Why do religions continue to survive and even thrive in the face of the seemingly overwhelming evidence against them? Even if you don’t believe in a particular religion, or even religion in general, they still have a major effect on your life. Political elections and many laws are motivated by religious conviction. September 11, 2001 […]
Why Is No Religion Worse Than A “False” Religion?
You rarely hear Christians criticizing other religions. Mainly you hear them criticizing atheists and atheism. Yet the first commandment clearly states that belief in any other god is a sin. It also says that non belief is a sin. But isn’t belief in a false god a greater sin? Religions seem to be aligned in […]
Denying God Or Denying Reality?
Religious people are fond and of saying that atheists are denying god. As an atheist I will counter by saying that religious folks are denying reality. They didn’t choose their religion, it was thrust upon them. It was a chance of birth. A cultural variable just like their language and nationality. There is nothing sacred […]
Indoctrination v. Education
Indoctrination is about looking inward to a fixed subset of information. It’s about producing dependent thinkers. Education is about looking outward to all of reality. Education has no bounds and no sacred cows. It’s about independent thinking. Indoctrination is all about boundaries and sacred cows. Education is inclusive of all sides and points of view. […]
Religions Can Only Peacefully Coexist With A Secular Government
Religions are mutually exclusive by their own doctrine. The major religions have prohibitions against each other written into their doctrine. So if any particular religion is in power they will naturally discriminate against non members. And this even goes down to the sectarian level. As we can see all too well in the middle east. […]
The Difference Between Religion And Atheism
The difference between atheism and religion is a belief in the super natural. Religious believers also believe in mother nature but believe its controlled and manipulated by a supernatural force they know as god. And that is where religion comes in. It’s the formula by which believers learn what god expects of them so they […]
My Proof That God Doesn’t Exist
I didn’t set out to prove that God doesn’t exist. My goal was simply to verify what I had always been taught about God. I was indoctrinated into Christianity from birth. Both of my grandfathers were conservative southern preachers. So I was prime multi generation Christian material. But when I reached the age of reason […]
Why Is Drug Use Illegal?
Why doesn’t the American right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness include the right to get stoned? The government seems to think that removing all of your liberties and putting you in jail at the taxpayers expense is less harmful to “society” than allowing recreational drug use. The single most harmful byproduct of […]
What Is A Religion?
A religion is a tribes rules and collective memories rolled up into an all inclusive world view. It’s passed down from generation to generation until fiction and mythology become fact. Once it becomes the sacred word of god, then we call it a religion. And that’s why it seems so real from the inside. It’s […]
Homosexuality Is Unnatural
That is a Christian attempt at using a secular argument to defend their position that homosexuality is a sin. They say that homosexuality has no precedent in nature therefore mankind can’t or shouldn’t do it. In effect what they are saying is that we as humans need permission in the form of precedents in the […]
Individuality
I must be a libertarian because I feel the rights of the individual should outweigh the wishes of the group. That’s just the opposite of nationalism, religion, and other forms of tribal thinking. Anyone should have the right to do anything that doesn’t excessively or unnecessarily interfere with the next person. We should be able […]
Gay Marriage Will Destroy Society
Gay marriage will destroy society. How often do we hear this argument from the religious community? The assumption is that any change is a bad change. Yes gay marriages will change society. But the only thing they will destroy is the status quo. Religions are rooted in the past so any change is seen as […]