Fire and brimstone,drought, famine, hurricanes, hail, plague – all these destructive forces have been inflicted upon humanity at least since the time we have been able to keep records. But in the various religious texts, are these stories just imaginative make-believe meant to strike the ‘fear of God’ (or gods) into each of [...]
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The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) defines ‘Faith’ as the “belief in the truths of the holy scriptures or in the teachings of the ‘church’.” Many atheist writers have commented on ‘faith’, most in a non-laudatory way. Sam Harris stated: “Whenever a manimagines he need only believe the truth of a proposition [...]
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So many names we use today are derived from the religious monikers of people, places (even gods) past and present. Odin In the English language, the days of the week relate to Norse gods (Wednesday=Odin; Thursday=Thor) and others to Roman gods (Saturday=Saturn); in French, Tuesday (mardi=Mars). The months of the [...]
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In a sense, we are all atheists. Some believe in no god, others in one god and others in many gods but none of us believe in all the gods that are or have been worshipped by the human race. The atheist, one who has no doubt that a god(s) does not exist [...]
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Many religions have ‘wonderous’ beliefs or recount stories of important figures performing acts that, if they took place today, would not be believable. Jesus walking on water and Mohammed flying to heaven on a winged horse are just two difficult-to-believe events. But some ‘unbelievable’ acts were indeed real. In the 11th century, Hasan [...]
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