Atheism Good or Bad
As an outspoken Atheist, I find the terrible reputation that Atheism receives to be completely and totally irrational. There are countless arguments against the simple belief that there is no …
Causes of Atheism
Atheism has been around since theism, and in a sense, much longer before it though it wouldn’t have been referred to as atheism. As long as there have been people …
Atheists may not believe but should Understand and Respect
PART 1: RELIGION THE BEGINNING The main idea of this article isn’t to try to persuade you to become an atheist, rather explore the physiological aspect of religion and how …
Nietzsche God is Dead Reactions
Reactions to Nietzsche’s “God is dead” can be reactions to Nietzsche himself or to the words “God is dead,” or to the words in the context of Nietzsche’s overall thought. …
Agnosticism is possible
If you are a thinking human being, requiring some sort of evidence before you believe, is there any other choice but agnosticism? Why, you may ask, hoping for that incontrovertible …
Suffering Poor Logic for Atheism
Is Suffering a Good Reason to Lose Faith in God? Murder; war; disease; poverty; hunger; from the beginnings of human civilization these things have plagued humanity. Throughout time humans have …
An Overview of the new Atheism Movement
It Began with a Telephone Call In 2003 a study was conducted by the American Mosaic Project, which was to be the first in a series of national studies of …
George Carlin Atheism
George Carlin was a comedian well-known for making various “jokes” about religion. Jokes often come from life experiences and there is no doubt that George Carlin was a devout atheist …
These are Some of the Reasons I became an Atheist
Atheism is usually something one arrives at after considerable research and thought. Many of us are brought up in households that have a religious basis or even by parents with …
The Struggles and Joys of the Kingdom of Heaven
The kingdom of heaven is one of the more difficult Christian concepts to grasp, though Jesus described it often. Christ made it clear that the Kingdom of Heaven operates by …
Atheism vs Theism
Atheism is largely misunderstood, misrepresented, and often feared. To pit it against religion is in itself a misunderstanding. Historically, atheism, as a philosophical movement, developed in reaction to religious corruption …
Questioning the Validity of Faith as a Virtue
The answer to how faith can be a virtue is love. The Bible states that faith is worked by love. That means that love gives faith its power. We have …
The Kingdom of Heaven
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for there is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they will …
Dangerous Myths The Second Coming of Christ Imagine
Oh help! We are living at the end of days when the one that was named the Christ over 2,000 years ago is due back from having left the earth …
What was the cause of Atheism
An atheist either believes there is no God or gods at all or is convinced that the thousands of different belief structures have got it all wrong. I think that …
God does not Make Sense so don’t believe
If you scan the popular literature covering the topic of belief in God, you’ll find the Christian viewpoint presented in many well thought out and sincere perspectives. Each of these …
Daniel Dennett
When he emerged recently from a close brush with death, Professor Daniel Dennett heard that some of his religious friends had prayed for him. True to form, he quipped that …
Moral Goodness and God
We all live in the real world. When Christians speak of God as the anchor for all morality this does not mean that atheists are in contrast, immoral people. This …
Atheism Agnosticism Moral Principles Ethics Church Secular Ethics Secular Morality
Atheism is defined by a lack of belief in deities and not by some world view or set of common values. For that reason, it is often criticized by religious …
Why Certainty is Never Constant Why Atheism is Wrong Why Religion is Wrong
Agnosticism simply means to be without gnosis (knowledge). No one can “know” for absolute certainty of many things in the cosmos. Life, as the old Madonna song goes, is a …
Cold Readingpsychic
“Cold reading” is a term used by mentalists and phony psychics and fortune-tellers. It describes the way they quickly assess a “mark” so they can appear to know a lot …
Science God Religion Christian Jesus Regrow Limb
You are a veteran from the Iraq war. You lost a leg, from the knee down, in an IED altercation. Some robotics engineers at your local University are working on …
This Life is all you get
I chose to be an atheist for what, to many atheists, must seem a contradiction. I want faith. I want to believe, to be loved by almighty power, to be …
Atheism Tolerance Agnosticism Worldview
The Pure Intent of Atheism Atheism itself is just as dangerous as any other creed or ethos. The pure intent of atheism is inspiring in that it requires mankind to …
The need to Better Understand Religious Philosophy
Atheism is denial in a belief in God (or gods) and the effect of God (or gods) upon or lives or society. Agnostics believe in God, they just feel that …
Christian Response to Atheists
New atheism books are popularizing atheism to a new generation. This atheism is not like that of Nietzsche, but it is of the popular everyday sort versus being elitist, philosophical, …
A Humanists Kingdom of Heaven
It sounded like a really bizarre idea when I first articulated it to myself: the secular humanist’s idea of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth. This would be a world …
Carl Sagan Agnostic Atheist Belief God Protagoras Religion Richard Dawkins Ann Druyan
Dr. Carl Sagan was one of the most prominent scientists of the twentieth century, and likely will be one of the most remembered and frequently quoted in the twenty-first and …
Book Reviews the End of Faith by Sam Harris
Worried that religious terrorism may do us all in? Never fear. A young man named Sam Harris has written a book that argues that all we have to do to …
Is Atheism Anti Theist?
Due in no small part to the atheist renaissance that has taken place recently due to authors such as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, Atheism as a belief …
Existence of God
Normally, when I meet an atheist, the first thing I like to do is to congratulate him and say, ” My special congratulations to you”, because most of the people …
The Happy Atheist
Why should we believe that there is some omnipotent power in the universe to guide us and prevent serious catastrophe? As a diehard existentialist fan, finding solace in Kafka’s metamorphosis …