When the guy next to you orders the Halal meal and a vodka, it’s hard to supress your cynicism.
When you’re tired and hungry, four glasses of wine and a cognac in under an hour make it very hard to focus on the six inch screen only eighteen inches from your nose!
Sitting on an aisle [...]
Science cuts away yet another Intelligent Design objection to Evolution: Wired Science
A great Atheist Blog with some really interesting commentary on he Bible. Some very similar points to my own articles on Free Will (and better written!): Daylight Atheism
Chris Brown’s assault on Rihanna is really God showing his goodness says Chris’s mum: Friendly Atheist
This is in many ways just a summary of recent thoughts which are posited in recent posts.
If there is a God and a single correct religion then why…?
Is there sin? God is all-knowing right?
Is there suffering? God is all-forgiving right?
Are there multiple religions? God is all-forgiving right?
Did God change his message (Judaism->Christianity)? God is all-forgiving [...]
I mentioned this earlier but I thought that it would bear expanding upon into a whole article.
Is the nature of heaven not just self-contradictory?
Just a really simple example to get you thinking. Jim marries Alice and they love each other dearly. Very sadly Alice dies aged 25 and Jim after overcoming his grief marries Jane, [...]
Christianity is not unique in preaching that Jehovah, or the sky fairy, is all knowing, all present and all powerful – omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent - but I do not know the tenets of the other major faiths as well as I do those of Christianity so I will talk to those ‘powers’ for the content of [...]
It struck me just a minute ago how religion is like a club. Only more so. I was thinking about the vested interest that a congregation member has in their ‘club’. When you as an atheist debate with a religious person you have to be aware that they bring more psychological baggage to the table [...]
There is the most ridiculous story in The Times newspaper today about an Orthodox Jewish couple who are suing the owners of the block of flats they live in. They claim that they are trapped in their appartment on Friday and Sunday nights because of the sensor-activated lights in the communal areas. They will not [...]
In a primitive society it is obvious to see that an absolute belief that X is right and Y is wrong is easier to control and maintain than any kind of philosophical or ethical system that requires complex thought to initiate and continuous explanation. Particularly when it comes to children, an absolute rule is easier [...]
I don’t want to talk here about specific issues within different Scripture but just about Religion in general and the thought processes that started in my mind around the age of 14 or 15 which ultimately led me to Agnosticism and hence to the state we call Atheism. I may have considered these things earlier [...]
What is it about Intelligent Design that people hold on to so dearly?
I’m not talking about a rebranding of literal biblical creationism but simply of the idea that the Universe was deliberately created.
The answer is pretty simple. The Universe, the Earth, our own bodies and minds, are incredible. The desire to feel ‘wanted’ is a [...]