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Religion / Re: If God Does Not Exist, Why Do America Have It On The Dollar? by SirShifty: 5:27am On Nov 13, 2016 |
Millerz:America was not founded on Christian principles, they specifically went out of their way to not mention God in their Constitution. They had lived under a Theocratic dictatorship under King George. You need to do research you can become a president with out being a Christian, Bernie Sanders was in the running and is Jewish if not for Hillary and the DNC sabotaging the primaries he would have been the President 8 Likes 3 Shares |
Religion / Re: If God Does Not Exist, Why Do America Have It On The Dollar? by SirShifty: 5:24am On Nov 13, 2016 |
The "In God We Trust" was only added to the currency in 1957. 5 Likes 3 Shares
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Religion / Re: How I Embraced Christ by SirShifty: 12:12am On Oct 31, 2016 |
Religion fills the mind of people with darkness, and keeps them in ignorance of real duties and true interests, instead they waste time praying to a God they have never seen or met deluding themselves that have a personal relationship with him. All this talk of a holy spirit is ridiculous, every religion is based on false assumptions. |
Religion / Re: Will Science Ever Find Out How Life Started? by SirShifty: 8:32pm On Oct 30, 2016 |
The important is to not stop questioning, many theists say God did it, this answers absolutely nothing about our origins rather if anything it puts a big question mark. If it we never find out about the origin, it is a worthy goal to keep searching, science is cumulative each generation builds upon the advancement of the others. Religion has no answers to give us, i see people here saying it is Intelligent design, this contributes nothing to our quest for the origins of the life. |
Religion / Re: Why Do Athiest Discriminate by SirShifty: 12:49pm On Oct 30, 2016 |
Pidggin:You claim it is incomplete because it does not fit your beliefs, the Exodus story is a myth the Egyptians never owned any Israeli slaves The bible is mostly fiction |
Religion / Re: Why Do Athiest Discriminate by SirShifty: 12:47pm On Oct 30, 2016 |
JackBizzle:I wrote in my previous post "What happens to the faith healer and the babalawo when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up. Same thing with God, science teaches us that we no longer have to look for imaginary supports to explain things" Then he started defending rainmakers, those who believe mysticism influences weather. |
Religion / Re: Why Do Athiest Discriminate by SirShifty: 11:36am On Oct 30, 2016 |
TomHagen:Look, human activity and climate change can affect weather patterns by changing the atmospheric conditions. However, a person claiming to be a rainmaker who can influence weather by mysticism is profiting off ignorance. 2 Likes |
Religion / Re: Why Do Athiest Discriminate by SirShifty: 10:50am On Oct 30, 2016 |
TomHagen:If you really believe rainmakers can influence weather, then i won't waste time arguing with you this is Dark Age thinking 2 Likes |
Religion / Re: Why Do Athiest Discriminate by SirShifty: 10:43am On Oct 30, 2016 |
Pidggin:You are showing an emotional bias here, if anything archeology proves very little in the Bible is factual it may mention ancient cities or customs which are accurate but apart from that the stories are certainly untrue. The biggest fabrication in the Bible is the Israelites being slaves in Egypt, even Israeli archeologists have admitted the story is unsubstantiated. The whole story is fiction which is the main reason the Pharaoh in the Exodus story is not named, if they did people could have easily investigated the story and the truth would have come out 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Religion / Re: Why Do Athiest Discriminate by SirShifty: 10:37am On Oct 30, 2016 |
TomHagen:A climatologist shows that there is a pattern to weather and a rainmaker is powerless and has no effect whatsoever on weather conditions. 2 Likes |
Religion / Re: What If I Disappoint God? - Paul Ellis by SirShifty: 9:29am On Oct 30, 2016 |
How can the human mind progress when we are frightened about pleasing someone who we have never met or seen. Everything we know about Jesus is third hand information from scriptures written posthumously. Sounds like ancient myths to me and stuff of fantasy. Christianity has done a good job on Africans, they created this Jesus character to pretend they hold the keys of heaven and hell, you can be saved if you sacrifice your rational thinking, be gullible and accept a story with outrageous claims. 4 Likes 2 Shares |
Religion / Re: Problems with Evolutionary Theory by SirShifty: 9:08am On Oct 30, 2016 |
Kalatium:We can extrapolate based on the percentage of Christians in the population of these countries excluding Turkey 1 Like
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Religion / Re: Problems with Evolutionary Theory by SirShifty: 9:07am On Oct 30, 2016 |
Kalatium:I don't know how you interpreted the data, but yes most Christians in the US and Western Europe accept evolution, they tend to believe in a theistic form of evolution in which God starts the process which is different from creationist, 6000 year old concept |
Religion / Re: Five Atheist Miracles by SirShifty: 3:27am On Oct 30, 2016 |
It is natural to think that the universe and living things must be the handiwork of a designer but it also natural to see the world as flat or that the sun orbits the earth. Because there are things we do not know, our pockets of ignorance gives us no reason whatsoever to presume a God. We have no need to abandon our hard won principles of science and reason and accept a mystic answer. None of the holes of our ignorance have been filled by any religious dogma. God is an inappropriate explanation for anything, there is not a shred of evidence indicating that such a being exists. Ignorance and fear created the god. The descriptions of nature in any so called holy book are completely off scientifically. How peculiar is it that a God who supposedly created nature wouldn't be able to accurately describe how nature works. We will continue searching for the answers, we are on a quest to find out the mysteries of life and the universe. Knowledge is preferable to ignorance, better by far to embrace the hard truth than the reassuring fable of Jesus God is a pocket of ignorance in our understanding of the universe, using him as an explanation for some phenomena we do not understand at this moment is a display of weakness 9 Likes |
Religion / Re: Atheists,drop A Prayer Point And See Wonder. by SirShifty: 3:11am On Oct 30, 2016 |
I want God to say hi, he has been the hide and seek champion for over 2000 years. He watched with indifference the enslavement of millions, two world wars and the holocaust the least he could do was to stop by every now and then 2 Likes |
Religion / Re: Why Do Athiest Discriminate by SirShifty: 2:59am On Oct 30, 2016 |
LaClicKLaBenDin:Religion is based primarily on fear, fear of the unknown, fear of death, it thrives off superstition(see Africa, 95% religiosity) What happens to the faith healer and the babalawo when any poor citizen can see the full effect of drugs or surgeries, administered without ceremonies or mystifications? Roughly the same thing as happens to the rainmaker when the climatologist turns up. Same thing with God, science teaches us that we no longer have to look for imaginary supports to explain things. Atheism is by itself not a moral position or political one of any kind, it is simply the refusal to believe in a supernatural dimension. 3 Likes |
Religion / Re: Why Do Athiest Discriminate by SirShifty: 2:53am On Oct 30, 2016 |
When i see posts like this, it is evident that religion inculcates a high level of delusion in its apologists. All the texts of the major religions see women as an inferior creations, homosexuals as abominations, endorses enslavement of others and fosters and in group out group mentality. It is secular society which has forced religion kicking and screaming to reform themselves and modernize themselves into the 21st Century, and you dare to claim religion recognizes the rights of all, give me a break 2 Likes |
Religion / Re: Fear Of Atheists by SirShifty: 2:44am On Oct 30, 2016 |
Reason, not faith. Evidence, not hearsay. Science, not superstition. Actions, not prayer. Morality, not religion. Intelligent people tend to reject antiquity, faith and superstition. It is not a war against God, we oppose the concept of a God for which there is no evidence. 3 Likes 1 Share |
Religion / Re: D by SirShifty: 2:40am On Oct 30, 2016 |
Jesus should be considered to be a fictional character, the real one in History was a normal man who led an end of the world cult. The stories attached to him are untrue and absurd, they are so outrageous that we might as well see him as fictional. His character was created to control people, which sane man would tell people to turn the other cheek and leave their families behind, this is cult like thinking |
Religion / Re: What Does It Mean To Backslide? by SirShifty: 2:34am On Oct 30, 2016 |
Christianity demands its followers to be like sheep the most stupid of all mammals, incapable of defending themselves, submissive, living only to be fleeced periodically. The word backsliding was used in the Bible to remind them to keep in line, suspend their rational thinking and live strictly based on the ideals from a book of dubious origin |
Religion / Re: Problems with Evolutionary Theory by SirShifty: 2:29am On Oct 30, 2016 |
Evolution explains more about the phenomena of life than all of the religious leaders. Darwin over 150 years ago demonstrated that the so called inspired writers of the Bible and Quran knew nothing of the origin of man, nothing of geology, nothing of astronomy, nothing of nature. He showed that the Bible was born out of ignorance and fear, he destroyed the foundation of Religion, there is nothing left other than faith. Now Christians have come up with creationism which is not science, is not peer reviewed they produce no empirical evidence. It is laughed at in any respectable scientific circle and most Christians in the West acknowledge evolution as fact 1 Like |
Religion / Re: Are We All Born As Atheists? by SirShifty: 5:07pm On Oct 18, 2016 |
Pidggin:Evolution and Big bang theory are not beliefs, they are well-substantiated explanations of some aspect of the natural world, based on a body of facts. It is not dependent on the region or authority where it comes from. Religious people believe in what they are supposed to prove 3 Likes 1 Share |
Religion / Re: Yaweh Created The Earth In 5 Days And The Rest of The Universe In Just 1 Day by SirShifty: 4:48pm On Oct 18, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog:Of course Christians will try to dismiss dome cosmology because it would be embarrassing for them in modern times not to, it is common for religious people to reinterpret their scriptures when the scientific knowledge progresses like how the Catholic Church has declared the Adam and Eve story metaphorical The earliest gospel Mark was by an anonymous author, then how can we trust the other gospel writers who never even met Jesus, they even added stories too like the adulterous woman. I have looked into what Biblical scholars believe on research polls they have very different views from the average Christian take especially on literal truth of the Bible. Most of them say the Exodus story is a myth Maybe i was not clear enough on that, i was led to believe the gospels were eye witness accounts, then i found out these authors probably never even met the guy, this was a red flag to me i could no longer believe the events happened as they were described. Of course the authors had the freedom to fabricate Old testament prophecies to fit with their story, they had the advantage of there being little mention of Jesus outside the Bible. Initially, it was a loss in the faith in a Christian God then i read up on the accuracy of the claims in the Bible and reached my conclusion. Being a Christian i naturally denied Evolution by default, once the blinds had been removed i became more open to how empirical data research works. Then i gradually reached the conclusion that there is no God neither is there a need for one to explain our origin Evidence for God i for there to be demonstration of a suspension in the natural order of things, say an amputee growing back a limb, an eye growing back or a physical manifestation |
Religion / Re: Yaweh Created The Earth In 5 Days And The Rest of The Universe In Just 1 Day by SirShifty: 3:10pm On Oct 18, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog:The picture is not from an atheist it is well known that Ancient Hebrews saw the earth from the perspective of a disc, with a firmanent as the circle above the earth, Heaven right above it Virtually all atheists were once believers, it is questioning which led us to renounce our faith I stopped being a Christian when i found out the gospels were written by anonymous authors over a full generation after Jesus was dead. Modern day Christians are very different from the early ones, they had no such belief in Jesus' divinity I am open to any evidence of this God, theists have failed woefully to present any evidence, we must be atheists at this point in time because we have reason to believe in a God. |
Religion / Re: Are We All Born As Atheists? by SirShifty: 2:53pm On Oct 18, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog: All those people you named did not explain evolution, they had their creation myths like all theists do, i give them credit for it being better than the Adam and Eve Genesis story myth. Empedocles was not even intending to explain evolution, though he certainly had an understanding of certain aspects of natural selection. He did not propose any idea of common ancestry or speciation Talk all you like about history, people did not have the ammunition back then to explain our origins therefore they had to invoke God. Of course people in the ancient times would have been religious, if they had no clue what caused earthquakes, thunder, how mountains were formed. We have those tools now and we can now say that we do not need God to explain anything, we have never seen this level and speed of scientific development it is unparalleled. In the 21st century, we have no need for God he has been driven to the point where people used to say 'Only a fool will say there is no God' to 'you cant prove he doesn't exist' I find it funny you say you can't name 10, while using Google and Facebook 3 Likes |
Religion / Re: Yaweh Created The Earth In 5 Days And The Rest of The Universe In Just 1 Day by SirShifty: 1:04pm On Oct 18, 2016 |
KingEbukasBlog:Seems like you are living in a timewarp, this fable was written from the perspective of a flat earth i am shocked to see this line of thinking
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Religion / Re: Are We All Born As Atheists? by SirShifty: 12:47pm On Oct 18, 2016 |
Seun:Come to think of it one would have to be introduced to the concept of a God in the first place to state a position of agnosticism |
Religion / Re: Are We All Born As Atheists? by SirShifty: 10:54am On Oct 18, 2016 |
AnonyNymous:I think you are right, agnostic is more suitable. Absolute certainty in any aspect what stifles progress, religious indoctrination is a scourge. I consider myself an Agnostic Atheist 3 Likes |
Religion / Re: Are We All Born As Atheists? by SirShifty: 10:37am On Oct 18, 2016 |
felixomor:Claiming a verse is out of context, or quoting another scripture only shows how contradictory the bible is Historically, of course most nobel prize winners are or were Christians, things have changed are changing.Scientific advancement has accelerated at break neck speed and now we have no need for God to explain anything. The only place where religious belief is growing is in Africa and that is because of the birth rate, this is an indictment if anything Most people believe in God, still does not change the fact we no longer need to invoke him to explain anything God's creation of the universe is not an explanation it is hole filling the famous 'God of the gaps' 1 Like 1 Share |
Religion / Re: What To Read: 10 Bible Verses On Being Gentle And Humble by SirShifty: 10:13am On Oct 18, 2016 |
Ranchhoddas:Why would i not be not be able to tell if something is divine when compared to other works of literature, it should be clear as day to anyone if the source of the writing is from a mystic source then i would expect an unparalleled production |
Religion / Re: The Existence Of A Conscious Watchman (a Discussion) by SirShifty: 9:54am On Oct 18, 2016 |
I would say we have no reason to believe that we have a watchman. It can never be logical for us to believe we have one, since this deity has never shown any evidence for its existence. I can see why people desire to believe in one to make us feel warm and fuzzy, not knowing what happens after we die, however, it is a metaphysical claim, outside the bounds of what we can verify. This is in fact a weakness if=n the idea of a watchman not a strength |
Religion / Re: What To Read: 10 Bible Verses On Being Gentle And Humble by SirShifty: 9:39am On Oct 18, 2016 |
Ranchhoddas:No piece of literature can be exactly the same, individuals write them and of course they will differ. The bible does not exactly stand out from other works of literature, it has new ideas but nothing really seems to prove the claim that it makes to being 'God breathed'. How can a work of divinity be indistinguishable or even inferior to other works of literature. The similarities between the stories and characters in the Bible and those from previous mythologies are both undeniable and well-documented. |
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