Posted on December 21st, 2011 by Staks
Christians are always complaining about how mean atheists are and how Christianity is a religion of peace and compassion. But this is just another Christian delusion. The fact is that the opposite is true. It is pretty rare for atheists to threaten Christians over some expression of their religiosity. Sure, there may be atheists that […]
Filed under: Evils of Christianity, Love, morality, twitter | 3 Comments »
Posted on December 19th, 2011 by Staks
When atheists and Christians discuss religion we often talk past each other. That being the case, I came up with an idea that might change that. I think we should try to meet Christians halfway… as long as they are willing to meet us halfway. Here is how it works. First, we offer to meet […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, conversation, de-conversion, delusion | No Comments »
Posted on December 14th, 2011 by Staks
Earlier this week, I wrote about how religious believers often seem like they are just waiting to die and that this world is just a doorway into the next world. For many Christians, this world only purpose is to serve God by proselytizing until the end comes. But now, when a Christians comes to proselytize […]
Filed under: death, deathbed conversion, Religion | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 9th, 2011 by Staks
Christians are always claiming that Jesus is the reason for the season and many fundamentalists have started “Keep Christ in Christmas” campaigns. Yet it has been pretty well established as common knowledge now that Christians stole Christmas from the pagans. The fact is that Christmas doesn’t belong to Christians. It doesn’t even belong to the […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, Christmas | 1 Comment »
Posted on December 6th, 2011 by Staks
As an atheist, I have no problem informing people that their imaginary friend is… well, imaginary. But it seems that many of my fellow atheists get all bent out of shape when the imaginary friend happens to be Santa Claus. Yesterday, I published an Examiner article about a news anchor who told the obvious truth […]
Filed under: atheism, censorship, Media, Parenting, Religion | 12 Comments »
Posted on November 1st, 2011 by Staks
Often times when I get into a discussion about religion with a Christian they will abruptly stop the discussion and ask me a particular question. Sometimes they even ask this question after I have shown the ridiculousness of the story pointing out plot hole after plot hole. “What if it is true?” Sure I can […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, Belief, conversation, delusion, hell, humanism, morality, Religion | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 26th, 2011 by Staks
I was reading a friend’s blog yesterday and one of the things she experiences seemed similar to what I recently experienced in relation to my friend’s funeral. We were both bullied into silence and forced to hide our lack of belief in the ridiculous. As it turns out, most people in the greater community of […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, Authority, Car Bomb Argument, Coexist, culture war, discrimination, Evils of Christianity, morality, Offensiveness, People of Reason, Personal, Religious Manipulation | 1 Comment »
Posted on October 24th, 2011 by Staks
A friend of mine died recently. When I first met him, he was a Christian. However, he also had a strong analytic mind and so it didn’t take long for him to research the questions I posed to him. As a result, he de-converted. He told me once or twice about his really religious family. […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, Coexist, culture war, death, Evils of Christianity, God-Shaped Hole, humanism, Religious Manipulation | 6 Comments »
Posted on October 21st, 2011 by Staks
Christians hate to admit this, but Jesus was the Harold Camping of his day. According to the Bible, he thought that the world was coming to an end soon. He constantly warned everyone to give away all their money and possessions because he didn’t think they would need them since the end was nigh. Jesus […]
Filed under: End of the World, prophecies, Religious Manipulation, The Rapture | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 17th, 2011 by Staks
Over the weekend, one of my college friends died. He was a young guy and would occasionally comment on my facebook wall when I was discussing politics. While he might have denied it, I claim him as the first person I deconverted away from Christianity. What I realized however is that much of the words […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, death, People of Reason, Personal, Religious Manipulation | 2 Comments »
Posted on October 6th, 2011 by Staks
The public relations arm of the Christianity long ago realized that they can get more converts with honey. So they came up with this idea of going to under developed nations and helping them out. While they are at it, they can push their religion on those who are physically and emotionally not in a […]
Filed under: atheism, culture war, Decline of Religion, humanism, missionaries, Religious Manipulation | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 27th, 2011 by Staks
I really do hate when religious believers tell me that they don’t judge people and then proceed to call those who don’t believe in their ridiculous beliefs evil sinners. When I call them out on it, they inform me that they aren’t calling me an evil sinner, God is through the Bible. Well shit, that’s […]
Filed under: Glory to God, image of god, Judge God, Projection, Religion, sin, the bible | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 23rd, 2011 by Staks
One of the big selling points for God is that he is alleged to be unchanging. One Christian I recently talked to put it this way, “God is the same today as he was yesterday.” The implication is that God’s views are consistent and unchanging. In one sense, this makes sense. If God knows everything, […]
Filed under: god, image of god, Religious Manipulation | 1 Comment »
Posted on September 20th, 2011 by Staks
Religious believers seem to think that if life is finite, then life is meaningless. As an atheist, I think the opposite is true. The very fact that life is finite is the very thing that makes life meaningful. If we had eternal life, then what would be the point of it? We strive and work […]
Filed under: death, responsibility | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 31st, 2011 by Staks
Often times Christians will ask people if they have heard the “Good News.” They will ask if you have ever heard of Jesus Christ. Once when I was in college, I thought I would try a little experiment and answer the question in a way most Christians wouldn’t expect. I said, “No, never heard of […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, conversation, discussion, ignorance, Personal, Religion | 3 Comments »
Posted on August 30th, 2011 by Staks
Often times when I demand that religious believers present evidence for their claims they try to find some way to avoid doing so. One of their most common tactics is to claim or insinuate that I am not worthy of the evidence. If only I already believed then they could present me with the evidence […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, discussion, ignorance, Religious Manipulation | No Comments »
Posted on August 24th, 2011 by Staks
I have argued with many Christians who insist that there is more evidence for a historical Jesus than there is for various other historical figures. While I think they are wrong and that the best a knowledgeable Christian could really say would be that there is an equal amount of evidence for a historical Jesus […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, Jesus, Religion | 2 Comments »
Posted on August 23rd, 2011 by Staks
It seems that many religious believers can’t understand a life without authority figures. When arguing with a Christian recently, he told me that Richard Dawkins believes in Intelligent Design therefore I ought to accept it too. What he did was he took a clip from the ridiculously edited film Expelled in which Dawkins says that […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, Authority, People of Reason, Religious Manipulation, science | No Comments »
Posted on August 12th, 2011 by Staks
As the 2012 Presidential election come near, it is important to know where candidates stand on “the most important questions of life.” How did we get here? Where did we come from? As a candidate for President of the United States of America will you sign the following pledge? 1. I swear to God, Jesus […]
Filed under: Creationism, Politics | 4 Comments »
Posted on August 8th, 2011 by Staks
Last week, I was at my parent’s house and my mother bought a Berenstain Bears book for my 2 and a half year old son. She remembered that I used to enjoy those books when I was young. However, upon reading it to my son, my mother noticed that it was full of Jesus talk. […]
Filed under: Bears, Current Events, Parenting, Personal | 20 Comments »
Posted on July 27th, 2011 by Staks
One thing I hate is when Christians attempt to redefine my position and then argue against their newly created position as if that is actually the position that I hold. In philosophy this is called a “strawman” argument. So I thought it might be fun to do the same thing to Christians. Yeah, this is […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, atheism, Atheism NOT Religion, culture war | No Comments »
Posted on July 11th, 2011 by Staks
Yesterday, I was reading the Huffington Post Religion Section (always a good time) and I saw an article from my favorite Rabbi, Adam Jacobs. For those unfamiliar with him (which should be almost everyone), he is a fundamentalist Christian… I mean Jew. I have actually written a few Examiner articles responding to his craziness (Links […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, Creationism, Religious Manipulation | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 29th, 2011 by Staks
Once again I am on my rant about taking the fight to the religious and playing their games on them for a change. This time, I think we should force Christians to stop calling their blood kin “family.” They can use some other name, but I don’t think they can call it “family.” According to […]
Filed under: church/state, culture war, family values, Gay Issues, Political Activism, Religion | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 24th, 2011 by Staks
It has occurred to me that in the Bible, the character of God is always telling people what to do and complaining about various things. One of his biggest issues is that the Hebrews don’t love him enough. In the New Testament Jesus whines about how people don’t love God enough. So I just gotta […]
Filed under: Blasphemy, god, Offensiveness, Religion | 2 Comments »
Posted on June 10th, 2011 by Staks
I was listening to a video yesterday in which a Christian preacher was talking about forgiveness. It always fascinates me when religious believers talk on this subject. This video was no exception. So I thought today I would compare religious forgiveness with my view of secular forgiveness. The context of the video was Reverend Creflo […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, blood sacrifice, forgiveness, Judge God, People of Reason, responsibility | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 3rd, 2011 by Staks
I get into a lot of conversations with Christians and often times when the Christian gets backed into an intellectual corner and their ideas have been shown to be unreasonable, illogical, and flat out ridiculous, they throw up a brick wall. One of the most common brick wall tactics is to insist that I open […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, Belief, conversation, delusion, discussion, faith, Glory to God, god, Personal, prayer, Religion, Religious Manipulation | 3 Comments »
Posted on May 26th, 2011 by Staks
With all the talk about the Rapture lately, one Christian sent me a message saying that he believes Harold Camping was wrong, but that the lesson we should learn is that we ought to live everyday as if it were our last. He says that this is the message Jesus was trying to send with […]
Filed under: anti-intellectualism, conversation, responsibility, Self-Help, The Future | No Comments »
Posted on May 23rd, 2011 by Staks
From now on, whenever a Christian tries to talk to you about their bullshit, we can tell them with some confidence that they are not a real Christian. All we have to do is remind them that May 21st 2011 was the Rapture and they are still here so that must mean that they were […]
Filed under: Alternative Worldview, Current Events, End of Days, hell, Judge God, Progressive Christians, Real Christians, The Rapture | 9 Comments »
Posted on May 20th, 2011 by Staks
A lot of people are laughing at Harold Camping and his followers lately. In less than 48 hours Camping’s prediction will be proven wrong, but what I find interesting is Camping’s most fervent detractors are not atheists, but Christians. As an atheist, I have no problem laughing at Camping and his ridiculous beliefs, but Christians […]
Filed under: context, delusion, End of Days, End of the World, prophecies, Religious Manipulation, The Rapture | 4 Comments »
Posted on May 16th, 2011 by Staks
I was thinking about this the other day. I recently started a new website called “RaptureSurvivor.com” to sell some t-shirts and stuff and while promoting the site, someone jokingly mentioned that the joke would be on me if Camping and friends really got Raptured away. This prompted me to question, “what if Camping did disappear?” […]
Filed under: Current Events, delusion, End of Days, Personal, prophecies, Religious Manipulation, The Rapture | 2 Comments »
