Why do good things happen to bad people? And why does God allow bad things to happen to good people? These fundamental challenges to the existing of a benevolent, all powerful deity are often dismissed by theists with the often espoused, and always misguided “free will” argument. The salient point apparently being that even though […]
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Free Choice and Religion
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Arguments, Debates, Free Will, Human Rights, Morality. There are 42 comments so far, join the discussion!
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Christianity as a Polytheistic Religion?
The concept of monotheism has always bothered me. Â How can someone believe in only one God? Â Even if they are deluded to the point that they believe they can communicate with a higher being, how do they know it’s the same being every time. Surely any being that was capable of such communication, or a […]
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Arguments, Atheism, Christianity, Debates, Monotheism, Polytheism, The Bible, Yahweh. There are 15 comments so far, join the discussion!
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Logical Challenges to a Deity's Existence (The Omnipotence Paradox)
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 […]
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Debates, God, Logic, Omnipotence, Philosophy. There are 51 comments so far, join the discussion!
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The Atheist's Challenge – 22 Questions
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 […]
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Atheism, politics, Questions. There are 27 comments so far, join the discussion!
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The Question of Origin
Origin is a tricky subject to understand. Whilst religion claims to know all the answers, even to questions we haven’t asked yet, science strives to improve its understanding, answering and asking questions along the way. Yet when theists use the question of origin as an argument for the existence of a God, they see a lack of knowledge as a strength rather than a weakness, and latch on to it, manipulating it to their own end.
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Debates, discussion, Origin, Science. There are 3 comments so far, join the discussion!
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What if I am God?
Throughout many religions there exists a concept of some form of anti-god. Whether you name it Angra Mainyu, Satan, Asmodeus or something else, the underlying principal remains fairly consistent. This entity is there to test mankind, a personification (or at least objectification) of evil. In many cases, there is this perceived battle between good and […]
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Debates, The Devil. There are 11 comments so far, join the discussion!
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The Arguments for Religion
I tend not to shy away from my atheism. If someone wants to discuss religion or theism, I will happily oblige. This position has lead me to have many interesting conversations over the years with people of many different religions and backgrounds, and this has continued on this blog. I’ve noticed a number of themes, […]
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Arguments, Creationism, Evolution, Logic. There are 19 comments so far, join the discussion!
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Logically disproving the Christian God
After the suggestion in one of this site’s comments stating that it required more faith to be an atheist than a theist, because the non-existence of a deity can never be proven, I thought it would be fun to see if we can logically disprove the existence of “God”. I picked the Christian God because […]
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Arguments, discussion, Logic, Opinion. There are 384 comments so far, join the discussion!
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Does God change his mind?
One of the things that has always bothered me about religion, at least those that rely on holy books, is that the teachings are set in stone. They are written many hundreds, if not thousands, of years ago and just left. Having read some of the things I’d written earlier in my life, I can’t […]
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Holy Books, The Bible. There are 11 comments so far, join the discussion!
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Can a Religious Person Really be "Good"?
This is something I’ve been pondering for a while after I saw a comment on another website implying that Christians were better than non Christians because of charity work, such as operation shoe box, that Christians participate in and run. I’ll concentrate on Christians in this post because it was a comment from a Christian […]
This post was written by The Atheist and discusses Christianity, Morality. There are 30 comments so far, join the discussion!
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