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Militant Atheism At U of Virginia
2008-06-17 06:19:00 -By Warner Todd Huston The one thing that always makes me wonder about atheists is how upset they seem to get about nothing. After all, they claim that there is no God and that religion is based on myth and foolishness, don’t they? They claim it is all “nothing,” yet many of them are highly incensed ...
By: Publius Forum
Atheists don?t go to heaven
2008-06-09 01:50:00 Here?s a nice cherry video to close out the weekend… Feel better now? addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbligbi.com%2F2008-%2F06%2F08%2Fatheists-dont-go-t-o-heaven%2F'; addthis_title = 'Atheists+don%26rsquo%3Bt+go+to-+heaven'; addthis_pub = '';
By: Bligbi
PZ Myers and Hubris
2008-06-08 00:13:00 Atheist PZ Myers, who has an extremely popular blog, a fact which continually surprises me, has made a comment in this blog entry that shows he is the modern embodiment of Satan’s war on God. After describing the book of Genesis as a “little scrap of piss-poor poetry that half this country wants to make the ...
Terrible Advice from Atheist Revolution
2008-06-05 22:08:00 VJack from Atheist Revolution has given some terrible advice about witnessing to atheists. He says not to do it. I advocate ignoring that advice completely. VJack says: I know your church says you are supposed to do this and that you’ll win friends and magic Jesus points for your efforts. I know your bible makes you ...
Pat Condell: God is not Enough
2008-05-27 17:26:00 Here’s a new video from Pat Condell who apparently has his own site now as well as a collection of his videos out on DVD. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbligbi.com%2F2008-%2F05%2F27%2Fpat-condell-god-is--not-enough%2F'; addthis_title = 'Pat+Condell%3A+God+is+not+Enou-gh'; addthis_pub = '';
By: Bligbi
Theodicy: God is Good
2008-05-19 05:46:00 In an article entitled “Good God?“, atheist Peter Singer addresses some usual answers that Christians forward when faced with the question of why evil exists if God is good. His answers reveal much about the shallow reasoning that atheists display when pondering the tough questions. I will discuss his answers. Singer starts by reasoning the following: ...
PinoyBlogoSphere.com - The (lack of) faith: Atheism
2008-05-17 04:39:00 Source: www.PinoyBlogoSphere.com - An email I received this morning brought me to two different blogs with different perspectives on faith and/or the lack of it. Dean Lozarie, a member of the Iglesia Ni Cristo, tackles his take on atheism after reading an atheist’s post titled The Arrogance of Faith. Dean intelligently did an interweaving of having and not having faith by saying thus: (Continue here please) Thanks for subscribing to the PBS feed (P.B.S.)
Atheism in Utopia
2008-05-06 13:32:00 Came across this passage in Thomas More’s Utopia this morning, and couldn’t help but share. :-) …only he [Utopus] made a solemn and severe law against such as should so far degenerate from the dignity of human nature, as to think that our souls died with our bodies, or that the world was governed by chance, without a wise overruling Providence: for they all formerly believed that there was a state of rewards and punishments to the good and bad after this life; and they now look on those that think otherwise as scarce fit to be counted men, since they degrade so noble a being as the soul, and reckon it no better than a beast’s: thus they are far from looking on such men as fit for human society, or to be citizens of a well-ordered commonwealth; since a man of such principles must needs, as oft as he dares do it, despise all their laws and customs: for there is no doubt to be made, that a man who is afraid of nothing but the law, and apprehends nothing a...
By: delectatio Dei
God made Spring
2008-05-04 20:18:00 Just ask my five year old. Where’d she hear that gem? At school and it’s the truth because her teacher said so. We should have known that something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. The teacher has made it extremely obvious she’s one of those Christians who assumes everyone else is ...
By: Bligbi
Day 1: Unshakable Faith
2008-05-03 03:15:00 It is day one of the Unshakable Faith Conference put on at Landmark Cincinnati. The pastors hope that this will become an annual event, but they don’t think that they can top this first year. I’m inclined to agree. First on the menu this evening was Dr. Norman Geisler presenting a talk that the program title ...
Investigating Atheism
2008-05-01 06:18:00 With the controversial topic du jour being the 'battle' between religion and atheism, here's a wonderful resource for educating yourself a little, in order to help elevate this important debate beyond a mere caricature: the Investigating Atheism website. The project has been put together by a group of academics and researchers at the faculty of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, and at the University of Oxford, with a goal of aiming to give "a fully independent, but informed statement about this important subject." The current polarised nature of the 'new atheism' debate often discourages serious discussion of the very issues that the 'new atheists' have brought so forcibly to the attention of the public. Behind some of their more vociferous assertions, there are complex debates going on, and here we will seek to understand how and why these debates have arisen, and what is at stake. This website is a great resource for getting more background on the history and philoso...
Soldier Sues Army, Saying His Atheism Led to Threats
2008-04-26 16:45:00 Army Specialist Jeremy Hall said he did not advertise his atheism during his service, but his views became apparent during his second deployment to Iraq.
By: mini wisdom
Soldier sues army, saying his atheism led to threats
2008-04-26 12:40:00 FORT RILEY, Kan. ? When Specialist Jeremy Hall held a meeting last July for atheists and freethinkers at Camp Speicher in Iraq, he was excited, he said, to see an officer attending.But minutes into the talk, the officer, Maj. Freddy J. Welborn, began to berate Specialist Hall and another soldier about atheism, Specialist Hall wrote in a sworn statement. ?People like you are not holding up the Constitution and are going against what the founding fathers, who were Christians, wanted for America!? Major Welborn said, according to the statement.Major Welborn told the soldiers he might bar them from re-enlistment and bring charges against them, according to the statement.Last month, Specialist Hall and the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, an advocacy group, filed suit in federal court in Kansas, alleging that Specialist Hall?s right to be free from state endorsement of religion under the First Amendment had been violated and that he had faced retaliation for his views. In November,...
By: ExChristian.net
The noble position of atheism
2008-04-24 18:21:00 A short rant by Bob PattersonFor reasons not easily understood, humans seem to have a basic need to want to believe that an invisible, omnipotent and omniscient deity -- one that is entirely responsible for everything and that demands our unquestioning devotion, obedience and respect for everything good that happens -- is watching over us. This same deity, however, vehemently denies any responsibility whatsoever for those things which are bad, undesirable, or painful. It's the ultimate and most divine "cop out" that humanity has ever documented! To sum it up simply: God gets all the credit for that which is good, but takes none of the responsibility for that which is bad. This is all somehow justified by the doctrine of "original sin" -- an unpaid debt that was caused when Eve ate a forbidden cumquat from the "tree of knowledge" and was suddenly made smarter. This episode pissed off the big guy in the sky, who obviously wished women to remain ignorant. (Makes you think of the Catho...
By: ExChristian.net
Did I Contradict Jesus?
2008-04-16 18:52:00 Christian, the keeper of the blog Free Thinking Joy, has accused me of contradicting Jesus: In my remarks about the Ten Commandments, I have come to the conclusion that their real content can be summarized as “Treat others as you would like to be treated by them”, also known as the Golden Rule. Jesus, as quoted ...
Ten Commandments for Atheists, pt. 2
2008-04-15 23:13:00 The ironically named Christian, proprietor of Free Thinking Joy, asserts that the Ten Commandments are perfectly compatible with atheism. It is absurd on its face to think that any of the first four commandments, which center on man’s relationship to God, could be followed or even understood by atheists. Christian’s analysis is flawed, as ...
Update on Monique Davis
2008-04-12 09:28:00 Illinois Representative Monique Davis, whose Christian witness has been forever tainted by misplaced remarks about atheists and atheism, has done what a Christian should do in her shoes–she apologized. Instead of a public apology, Representative Davis apologized directly to the one she offended. Personally, I think that this shows great humility on Davis’s part. It ...
Fear
2008-04-11 20:26:00 The recent comments made by Illinois State Representative Monique Davis reveal an unfortunate deep-seated fear that many Christians have regarding atheists. Representative Davis berated an atheist and told him that he had no right to testify due to his lack of belief in God. She even called the philosophy of atheism “dangerous” and said that ...
Illinois Democrat and State Representative: Atheism is extremely dangerous,
2008-04-11 00:17:00 Illinois Democrat and State Representative Monique Davis recently aggressively maligned atheist activist Rob Sherman and all atheists with the following statement during a hearing over a $1 million state grant to preserve a historic Baptist church: “I don’t know what you have against God, but some of us don’t have much against him. We look forward ...
Monique Davis deemed "worst person" for anti-atheist tirade
2008-04-10 01:28:00 Keith Olbermann’s worst person last night was none other than Rep. Monique Davis of Illinois for her anti-atheist tirade in which she stated that it was “dangerous for children” to even know of the existence of atheism and ended with ordering the target of her tirade, an atheist, out of the witness chair he was ...
By: Bligbi
"Atheism being promoted in science class"
2008-04-09 16:38:00 Source: Cectic This shows perfectly what the theists’ beef is, IMO. No matter how much they deny it, their goal is to insert religion in science classes, nothing more… and they won’t be satisfied with a truly neutral position, where science classes only teach science. To them, not saying “goddidit” is “promoting atheism”… and ...
By: Way of the Mind
Sometimes it pays to be an SP
2008-04-08 19:01:00 Because I oppose the Cult of Scientology’s terrorist mafia practices (or, their “religious freedom” as their spokespeople might euphemistically term it), I am surely eligible for the Scientology label of Suppressive Person, or SP. This is not a problem for me. After all, when a suppressive organization labels an individual a suppressive person, one can infer using ...
Motivational poster for Atheists
2008-04-08 17:05:00 If you liked that one, here’s one on faith, gravity and Jesus. Others can be found here. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbligbi.com%2F2008-%2F04%2F08%2Fmotivational-poste-r-for-atheists%2F'; addthis_title = 'Motivational+poster+for+Atheis-ts'; addthis_pub = '';
By: Bligbi
Why be Moral?
2008-04-07 06:28:00 Why be moral if there is no punishment in the afterlife? Daren Jaques, of Just Atheists, answers the question like this: Well, there are lots of reasons. 1) I will not be as successful in life if others cannot trust me, and if all I ever do is look after myself, then people will not trust ...
Expelled promoters lie?Who woulda thought?
2008-04-06 19:37:00 John M. Lynch of ScienceBlogs blog Stranger Fruit was sent an email from the promoters of Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed telling him that a local pre-screening of the crocumentary had been canceled. It was not canceled. Interestingly, the email about the “cancelation” was sent to only 29% of those who received the initial invitation, with ...
An electrifying video on Atheist statistics
2008-04-06 18:34:00 Atheism is on the rise, atheists are disproportionately educated and intelligent, and are underrepresented in prisons, divorce statistics, and a wide variety of social ills. For more, watch this extremely well-made video. (Click here if video is not working for you) Hat Tip: Friendly Atheist
Prof Christopher DiCarlo wins TVO?s Best Lecturer Competition
2008-04-06 07:50:00 Professor/Dr. Christopher DiCarlo of Oshawa, Ontario’s University of Ontario Institute of Technology has been voted the winner of this year’s TV Ontario Best Lecturer Competition. DiCarlo is best known as an outspoken nontheist, a proficient debater against theism, and as a promoter, teacher and author on the topic of critical thinking. Interesting tidbit: DiCarlo once ...
YouTube - Atheist Statistics 2008
2008-04-05 20:50:00 Here’s some statistics about atheists to brighten your day: addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fbligbi.com%2F2008-%2F04%2F05%2Fyoutube-atheist-st-atistics-2008%2F'; addthis_title = 'YouTube+-+Atheist+Statistics+2-008'; addthis_pub = '';
By: Bligbi
Atheist on Death
2008-04-05 20:34:00 Brian J. Sabel from Just Atheists wrote a post that caught my attention. Since my grandma died, I’ve been thinking about death quite a bit for obvious reasons. Obviously, my view of death is that we who place faith in Christ go on to eternal reward, while the rest do not. “[I]t is appointed for ...
Does Evolution lead to Atheism?
2008-04-04 13:11:00 Many people in the US claim that teaching evolution is a bad thing, because it leads to atheism (and some, like Ben Stein, add that it then leads to Nazism and the Holocaust, but that’s another story). Of course, I don’t think that leading to atheism is a bad thing, because atheism is a “good ...
By: Way of the Mind
The Honesty of Atheism
2008-04-02 21:24:00 ?My practice as a scientist is atheistic. That is to say, when I set up an experiment I assume that no god, angel, or devil is going to interfere with its course; and this assumption has been justified by such success as I have achieved in my professional career. I should therefore be intellectually dishonest ...
By: Migrations
The Atheist Delusion
2008-04-02 06:09:00 The notion that religion is a primitive version of science was popularised in the late 19th century in JG Frazer’s survey of the myths of primitive peoples, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. For Frazer, religion and magical thinking were closely linked. Rooted in fear and ignorance, they were vestiges of human ...
By: ZA Vibes
Happy National Atheist Day
2008-04-01 23:27:00 Today is April 1st, which thanks to loving kindness of the Right Reverend Ray has been deemed National Atheist Day. I suppose I should be upset as I am one of the dreaded new atheists, but puh-lease! Ray & his sidekick Kirk think a Chiquita banana is evidence of their space daddy’s ...
By: Bligbi
Is an Unknowable God Logical?
2008-03-29 14:58:00 This is the slideshow portion of a presentation titled: Is an Unknowable God Logical? Since it doesn’t include the commentary and explanations of the presenter, one has to fill in the spots with some imagination. But it still is an interesting look at the question of the existence of God, miracles and other such issues. Here is ...
Tomorrow: LIVE media tele-conference with Ben Stein and producers of Expell
2008-03-28 02:16:00 Here is a cut-and-paste from an email I just received: JOIN BEN STEIN TOMORROW, Friday, March 28 at 1:00 pm. PST for an exclusive, invitation-only LIVE press teleconference! Hear Ben Stein LIVE as he talks to you and other members of media, answering your questions about his upcoming, highly-controversial movie, EXPELLED: No Intelligence Allowed Hear why leaders like Dr. ...
[Obvious] The intellectual path to atheism in a nutshell: ?I rejected Chris
2008-03-25 15:50:00 (Townhall.com)
Letter to a Christian friend, number two.
2008-03-24 08:09:00 Thank you for your splendid invitation to have another debate!Now, for those readers who may wish to join in?and I encourage them?let me point out three things.The first is that we both enjoy vigorous discussions on matters of importance, and have since a young age. For you, I note that it grows from an intellectually demanding girlhood cultivated in the company of exceptional young women and the smart, articulate adults who surrounded you. For me, I grew to love intellectual debates because, in my family, we weren?t allowed to have emotional ones.The second fact is that you are a believer. I am not. Your faith runs deep, with many levels of nuance and colour. With my limited gifts, I cannot hope to capture them here. Forgive me if I do not do them justice.The third thing is that we disagree, and disagree with the greatest love and respect for each other.Calling bullshit on me.You?re quite right to chide me over that previous post.It?s true, of course, that people don?t abandon reli...
Rook Hawkins is Right: I Write for a Specific Audience
2008-03-13 21:01:00 Rook Hawkins makes this claim right off the bat: Cory has written a very interesting blog article in response to my positions. He has written to his reader?s satisfaction, and although he makes grandiose claims, he should be applauded by known apologists such as Josh McDowell and Lee Strobel for the erudite quality of his response. ...
Why atheism is very, very convenient
2008-03-11 07:38:00 I watched a video and it brought up a lot of things I been thinking of lately. It all started when I saw the preview of the movie Expelled - No Intelligence Al... more from kinghavoc...
By: Global Threat
The fundamentalist?s implicit acknowledgement of his own ridiculousness
2008-03-10 07:36:00 Dave Scot at Uncommon Descent [i.e., a ridiculous blog by and for Christian fundamentalists who like to delude themselves and each other into thinking that 1) Intelligent Design is a science rather than one big faith-based argument from ignorance; 2) that there is some grand dogmatic “Darwinist” conspiracy in the scientific community which is dedicated to ...
Quest for the Historical Jesus
2008-03-05 19:02:00 Liberal scholarship has agreed on one point and one point alone: the Jesus of history is not the Jesus presented in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. Rook Hawkins, co-founder and self-styled ancient texts expert of the Rational Response Squad, has utilized this as the starting point for his article, “Which Jesus: ...
Atheism is necessary, but not sufficient — and not the final goal
2008-03-05 12:33:00 A recent post on Primordial Blog, Atheist Proselytizing - What Should Our Goal Be?, includes this part: And that’s why I think that turning people away from religion is not enough. Instead, the primary goal of an atheist movement should be to instill in people the value of rational thinking. I’m worried that, as atheism gains in popularity, we will see a bunch of bandwagon-jumpers climbing on board because it is the thing to do rather than because they have thought critically about the issues. The truth is that most people do not think for themselves - they like to follow the crowd and do what they are told. That is the disease we need to combat in this world. I couldn’t agree more. I sometimes worry that the success and momentum of the so-called “new atheism” may lead some (eventually many) people to become atheists simply because “it’s in”, or “it’s fashionable”, or “so-and-so is an atheist too”, or sim...
By: Way of the Mind
Atheism, Stalin, and "without God anything goes"
2008-03-03 16:03:00 A couple of days ago, I was reading the comments to a post on The Frame Problem which, like one of mine, included this comic: The replies, over there, were a little more like those I had expected here. First, there came the usual “Stalin / Hitler did this, so atheism is even worse” argument, a.k.a. “I completely missed the point of the comic”. The point is that the comic’s panels suggest several hypothetic (and completely non-existent) atrocities actually made in the name of atheism — and whose equivalents were, in real life, made in the name of religion. That’s completely different from atrocities made by believers or atheists but not in the name of (or because of) their religion or atheism. When someone pointed out that there’s no relation between Stalin’s atheism and his atrocities (Hitler was a Catholic), then this little gem came up: They decided that there was no god and realized that they were therefore permitted to do an...
By: Way of the Mind
Responding to Intelligent Design/Creationism: The Law of Biogenesis
2008-03-03 02:30:00 This is the first entry of an ongoing program on this blog dedicated to responding to Intelligent Design/Creationist claims. Leading Intelligent Design/Creationism advocates accuse mainstream scientists of being dogmatically attached to naturalistic evolution, they describe evolution as being a faith rather than a scientific enterprise, they refer to those who accept evolution as “Darwinists”, so ...
Letter to the Editor Re: War of the Worldviews religious debates in Whitby,
2008-03-02 20:24:00 The recent War of the Worldviews religious debates in Whitby, ON was covered in the Durham Region newspapers this week. The event was also covered extensively on this blog, here, here, here and here. My letter to the editor on this event can be read below. I will be sending the letter of as soon ...
Sunday School for Atheists
2008-03-01 19:20:00 “On Sunday mornings, most parents who don’t believe in the Christian God, or any god at all, are probably making brunch or cheering at their kids’ soccer game, or running errands or, with luck, sleeping in. Without religion, there’s no need for church, right?” TIME has a very interesting article on the topic of Sunday School ...
By: ZA Vibes
Rook Hawkins
2008-02-26 05:15:00 Rook Hawkins, co-founder and ancient texts expert of the Rational Response Squad, has been writing a lot of stuff lately that I wish I had the time to respond to. Unfortunately, I have to take the time to pick and choose the projects that mean the most to me. Rook has written two pieces, “Which ...
Hateful message directed to Pastarians at Michigan Tech University
2008-02-20 08:06:00 “they should be shot and hanged from the tallest redwood and then thrown to the raging sea” read the note posted on the door of the newly-formed Michigan Tech University Pastafarian club. In October, the website of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster reported that the two students who had been identified as the ...
I just received a poem from Rapture Alert about Darwin?s alleged recantatio
2008-02-18 22:50:00 For those of you who haven’t heard of Rapture Alert, it’s a website dedicated to the anticipation of the rapture. One of the website’s fans or administrators just sent in a poem in response an earlier post on a Florida school board which had voted to oppose the teaching of evolution as fact. Take a ...
The Jewish Philosopher Profoundly Misunderstands Atheists
2008-02-18 18:22:00 I still believe in the Bible when it tells me that only a fool says that there is no God (Ps 14:1). Regular readers know that I am no defender of atheism. Unfortunately, a post by a religious Jew has recently come to my attention as part of my series on refuting Kelly O’Connor of ... |
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