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On Fish and Faith
It may not be immediately obvious that faith is a bad thing about religion, but some thought on the subject makes it clear. We hear of someone being called a man or woman of faith, and that brings a certain amount of respect in religious circles. They may even be given that respect in secular … Continue reading
The Bliss of Ignorance
The Bliss of Ignorance is directly responsible for religious reverie, and that sublime state of infuriating superiority and pity that those of religious bent take towards non-believers. The thinking person can never have such certainty, because we realise how little we know about anything; that much of what we think we know will be revised … Continue reading
Religion Convinces People to do Bad and Stupid Things in its Name
A few years ago a story hit the newspapers. A ten year old girl from a strict Muslim family lifted her veil to wipe the sweat from her face in the Turkish summer heat, and thus broke Islamic law. Her parents consulted an Imam as to how to punish the girl. He told them that, … Continue reading
Intelligent Design? I think not…
Creationism/Intelligent Design is an example of a pseudo-scientific way of thinking for people who are unable, because of what they have come to believe is the truth, to accept a different and actually provable truth. It is pseudo-scientific because it pretends to be a scientific theory in competition with Darwinian evolutionary theory, however, unlike Darwin’s … Continue reading
On Divine Intervention
Millions of scientific experiments are carried out every year, and these experiments can be copied by anyone with the right equipment and knowledge. The results of any experiment carried out under the same conditions should be reproducible, and that is how science operates. We have never found any divine intervention in any experiment, and there … Continue reading
Death of a Hero
One of the most courageous thinkers and writers of our age, Christopher Hitchens, has passed away at the age of just 62, from cancer. Author of many works, including ‘God is not Great’, Christopher was an outspoken atheist, afraid of no person and of no organisation whether religious or political. Nothing stopped him from speaking … Continue reading
Religion Forbids Suicide and Compassionate Euthanasia
It seems entirely hypocritical that a church that expresses compassion, leading prayers for those dying in agony, at the same time opposes ending that agony. But the Bible says ‘Thou shalt not kill’, and is thus the direct cause of millions of human beings dying in agony every year. Whilst it is true that there … Continue reading
The Confusion between Belief and Truth
Religion provides a set of pre-formed beliefs that are not to be questioned, but if anything is clear about our world and our universe it is that we can be certain of nothing. Whilst that allows for the possibility that the faithful of some particular religion are exactly correct in what they think, progress has … Continue reading
Why not Religion?
Why not Religion? By: Cathi Bee It is a fact that the world today is very religious. One needs only to examine how many religions there are as opposed to the single direction of “Atheism” to see this. Many feel that the tendency towards some sort of faith is proof for the existence of God. … Continue reading
Fundamentalism
Fundamentalism in religion is to believe absolutely in the central tenets and the earliest tenets of the religion. It goes back to the beginnings of the religion and gets rid of the subtleties of modern thought that may have made the religion more acceptable to people living in today’s world. So a fundamentalist Christian believes … Continue reading »
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