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.
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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.
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!
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 bestest Bible – Genesis:3
Following their dirty weekend in Marbella, Adam and Eve return to the garden
Following their dirty weekend in Marbella, Adam and Eve return to the garden only to find that God got bored waiting for their return and made a couple of imposters instead.
And then there was all that stuff about the apples… Nasty business, that was!
Christian threats of Hell
Christians regularly impugn the characters of atheists without ever considering the implications of their own tactics
Whenever a Christian threatens you with Hell, no matter how smugly they do so it pays to consider just what they’re telling you about themselves. I don’t just mean the shameful delight they take in the prospect of another person’s suffering, that’s clear to anyone. I mean the implication of their choice of threat.
What does it tell you, tell the world about them when they suppose that threats of Hell will be enough to make you bow down before their imaginary God?
Christians regularly impugn the characters of atheists without ever considering the implications of their own tactics. When a Christian threatens you with Hell, what are they really telling you?
If you were God for a day
If you were God for a day what would you do?
If you were God for a day what would you do?
How would you use all that power?
How would you fill those 24 hours?
When Christians lie
How should we react when Christians lie about us whilst simultaneously claiming the moral high ground?
I don’t imagine many people will be surprised to learn that Christians are just as capable of dishonesty as every other group of people. We’re all human and humans are fallible, after all. But how should we react when they lie about us whilst simultaneously claiming the moral high ground and insisting that non-Christians can’t understand morality?
What should the result be when the smug Christian conveniently forgets the commandment not to bear false witness against his neighbour?
In this case the liar in question, an American right wing Christian (a group disproportionately heavy with liars, in my experience) lied about me online and named me, even using deliberately selective screenshots to enhance his deception. The stupid thing is that it was so completely unnecessary. Just a cheap shot of the sort you’d expect to find in a school playground. Certainly not worthy of adult discourse.
I’m retaliating appropriately. I’ve decided to tell the true story on line, complete with screenshots that show the larger conversation and that explain the real story of what happened between me and Luke Villarreal.
Yes, it’s petty.
No, it’s not my finest moment but it is honest, unlike Luke and it’s only a few minutes long.
Go on – learn the truth about yet another Christian #lyingforJesus. You know you want to!
Punishing raped women
In what context could stoning a raped woman to death ever be justified?
In the Bible, Jesus tells us that God’s law shall never pass away until Heaven and earth are no more (Luke 16:17/Matthew 5:18). The Old Testament book of Deuteronomy literally translates as ‘the law repeated’. This law, the law of the old testament as written in the Hebrew bible (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) is the only law that Jesus, a Jew would, could have been talking about. And so it is to Deuteronomy that we turn when asking how to deal with rape victims.
The God free guide 