November 2011
Anonymous asked: That makes sense. This might sound like a dumb question, but then how would you tell the difference between "Jesus" and those who existed before him? I mean, how can we prove the existence of someone like Socrates or Zeno but not Jesus?
youstinaaaa replied to your post: Do you believe a “Jesus” ever existed?
do your research. Jesus is mentioned in multiple Jewish and Roman accounts of the time, mostly as someone looked up to who used “magic”. I appreciate that you try to approach everything from a factual perspective, but once again - do your research.
You source on that? I eagerly await your proof. Would you like to go to...
xombabe-deactivated20120616 asked: Do you believe a "Jesus" ever existed?
Anonymous asked: The Amazing Atheist is a lot more popular than you AND he put a banana up his butt. What have you done for the atheist cause?
October 2011
somegreatheights asked: Have you heard of jews for jesus?
Anonymous asked: why do you choose not to believe in God? like, did you have a hard life, or you just go on the scientific theories? i'm just curious, i don't want to offend you.
Mom Upset About Religious Haunted House
I’d be pissed, too!
PASADENA, TX (KTRK) — A local church is using a haunted house to get what it says is an important message across. A local mother says her children not only heard the message, but they saw it as well — and she is not happy about it. Linda Ybarra says she bought tickets to Hell House in Pasadena for her family this weekend. She didn’t expect that her son...
Anonymous asked: i'm new to your blog and i'm sure that you've answered this a million times over, but i went back quite a few pages and didn't see anything, so my apologies! what religion/denomination is your girlfriend and how do you two work that out?
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“We have become so accustomed to the religious lie that surrounds us that we do...”
– Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828 – November 20, 1910)
“Secular schools can never be tolerated because such schools have no religious...”
– Adolf Hitler (1933)
Anonymous asked: Where do you believe the concept of a sole god came from? I personally believe the Hebrew religion drew inspiration from the New Kingdom Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten who changed polytheistic worship to monotheistic worship. What do you think?
Anonymous asked: What do you think about religion offering "joy" and "freedom" to people? Frankly, when I was struggling to hold on to the last strands of my faith, (yes, I was one of those people who was genuinely clutching at anything to make me believe), I was so completely and utterly miserable. I had to live a perfect life according to big daddy, and if I failed, well, I would burn and rot...
Anonymous asked: "Im a creationist, I believe man created God."
lace-kanji-deactivated20111029 asked: What do you think of agnostics?
Anonymous asked: On the topic of religious child abuse- what do you think of religious classes for elementary school kids? I remember as a child was made to attend religious classes after school, and the material I was taught in them would often directly contradict what I was learning in school. It confused the heck out of me when I was learning about cave drawings but an hour later was told by another adult...
Anonymous asked: Now I know that the concept of a god could never be proven with science but what if somehow science in the future could actually back up some things that these christians claim. (crazy i know) but how would you respond to that? logically thinking, if it could be proven with science then wouldn't that make it to some small extent true?
Anonymous asked: Have you seen the tumblog, checkmateatheists?
Anonymous asked: What is your opinion on people who read the Bible to find "guidance, love, and peace in their lives" and treating it as a form of spiritual literature instead of treating it as a be all and end all of all things? As an atheist, this personally doesn't tick me off as much, but I was wondering what your opinion would be.
Anonymous asked: If you had to be part of a religion which religion would you be in?
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Anonymous asked: I was just telling a christian that homosexuality is found in nature and he should do more research before saying how the bible thinks it is wrong and people decide to be gay. This is what he said " i have yet to pull anything from the bible, i just made reference to it since iliana said that she hates when they bring that up into it. first, theres little to no research to be done. i doubt...
Anonymous asked: Would it bother you if your kid became a Christian? Would you try to convince them otherwise?
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Anonymous asked: what about a christian that doesn't accept everything in the bible as fact?
Anonymous asked: I just had someone tell me that it's perfectly reasonable to be a catholic evolutionist because evolution is not contrary to their beliefs so long as you believe that god did it. Does this make your brain hurt as much as it hurts mine?
the-c-omeback asked: I am a born and raised Catholic, and I agree with you-- When you say "people use religion as an excuse not to think". But, then why not hate people because they're ignorant, rude people, not because they're religious? I don't think gay people are wrong, I think they should be able to get married. I don't judge anyone for their beliefs, atheist, religious, or unsure....
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Just an interesting fact about the New...
We do not have the originals of the New Testament texts. The earliest versions of the texts we have were made several generations later, copies that were created several hundred years after the originals were written. In the early 1800s a German scholar named John Mill managed to meticulously count the differences in the sources he had available to him, and came up with the first itemized...
Anonymous asked: Do you believe that in cases of extreme fundamentalist sects (such as Westboro Baptist Church, biblical literalists like in "Jesus Camp" [an excellent film btw], ultra-orthodox Jewish, mosques that preach Sharia law, etc.) that parents should have their children taken away by the state? I have wrestled with this idea myself and I believe they should. They are giving them a traumatic and...
Anonymous asked: Do you think, in the next 30 years, once all the baby boomers die off, that we will finally have gay rights and freedom from creationism and everything else they are pushing? It seems like very few young people are religious, so by the time I am 50 I am hoping we will be ready for an atheist president.
Anonymous asked: How do you respond to theists who justify their cherry-picking of biblical material using the "Spirit v. Letter" dichotomy, or who dismiss the really nasty stuff as just historical narrative?
Anonymous asked: My sister is this strange sort of semi-religious "jesus was pretty cool" kind of person. We agree on most political and moral ideas like LGBT rights etc... all that liberal stuff. However, she gets so defensive when I start talking down about religion. While she agrees that most Christians are hypocrites, she keeps arguing that we shouldn't take religion away from REAL Christians...
Anonymous asked: If there is no god, then has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Anonymous asked: I'm bisexual, and I find that the majority of 'love the sinner hate the sin' Christians don't hate me because of who I am. Actually, they don't even judge me. They just disagree with me. On the other hand, I'm a Christian, and I find that the majority of 'pity the victims hate religion' anti-theists are rude, judgmental, and just downright cruel to me...
Anonymous asked: Hispanics and religion really depends on the specific family. I'm hispanic, born and raised in a Hispanic country and nobody in my family is really that religious. My father is kind of mysterious about his beliefs and my mother is slightly more religious but neither of them ever talked to me about the importance of religion and they never attended church or made me attend either. We're...
Anonymous asked: Do all religion implies that they are the absolute and true religion?
sheastrawberry asked: I have a lot of respect for you and your views, and I appreciate that you voice your opinion without fear. I have been an Atheist for years and I feel the same kind of hatred towards religion and the things it "makes" people do. How do you react when people(namely Christians) tell you that you are going to hell for your beliefs? Do you ever find it difficult to voice your opinion in a...
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“Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason.”
– Martin Luther
Anonymous asked: What is your view on predestination in the Christian church?
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Anonymous asked: Why do you think the bible makes so many strong points against homosexuality? The only explanation I could come to was this being a historical context, where safe sex with anyone didn't exist. I always took leviticus's statement of sex during menstruation as being unclean or the wasting of "seed" as more of a "don't get a bitch preggers, bro." It just seems that...
Anonymous asked: Can you please tell me what exactly is an agnostic? Thank you.
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Anonymous asked: Your opinion on agnostics? Though I am one myself, I feel ashamed to admit it because I think it's just a fancy way of saying 'I don't know'
Edit: I don’t even know what to think of this, but I love Pulp Fiction Samuel L. Jackson so I have to post it. Thanks for the submission!
Anonymous asked: Has their ever been a time when you just totally owned a theist? Like you said something that just broke them? One time in an argument with a christian I said the famous quote from the motivational poster; "if god can prevent evil but won't then he is not omnipotent; if he is able but not willing, then he is malevolent, if he is neither able nor willing then why call him god at...
thelachster asked: You shouldn't be ok with me being a bigot. I'm not a bigot. I believe in God. I believe God designed sex for a purpose and he has the right to tell us how to do sex, and that he wants us to have sex in the way that benefits us the most and honours him the most. I believe he doesn't want people to have sex with people of their same gender. I haven't brought this up because you...
thelachster asked: All you've done is assert that I'm wrong and called me a bigot. You haven't given me any arguments. I've insisted to you that I don't hate homosexuals AND I've explained why several times. Consider the way you're addressing me - calling me bigoted, "informing" me that I'm utterly wrong. How would you feel if you were talked to like that? Would you...
thelachster asked: The premise in all your arguments is that homosexuality isn't wrong = circular. Be consistent; you hate an inherent part of genetic alcoholics - but we both agree that this part is bad. If I used your reasoning, and I happened not to think there was anything wrong with alcoholism, I'd tell you you hated alcoholics as people. But it's faulty reasoning. I shouldn't have to...
