People do good because they are human, not because they are religious! Do not give God any credit for the good they do, they did it! A bad form of religion or religious faith deserves to be deserted and indeed should be. The notion that if a religion is false or true, it is […]
Religion
Science and Religion: God didn’t make man; man made gods – J. Anderson Thomson and Clare Aukof
In recent years scientists specializing in the mind have begun to unravel religion’s “DNA.” Before John Lennon imagined “living life in peace,” he conjured “no heaven … / no hell below us …/ and no religion too.” No religion: What was Lennon summoning? For starters, a world without “divine” messengers, like Osama bin Laden, sparking […]
Religious Lies Refuted – Let the Twilight of Religion Begin…
Please use this box below to search this site – Is it love to tell people that an all-good personal God exists? No, because it is to say that people should not be valued above all but he should for he is all-good and better than us and because all good including ours is […]
Does Morality Depend on the Existence of God?
Believer – if there is no God then everything is permitted – if people did not believe in a God who values only the right things they would not have any reason to be moral. Questioner – It could be that if there is a God everything is still permitted! Or at least permitted more […]
Doublethink
Explanations > Beliefs > Doublethink Description | Example | Discussion | So what? Description Doublethink was described by George Orwell as simultaneously holding two conflicting beliefs. Orwell describes it thus: “The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them….To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact […]
How God Works (preview) – Marshall Brian
BY ELIMINATING THE TANGLES IN YOUR RELIGIOUS THINKING, YOU STOP BELIEVING IN GOD Are you a religious person? Do you believe in God or Allah or Jesus? If so, then I would like to show you something about yourself that may really surprise you. It comes from the breakthrough book How God Works. Here […]
Who Wrote the Torah? Brandon Norgaard
Who wrote the Torah? Many people believe that the Bible is the word of God. The first five books are known to Jews as the Torah, and they are the most important books to Judaism. These books include Genesis, which begins by telling stories of how God created life on Earth and mankind and also […]
Traditional religion is flawed, but so is secularism – Brandon Norgaard
« Should we devote our lives to God? What is Knowledge? » Pre-Jewish Ancient Semitic Religion Categories: History of Religion Pre-Jewish Ancient Semitic Religion Living in today’s world, we can easily become familiar with some of the religious beliefs and customs other people practice, but it is more difficult to understand the origins of these […]
Biblical Monotheism and the Persian Influence – Lewis Loflin
The early Jews were not monotheists, but followed henotheism or even outright polytheists. They had one central god but believed in other gods. “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” (Exodus 20:3) indicates the belief there was other gods. This was the tribal god, often bloodthirsty and murderous who (they claimed) ordered the killing […]
The Mythology of Evil
FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS mankind has been enthralled, frustrated and terrified by the presence, nature and origin of evil. Virtually every religio-political power structure over the past 6,000 years has developed a mythology for the emergence of evil. This human concern not only has survived until today; it has intensified. Following are some selected explanations […]