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/
Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the church,
The faithful were gathering,
And praying in search,
Of some mystical moment,
Remembering the birth…
Twas the night before Christmas,
And all through the church,
The faithful were gathering,
And praying in search,
Of some mystical moment,
Remembering the birth…
He no longer makes lightning, volcanos or trees,
No divine visitations bring us to our knees!
He’s the God of the gaps,
And that’s all you can say.
As His hiding places shrink,
He will soon go away!
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.
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.
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.
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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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!
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.
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 God free guide 