Month: September 2010
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Hitler's Rabbi
Recently, Professor Richard Dawkins compared Rabbi Shmuley Boteach to Adolf Hitler. Although, Richard Dawkins was later careful to qualify his comparison of a Jewish Rabbi to Hitler it was surely a qualification that could only be justified in the mind of Richard Dawkins who has invested a large portion of his life directing his particular…
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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…
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Was Timothy McVeigh a God Believing Catholic and a “Christian Terrorists”? – Part 1 of Dan Barker and the Alien Rape Voyeurs
Wherein we consider how Dan Barker utterly discredited himself and solved the “problem of evil.” This essay will commence a critique of various points made by the Freedom From Religion Foundation‘s Dan Barker during his debate with Peter Payne on the topic of ethics. Below, when I transcribe Dan Barker’s statements I will refer to…
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Atheism, EvilBible.com, “Theists Suck” and Christians are Hypocrites, part 4 of 6
In this portion we will finish off the New Testament portion of Charlotte’s 22 side dishes and begin to get a tasted of her fallacy of attempting to talk atheist into believing that New Testament Christians are supposed to follow Old Testament laws. 8) Believers are supposed to hate their parents when they follow Jesus…
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Atheism, EvilBible.com, “Theists Suck” and Christians are Hypocrites, part 6 of 6
Let us pick up where we left off last time: 15) Tattoos are anathema: (“You shall not make any cuttings in your flesh on account of the dead or tattoo any marks upon you. I am the Lord”–Leviticus 19:28) Despite this teaching I manage to see Mexican Catholics daily with tattoos of the Virgin Mary,…
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Atheism, EvilBible.com, “Theists Suck” and Christians are Hypocrites, part 3 of 6
At this point I must parse Charlotte’s 22 side dishes as she begins to make the fallacy which I mentioned at the beginning of part 1 which discredits the overwhelming majority of all of her arguments from impotent outrage. These are the texts that seek to apply Old Testament laws to Christians. We will group…
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Atheism, EvilBible.com, “Theists Suck” and Christians are Hypocrites, part 5 of 6
Now, let us consider the manners in which she attempted to vilify Christians for not following laws that were not meant for them. 3) A third tenet prohibits men and women from wearing each other’s clothing (“The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s…
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Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett The Dynamic Duo of Demonstrably Deleterious Delusion, part 2 of 3
Parsing Statements With this in mind, let us consider the specific examples offered by Daniel Dennett: Al Queda and Hamas terrorism is still Islam’s responsibility—this is tricky since the problem that Islam has in dealing with terrorism in its name is the doctrine of abrogation whereby the peaceful proclamations of the early preaching of Muhammad…
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“The Copernican Myths”
Having mentioned Mano Singham’s Physics Today article “The Copernican myths” in a few of my posts, I thought to reproduce it here.1 Following is the text of the article: Atheism and scienceThe real story of how the scientific and religious establishment greeted the Copernican revolution is quite different from the folklore. And it’s a lot…
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Christian Apologetics – “5-Minute Apologetics for Today: 365 Quick Answers to Key Questions” by Ron Rhodes
Adolf Hitler / Nazism / Communism Da Vinci Code / Angels and Demons / Templars, etc. Find it Fast – Fast Facts Judaism (Rabbinic, Messianic, etc.) Recommendations for the Moment Visuals – Illustrations and Photos