Debating with Christians
“Why don’t we just start believing there’s a little green leprechaun on my lap waiting to grant my every wish while we’re at it?”
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“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.”
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.”
Naturalistic Pantheism
“The only practical difference between a naturalistic pantheist and an atheist, therefore, is that an atheist doesn’t bother to call the universe a god. It’s just a universe.”
Sin
“The idea that we are punished for all our bad deeds after death requires the existence of an afterlife, and atheists generally don’t believe in an afterlife.”
Death: Just Curious
“When a lot of people try to imagine death without an afterlife, what they actually imagine is an afterlife without the scenery; continued consciousness in a dark, silent void.”
Does Genesis Reflect Modern Science?
“In summary, we have a very old document which gets many things wrong as well as right, and contains no details which indicate that the things it got right were anything more than intuitive guesses, except for various passages which have been broadly interpreted millenia later in terms of what we now know.”
The Basics
“You’ve gone very wide, so I’ll be very shallow initially.”
Reactions to Conversations with God
“The responsible thing to do, and in a way the brave thing to do, is to teach children to think critically.”
“God’s Pharmacy”
Coincidences happen, and we notice them. Next to the infinite coincidences that do not happen, and we therefore don’t usually consider, they are often insignificant.