Posted on August 19th, 2009 by Staks
Are religious believers stupid? I get this question all the time ironically enough I get it the most from religious believers. My answer to this question is almost always the same. “Smart people can believe stupid things.” There is no doubt that the belief in the all-powerful god as described in the Torah/Bible/Koran based off […]
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Posted on August 12th, 2009 by Staks
Jonathan Swift famously stated that, “You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.” Many of my fellow freethinkers would agree with Mr. Swift on this. People get into religion for many reasons and yet almost none of which has to do with reason. I […]
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Posted on July 6th, 2009 by Staks
For some reason, because I am a pretty outspoken atheist, religious people (even not so religious people) seem to go out of their way to start a religious conversation with me. That’s fine, I have no problem with that and always enjoy a good conversation about religion. The problem comes in sometimes when those people, […]
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Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Staks
Well, it is April 1st, which means only one thing. I must really be a fundamentalist Christian and I have been tricking everyone all these years, right. Haha, April Fools! I bet I really got you with that one, right? Now that we got the obligatory prank out of the way, let me share with […]
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Posted on March 31st, 2009 by Staks
I find that most Christians get so wrapped up in their bronze aged mythology that they seem to have a really hard time taking an objective look from a non-Christian perspective. There is an old saying about walking a mile (or some such distance) in someone else’s shoes or something. The fact is that the […]
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Posted on January 27th, 2009 by Staks
People always ask me whether or not I think we are wasting our breath arguing with Christians. They tell me stories about how they discuss, debate, and/or argue religion with the religious and seem to get nowhere. “What’s the point?” they ask me. I have been discussing, debating, and arguing with Christians and other believers […]
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