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Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008. —
In reasoning in favor of belief in a god, "Income tax doesn't not exist just because someone doesn't believe in it," says a Christian in this news video.

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'Godless' author, former preacher attracts large audience


Posted Thursday, November 20, 2008. —
Dan Barker, prominent atheist and ex-preacher, tells UC Davis his story

Written by PATRICK McCARTNEY

Dan Barker, a former preacher who has become an outspoken atheist, told his story to over 300 members of the campus community on Friday night.

Barker, the author of the recently-published Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America's Leading Atheists, spent most of his two-hour talk explaining how genuine his religious feelings and convictions were - and how they became undone by the time he was 34.

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Irreducible Complexity


Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008. —
Irreducible complexity (IC) is an argument made by proponents of intelligent design that certain biological systems are too complex to have evolved from simpler, or "less complete" predecessors, through natural selection acting upon a series of advantageous naturally occurring chance mutations. It is one of two main arguments intended to support intelligent design, the other being specified complexity. It is dismissed by the scientific community and intelligent design has been referred to as pseudoscience.

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An appeal to rational people


Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008. —
By DocMike

I don't know if it's the approaching holiday season, the global economic crisis, or just the fact that I'm getting a little older, but I've been feeling the pain of the world lately and I really want to do something about it.

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Leviticus General Hospital


Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008. —
By DocMike

I know I've done this one to death (excuse the pun), but I just love !

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Sincerely reading the Bible broke my faith


Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008. —
Sent in by Jessica

I am 18 years old and currently in my first year of university. I have been brought up in a fundamentalist Christian environment where the family's core is the bible. Everything within my parents' lives is based on 'the word of god'. My dad was an elder in the church until they made the whole family up sticks and move away in order to start a house church. The thinking behind this was stripping church back to its old testament roots. A number of other families moved away to embark upon this venture with us. Needless to say this resulted in a closed, tight, little Christian community. All my parents friends were Christians, all of my extended family were also of the faith.

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Why would I ever want to go back?


Posted Monday, November 17, 2008. —
Sent in by Danny

I don't think I've ever really sat down and wrote out the story of my deconversion. You'll have to forgive me if it comes out a bit jumbled. Like many of the stories I've read, it wasn't something that happened suddenly for me. I was a slow and arduous process.


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Disgraced Pastor Haggard: I Was Abused as Child


Posted Monday, November 17, 2008. —

Ted Haggard, evangelical pastor brought down by sex scandal, says he was abused as a child

Disgraced evangelical pastor Ted Haggard says he was sexually abused as a child and that the experience "started to rage in my mind and in my heart" when he was caught up in a sex scandal involving a male prostitute. Haggard made the remarks in two recent sermons in Morrison, Ill., ABC's "Good Morning America" reported Wednesday.

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God is Sick and Perverted


Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008. —
The Return of Jephtha, by Giovanni Antonio Pel...The Return of Jephthah by Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini,By Neal Stone

First off, Christians, don't give me the "That was the God of the Old Testament excuse," because in Heb 13:8 it says "Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." and in Malachi 3:6 it says "I the LORD do not change..." So God is never changing, and Jesus is also God in the flesh, so your excuse doesn't work here.

In a recent post we heard a Christian call an atheist television show and engage in a conversation where the Christian went down in flames. A story is mentioned about a guy named Jephthah who sacrifices his daughter after promising God he would sacrifice the first thing to come out of his home, should he when a war.

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What Every Creationist Must DENY


Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008. —
A video by cdk007

To deny evolution is to deny a direct observation. It's like denying the sky is blue while refusing to look up.

Truth is not a democracy.

Don't teach ideas just because they are different; teach ideas because they are supported by evidence.

Intelligence is awareness of ignorance. Stupidity is ignorance of ignorance. Think about it.

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The More I Learned, the Less I Believed


Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008. —
Sent in by Jackee Gianfelice

I was brought up in a devoutly Christian household. As a child in Sunday school, I learned biblical stories (carefully selected biblical stories, to be sure) and stories about Jesus. God and Jesus were presented as loving, caring, and compassionate, with all the unsanitary parts of the bible edited out in the readings and lessons we received in church and Sunday school.

Even so, I was shocked when, at the age of about seven, I was sitting with my mother in church and the pastor began his sermon by stating, "Aside from a few cranks and revisionists, the vast majority of historians and archaeologists agree that Jesus did exist."

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Apologetics – Your First Clue that “Something” is Amiss


Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008. —
Oil on canvas"Truth" (1870) by Jules Joseph LefebvreBy John Fraysse

Thesis: The Truth Needs Little or No Defense

Awhile back, I wrote a little snippet based on the premise that if religion is so important, it should also be simple to understand, easy to implement and ubiquitous in its application. I further submitted that since religions are not simple, especially the big three Abrahamic faiths, they either must be a) unimportant or b) untrue or, more than likely, both. Therefore, unnecessary complexity is a bellwether indicator of a false concept, religious Dogmas being prime examples.

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Talking to God...


Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008. —
Morgan FreemanGod, as played by Morgan Freeman in Bruce AlmightyBy The Ragged Trousered Philosopher

I met god the other day.

I know what you’re thinking. How the hell did you know it was god?

Well, I’ll explain as we go along, but basically he convinced me by having all, and I do mean ALL, the answers. Every question I flung at him he batted back with a plausible and satisfactory answer. In the end, it was easier to accept that he was god than otherwise.

Which is odd, because I’m still an atheist and we even agree on that!



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Atheist/Christian phone conversation


Posted Saturday, November 15, 2008. —
A Christian calls in to discuss morality on The Atheist Experience television show.

The Atheist Experience is a weekly live call-in television show sponsored by the Atheist Community of Austin.

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Calvinism is absurd


Posted Thursday, November 13, 2008. —
John CalvinImage via WikipediaA video by ReligionIsACrutch

Some would accuse atheists of having a twisted worldview, but predestination for eternal suffering is as twisted as it gets.

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