On Morality, Reward, Punishment, and Crowns
I have found that there is an anti-scholarly trend amongst the most emotively vociferous atheists when it comes to many, many topics in this case: the contents of the Bible.
Month: October 2008
Atheist Charity – A Huge Success
In one single day a new atheist charity received donations of $80,000 from as many as 3,400 donors-and the donations keep rolling in (apparently from atheists). By day three they raised $113,000.Who said that there were no atheist charities and or that atheists are not charitable?And as for those of you who though that Prof. …
Richard Dawkins Comes Out As An Intelligent Design Proponent-Revisited
Shortly after watching the movie “Expelled” I wrote a succinct review entitled, Dawkins Comes Out As An Intelligent Design Proponent!!!. Others crafted likewise titles for likewise articles. This is because during an interview with Ben Stein Prof. Richard Dawkins had stated that the best case which could be made for intelligent design (ID) is in …
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Sam Harris: Let Him Who is Without Faith Cast the First Stone Part 5 of 6
Seeming Cessation of Symbolism Sam Harris wrote:
Rev. Dr. Mel White on Christian Homosexuality, part 9 of 21
The Holiness Code and Moral RelativismLet us now consider a section in Rev. Dr. Mel White’s publication entitled “PASSAGE 3 LEVITICUS 18:22 AND 20:13 THE HOLINESS CODE.”
Sweet Home Chicago and Christians Studied
On the top of Sam Harris’ website’s current (at least as of 10-23-08) front page five articles are listed. One of them is Asking the Right God Questions by Gregory Rodriguez.In a political season when we learn, as we have so many times before, that polls can be loaded so as to lean the results …
Richard Dawkins – The Very Model of Restraint
National Secular Society Newsline has posted an article entitled, “Why Dawkins is right and his critics are wrong” which praises Prof. Richard Dawkins for demonstrating basic human decency. The article states:
Sam Harris: Let Him Who is Without Faith Cast the First Stone Part 4 of 6
Leading By Word and Example There is further evidence in the New Testament that rejection of the Gospel is to be reacted towards with patience and freedom rather than besmirchment, oppression, or violence (such as stoning). One such instance is when Jesus invited a young man to follow Him:
Rev. Dr. Mel White on Christian Homosexuality, part 8 of 21
Too Literal or Not Literal Enough? Let us consider another problem that is solved by taking the Bible even more literally as Rev. Dr. Mel White points out the following:
Atheism’s Sales Pitch to Children
Once Philip Pullman attempted to popularize his books, and the movie based one of them, in the USA he realized that he was no longer preaching to the Euro-Secular choir and decided to slow his roll (as they say in common parlance). Thus, the New York Magazine article entitled, Philip Pullman Realizes ‘Killing God’ Not …
Abortion and Homosexual Marriage – The Faulty Correlation
During a brief respite from my critique of Rev. Dr. Mel White’s assertions about homosexuality, Christianity and the Bible I posted the essay below, on abortion. Interestingly, this past weekend I read an article that drew a wholly fallacious correlation between homosexuality and abortion. Thus, I thought to make mention of it before continuing on …
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Sam Harris: Let Him Who is Without Faith Cast the First Stone Part 3 of 6
The Gospel of Stoning? Let us consider the Matthew text to which Sam Harris referred. Jesus states:
“Professing Themselves To Be Wise, They Became Fools”, part 5 of 5
Concluding Musings I ended the previous post making the following point, “…generally speaking, once secularism removes undesired theistic authoritarianism and superstitious ignorance from the realm of science they somehow manage to end up with many of the same scientific conclusions as theists (I mean hard science and not speculation and interpretation of evidence).” Now, let …
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Richard Dawkins : Planting God More Firmly on His Throne, part 10 of 10
The Dawkinsian Meme is an Enthymeme Now we come to the justifying statement by Prof. Richard Dawkins who expended much time, energy, ink and trees (in the form of paper) to point out the Bible’s immorality. More precisely, the God of the Bible’s immorality:
“Professing Themselves To Be Wise, They Became Fools”, part 4 of 5
Science Atheists: “American Atheists works for freedom from theism, the freedom from dependency on god theories…We accept only that which is scientifically verifiable. Since god concepts are unverifiable, we do not accept them.”[fn] Introduction, American Atheists – retrieved 11-25-06[/fn]
Christopher Hitchens – Suicidal Bombast?
With regards to the debate between Christopher Hitchens and Alister McGrath, I wanted to quote one statement by Christopher Hitchens and simply direct the interested reader, that is: the reader interested in actual factual truths, to the reference to the “The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam” aka “Tamil Tigers”: “The suicide bombing community is entirely …
Richard Dawkins : Planting God More Firmly on His Throne, part 9 of 10
Lot and His Daughters, The Levite and Jephthah and His Daughter On pages 240-241 Prof. Richard Dawkins makes reference to Lot’s daughters getting him so drunk that he does not even notice that they both, in turn, had copulated with him.
Sam Harris: Let Him Who is Without Faith Cast the First Stone Part 2 of 6
Cherry Pickers Sam Harris has lamented that his writings have been misquoted, and ergo misapplied, as he refers to: …the fine art of selective quotation to make me appear to hold positions which I do not hold…While I stand by everything I have written in “The End of Faith”…I cannot be expected to parry every …
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“Sacred Abortion”
Please note that this post, about witches glorifying abortion, has been moved and reposted at this link.
The BOBA Digest, part 3: Atheism’s Chihuahua
While this is not exactly a BOBA, as it does not necessarily deal with an argument per se, it did seem to qualify for entry into the BOBA Digest nonetheless. Last night, on the Charlie Rose show, as Bill Maher and Larry Charles pontificated about their own brilliance in the face of those people-you know, …