Trump is dismantling law enforcement, removing protection for minorities, sacking prosecutors and investigators and enabling vigilante attacks against political opponents.
He’s attacking legal infrastructure and putting party faithful in key civil positions that should be apolitical.

He’s drawing lines against ally nations and others and even claiming foreign land as America’s. Is this a modern punt for leibensraum?

Can you imagine what would have happened had Nazi Germany been as strong as modern America?

The world might just be about to find out!

Toxic MAGA Christianity

Do you think Bishop Budde’s sermon reflects true Christian values

Do you think Bishop Budde’s sermon reflects true Christian values or should she have refrained from asking the most powerful to have mercy for the powerless?

See for yourself and let me know in the comments. Watch her sermon here… https://youtu.be/xwwaEuDeqM8?si=69mVloI9pGWiP5Xb You can read the transcript here… https://www.stmarksrva.org/blog/a-sermon-given-by-the-rt-rev-mariann-budde/

Atheist epistemology?

I CAN ACCEPT SOMETHING THAT MAKES SENSE AND I CAN ACCEPT SOMETHING THAT EITHER HAS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OR WORKS IN PRACTICE.
I CANNOT BELIEVE SOMETHING THAT NEITHER MAKES SENSE NOR HAS EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE.

I was challenged in a FaceBook group recently to discuss a series of points pertaining to religion, atheism and the philosophical bases of each.

Unlike the majority of these requests, things like

“Give me scientific proof that you’re an atheist”

which are too ridiculous to bother making a video about but this one was different. This demonstrated an intelligent approach apparently genuine issues that my interlocutor actually seemed to be serious about – and not just another theist troll.

Being atheist

I’m an atheist. That doesn’t mean that I claim to know the answers to life, the universe and everything.

I’m an atheist. That doesn’t mean that I claim to know the answers to life, the universe and everything. It simply means that I don’t believe such answers, should they exist, would involve a God or Gods. That’s because I don’t believe in any God or Gods.

If you want to know about my actual worldview, philosophy or ideology you will need to ask me because, frankly my atheism doesn’t explain anything more than is contained in the first paragraph above.

From my perspective those who preach or prosyletise about Gods fall into one of 3 categories. They are either…

Deceitful,
Gullible,
Both.

Either way they’re not fit to lead.

And that’s all you can say.

As His hiding places shrink,

He will soon go away!

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