Posted on March 24th, 2010 by Staks
Yesterday, I watched the ABC Nightline debate between Sam Harris and Deepak Chopra featuring Michael Shermer and some crazy lady. The subject of the debate was whether or not God has a future. In reality, the real debate was whether or not Deepak Chopra is trying to be the next L. Ron Hubbard. Many times […]
Filed under: atheism, conversation, Decline of Religion, delusion, god, image of god, Religion, Vague Higher Power | 10 Comments »
Posted on March 4th, 2010 by Staks
Christians are always jibber jabbering about how God gave us free will. It seems that free will in the Christian excuse for everything. Why is there suffering in the world? Free will! Why does God send non-believers to Hell? Free will! Original sin? Free will! You get the idea. Sure there is no evidence for […]
Filed under: free will, god, Religion | 20 Comments »
Posted on February 26th, 2010 by Staks
Often times when Christians find out that I am an atheist, they will ask me why I hate God. Usually I inform these Christians of the obvious by asking them how I could hate something that I just said I don’t believe even exists? This rarely satisfies them and maybe they are right. After thinking […]
Filed under: Blasphemy, god, image of god, Religion, the bible | 7 Comments »
Posted on February 24th, 2010 by Staks
It seems to me that Christians who proselytize are actually making a case against their position. Their claim is that their deity of choice is all-powerful and wants everyone to worship him but can’t seem to convince people on his own. God seems to need the Christian to proselytize. Why would such an all-powerful deity […]
Filed under: conversation, discussion, Disproving God, god, Preaching, Religion | 29 Comments »
Posted on February 10th, 2010 by Staks
Recently, I stumbled upon an interesting atheist YouTube video. Yeah, I know there are a million of them and atheists pretty much own YouTube these days, but this one pointed out something that is really obvious. The Bible is boring. The best selling book of all time really suck from both a literary and entertainment […]
Filed under: god, Religion, the bible | 9 Comments »
Posted on January 22nd, 2010 by Staks
Christians often ask me for evidence for god’s nonexistence. Right from the start, that is a ridiculous demand. But as it turns out there is actually really strong philosophical evidence for god’s nonexistence. Christians created a God that is too perfect to exist. The Christian theologian Anselm once defined God as a being in which […]
Filed under: blood sacrifice, delusion, Disproving God, free will, god, logic, Ontological Argument, Religion, sin, Vague Higher Power | 20 Comments »
Posted on January 15th, 2010 by Staks
I often get into prolonged conversations with fundamentalists. Usually after a little while our conversation changes from antagonism to a genuine exchange of ideas. The fundamentalist then starts to see where I am coming from and begins to reason on his or her own through the theological bullshit that has been drilled into their head. […]
Filed under: conversation, discussion, Every Knee, free will, god, Religion | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 18th, 2009 by Staks
Whenever someone is in a difficult time in life or is dealing with difficult circumstances, religious people are quick to push their religious beliefs. They often say something like, “God only gives us what we can handle.” While I understand that the believer has the best of intentions and I understand that the message they […]
Filed under: discussion, god, People of Reason, Religion, responsibility, Self-Help | 2 Comments »
Posted on December 17th, 2009 by Staks
One of the things that Christian fundamentalists always tell me is that I should worship their God because he is all powerful. I talked about this in previous blogs about the praise-worthiness of the Christian God, but I think it is an important issue in and of itself. If God were evil, would Christians still […]
Filed under: god, morality, Religion | 13 Comments »
Posted on December 15th, 2009 by Staks
I know that Christianity is supposedly a monotheistic religion and everything, but after talking to various Christians throughout my life, it seems like various Christians are talking about two gods rather then one. The Bible talks very specifically about God and who this character is. God is wrath and vengeance. God is an angry and […]
Filed under: god, Religion, Vague Higher Power | 15 Comments »
Posted on December 10th, 2009 by Staks
If I had a penny for every time a Christian has told me that I would one day stand before God and have to account for my sins, I would be a rich person. Even after I inform the Christian that I don’t believe in God, the question is still asked as a “what if.” […]
Filed under: god, Judge God, morality, Religion, sin | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 9th, 2009 by Staks
Today I have heard probably the single worst argument for the existence of God that I have ever heard. This argument is so stupid that it amazes me what lengths people go with mental gymnastics in order to justify their imaginary friend. If people are indoctrinated into belief in God and people are manipulated by […]
Filed under: god, image of god, Ontological Argument, Projection, Religion | 9 Comments »
Posted on November 24th, 2009 by Staks
Think about it for a moment. Let’s say you are God. You have always existed and then suddenly even though nothing has changed or can change you decided to poof create the Universe. Why? If nothing had changed why wouldn’t God just keep doing what God was doing? What caused God to decide to one […]
Filed under: First Cause Argument, god, Religion | 22 Comments »
Posted on November 9th, 2009 by Staks
Almost anyone who reads the Bible cover-to-cover from an objective perspective will be able to notice that the story is ridiculous. It is almost certain that the character of God as portrayed in the Bible is as fictional as the evil Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series. And yet there are still billions (with […]
Filed under: god, image of god, Ontological Argument, Religion, the bible, Vague Higher Power | 3 Comments »
Posted on October 15th, 2009 by Staks
Theists always ask me why I don’t believe in God. I usually rattle off any number of reasons why I think that the whole idea of God is ridiculous, silly, and illogical. Somehow, that doesn’t seem to convince them since they tend to ask me the same question again at a later time. I guess […]
Filed under: conversation, discussion, god, missionaries, Religion | 14 Comments »
Posted on October 13th, 2009 by Staks
Many theists complain to me that I shouldn’t criticize religion because it makes them happy. They accuse me of “trying to take away their happiness.” I find this accusation to be a sad attempt at a conversation stopper. For starters, I don’t think I am trying to take anyone’s happiness away any more than drug […]
Filed under: atheism, de-conversion, Evils of Christianity, god, morality, Religion, the bible | 7 Comments »
Posted on August 24th, 2009 by Staks
I was talking with an atheist friend of mine last week and he asked a fantasy question. What I mean by a fantasy question is that the questioner is reasonably certain that the question will never come up in reality. It is like asking who you would pick for your all star football team or […]
Filed under: atheism, conversation, discussion, god, god the father, Religion | 24 Comments »
Posted on July 29th, 2009 by Staks
The greatest piece of evidence against the existence of an all-powerful, all-knowing, perfect God is and always will be the imperfect world around us. This is why theists have to create elaborate schemes to explain this obvious evidence away. All of their schemes inevitably put the blame for the imperfection of this world onto us […]
Filed under: god, Religion | 5 Comments »
Posted on July 23rd, 2009 by Staks
I never really understood the whole “image of God” thing Christians always talk about. I look in the mirror every day and I have to tell you that I really don’t think I look a thing like God. For starters, I can actually see myself. That aside, does God have two legs, two arms, two […]
Filed under: god, image of god, Religion | 21 Comments »
Posted on May 15th, 2009 by Staks
Why is it that the Christian God is supposed to be all-powerful and yet it took him a full 6 days to create the world? Shouldn’t he have been able to do it with a snap of his metaphysical fingers? A real god should be able to think it and it happens. And while we […]
Filed under: god, god the father, Religion | 14 Comments »
Posted on April 30th, 2009 by Staks
I always found it interesting that Christians today seem to prefer the feudalistic dictatorship of Christianity where God is Lord and humans are serfs over the Democratic ideals of the American system. In grad school, I shared a class with a liberal evangelical who at least recognized this as a problem. His solution was to […]
Filed under: god, Religion | 9 Comments »
Posted on April 23rd, 2009 by Staks
The other day I was talking to a Christian friend of mine and she made a comment that I always find even more ridiculous than most Christian comments. I wish I could say that it was a unique comment by some random schizophrenic or something, but I can’t. The sad fact is that my friend […]
Filed under: god, Religion | 10 Comments »
Posted on March 27th, 2009 by Staks
One frequent argument I hear from Christians is what I call the “Judge God Argument.” Here, Christians tell me a story about a teen that is speeding, driving drunk, or some other illegal act that teenagers might commit. In this story, we are the teen and after being caught by the police we are brought […]
Filed under: god, Judge God, Religion | 22 Comments »
