Reading Time: < 1 minute Just in case you haven’t seen this old chestnut, or in case you had forgotten its supremely annoying rational defeater, watch again:
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A Powerful Defense of Reason … or Maybe Not
Reading Time: < 1 minute Some Christians argue both sides of the reason issue. Is it God’s greatest gift or is it the devil’s whore as Martin Luther argued? Here is the thinking from an experience pastor.
Posted inReligion
The Power of Prayer, Part One.
Reading Time: 8 minutes It’s not an exaggeration to say that tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of people were praying for Daniel’s recovery from brain cancer. He was one of the Big Name Fans in our denomination; we had ties to mission churches all over the world as well. I was one of the people who spent quite some time on her knees praying for Daniel’s recovery. Even Biff, who very rarely prayed anywhere but in church, prayed for him. We were absolutely convinced that God would heal him. Why wouldn’t he?
Posted inGeneral, Science, The Secular
Let the Stars Be My Guide
Reading Time: 5 minutes Nothing clears my head like a starry night. When I was a young boy, I used to entertain myself by standing on my balcony, gazing at the moon, the stars, and the planets through my telescope. Â Looking up at that sea of twinkling lights, it fascinated me that, upon closer inspection, some of those lights […]
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AronRa: Faith is Not a Virtue
Reading Time: < 1 minute AronRa is well known in the YouTube atheist community for his epic anti-Creationist take-downs. Lately, however, he’s decided to go to the root of the problem: faith, or the belief in things without evidence. Ultimately, he says, if we are to succeed as skeptics, and not simply replace religion with hippy-dippy homeopathic “spiritual” gobbledygook, it […]
Posted inThe Secular
Faith Shows the Emperor has No Clothes
Reading Time: 2 minutes Defending an invisible God and celebrating faith is exactly what Christians would do if their religion were manmade. Faith is always the last resort. If there were convincing evidence, Christians would be celebrating that, not faith.