He only hurts me because he cares.
It’s for my own good.
I can’t cope without him.
I deserved it.
I provoked him.
These are all things I’ve heard victims say when I speak with those unfortunate enough to be on the wrong side of domestic abuse. They’re the words of abusers internalised and repeated by the abused. It’s remarkable just how often Christians say the same things about their God.
Isn’t it interesting how precisely what God wants coincides with the desires, wants and needs of the person telling you what God wants? What do you make of this remarkable coincidence? Answers in the comments, please?
Darwin’s theory underpins modern biology, zoology, botany, anthropology, antibiotics & vaccinations.
It’s Darwin Day again!
On this day in 1809 (the same day Abraham Lincoln was born), Charles Darwin entered this world in Shrewsbury, England. He’s the bloke who, along with Alfred Russel Wallace, gave us the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. So celebrate!
Darwin and Wallace’s theory isn’t just valuable because it underpins modern biology, zoology, botany and even anthropology. It’s also the reason why we have medicines such as antibiotics and vaccinations that keep on working, year on year. Cheers, Charles!
This isn’t just a dishonest argument, it’s fundamentally idiotic!
Mark Spence is part of Ray “Banana man” Comfort’s ‘Living Waters’ ministry. And like the big banana himself, Spence is no stranger to non-sequitors and false equivocation. In truth, it’s hard to list the deceptive strategies Spence uses in this awful expose of his own bigotry. But, in the time-honoured tradition of response videos everywhere, I’ll giver it a go.
messages from religious people who really don’t appear to know what it means to be an atheist
Since launching The God free guide on New year’s day I’ve had several messages from religious people who really don’t appear to know what it means to be an atheist – and more importantly, what it doesn’t mean.
This video summarizes the basics without any need for ghosts, Gods or ghoulies!
Christianity promised to teach me how to be contented in any circumstance. The church, its people and its mythical God broke that promise.
I’ve spent decades since working out how to live peacefully, happily and well. This video summarizes the basics without any need for ghosts, Gods or ghoulies!
Enjoy
All humans are irrational. We evolved that way.
All humans are irrational. We evolved that way.
If we hadn’t developed these tendencies to be irrational it’s doubtful that our species would ever have made it off the African Savannah. Actually it’s doubtful that we’d have evolved beyond some earlier species of quadruped, let alone primate or hominid.
But if we’re irrational, what on earth can we do about it? Click the link to find out!
Don’t take yourself too seriously.
If you want to be happy you first need to stop taking yourself too seriously. If others laugh at you it’s because there’s something funny. Find it – enjoy it – laugh at it.
Click to play the video above if you’d like to know what happened to the infamous half-man, half-porpoise and his rather striking magenta boxer shorts!
Sometimes I just check into a hotel. It doesn’t need to be far away – that’s not the point.
Sometimes I just check into a hotel. It doesn’t need to be far away – that’s not the point.
It might even be just around the corner.
According to Christianity my honest inquiry will lead me to burn for all eternity!
Few propositions are quite so coercive as those threatening eternal torture as the price of disbelief.
According to Christianity. People like me who strive to leave the world better than we found it, who genuinely work to help others and who take the principle of ‘do no harm’ seriously will burn for all eternity.
And what’s our crime? What terrible abomination have we committed to deserve such a sadistic end?
We thought about the things we were told and we remained true to our honest conclusions.
It’s hard for mere mortals such as myself to fathom the depravity of a mind that thinks such a state of affairs would ever be, could ever be appropriate. And yet this, apparently is precisely the system created by the vicious God of Abraham… that psychopathic, egocentric sadist who seems to get off on the misery and suffering of others.
One way to discern the character of a human being is to see how they treat those who aren’t able to stand up for themselves – waiters and waitresses, shop assistants and other serving staff whose livelihoods depend upon treating the customer, even the abusive customer nicely. Those people who treat such workers badly are rightly judged to be arrogant, hateful and even bullying by the rest of us.
What then should we think of a torturer God? Ah yes, I forgot…
The ways of God are strange.
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