There’s been a phrase around for a while now that goes along the lines of “The Bible is the atheist’s greatest weapon against Christianity” (paraphrased as I can’t find the original at the moment). I’m not a fan of the wording, specifically citing the Bible as a weapon, it suggests were in a war, or [...]

Someone by the name of cathy commented on the “Logically Disproving the Christian God” post a couple of days ago posing an interesting question:
There is also the stone paradox which takes down most definitions of omnipotence. ‘Can god create a stone so big he can not lift it?’ If he can, then there is something [...]

Two stories came across my feed reader today, covering two situations where a person’s religiousness has affected others around them. Others who may or may not share the religion. It’s infuriating that these actions are tolerated in some circles simply because they are considered to be religious in nature.
The first one is from the BBC, [...]

Even if you believe in the early stories of a powerful creating God spoken of in the Bible and the other Holy Books, it seems clear that God is not what he once was. So has he retired, become impotent, stopped caring, or is the most logical explanation that he never existed in the first place?

It seems the Catholic Church are keen to blame anyone other than themselves for the recent Ryan Report detailing endemic child abuse within Catholic run institutions. I’ve written on this subject previously, so I shan’t cover the same ground again. I will, however, point out something I said at the time this story first broke:
So [...]

There’s a set of 22 questions floating around the internet, posted by Brett Keane and aimed at subscribers to various religious ideologies as well as atheists. I think it’s a worthwhile exercise responding to these questions as they tend to come up time and time again.

Where do you get your morality from, and please explain [...]