The Greatest Lie Ever Told. Allow me to indulge in a hypothetical scenario for a while: there is a God. Taking God as Given It doesn’t matter which God, so for argument’s sake let’s say he is Jehovah, Yahweh, the Holy Father - the God of the Bible and of the Christian faith. Of the hundreds of religions followed around the world, it just so happens that the Christians were right after all. God exists, and he is all-powerful and all-knowing. Therefore, he should be praised and worshipped and prayed to, for he made the Earth and everyone on it, so on and so forth.
After all, according to Christians, all of the good in the world can be attributed to God, and the bad to the Devil. But why (still assuming God exists) should we believe this? This may sound like a sarcastic joke, but I’m completely serious. The Best Poker Face Is One You Can't See We know so little about God due to the fact that he is far removed from our own points of reference, that we couldn’t possibly rule out any single motivation that God may have. 40 awkward Questions To Ask A Christian. Ten Stupid Things Theists Say. 1) Quoting From Their Holy Book Some theists quote scripture to non believers as if they were preaching to the pews. Either these theists don’t know their audience or just don’t care about the futility of their actions. Do Christians care what verse 67:10 of the Quran says? Would Jews renounce their faith and embrace Krishna if they read the Bhagavad Gita? 2) You’re Going to Burn in Hell That’s nice. 3) You Can’t Prove God Doesn’t Exist Well, that all depends on the kind of god being asserted. 4) Everything is Subjective So Nothing You Say Matters This one usually comes up in discussions on morality. 5) I’m Not Religious.
J.Z. 6) Who Created the Universe, the Earth and the First People? This is a complex question fallacy which assumes earth, the universe and people were all “created” and that they were created by a “who.” These questions also represent an ignorance of geology, cosmology and biology. 7) Why Are There Still Monkeys? Evolution works in mysterious ways. 8) I’ll Pray For You. Saturnalia: The Real Roots of Christmas | The Truth & The Light Ministries. Many Christians today believe that Christmas is a Christian holiday. The fact is that people have been celebrating Christmas, long before the birth of Christ. The festivity was known then, as Saturnalia. Saturnalia was a festival in which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn. As winter approached, they were losing harvest & were in need of the sun in order for their harvest to grow & bear fruit.
This meant that the god Saturn was in need of the sun god in order to complete his job, therefore the attention was then shifted to the sun god. The Roman pagans introduced into their law December 17-25 as Saturnalia. In the 4th century The Roman Catholic Church adopted the Saturnalia festival hoping to take the pagan masses in with it. The problem was that there was nothing in relation to Christianity concerning Saturnalia. Although this is a different story, the method in which Satan operates, is exactly the same. The Origins of Christmas Customs: A. B. C. Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence. NOTE: For real proofs of the nonexistence of any god, see "Why Atheism? " For other evidence, go to Atheists of Silicon Valley debate page . Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence Formerly: Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence Originally adapted from a forum on the Internet Infidels . TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a.
. (1) If reason exists then God exists. (2) Reason exists. (3) Therefore, God exists. COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT, a.k.a. . (1) If I say something must have a cause, it has a cause. (2) I say the universe must have a cause. (3) Therefore, the universe has a cause. (4) Therefore, God exists. (1) I define God to be X. (2) Since I can conceive of X, X must exist. (1) I can conceive of a perfect God. (2) One of the qualities of perfection is existence. (1) God is either necessary or unnecessary. (2) God is not unnecessary, therefore God must be necessary. ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN, a.k.a. . (1) Check out the world/universe/giraffe.
. (2) Only God could have made them so complex. ARGUMENT FROM BEAUTY, a.k.a. The moral case for sex before marriage | Jill Filipovic. Americans love to tout the value of waiting until marriage to have sex. We teach abstinence-only education in schools across the country, and even comprehensive sex-ed programs often point out that "abstinence is best. " Pop stars from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson, to the Jonas Brothers, to Miley Cyrus, to Justin Bieber routinely assert that they're waiting 'til marriage – putting them into the Good Role Model category (at least, until someone leaks a sex tape). There's a booming "purity industry", complete with jewelry, elaborate events, books, t-shirts and DVDs. Our state and federal tax dollars have long been spent promoting "chastity". While conservative commentators are happy to assert that waiting until marriage is the best choice for everyone and people who don't wait aren't doing marriage "the right way", sex-positive liberals hesitate to say that having sex before marriage is an equally valid – if not better – choice for nearly everyone.
How do I know? Christianity Disproved. When religious people attribute the acts of Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot to atheism. Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot were not atheists, nor were their actions attributable to atheism. "My feelings as a Christian points me to my Lord and Savior as a fighter. It points me to the man who once in loneliness, surrounded only by a few followers, recognized these Jews for what they were and summoned men to fight against them and who, God's truth! Was greatest not as a sufferer but as a fighter" - Adolph Hitler It is a common talking point among fundamental Christians to attribute the horrors committed by infamous world leaders to atheism, and many times we are ill-equipped to refute those erroneous claims.
In fact, in 2010, an Anglican Archbishop named Peter Jensen told his Australian congregation that atheism is not the rational philosophy that it claims to be. He stated, Atheist Foundation president David Nicholls says the comments are an act of desperation by the church. First of all, there is no such thing as state-imposed atheism. On Adolf Hitler… He was quoted as stating,