What are your goals as far as atheism is concerned?
Eventually, I want not to have to talk about atheism and religion anymore. I don’t care about people having a religion (I care in that I think that religion breeds hatred and violence). I wish they were a lot more rational about the world, and cared [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Mythology’
The aims of new atheism?
For the last time…
Hearsay written 50+ years after the fact (so to speak) is NOT EVIDENCE. The bible is no more evidence for the resurrection than the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is of interstellar bypasses.
Some biblical evidences of the resurrection of Jesus include*:
Jesus’ resurrection was prophesied in advance (Isa 53:8-12)
Jesus predicted his resurrection (Matt 12:38-40; Mk 8:31; [...]
Ancient Mythic Origins of the Easter Story
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Valerie Tarico, Ph.D. is a psychologist in Seattle, Washington. She is the author of The Dark Side: How Evangelical Teachings Corrupt Love and Truth, the founder of www.WisdomCommons.org, and the host of Christianity in the Public Square, Moral Politics Television, Seattle.
Evangelicals across the political spectrum, from Pat Robertson to Jim Wallis, seek to [...]
Hell isn’t a threat, because it doesn’t exit
Thanks to hambydammit for this great post.
… Similarly, the threat of hell has no particular weight upon those who do not believe that it exists. Since it is supposedly designed specifically as punishment for the crime of not believing that it exists, we must admit we’re faced with a circular argument. The threat of hell [...]