To 'choose' dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid..
Although God believers don't need evolution to be false, atheists need evolution to be true..
Then why did you tell me?.
I went through the standard scientific atheist phase when I was about 14. I bought into that package deal of science equals atheism..
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate m….
Science proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it ca….
Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not..
After a few days in hospital, I was thinking, Oh, gee - I raised in a church, Protestant upbringing which I'd rejected as an adult - I'm lying in bed….
I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender..
The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon af….
"Agnostic" is a much more recent word than "atheist", coined by Thomas Huxley in 1869 to mean "without knowledge of God" and acquiring the usage of "….
I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere..
Thus, though I dislike to differ with such a great man, Voltaire was simply ludicrous when he said that if god did not exist it would be necessary to….
…the Genesis story is just one that happened to have been adopted by one particular tribe of Middle Eastern herders. It has no more special status th….
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell,….
Religions are like fireflies. They require darkness in order to shine..
You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend..
What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and superstition..
Nothing could be more idiotic and absurd than the doctrine of the trinity..
Even an atheist finds God when they point at what they don't believe in..
There are, after all, atheists who say they wish the fable were true but are unable to suspend the requisite disbelief, or who have relinquished beli….