Tag: God

Religion is not mental disorder!

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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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 4 (Where did all those women come from?)

God gets really confused about who is who, what blood is for, how to make babies and how to maintain a coherent narrative arc

In this bit God gets really confused about who is who, what blood is for, how to make babies and how to maintain a coherent narrative arc. We also meet the oldest bloke in the world, the bestest sea captain makes a brief appearance at the end and we definitely have some questions to ask about God’s attitude to gay relationships. And poor old Eve has more kids than you can shake a stick at!

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!

The bestest Bible 2: Genesis 1&2

When do we get the dinosaurs? We want dinosaurs!

When do we get the dinosaurs? We want dinosaurs!

 Genesis 1

1 In the beginning God got bored and created the heaven and the earth. He made it out of nothing, thus proving that out of nothing something comes, even if it takes a magic spell to do it.

Try suggesting that to your average Christian. They can’t tell you why Gandalf saying Abracadabra to defeat the Balrog is any different from God speaking the universe into existence but they still won’t admit that it’s magic!

Sending ourselves to Hell

Christians often claim that God doesn’t send anyone to Hell… we send ourselves!

Whenever we mention the injustice of infinite punishment for finite crimes, especially when the supposed ‘crime’ is simply not being convinced, it’s common for Christians to claim that God doesn’t send anyone to Hell… we send ourselves! This demonstrates one of two possibilities…

1. The Christian in question hasn’t read their Bible (an odd state of affairs given that they think it’s the inspired word of God).

2. The Christian in question is a liar!

Of course – it’s not uncommon for both these possibilities to apply equally.

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?