Reading Time: 4 minutes An online Christian ministry has a long argument against homosexuality and same-sex marriage that needs dismantling.
The Secular
Christianity is Self-Defeating
Reading Time: 2 minutes The book of Exodus gives God’s demand that the Jews stick with their own kind when they returned to Canaan. God had to make sure that they weren’t corrupted by the other religions. But the Bible wouldn’t have this prohibition unless the religion had been invented! The Bible defeats itself.
Jesus and Aliens
Reading Time: 2 minutes Consider belief in Jesus and belief in space aliens. Which one is nuttier?
Why Worry About a God That Isn’t There?
Reading Time: 2 minutes You don’t call yourself an a-unicornist. Or an a-Santaist. Why call yourself an a-theist?
God Doesn’t Exist: Believers are Products of their Environment
Reading Time: 2 minutes What fraction of Muslims were not raised in a Muslim environment? What fraction of Christians were not raised in a Christian environment? What does it say about the validity of religious claims that people typically take on the religion of their culture?
God Doesn’t Exist: Christianity Looks Invented
Reading Time: 2 minutes Does Christianity look like the one true religion, clearly different from all the thousands of manmade ones? Or does it look the same as all the rest?
God Doesn’t Exist: Christianity Relies on Indoctrination
Reading Time: 2 minutes What would happen if we categorized Christianity as an adult activity? It would be like smoking, drinking, voting, driving, sex, and so on—things that you must be mature enough to handle wisely. This adults-only Christianity would die out within a few generations.
God Doesn’t Exist: Historians Reject the Bible Story
Reading Time: 2 minutes You never find the story of Jesus in a history book, like you would for Julius Caesar or Alexander the Great. Why is that? Why is the Bible not cataloged in the library in the History section?
A National Registry of Atheists? Y’know–Like Sex Offenders.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Who wants a national registry of atheists?