An Evil God?

From Unreasonable Faith:

It (the Bible) can be used to support slavery (Paul says “slaves, obey your masters with fear and trembling … as you would Christ”) and human dignity (Jesus says “love your neighbor as yourself”); misogynism (Paul says “women are not permitted to speak [in church], but should be in submission,”) and equality (Paul says “there is no male or female … you are all one”); in obeying government (Paul says “let every person be subject to the governing authorities”) and disobeying government (The apostles refused to obey the Roman authorities saying they “must obey God rather than man”)

Try being his son!

“I know that very early on [my father] was under the influence of those drugs,” Nate said. Pastor Phelps was attending law school and would take amphetamines to stay awake and barbiturates to come down. “It spiralled out of control [and he] was prone toward violence….He just wasn’t tolerant toward the presence of all of us kids running around—and the accompanying noise….He would beat the kids with his fists and kick them and knee them in the stomach.

This is an enlightening interview with the son on Fred Phelps, the crazy pastor from the Westboro Baptist Church.  Just see what a self confessed “man of God” is capable of.

Get out of God’s country!

A typical conversation

Theist - “Everything we see has a cause, so everything MUST have a cause.”

Rational thinker - “So it follows that there is an infinite causal chain, which our finite minds cannot comprehend.”

Theist - “NO! There was an uncaused cause which started it all, and I call this God”

Rational thinker - “I thought you just said that everything MUST have a cause? What caused God?”

Theist - “Nothing. He exists beyond space and time and operates in a plane that is immune from causal chains”

Rational thinker - “How could you determine if that really is true or not, and how many planes which are immune from casual chains exist?”

Theist - “I have faith”

Rational thinker - “That’s not very logical”

Theist - “Yeah, well your being irrational and you’re obviously biased against my views!”

madhatter0719

“Imagine for a moment that you live in a world where nine out of ten people believe that the world was made and is run by magical unicorns, and that unless you somehow appease these unicorns you’re a bad person who the unicorns will punish.

Imagine that in this world people will slaughter each other, start full scale wars and genocides, just to appease this unicorns.

Homosexuals are bashed, science is denied, politics are twisted, art is censored, schools are corrupted, just to appease these unicorns.

Now, imagine you’re one of the few that understand unicorns are imaginary, and are utterly despised for that.

You’d be pissed off too”

Why Atheists Care About YOUR Religion

Evidence For Christianity?

The Superstitious Pigeon

“The Superstitious Pigeon” is quite possibly one of the best videos I’ve seen on youtube, doing an excellent job of debunking “miracles”, prayer, and other irrational superstitions. Give it a look.

Atheists Are Hypocrites?

Red hot enlightenment led me to believe in one fewer god

It’s been a revelation to me a year since my “epiphany”. I feel as if I’m walking through life with the blinkers off. Suddenly all the religious mumbo-jumbo jumps out as so bonkers. Wearing certain things, eating certain things, mumbling certain things at certain times so some imaginary friend will let you into a club in the sky when you die. I want to do my living now, thanks. I’m not afraid of dying. I’m afraid of never having lived.

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