This is a doctrine that cannot be believed by anyone who has studied anything scientific, anything historical, anything archeological, anything paleological, anything biological. It can only be believed by someone who wants to be a plaything and a slave of a pitiless and totalitarian power. How glad we should be that the evidence for this […]
Read MoreHitchens answers a common question of believers: Q: Why do so many people believe? Are they just stupid? (a thoughtful answer) His answer is respectful and accurate, and as usual, pointed. We didn’t know why the heavens darkened and rain and hail fell. We didn’t know why there were earthquakes, floods. It was our first […]
Read MoreThis is funny, and makes some good points
Read MoreHere is an example from Fox News, of how they don’t get it.
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Hume’s Maxim. This is priceless. I wish to hang it in my study. source: On Miracles by David Hume
Read MoreCONTEXT: i am venting. i won’t send this. i am writing this, as if to send to someone close to me, following a request not to mock her religious beliefs because I asked how long she thought the blessing she just received would last. The blessing helped her to sleep well. I’m glad you got […]
Read MoreIt is terrible to see a man who has the incomprehensible in his grasp, does not know what to do with it, and sits playing with a toy called God. -Tolstoy Of all the questions men and women have asked of themselves and of each other, down through the ages, can there be any as […]
Read MoreQ: You say that nonbelievers, “Distrust anything that contradicts science or outrageous reason” that you respect free inquiry. I am a person of faith and absolutely agree with these two statements. But I do not believe that in order to be religious you have to disconnect your brain. Do you believe that and, if so, why? […]
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