Responding to Christians
“I have handled what I felt was their ridiculous religiosity in many ways and some have panned out, while others brought me lasting condemnation.”
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Mitchell Heisman, and one heck of a suicide note
“…if a man’s willing to write 1905 pages justifying his own death he’s not interested in being talked out of it.”
“What are you going to do with Jesus?”
“It’s caught on because it lends immediacy and even more confrontation to the process of witnessing and proselytising.”
God Belief vs Humanistic Atheism vs Enlightened Self Interest Atheism vs Capcom vs SNK
” If you believe in a god, the reasons you want to help others have partially to do with influencing that god’s treatment of you (and possibly them), in the here and now and in the hereafter.”
Materialism, Free Will and Rationality
“Free will implies a supernatural force affecting the brain which isn’t beholden either to deterministic classical mechanics or to quite possibly random quantum mechanics.”
Christian Atrocities vs Atheist Atrocities
“What’s more important is whether the atrocities were committed because of Christianity/atheism, either in an effort to specifically spread Christianity/atheism or because some tenet of Christianity/atheism commanded it.”
Deism and Atheism
“This argument from lack of expected evidence is strongest against theistic and theistic-in-advance gods, though it does apply to deism to some extent. In the case of a straight deistic god which has no further influence on or interest in us humans, it is indeed moot whether we believe in it.”
Untouchable
“So when you criticise religion these days, you encounter people who 1. are on some level shocked that you would do so, 2. may not think they can argue effectively with you and 3. have passed judgement on you because of your criticism and may not think you’re worth arguing with.”
Ghosts: Physical Evidence (…not)
“…just because you can’t explain something doesn’t make it supernatural. It merely makes it unexplained – so far.”
Dawkins’ Reasoning
“For something like a god to form by any known undirected process, it’d have to start out simple and proceed slowly.”