Tag: atheist

Love the sinner

This “Love the sinner, hate the sin” nonsense we hear from Christians is nothing more than a deceitful platitude. It’s a way to treat people hatefully and still pretend to be loving

This “Love the sinner, hate the sin” nonsense we hear from Christians is nothing more than a deceitful platitude. It’s a way to treat people hatefully and still pretend to be loving when called out about it. There is nothing loving about removing the rights of LBQT or trans people. There’s no love in denying access to public goods to non-binary citizens, These are hateful acts.

People have rights

We shouldn’t attack or hurt people for their beliefs

Ideas are up for grabs but people have rights. We shouldn’t attack or hurt people for their beliefs. They have a right to hold the beliefs they do. It’s unfortunate that so many Christians think that only applies to them. The rest of us can go to Hell where the God of love and mercy will see to it that we’re tortured forever.

Peace that passeth all understanding

If you want to experience the peace that passeth all understanding – you’ll find it much easier to achieve through secular means.

Christians promise an indwelling peace, ‘the peace of the spirit’ when people submit themselves the their Lord, Jesus. It’s this promise of peace that prompts them to claim that atheists are miserable. There’s only one problem – it’s nonsense. I spent 10 years trying to find that peace and I can tell you – it’s a lie.

But don’t despair. If you want to experience the peace that passeth all understanding – you’ll find it much easier to achieve through secular means. Try this instead…

Whence cometh morality?

An old school friend of mine, now an Anglican vicar, seems to think that atheists’ morality has no real backing.

An old school friend of mine, now a vicar in the Anglican church has a particular view about the source of morality. He also seems to think that atheists can have no real backing for their morality because it’s not ‘transcendent’ at base. It doesn’t come from the mind of God, in other words. This video is my response to that position.

In answering his question I’ve borrowed shamelessly from Matt Dillahunty, Sam Harris and one or two others but hey ho – it’s still good info wherever it comes from and nobody thinks up everything all on their own. The video’s a bit rough because I made it in a hurry but I think the point holds well enough. Facebook might be interesting tonight!

Evil atheists?

Many religious people will tell you that it is impossible for humans to behave well without a God belief. In that case, I’m glad they’re religious, if that’s the best they can manage.

Many religious people will tell you that it is impossible for humans to behave well without a God belief. They claim that without superstitious magical thinking people will go around raping, murdering, stealing, cheating and doing all sorts of horrendous things. Whenever people talk about ALL humans they’re really just talking about themselves – the only human they really understand. In that case, I’m glad they’re religious, if that’s the best they can manage.