I Don't Care If God Exists.
Luke at Common Sense Atheism sums my position up well. What he's describing is called "Hume's Stopper." It stops Christians dead in their tracks. This highlights what I consider the trouble with natural theology
Well, when I think of the question "What could God do to demonstrate his own existence?", I think of what any feeble human does to demonstrate his, her, or their own existence....
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 51 minutes ago
Since humans seem to keep asking these sorts of questions, let's start with this one: where did humans come from? It's now widely recognized that our nearest relatives are chimps...
Debunking Christianity: Who Created God? Where Did the Universe Come From? · 1 hour ago
Admitting ignorance is better than pontificating with certainty.
I vote for that. Also, some comments concerning what the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has recently...
Debunking Christianity: Who Created God? Where Did the Universe Come From? · 1 hour ago
Absolutely! But Christians in the modern age, are scurrying like rats trying to find a way off the sinking ship. Fucked up apologetics is just an example of the arseholes trying to sanitize a real...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 3 hours ago
Since I was rummaging through some old bookmarked articles earlier, I came across this one that I'd forgotten about. Apt for the discussion:- It's not atheists who changed the...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 3 hours ago
It may a very lame "explanation" of why it was not reported elsewhere, but as I said before, one single child punished is too many.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 3 hours ago
Stealing this
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 4 hours ago
Gotta thank you for that link though. So many raesons I hadn't thought of and here they are. THought I had he shitty of relgiong downpat but here you are giving me reasons why its so much...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 4 hours ago
I remember a Christian lawyer for God some years back saying that in the Massacre of the Innocents probably only like twelve or so kids were killed.
And the rest were...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 4 hours ago
So nothing more than an average school shooting/
Let's not forget that Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount after firing his AK-47 into da air. Yeeeeee ehaaaaaawwwwww
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 4 hours ago
I've seen that apologetic trotted out more than once before myself. Like we're supposed to think that that makes it all okay then. The low numbers are the excuse for why the alleged event...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 4 hours ago
It is more rational to say "I don't know wtf that is", as opposed to some supernatural explanation.
True that. An omni-god could EASILY overcome all that, but...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 5 hours ago
The entirety of the human experience does not constitute so much as an eye-blink on the time scale of a universe that is unimaginably vast. The Christian era comprises no more the 2-3% of that...
Debunking Christianity: Who Created God? Where Did the Universe Come From? · 5 hours ago
Yeah, one measly dozen ! I wonder how that lawyer would have felt if his own son was one of those. (Fictitious story, of course)
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 5 hours ago
"I remember a Christian lawyer for God some years back saying that in the Massacre of the Innocents probably only like twelve or so kids were killed." So nothing more than an average...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 5 hours ago
There is nothing there to detect, because there can't be. I realize you are thinking hypothetically, of course. I'm reminded of a couple of OP's by a regular at the Richard Dawkins...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 5 hours ago
"Creator, sustainer, ruler... impressive résumé. Shame the customer service is a bit slow."
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 5 hours ago
The original 'master race'.
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 5 hours ago
God works in mysterious ways...is the copout soundbite that Christers spew when they are backed into a corner, when God stuff puts them in an embarrassing position they have no...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 5 hours ago
Omnibenevolence: This god did not care the least bit about a number of children massacred because of Jesus.
I remember a Christian lawyer for God some years back saying...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 5 hours ago
But for aliens to cross the incomparably vast distances of interstellar space, they must be self-sufficient to a degree far beyond any human experience. They wouldn't need humans...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 6 hours ago
I hear what you'er saying and agree - my point is that there are SO MANY ways an omni god COULD communicate and make itself so fucking OBVIOUS and there is NOTHING that I detect from this god....
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 6 hours ago
Empty chair debating or empty-chairing I remember William Lame Craig did the empty chair routine, when Richard Dawkins refused to attend an invitation to debate Craig when he was on...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 7 hours ago
Muslims do even worse than invoking God's mysterious ways. There is an expression in Arabic, "shu-un Allah" which means "the affairs of God", in other words God's...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 7 hours ago
That wouldn't do it for me. There are far too many natural explanations that would need to be refuted, before that raises to a candidate explanation as evidence for the existence of a god. I...
Debunking Christianity: An Honest Sermon on the Gospel of Mark, Chapter 4 · 7 hours ago