Nick Cowan is a creationist who also understands the principles of science. He’s a retired UK chemistry teacher who also taught creationism to the same state school pupils in his A level general studies class. I asked him how this could possibly make sense. What followed was a passionate but genial conversation between two people who hold diametrically opposing views.
Category: Religion
The God club’s rules
Your religion has rules,
OK follow those too,
But know that they only apply to you.
Go ahead, do your thing,
It’s no skin off my nose,
Until you start claiming,
Your Holy book knows,
How others should live,
And you start to impose,
Your rules and your hatred,
Then we become foes.
What Christian morality?
Your moral compass points right back to the bronze age!
There is no such thing as Christian morality in any meaningful sense. Rather there’s a list of ancient rules, many of which make no sense at all in the modern world.
Real abuse from the God of Abraham
God is not a good role model
There is no more abusive character than the Abrahamic God than in the whole of fiction.
Religion is not mental disorder!
Asserting that religion is mental illness is unethical, unreasonable and extremely arrogant!
I recently found myself talking to another atheist online.
This person began by asserting that religious belief is a mental illness. In fairness to him he did climb down from that very generalised position after a while but I know that many others are just as dismissive of their fellow men and women. Many theists think the same of all atheists and that’s just as silly.
In this video though my focus is on the general irrationality of all humans and how that is factored into the diagnostic process. My view is that all such assertions are unethical, unreasonable and extremely arrogant.
What do you think?
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I’m on ‘The Unshaw podcast’!
My discussion about faith, atheism, mental health, evolution and nursing with Robert Shaw
The Unshaw podcast discusses faith, atheism, religiosity and a whole lot more besides. In this episode Robert Shaw (no, not THAT Robert Shaw) and I discuss mental health, faith and deconversion, politics and even evolutionary psychology.
Visit the Unshaw podcast and have a listen. Go on … you know you want to!
Come out of the closet!
Do you want LGBTQ+ kept out of schools? Then this is the 2 minute video you need to see.
Do you think LGBTQ+ people should be kept away from children?
Would you sack gay teachers because they’re a bad influence teaching kids to be gay?
Would you prefer to stop trans citizens from accessing schools or keep lesbians out of youth groups?
Then here’s a two minute video just for you!
3 types of clergy
How would you describe your priest, pastor or worship leader? Are they actually fit to lead?
Speaking as an atheist I believe that it is possible to divide clergy into three groups. There are the gullible, the deceitful and those who are both gullible and deceitful.
No true Christian…
There’s no hate like Christian love, especially when they direct it at each other.
There’s no hate like Christian love, especially when they direct it at each other. The ‘No true Christian’ fallacy is just as bad as the eponymous ‘No true Scotsman’, except that it is even less rational and even more vicious.
The bestest Bible: Genesis 6
God says he’ll drown everyone on earth except the fish. God seems to like fish.
This is the part where God says he’ll drown everyone on earth along with all the other creatures, even the creeping things. But not the fish. God seems to like fish. That’s why he invented Fridays.
But an old guy named Noah won’t drown and neither will his kids and their wives (apart from Tarquin, his youngest). Nor will shit loads of animals. They’ll all suffocate instead below decks in a massive boat with only one window.
The God free guide 