If I said I’d risen from the dead you’d say I’m playing games, If I claimed 500 witnesses you’d want to know their names.
If you want to convince me that something is true, If you’re making the claim then the burden’s on you. If I said I’d risen from the dead you’d say I’m playing games, If I claimed 500 witnesses you’d want to know their names. And if I said God wrote my diary, I’d anticipate inquiry. How you’d react to my diary, Is how your Bible seems to me. Of course, my diary’s bollocks, as you knew, As to the Bible, the burden of proof is on you!
One of the silliest questions asked by theists: Can atheism explain why is there something rather than nothing?
An old mate of mine asked… “Can atheism explain why there’s something rather than nothing?” I was surprised because he’s a bright guy. One of the most intelligent lads in my old Grammar school as it happens. And yet his question was so ridiculously stupid I could hardly believe he’d asked it. However, since it’s not uncommon for atheists of less intelligence than him to ask this same question I put my answer into a video so I won’t need to keep typing out the answer every time some theist presents the question as though it’s some sort of ‘gotcha’. Spoiler alert… it isn’t.
Can you imagine what would have happened had Nazi Germany been as strong as modern America?
It’s awful to watch the USA’s decline from across the pond. There’s a real sense of history being made as the country’s fall begins. It’s like watching the Barbarian sack of Rome or, more appropriately, perhaps the beginning of the end of the German weimar republic between the wars.
Elected on the back of countless sermons by Christian nationalists and white supremacists the President seems determined to follow the fundamentalist ‘Heritage foundation’ far right ‘Project 2025’ agenda. This 900 page document covers everything from education to services, healthcare to the ‘right’ kind of Christianity. It’s a blueprint for authoritarian dictatorship straight out of Margaret Lockwood’s ‘A handmaids tale’.
Just like Hitler post 1933, Trump is dismantling law enforcement, removing protection for minorities, sacking prosecutors and investigators and enabling vigilante attacks against political opponents. He’s attacking legal infrastructure and putting party faithful in key civil positions that should be apolitical.
He’s drawing lines against ally nations and others and even claiming foreign land as America’s. Is this a modern punt for leibensraum?
Can you imagine what would have happened had Nazi Germany been as strong as modern America?
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?
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…
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.
The God free guide 