Month: December 2016
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Scientific Cenobites – Some notes on Skepticism, part 3 of 6
I now continue with “Some notes on Skepticism” authored by Rochus Boerner as part of the Scientific Cenobites series. This segment will concludes the section: Double Standards of Acceptable Proof and Ad-Hoc Hypotheses Skeptic has published an article on this subject titled The Aids Heresies – A Case Study in Skepticism Taken Too Far (vol.…
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ITS NAME IS DOOM — PZ Myers’ A Priori Presuppositional Presumption of Atheism
Martin Buber on the “deactualized self”: The capricious man does not believe and encounter. He does not know association; he only knows the feverish world out there and his feverish desire to use it… When he says You, he means: You, my ability to use!… In truth he has no destiny but is merely determined…
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Rise of Atheism in America While the Amish Survive Only By Kidnapping Little Children, part 3 of 4
Nicholas Humphrey retells the 1995 AD find in the high mountains of Peru of the frozen mummified body of a young Inca girl, She was dressed as a princess. She was thirteen years old. About five hundred years ago, this little girl had, it seems, been taken alive up the mountain by a party of…
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Atheism, Ritual Human Sacrifice in the Bible, and EvilBible.com, part 3 of 5
Thus far, we considered that evilbible.com’s author has no premise, no basis, no ethos upon which to condemn anything at all and noted that the first considerations of “Why does God want me to burn animals and humans?” was one in which Abraham “didn’t kill his son” and yet, the argument from outrage ensued. Now…
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Positive Atheism – Cliff Walker : Weak Bible Week Poster, part 5 of 7
Slavery: Spurns and Property:The next section is entitled “Slavery Endorsed” and subtitled “Those who disagree spurned” (1st Timothy 6:1-5). Cliff Walker does not take into consideration that slavery in the Old and New Testament sense does not refer to Alex Haley’s “Roots” style Kunta Kinte abusing masters. Much of the “slavery” of those times may…
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On the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Invisible Pink Unicorns, et al., part 3 of 4
This segment of True Freethinker’s essay which considers natural theology, or general revelation, will consider The Invisible Pink Unicorns. The Invisible Pink Unicorns Let us now consider whether the Invisible Pink Unicorns pass the natural theology / general revelation test. The main introduction to the revelation of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is The Invisible Pink…
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Busting an Atheist Myth
NOTE: This was written by IrishFamer and originally posted on Atheism is Dead (True Freethinker‘s predesesor). Atheists love to claim that their position is negative, that they have nothing to prove, and that theists alone shoulder the burden of proof. Here’s why they’re wrong. Atheists, despite their often self-proclaimed intellectual superiority to their closed-minded and…
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Sarah Palin and David Letterman
Christianity ————- Atheism ————- World Religions and Cults ————- Science (Science in general, Evolution, Cosmology, Creation Science, Intelligent Design) ————- Movies & TV Shows ————- Fringe-ology (Transhumanism, Aliens/UFOs, Occult, Conspiracies) ————- Misc. and Resources (Nazis, Communism, Crusades, Morality / Ethics, Abortion, Rape, Homosexuality / Trans, Audio, Books, Debates, Videos, etc.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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The Misanthropic Principle – How Atheism Robed Me
I recall that as a child I had vague notions about the planets in our solar system. Why is ours one way and the others not? Ours has life because it is this certain way—it was the toss of the dice that determined that one would have life and the others not. Their size, their…
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On the Flying Spaghetti Monster, the Invisible Pink Unicorns, et al., part 4 of 4
This segment of True Freethinker’s essay which considers natural theology, or general revelation, will consider The God of the Bible. The God of the Bible Let us begin considering whether the God of the Bible passes the test of natural theology / general revelation by reviewing the inferences drawn from nature. We will then consider…