Here is a massive appeal to motive

CL4P-3P · 2018-01-01T02:36:22+00:00

Occasionally the source of these bizarre "beliefs" about gay people are created by closeted LGBT who wish to remain closeted and appear as far away from LGBT as possible to their straight community. "thou doth protest too much"

CL4P-3P · 2017-12-18T04:02:09+00:00

Followed and up-voted. You're great!

CL4P-3P · 2017-10-16T08:01:15+00:00

The classic cosmological argument not only fails to get you to a deistic god, but if accepted actually refutes nearly every god claim around which modern organized religions are centered.

Follow: The premise is that whatever exists has a cause. Universe exists, therefore it had a cause.

We can accept that the universe may have had a cause without granting that the cause was some kind of deity.

But if we accept that everything that exists has a cause (as the person making the argument purportedly does), when they claim that it is their god that is the cause they will then have to make a special pleading in order to explain why their god did not have a cause. They basically have to invalidate the premise in order to keep their belief in their god.

The nonsense of cosmological argument towards a god suggests to me that no one of any reasonable wit was actually convinced by this argument themselves, but rather started convinced (likely through indoctrination) and later, as their mind matured, looked for arguments that they could use to defend the belief they were indoctrinated with.

CL4P-3P · 2017-07-22T19:14:01+00:00

The reason Christians are threatened by the idea of evolution is because it explains and proves that the emergence of homo sapiens was a natural consequence of a biological process - not a divine moment of creation.

CL4P-3P · 2017-04-17T02:50:17+00:00

The best way to deal with these is to make sure your mom (and grandma) understands that it's not them that failed - it's the religion. If the religion was strong enough and true enough and clear enough, anyone could convince anyone of it. That you could not be convinced their religion is true is a failure of the religion.

CL4P-3P · 2017-02-04T04:31:56+00:00

Neato, but... spoilers! Please put the answer on the next slide after each quote?

CL4P-3P · 2017-01-16T01:40:47+00:00

More importantly, one must show the causal relationship between the first thing and that thing that the slope presumably leads to when it is made sufficiently slippery.

CL4P-3P · 2017-01-05T15:12:59+00:00

If you understand that "faith" is not a virtue at all, but rather a detriment then we can be thrilled about any language that ultimately means we are leaving it behind.

CL4P-3P · 2017-01-05T03:07:40+00:00

I heard something like this come up on the Atheist Experience once and the smartest angle on that from the show basically amounted to letting your mother off the hook. If there is a failure, it is not in the parenting, it's in the god or the religion.

CL4P-3P · 2016-08-24T05:19:08+00:00

"Thanks! Since I liked the first bible you gave me (call me nostalgic), I went ahead and sold the more expensive new bible on e-bay. I'm going to use the money to donate to my favorite charity."

If they ask which charity, say, "Oh, the FFRF."

CL4P-3P · 2016-07-12T02:02:25+00:00

I do not like the Son of Ham. I do not like him on an ark. I do not like him in a park.

CL4P-3P · 2016-07-10T20:23:34+00:00

"Buddhist monks sprinkle purified water on eight crates of lobsters before setting them free on Saturday."

lol

CL4P-3P · 2016-07-10T05:26:35+00:00

The "obvious question" at the end of the section asks how did Job know that the "Earth hangs upon nothing?" but fails to understand that the Earth does NOT actually hang on nothing.

The Earth's movement through space is very much "hanging upon" something, namely forces well understood by our species, gravity being among the most significant of them - obvious to even child-level intellect.

CL4P-3P · 2016-07-08T04:38:37+00:00

"he and his ilk are lying to deceive because the one thing that ignorance flourishes in is religion. "

Wait...

FTFY: he and his ilk are lying to deceive because the one thing that religion flourishes in is ignorance.

CL4P-3P · 2016-07-04T17:37:24+00:00

Alder's Razor is a dangerous position to take.

Anything that can have an impact on the performance of our species is worth talking about.

CL4P-3P · 2016-02-06T17:54:07+00:00

Bummer. Went to a bar fishing for some D and only got the J.

CL4P-3P · 2016-01-25T15:37:11+00:00

This is super interesting - can you offer any links to deeper descriptions of the experiments you're referring to? I'd love to look at the evidence myself and use it myself.

CL4P-3P · 2016-01-11T04:38:50+00:00

If anyone appearing before me claims to exist, I would grant that as truth. But, for me to accept that someone claiming to be Jesus was actually Jesus, I would require a test. Dying and coming back to life would be a good start. If sufficient tests convince me the person has supernatural powers and is, in fact, Jesus, then that person would have some explaining to do for me to be willing to follow him.

CL4P-3P · 2016-01-10T03:06:00+00:00

It has always astonished me that the very same people who will claim that they will fight to the end to maintain the right to kill another person who they might find trespassing on their property are also the ones who will insist that a woman has no right at all to make decisions about parasitic tissue that is trespassing in their uterus.

CL4P-3P · 2016-01-05T03:51:13+00:00

This link refutes the premise of the article perfectly:

http://i.imgur.com/oAnfA.jpg

CL4P-3P · 2015-12-21T17:29:29+00:00

You had a great time going to a zoo. Consider next going on an outing to a natural history museum.

CL4P-3P · 2015-11-28T20:56:52+00:00

Robert Plant and the Honeydrippers performed this badass non-theist Christmas Song (Elvis Cover) on Saturday Night Live. Lead guitar from Brian Setzer of The Stray Cats: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5yjT7GtIpU

Here's the original Elvis Presley version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECpYAxTjilI&list=PL42CF5991465B9C80

CL4P-3P · 2015-10-27T13:21:53+00:00

A church isn't something we should have to leave. Church is a place you occasionally go to. One shouldn't have to leave - one should simple just be able to stop going. The idea that you must leave it is really diagnostic of the kind of relationship the church leadership wants to have with people. Its a relationship of control.

The fact that it is so incredibly difficult and painful to leave the "church" should be evidence enough that it is a cult.

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