Come Into The Light
Last night I watched Creation, a film about the life of Charles Darwin and how he came to write On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. What I found especially moving was his own struggle against the authority of religion...
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Good without God
Looking at Mr. Daniel Razon’s reasoning we can clearly see the problem: People like him have defined goodness as equal to God. There are two versions of this “argument” – One, Goodness and God are almost the same entity (based of some quotes from the Judeo-Christian holy scripture)...
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Why The Altar Boy Became An Atheist (by Juan_After_909)
The following article is a response to my previous post What It Means To Be A Storyteller. It was written by a commenter who calls himself Juan_After_909 and I believe this nice piece deserves to be posted here.
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My friend asked why I, the prayerful ‘altar boy’, became an atheist.
Uhm…...
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A Simple Straight to the Fact Answer Will Do.
I don’t know…maybe it’s a good way to escape dilemmas. We call it here in the Philippines as “pa-pogi points”. Obviously, majority of their cult followers are either dumb or stupid to figure it out. But try reading Christian apologist reactions here in the Internet and you will notice that...
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Eliseo Soriano’s Imaginary Argument
If you’re a Christian or to be specific, a member of Eliseo Soriano’s “Ang Dating Daan” or ADD for short, chances are you’ve already read Soriano’s triage against atheism.
Using Soriano’s blog post (The Claim That There Is No God Is An Escape From All Realities), well what can I say…maybe...
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Humility: Reason vs. Faith
I often hear religious people say that freethinkers are proud people, leaning on their own human understanding. The faithful claim to be humble, acknowledging our limited wisdom and thereby surrendering mind and will to the Almighty, the Supreme Being of the universe.
At first it seems they have a point,...
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What Makes Us Special
I would like to thank Wes for his invaluable contributions to this piece.
Imagine a single-celled organism. Longing for life, it tries to split itself, and succeeds. It repeats the process a couple of times…A few billions years later it develops the ability for locomotion, and it begins to swim...
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The Atheist Professor with no Brain ?
Doug Kreuger has expanded the well-known Christian legend of the atheist philosophy professor who is unable to prove that he has a brain. (Special thanks to Steven Carr for this post.)
“LET ME EXPLAIN THE problem science has with Jesus Christ.” The atheist professor of philosophy pauses before...
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The Doubter
“Let me tell you why you’re here. You’re here because you know something. What you know you can’t explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there’s something wrong with the world. You don’t know what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you...
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