Optional or Imposed Soter?: Now, to the issue of the “optional.” The issue is salvation and the concept of it being voluntary and entirely optional. Christopher Hitchens stated that God “doesn’t offer one,” a solution, “because no one’s demanded it.” Yet, the fact is that billions of people, regardless of chronology, geography or theology have…

Theism By Proxy:Now to Quentin Smith’s by proxy theistic answer: “So how do theists respond to arguments like this? They say there is a reason for evil, but it is a mystery. Well, let me tell you this: I’m actually one hundred feet tall even though I only appear to be six feet tall. You…

Inevitably, whenever I point out the most fascinating portions of the movie “Expelled” I receive the same response. If for no other reason, Expelled is worth seeing because time and time again we see the same thing: When the atheists are given the floor they sound so very erudite and self-assured yet, when they are…

I tend to forget to mention here when I post relevant essays elsewhere. In case anyone is interested, I am posting a five part essay which serves as a, from the horse’s mouth, introduction to Atheism, Brights, Freethinkers, Humanism, Naturalism, Rationalism, Skepticism, Philosophical, Skepticism and Universism. The posts will consist of a basic introduction, definitions,…

On Atheism Sunday School I continue chronicling of atheists not only raising their own children as atheists but everyone else’s as well. Jeninne Lee-St. John wrote an article for TIME magazine entitled: Sunday School for Atheists The article was a report on atheist parents who seek to ensure that their children are taught to believe…

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We Don’t Want it and God Does Not Either: One thing that I can certainly agree with Christopher Hitchens about is that I too “feel very uneasy about it.” This is the way that we are supposed to feel when someone has to do something for us that we cannot do for ourselves, particularly if…

The Illusion of Gratuity: My five year old son formulated the “problem of evil.” We were walking in the front yard, he in his socks, when he stepped on a goat-head and said, “Goat-heads hurt. Why did God make goat-heads?””Goat-head” does not here refer to a goat’s head but to a little thorny seed. There…

Selfish Morality: At 16:37 into part 2 Dan Barker’s facade of atheists having pure motives for doing good crumbles: My statement that “we ought to be good” is only conditional on: if you wish to be a person, a healthy person, who lives in a world with a minimum, minimum of harm in it. If…

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…