I will take five of the ten ideas that were presented by Dave Jones in one of his YouTube videos, link is at the bottom, and I would like to do something different with them. The video is about how not to attack atheists so you can enter into a discussion rather than leaving it [...]
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Why I really don’t like moderate religious people – mostly addresses Christian and Muslim responses to nonbelievers. (Part 1)
Posted in Religion, tagged agenda, argument, atheism, attack of atheists, Belief, believe, Catholic, catholic church, children, church, compassion, consequences, Dave Jones, distraction, evil, Evil concepts, evolution vs creationists, faith, god, God’s word, Holy Book, implications, intelligent design, islam, Islamic law, moderate, moderate religious, mother Teresa, multi-cultural societies, opinion, personal feelings, Rational, reason, Religion, right, rights, societies, society, Stenger, thinking, Threats and insults, Understanding, violence on June 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Why do I attack religion so much – the role of justification within the new atheist movement!
Posted in Religion, tagged AAI, atheism, Atheists, Belief, believe, Benedict Groeschel, bible, Catholic, catholic church, children, Christian, church, conflict, Dawkins, divine, god, humanists, intellectual honesty, islam, Islamic law, Jew, Jewish, justifiable, justifiable to attack religion, Karen armstrong, Koran, law, new atheist movement, non-belief, non-believing, Rational, Religion, religious books, rights, Shmuley Boteach, societies, society, Understanding, violence on June 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I arrived at this debate whilst it was still going on, the new atheist movement had already started going through the motions before I picked up my copy of the God delusion and the debate about lack of evidence of God has been going for hundreds of years. My life prior to the God Delusion, [...]
Karen Armstrong – A case for compassionate religion and where it has gone wrong!
Posted in Religion, tagged anti-Islamic, Catholic, charter for compassion, christianity, church, compassion, compassionate, conflict, crazy, divine, extremists, faith, fundamentalists, god, Golden rule, Karen armstrong, passion, Religion, Ted, violent on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Karen Armstrong discusses in her Ted presentation the three Abrahamic religions, she is a well educated woman and although she is referring mostly to fundamental extremists I can’t help but apply it to the whole which means that I only agree in part with Armstrong’s points. She comments that compassion is the golden rule of [...]
Why believe in [a religious] God?
Posted in Religion, tagged Belief, church, family, god, pray, Religion, Understanding on April 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Something I have always wondered about is why believe in God? Part of the story I thought was that fear held religion together, creating something of an understanding in people’s life which in turn made the unexplained events into an explainable thing. Still this is not the case; people are just not pushed into religion [...]
Rational Understandings
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- A short introduction to the rather new ‘Atheist’ [antitheists] movement!
- The common defences used by superstitions, religion and sometimes conspiracy theories. Rational thinking pushed aside!
- The gay gene does not exist and is perhaps the tip of the most dangerous ideology ever!
- ‘Expelled: No Intelligence allowed’ is completely correct; there is no intelligence in it!
- Help stop Sharia Law in the UK
- Why Hitler and the Nazis are not examples of the fundamental problems caused by atheists!
- Greg Koukl attacks Dawkins by citing fallacies although he does not understand his own!
- Poor Ted Haggard simply a fool to himself!
- These are a few of my favourite Logical Fallacies!
- A major non-rational response to the MMR Vaccine’s potential threat!
- – It’s colder than you think –
- Why I really don’t like moderate religious people – mostly addresses Christian and Muslim responses to nonbelievers. (Part 1)
- An introduction to Religion, Superstition, the Metaphysical and Science!
- Induction – how science creates objective knowledge and how others get it completely wrong (Ghost Hunters)!
- Why do I attack religion so much – the role of justification within the new atheist movement!
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